Aleksandrs Starkovs
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Aleksandrs Starkovs | ||
| Date of birth | 26 July 1955 | ||
| Place of birth |
Madona, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Latvia) |
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| Playing position | Striker | ||
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Current team
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Skonto Academy (coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1975 | RPI Madona | ||
| 1975–1977 | FK Daugava Rīga | ||
| 1977–1978 | FC Dinamo Moscow | 0 | (0) |
| 1978–1989 | FK Daugava Rīga | 417 | (189) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1990–1993 | FK Daugava Rīga (assistant) | ||
| 1992–1994 | Latvia U-21 | ||
| 1993–2004 | Skonto FC | ||
| 1995–2001 | Latvia (assistant) | ||
| 2001–2004 | Latvia | ||
| 2004–2006 | Spartak Moscow | ||
| 2006–2007 | Skonto FC (sporting director) | ||
| 2007–2013 | Latvia | ||
| 2010–2011 | Skonto FC | ||
| 2011–2012 | FC Baku | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955 in Madona, Latvia) is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer. He is currently working at the Latvian Football Federation as the chairman of the National teams' committee. Starkovs also works as a coach for the Skonto Academy youth teams.
Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and Skonto FC in Latvia as well as the Latvia national football team from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to July 2013.
Starkovs started playing football in Madona where he played for the local Olimpija Madona playing for which he was selected the best forward of the 1969 Latvia Leather ball tournament. In 1975 Starkovs joined FK Daugava Rīga. In 1978 Starkovs went to FC Dynamo Moscow but it wasn't the right team for him, so soon Starkovs was back in Riga. However his best years were still to come - in 1980s Starkovs was one of the best snipers of the Soviet first league, scoring over a hundred goals for Daugava.
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]
As a team manager Starkovs made his name with Skonto FC which he brought to innumerable Latvian championships. He also worked with Latvia national under-21 football team and in 2001 he was appointed the general manager of Latvian national team. He took over the 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.
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