Alexander Shakirov (russian: Александр Шакиров) (born 20 January 1981) is a Russian rugby union player. He plays as a
scrum-half and also as a
fly-half.
He currently plays for
VVA-Podmoskovye Monino, in the Russian Professional League.
Shakirov had 58 caps for
Russia, with 5 tries, 25 points in aggregate, from 2004 to 2014. He was called for the
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Af ...
, where he played in three games against
United States national rugby union team,
Italy national rugby union team and
Australia national rugby union team.
["Alexander Shakirov", IRB website, http://www.rwc2011.irb.com/home/teams/team=756/player=23968/index.html (Retrieved 25 April 2012)] Total of 123 minutes.
His debut for Russia was the game played in
Tbilisi against
Georgia on 6 March 2004.
References
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Russia international rugby union players
Living people
1981 births
Russian rugby union players
Rugby union scrum-halves
Rugby union fly-halves
2011 Rugby World Cup players