Igor Kolyvanov

Igor Kolyvanov

Coaching Ufa in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Igor Vladimirovich Kolyvanov
Date of birth	(1968-03-06) 6 March 1968 (age 49)
Place of birth	Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Manager (former striker)
Youth career
1977–1982	Soviet Region
1982–1984	FShM Moscow
1984–1985	Spartak Moscow Youth
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985	FShM Moscow	2	(0)
1985	FC Spartak Moscow (reserves)	2	(0)
1986–1991	FC Dynamo Moscow	140	(42)
1991–1996	Foggia Calcio	106	(22)
1996–2001	Bologna F.C. 1909	113	(26)
Total		363	(90)
National team
1989–1991	USSR	19	(2)
1992	CIS	5	(1)
1992–1998	Russia	35	(12)
Teams managed
2002–2003	Russia U19 assistant
2003–2006	Russia U17
2006–2008	Russia U19
2008–2010	Russia U21
2012–2015	FC Ufa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Igor Vladimirovich Kolyvanov (Russian: Игорь Владимирович Колыванов; born 6 March 1968 in Moscow, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a former association footballer, who played as a striker. During his playing career he accumulated 90 goals scored in 333 games at the Top level in the Soviet Union as well as in Italy.

He was the head coach of the Russian team that won the UEFA U-17 Championship in 2006. During his playing career he played for Dynamo Moscow, Foggia Calcio, and Bologna F.C. 1909, and was a regular member of the Russian national side.

He began playing organized football at the age of 9, when he was approached by Viktor Abayev. After training with Abaev for a year with children a year older than himself, Kolyvanov moved to the youth sport school of Soviet Region in Moscow, coached by Igor Shvykov. He attributes the core development of many of his skills to this stage. At the age of 14 he moved to another youth team, called FShM Moscow, and after a 2-year stint with it, he was picked up by the famous Spartak Moscow youth system. Although Spartak was one of the leading teams in the Soviet Union at that time, Kolyvanov did not see a chance in breaking into the starting line-up, and when Dynamo Moscow called him in 1986, at the age of 17, he agreed to a move.

After transferring to Dynamo Moscow, Kolyvanov was injured in his very first game for the reserve team. However, after a recovery that took 2 months, he almost immediately began playing for the main team. In the same season, Dynamo almost won the Soviet Top League, being passed by Dynamo Kiev at the last second. While Dynamo Moscow would never achieve the level of that season, Kolyvanov improved his game significantly over the next few years, scoring 11 goals in the 1989 season of the Soviet Top League. It was then that he received his first call up for the Soviet national team, while still being a member of the Soviet U21 national team. In the Soviet Top League he established himself as a fine long shot striker that is able to score easily from outside the "penalty box". One of his biggest triumphs came for the latter of the two – in the 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, he scored 9 goals in 7 matches, winning the best scorer award en route to winning the Championship. He followed up this performance by scoring 18 goals in 27 matches for Dynamo Moscow in 1991, once again winning the top-scorer award. The same year, his playing for the national team caught Foggia Calcio's attention, and after Dynamo reached the third-round of the UEFA Cup, he was allowed to transfer to Italy.