Sergei Gotsmanov
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sergey Anatolyevich Gotsmanov | ||
| Date of birth | 27 March 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Minsk, Belarus, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1967–1978 | Trudovyye Rezervy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978 | Dinamo Brest | 27 | (2) |
| 1979–1990 | Dinamo Minsk | 289 | (31) |
| 1990 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 16 | (4) |
| 1990–1991 | Southampton | 8 | (0) |
| 1991–1992 | Hallescher FC | 19 | (4) |
| 1992–1994 | Dinamo Minsk | 25 | (10) |
| 1994–1995 | Dinamo-93 Minsk | 5 | (0) |
| 1996–1999 | Minnesota Thunder | 13 | (0) |
| Total | 402 | (51) | |
| National team | |||
| 1983–1984 | USSR Olympic | 6 | (0) |
| 1984–1988 | USSR | 31 | (2) |
| 1992–1993 | Belarus | 3 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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Sergey Anatolyevich Gotsmanov (Belarusian: Сяргей Гоцманаў; Russian: Серге́й Анатольевич Гоцманов) (born in Minsk, Belarus on 27 March 1959) is a former Belarusian footballer who played for the USSR in the 1980s.
Having spent most of his youth at Trudovyye Rezervy, he graduated to the FC Dinamo Minsk first team in 1979, where he was part of the team that won the Soviet championship in 1982 under manager Eduard Malofeyev.
He made his international debut against Finland on 15 May 1984 and, in his second international appearance on 2 June 1984, he came on as a substitute against England in a friendly at Wembley and scored the opening goal as the USSR won 2–0. In the UEFA Euro 1988, he was a member of the Soviet Union squad, appearing in two Group B games against Ireland and England; he also appeared in both the semi-final (when he was elbowed in the face by Italy's Ancelotti) and the final, where the Soviets were defeated 2–0 by the Netherlands, with goals from Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten.
His exploits with both FC Dinamo Minsk and the USSR national team earned him the accolade as Belarusian Footballer of the Year four times (in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989); this feat was subsequently matched by Alexander Hleb.
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