Valery Streltsov is a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian

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coach.

Club career

Streltsov spent his entire playing career, from 1967 until 1975, in Spartak Mogilev (renamed to Dnepr Mogilev in 1973). After his early retirement (at the age of 27), he started working as coach in local Mogilev football academy. From 1984 till 1985, he worked as director for Dnepr Mogilev and, in 1986, he was appointed as team's coach, a position he held until 2008 with brief interruptions in 1993–1994, 1995, 2003 and 2005–2007. He stepped down for the last time in 2008 due to health problems. Since 1990, he was appointed as Dnepr's general director. With Valery Streltsov as a coach,

Dnepr Mogilev FC Dnepr Mogilev ( be, ФК Дняпро Магілёў, ''FK Dniapro Mahilyow''; russian: ФК Днепр Могилёв) is a Belarusian association football, football team, playing in the city of Mogilev. Their home stadium is Spartak Stadium ...

finished at the 2nd place in inaugural Belarusian championship in

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and won their only champions title in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. In 2009, Streltsov partied ways with Dnepr and joined Dinamo Minsk as a general director.

National team

From 2000 till 2003, Streltsov worked as assistant coach for Belarus national football team under head coach

Eduard Malofeyev Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Васи́льевич Малофе́ев, p=məlɐˈfʲeɪf, be, Эдуард Васілевіч Малафееў ''Eduard Malafyeyew''; born 2 June 1942 in Kolomna) is a Soviet and Belarusi ...

. In September 2002, in a

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match against

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, he acted as team's

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, replacing Malofeyev, who was unable to present at the game due to health condition. Belarus lost that game 0–3.Match report
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Career summary as of 2008
1948 births Living people Soviet men's footballers Belarusian men's footballers FC Dnepr Mogilev players Soviet football managers Belarusian football managers Belarus national football team managers FC Dnepr Mogilev managers Men's association football forwards {{Belarus-footy-bio-stub