Olexiy Popov

Olexiy Mykolayovych Popov (Ukrainian: Олексій Миколайович Попов; born 6 April 1980 in Zaporizhzhia, USSR) is a Ukrainian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a member of the Ukrainian national futsal team.

Olexiy Popov
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-03-06) 6 March 1980
Place of birth Zaporizhzhia, USSR
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Norilsk Nickel (assistant)
Youth career
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997 FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 0 (0)
1997–1999 Winner Ford-Universytet Zaporizhia (0)
1999–2001 Zaporizhkoks (0)
2001–2005 Shakhtar Donetsk (0)
2005–2013 Dinamo Moskva 143 (2)
2013–2014 Dina Moscow 0 (0)
2014 → Araz Naxçivan (loan) 16 (0)
2014–2018 Norilsk Nickel 81 (1)
International career
2000–2005 Ukraine ? (0)
Managerial career
2018– Norilsk Nickel (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Popov was a football player in his youth. Popov attended the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Youth school system. He began his professional career in 1997 for FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, but then turned to futsal. Popov played for the Winner Ford-Universytet Zaporizhia. In 1999 – 2001 he was part of futsal club Zaporizhkoks. In 2001, he moved to the Shakhtar Donetsk. In 2005 Popov went to Russia, where he later played for the Dinamo Moskva,[1] Dina Moscow, and Norilsk Nickel. In April 2008, Dinamo Moskva participated in the final games of the UEFA Futsal Cup. Olexiy helped the team to win the tournament and to get the title of the strongest team of Europe.

In the Ukrainian national futsal team Olexiy Popov was twice a silver medalist of UEFA Futsal Championship, in 2001 and 2003.

In August 2002, Olexiy became a member of a student team at the Student World Cup.

In the end of 2004, Popov as a part of the national team took part in the World Cup of his career.[2]

On 25 May 2018, Popov announced his retirement at the age of 38.[3]

After the end of his playing career, he was appointed assistant coach to Evgenii Kuksevich at Norilsk Nickel.[4]

On 26 October 2020, he received the UEFA Futsal B Diploma.[5]

Honours

Player

Winner Ford-Universytet

  • Ukrainian Men's Futsal Cup: 1998/99

Shakhtar

Dinamo

Araz

Ukraine

Individual

  • Best goalkeeper of Ukrainian League: 2001–02

Assistant

Norilsk Nickel

  • Russian Futsal Cup: 2019–20

References
  1. Олексій ПОПОВ: «Якби не Динамо, грав би в Шахтарі до кінця» (in Ukrainian)
  2. Олексій ПОПОВ: «Коли грає Україна, кішки шкребуть на душі» (in Ukrainian)
  3. "Спасибо, Алексей за проведенные игры в "Норникеле"". Archived from the original on 20 January 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2018. (in Russian)
  4. "Вратарь, завершивший карьеру продолжит работу в заполярном клубе". Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2018. (in Russian)
  5. Відбулося вручення ліцензій слухачам курсу «В»-диплом УЄФА з футзалу (in Ukrainian)
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