Aleksandrs Koļinko
Koliņko with Baltika Kaliningrad in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Aleksandrs Koliņko | ||
| Date of birth | 18 June 1975 | ||
| Place of birth |
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR (now Republic of Latvia) |
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| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper (retired) | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FK Spartaks Jūrmala (assistant manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Skonto-2 | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994 | Interskonto Rīga | 22 | (0) |
| 1995 | Skonto-Metāls | 25 | (0) |
| 1996–2000 | Skonto Riga | 61 | (0) |
| 2000–2003 | Crystal Palace | 82 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | FC Rostov | 27 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Rubin Kazan | 69 | (0) |
| 2009 | JFK Olimps | 6 | (0) |
| 2009 | Dinamo București | 0 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | FK Ventspils | 15 | (0) |
| 2010 | Spartak Nalchik | 8 | (0) |
| 2011–2015 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 96 | (0) |
| 2015 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 1 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1997–2015 | Latvia | 94 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015 | Spartaks Jūrmala | ||
| 2016- | Spartaks Jūrmala (assistant manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2017 |
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Aleksandrs Koļinko (born 18 June 1975) is a retired Latvian professional footballer, currently the assistant manager and goalkeeping coach of Latvian Higher League club FK Spartaks Jūrmala.
Aleksandrs Koļinko was born in Riga and started his career in 1994, playing for Skonto Riga reserve team Interskonto, which was renamed Skonto-Metāls in 1995. After two seasons in the reserve team Koļinko broke through to Skonto Riga first team in 1996. In 1997 Koļinko participated in the UEFA Champions League qualification match against FC Barcelona, but eventually he became a first eleven player just in 1999, after the retirement of Oļegs Karavajevs.
Koļinko, a goalkeeper, made his name in the football world during a spell at English club Crystal Palace, where his appearances were limited due to his inconsistent form. He joined the club in 2000 alongside his international team-mate Andrejs Rubins. He could make brilliant saves one moment, but terrible blunders the next. Reportedly, he was disciplined by the club after, while on the substitutes' bench, he was accused of laughing at a goal his own team had conceded and punched in the face by manager Trevor Francis. Francis was later fined by the club and the Football Association for his actions.
In 2003 Koļinko was released by Crystal Palace and he joined the Russian Premier League club FC Rostov. Playing there for two seasons, Koļinko showed good performance and transferred to Rubin Kazan in January 2005. At that time he was certainly one of the best goalkeepers in the Russian Premier League. In 2006 Koļinko was named Latvian Footballer of the Year. He was dismissed from Kazan for an unexplained reason before the 2008 season, playing there for 2 years. After his release, Koļinko joined the Latvian Higher League club JFK Olimps, but after just playing 6 matches he left the club, following the interest from several clubs abroad.
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