Aleksandrs Starkovs
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Aleksandrs Starkovs or Aleksandr Starkov (born July 26, 1955 in Madona, Latvia) is a Latvian-Russian football coach who used to coach Skonto FC and Spartak Moscow.
Starkovs has previously coached Skonto FC, Rīga (from 1992 to 2004) and Latvian national team (from 2001 to 2004). He took over Latvian national team after its disastrous performance in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and lead the team to its biggest success ever, qualifying for Euro 2004 with a victory over World Cup bronze medalist Turkey. After his success as the national team coach, he joined Spartak Moscow, but in April 2006 he was forced to quit due to total obstruction from team's fans.
Prior to his coaching career, Starkovs played as a striker, spending almost all of his playing career with Daugava Rīga football team. He scored 110 goals in 301 games for Daugava Rīga.
In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Latvia by the Latvian Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. [1]
| Preceded by Jurijs Andrejevs |
Latvia national football team coach 2007 – |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Preceded by Gary Johnson |
Latvia national football team coach 2001 – 2004 |
Succeeded by Jurijs Andrejevs |
| Preceded by Marks Zahodins |
Skonto FC manager 1993-2004 |
Succeeded by Jurijs Andrejevs |
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Latvia squad - Euro 2004 | |
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1 Koļinko | 2 Stepanovs | 3 Astafjevs | 4 Zemļinskis | 5 Laizāns | 6 Blagonadeždins | 7 Isakovs | 8 Bleidelis | 9 Verpakovskis | 10 Rubins | 11 Prohorenkovs | 12 Piedels | 13 Pučinskis | 14 Lobaņovs | 15 Smirnovs | 16 Zirnis | 17 Pahars | 18 Korabļovs | 19 Štolcers | 20 Pavlovs | 21 Miholaps | 22 Zakreševskis | 23 Rimkus | Coach: Starkovs |
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