Vitaliy Sergeyevich Abramov (russian: Виталий Серге́евич Абрамов; born 12 July 1974) is a

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i professional

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coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with

FC Rotor-2 Volgograd FC Rotor-2 Volgograd (russian: ФК «Ротор-Волгоград-2» Волгоград) is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or ...

. He also holds

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n citizenship.

Club career

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1995 for

FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Текстильщик» Камышин; Futbol'niy Klub "Tekstilshchik" Kamyshin) is a Russian football club based in Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast. In the 1990s the club spent fi ...

Honours

* Russian Premier League runner-up: 1997. * Russian Premier League bronze: 1996. * Ukrainian Premier League champion: 2002. * Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 2000, 2001.

European club competitions

With FC Rotor Volgograd. *

1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup The 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup finals were won by Silkeborg, En Avant Guingamp, and Karlsruher SC. All three teams advanced to the UEFA Cup. No English team took part in support of Tottenham Hotspur and Wimbledon initially getting banned by UEFA ...

: 8 games, 3 goals. *

1997–98 UEFA Cup The 1997–98 UEFA Cup was won by Internazionale in an all-Italian final against Lazio. It was their third title in eight years in the competition. It was the first instance of the UEFA Cup final being a one-game contest at a neutral stadium, ha ...

: 5 games, 1 goal. *

1998–99 UEFA Cup The 1998–99 UEFA Cup was won by Parma in the final against Marseille. It was their second title in the competition. It was the last edition of the old format UEFA Cup, before the Cup Winners' Cup was merged into it to include domestic cup winn ...

: 2 games, 1 goal.

References

1974 births People from Karaganda Region Living people Russian footballers Soviet footballers Kazakhstani footballers Kazakhstani expatriate footballers Kazakhstan international footballers Association football midfielders FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin players FC Rotor Volgograd players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players FC Metalurh Donetsk players FC Elista players FC Ural Yekaterinburg players FC Shakhter Karagandy players FC Volgar Astrakhan players Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Mordovia Saransk players FC Avangard Kursk players {{Kazakhstan-footy-bio-stub