Igor Sergeyevich Shitov, sometimes written Ihar Shytaw (; ; born 24 October 1986) is a

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ian

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coach and a former

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. He is an assistant coach with

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Career

Club

On 5 July 2016, Shitov signed a two-year contract with

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side

FC Astana Astana Football Club () is a professional Association football, football club based in Astana. They play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Football in Kazakhstan, Kazakh football. The club's home ground is the 30,000-seat As ...

. Shitov left Astana on 3 July 2018 when his contract expired. On 16 July 2018, Shitov returned to

FC Dinamo Minsk FC Dinamo Minsk or FK Dynama Minsk (; ) is a Belarusian professional Association football, football club based in the capital city of Minsk. It was founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dinamo Sports Society, and was the o ...

International

Shitov scored his only international goal against

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in the 90+2nd minute in a

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held on 2 June 2008. The match ended in a 1–1 draw after Toni Kallio scored the equalizer in the 90+4th minute.

Career statistics

Club

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played 11 June 2019''

International goals

Honours

BATE Borisov *

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League (, ''Vyšejšaja Liha'' or ''Vysheyshaya Liga''; ; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the B ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Belarusian Cup The Belarusian Cup () is an annual association football knock-out cup competition for men's football clubs of Belarus, organized by the Football Federation of Belarus. Belarusian Cup was established in 1992. Each year the winning team qualifies f ...

: 2009–10 * Belarusian Super Cup:

Astana *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

* Kazakhstan Super Cup:

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* * * 1986 births Living people People from Polotsk Men's association football defenders Belarusian men's footballers Belarus men's international footballers FC RUOR Minsk players FC Dinamo Minsk players FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino players FC BATE Borisov players Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Russian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Mordovia Saransk players FC Astana players Footballers from Vitebsk region {{Belarus-footy-defender-stub