Andrei Zygmantovich

Andrei Zygmantovich

Personal information
Full name	Andrei Vikentyevich Zygmantovich
Date of birth	(1962-12-02) 2 December 1962
Place of birth	Minsk, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Defensive Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1991	Dinamo Minsk	262	(20)
1991–1992	Groningen	29	(2)
1992	Dinamo Minsk	8	(0)
1993–1996	Racing Santander	87	(1)
Total		386	(23)
International career
1984	USSR Olympic	1	(0)
1984–1990	USSR	36	(3)
1992–1995	Belarus	9	(0)
Managerial career
2001	Naftan Novopolotsk
2002	Dinamo Minsk
2002–2007	Belarus U17
2007	MTZ-RIPO Minsk
2007–2008	FBK Kaunas
2010	Sibir Novosibirsk (youth)
2011–2012	Sibir-2 Novosibirsk
2012–	Belarus (assistant)
2014	Belarus (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrei Vikentyevich Zygmantovich (Russian: Андрей Викентьевич Зыгмантович; born 2 December 1962 in Minsk) is a retired Belarusian footballer and currently a Belarus national team coach.

Mainly a defensive midfielder with good control of the match tempo, positioning on the field and ability to sacrifice himself for the team, he played for nearly a decade with Dinamo Minsk, also having abroad stints in the Netherlands (only one year) and Spain; in the early 2000s, he embarked in a coaching career.

Zygmantovich represented the Soviet Union at the 1990 World Cup.

Club career

Zygmantovich started playing for Dinamo Minsk. In his second professional season, he appeared 30 times and netted twice to help his hometown side win the only Soviet League in its history, edging FC Dynamo Kyiv by one point. After an unassuming spell with FC Groningen, the 30-year-old returned to the club where he would spend most of his career.

In early 1993, Zygmantovich moved abroad again, now to Spain with Racing de Santander, where he would play the next three full seasons, teaming up with former compatriots (Russian) Dmitri Popov, Dmitri Radchenko and Ilshat Faizulin. In 1993–94, he was an instrumental element as the Cantabria outfit achieved one of its best ever finishes in La Liga (eighth).

Zygmantovich started coaching in 2001, in his country, including the national team's U-19. In 2007, he moved to Lithuania's FBK Kaunas.

International career

Zygmantovich made his debut for the Soviet Union on 28 March 1984, in a friendly with West Germany. He represented the nation at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal against Cameroon in a 4–0 victory, which turned out to be his last international game for the USSR.

Zygmantovich later also appeared for Belarus in nine matches.

Career statistics

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	28 January 1985	Maharaja College Stadium, Kochi, India	Iran	0–2	Win	1985 Nehru Cup
2.	28 August 1985	Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow, Soviet Union	West Germany	1–0	Win	Friendly
3.	18 June 1990	Stadio San Nicola, Bari, Italy	Cameroon	0–4	Win	1990 FIFA World Cup
Correct as of 21 May 2016

Honours

• Soviet League: 1982

External links

• LegionerKulichi profile (Russian)
• RussiaTeam biography and profile (Russian)
• International appearances; at RSSSF
• BDFutbol profile
• Andrei Zygmantovich at National-Football-Teams.com