Aleksandr Pushtov (born 9 March 1964) is a football coach and a retired footballer from

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

, who holds

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n citizenship. He was the manager of

FCI Tallinn FCI Tallinn (FC Infonet Tallinn) is a football club, based in Lasnamäe, Tallinn, Estonia. Formed in 2002, the club played in the Estonian top flight Meistriliiga from 2013 to 2017, and won the league in the 2016 season. In 2017, the club merged ...

from 2011 to 2017. Under his management FCI climbed to the Estonian top tier, won their first Estonian championship in 2016,

Estonian cup The Estonian Cup ( et, Eesti Karikas) is the national knockout competition in Estonian football. In 2012, the competition was unofficially rebranded as Evald Tipner's Cup. The winner will compete in UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifyi ...

and

Estonian Supercup The Estonian Supercup ( et, Eesti Superkarikas) is Estonian football's annual super cup, contested between the champions of the previous Meistriliiga season and the holders of the Estonian Cup. If the Meistriliiga champions also won the Estoni ...

in 2017 title.

International career

Pushtov obtained a total number of ten caps for the

Estonia national football team The Estonia national football team ( et, Eesti jalgpallikoondis) represents Estonia in international football matches and is controlled by the Estonian Football Association, the governing body for football in Estonia. Estonia's home ground is ...

during the early 1990s, scoring one goal in Estonia's first (official) international match on 3 June 1992 against

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References

External links

FIFA.com
* 1964 births Living people Estonian footballers Russian footballers Estonia international footballers Association football defenders Estonian football managers Estonian people of Russian descent FCI Levadia Tallinn managers Expatriate footballers in Finland FCI Tallinn managers FC Dynamo Vologda players {{Estonia-footy-bio-stub