Jurijs Popkovs
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jurijs Popkovs | ||
| Date of birth | 6 July 1962 | ||
| Place of birth |
Kiev, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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None | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1983 | Dynamo Minsk | 1 | (0) |
| 1984–1991 | FK Daugava Rīga | 309 | (35) |
| 1993–1994 | Visby IF Gute | 43 | (14) |
| 1995–1996 | Amstrig/Daugava Rīga | 23 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1992–1994 | Latvia | 18 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1995–1997 | Amstrig Rīga | ||
| 1998–2000 | Liepājas Metalurgs | ||
| 2001–2002 | PFK Daugava | ||
| 2003–2006 | FK Jūrmala | ||
| 2008 | FK Blāzma Rēzekne | ||
| 2009–2010 | FK Tauras Tauragė | ||
| 2011–2012 | FK Jūrmala-VV | ||
| 2012 | FK Daugava Riga | ||
| 2013 | FK Spartaks Jūrmala | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 February 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23 February 2015 |
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Jurijs Popkovs (born 6 July 1962) is a Latvian football manager and a former footballer. He last managed the Latvian Higher League club FK Spartaks Jūrmala.
Jurijs Popkovs was born in Kiev, Ukraine. His first professional club was Dynamo Minsk which he joined in 1980. In four years which he stayed with Dynamo he made only one appearance in the Soviet Top League. In 1984 Popkovs joined FK Daugava Rīga which under the management of Jānis Skredelis was then on the up-rise. With Daugava Popkovs made 309 appearances until 1991 scoring 33 goals. He rarely missed a game for Daugava and together with Aleksandr Kanischev and Genādijs Šitiks he formed the strong midfield on the Daugava squad.
In 1993 transferred to Sweden where he joined Visby IF Gute where he played for 2 seasons, scoring 14 goals in 43 matches. During the 1995 Virslīga season for which Popkovs had started with Amstrig Rīga as a player he was offered to replace club's coach Georgijs Gusarenko.
Popkovs also played for Latvia national football team in early 1990s, making in total 18 appearances for Latvia.
Popkovs' first club as a manager was the one where he finished playing - Amstrig Riga (renamed to Daugava in 1996). In 1996 and 1997 Daugava finished second in the Latvian league behind Skonto FC, proving Popkovs as one of the best club managers in Latvia. In 1998 when Daugava was on the road to bankruptcy, Popkovs became head coach of Liepājas Metalurgs which he brought to second place in Virslīga in 1998 and 1999. In 2000 Popkovs was fired from Metalurgs as the club still couldn't stop the hegemony of Skonto in the Latvian league. In 2001 he took up PFK Daugava, a team with no big ambitions and little finance. Both the 2001 and 2002 seasons PFK Daugava finished fifth in the Latvian league, but after the 2002 the team dissolved.
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