Aleksandr Shirko
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Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko (Template:Langx; born 24 November 1976) is a Russian football scout and a former player.
Moral-political position
Starting in 2022, regularly[1][2][3][4] plays in military football tournaments vs OMSDON Division (named after Dzerzhinsky) with "Z" signs in support for Russian war against Ukraine on the kit and background banners. So do other veterans, including Alenichev, Tikhonov, Titov, Yuran, Filimonov, Khlestov and Vyazmikin.
Playing career
Shirko started his professional career with Spartak Moscow, with whom he won six Russian Premier League titles, from 1996 to 2001, and become one of the top scorers of the UEFA Cup in the 1997/1998 season, before leaving for city-rivals Torpedo.
In 2004 Shirko joined Shinnik Yaroslavl as part of a loan deal from Torpedo, but then extended his stay at the club by two years.
In 2006 Aleksandr Shirko was involved in a fight with Shinnik fans, after a disappointing 1–6 defeat to Rostov. That accident earned him a ten-match ban.
At the start of 2007, Shirko signed with Tom Tomsk, in club's attempt to replace Pavel Pogrebnyak, who left for Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Shirko scored 78 goals in 281 Russian league matches. Shirko won the 1997–98 Russian Cup with Spartak and was awarded Master of Sports of Russia.[5]
During his professional career, Shirko earned six caps for Russia national football team from 1999 to 2001, scoring one goal in a 3–0 win over Faroe Islands in 2001.
International goals
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References
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External links
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- 1976 births
- Footballers from Moscow
- Living people
- Russian men's footballers
- Russia men's youth international footballers
- Russia men's under-21 international footballers
- Russia men's international footballers
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- Russian Premier League players
- FC Torpedo Moscow players
- FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
- FC Tom Tomsk players
- FC Akhmat Grozny players
- Men's association football forwards
- FC MVD Rossii Moscow players