Vladimir Viktorovich Niederhaus (born 13 August 1967) is a Kazakhstani

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official and a former player. He played international football for both

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

and

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Post-playing career

After retirement, Niederhaus held various administrative positions is his former club

Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd (russian: СK Ротор) is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club will play in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 in the 2022– ...

and several Kazakh clubs. Between 2012 and 2015 he worked as national teams dept director in

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Match fixing scandal

On 19 September 2008,

Shakhter Karagandy Football Club Shakhter ( kk, "Шахтер" футбол клубы, Shakhter fýtbol klýby), commonly referred to as FC Shakhter Karagandy ( kk, Қарағанды/Qarağandı ;Russian: Караганда/Karaganda), is a professional footbal ...

and

FC Vostok FC Vostok ( kk, Восток Футбол Клубы, ''Vostok Fýtbol Klýby'') was a Kazakhstan, Kazakh association football, football club from Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and a founding member of the Kazakhstan Premier League in 1992. The clu ...

were disqualified from the

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for playing a fixed match, club coaches and management involved were banned from football for 60 months, including Niederhaus.

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* 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Kokshetau Russian and Soviet-German people Kazakhstani men's footballers Russian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers FC Kairat players FC Zhenis players FC Rotor Volgograd players Russian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players SC Preußen Münster players Kazakhstan men's international footballers Russia men's international footballers Dual men's international footballers Kazakhstani expatriate men's footballers Russian expatriate men's footballers Russian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Israel Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Germany Kazakhstani people of German descent Men's association football forwards {{USSR-footy-bio-stub