Igor Shkvyrin (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Шквырин, Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin; born 29 April 1963 in Tashkent) is a retired Uzbekistani professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe and Asia and the Uzbekistan national football team. He was most recently the head coach of Sogdiana Jizzakh.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin | ||
Date of birth | (1963-04-29) 29 April 1963 (age 59)[1] | ||
Place of birth | Tashkent, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Lokomotiv Tashkent | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1980–1983 | FK Yangiyer | 79 | (11) |
1983–1985 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 66 | (13) |
1986–1987 | SKA-Karpaty Lviv | 46 | (11) |
1988–1989 | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 14 | (2) |
1989–1991 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 67 | (51) |
1992 | Spartak Vladikavkaz | 10 | (5) |
1992–1993 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 39 | (16) |
1993–1994 | Maccabi Netanya | 32 | (13) |
1995 | Pahang FA | 18 | (15) |
1995–1996 | Bnei Yehuda | 18 | (5) |
1996 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2 | (0) |
1996–1997 | Maccabi Herzliya | 21 | (1) |
1997–1998 | Maccabi Jaffa | ? | (3) |
1998–1999 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 43 | (39) |
1999–2000 | Mohun Bagan | ? | (11) |
2000 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 33 | (20) |
2000–2001 | Churchill Brothers | ? | (12) |
2001 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 26 | (7) |
Total | 394 | (219) | |
National team | |||
1992–2000 | Uzbekistan | 31 | (20) |
Teams managed | |||
2003–2004 | FC Krylia Sovetov Samara (assistant) | ||
2005–2007 | Qizilqum Zarafshon | ||
2007 | Uzbekistan U-23 (assistant) | ||
2008–2010 | Uzbekistan (assistant) | ||
2008–2016 | Olmaliq FK | ||
2017 | Sogdiana Jizzakh | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He played several seasons in the Soviet Top League with FC Pakhtakor Tashkent and moved to Israel where he played for Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. and Malaysia where he played for Pahang FA. With Pahang, he won the 1995 Liga Perdana. With Pakhtakor, he scored 51 goals in 67 league matches between 1989 and 1991. He scored totally 275 goals in career and is member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.[2]
In 1999–00 season, Shkvyrin appeared in the National Football League with Mohun Bagan AC,[3][4] and scored 11 goals.[5][6] He emerged as the top scorer in the league that season. Later he moved to another Indian outfit Churchill Brothers SC and played in the 2000–2001 season. He scored 12 goals for the Red Machine and won the Durand Cup in 2001.
The 1994 Asian Games gold medallist Shkvyrin returned to Uzbekistan at the end of the season, and would eventually rack up five separate stints for Pakhtakor Tashkent before finally hanging up his boots at the age of 38 in 2001.[7]
Shkyrin made his debut for Uzbekistan on 17 June 1992 against Tajikistan in a 2-2 draw match, where he scored his first international goal.[8]
He made 31 appearances for the Uzbekistan national football team and scored 20 goals between 1992 and 2000.[9] He played in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, Japan (the first time Uzbekistan national team participated in an official football tournament following its independence from the Soviet Union, and the team won the gold medal).
In 2002, he began managing career and worked in 2003–04 as assistant coach to Aleksandr Tarkhanov in FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. From 2005 to 2007 he was head coach of Uzbek League club Qizilqum Zarafshon. In 2007, he was appointed as assistant coach to Vadim Abramov for Uzbekistan U-23 national team and in 2008–2010 worked as co-trainer to Rauf Inileev and later Mirjalol Kasymov for Uzbekistan national team.
Since 2008 he is head coach of Olmaliq FK. In season 2009 Olmaliq finished fourth in the league and Shkvyrin was named Football coach of the Year.[10]
Year | Club | Level | Apps | Goals |
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2001 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | I | 26 | 7 |
2000-2001 | Churchill Brothers | I | ? | 12 |
2000 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | I | 33 | 20 |
1999-2000 | Mohun Bagan | I | ? | 11 |
1998 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | I | 29 | 17 |
1999 | I | 14 | 22 | |
1997-98 | Maccabi Jaffa | II | ? | 3 |
1996-1997 | Maccabi Petah Tikba | I | 18 | 5 |
1996-97 | Maccabi Herzliya | I | 21 | 1 |
1995-96 | Pahang FA | I | 18 | 15 |
1994-95 | Maccabi Netanya | I | 21 | 9 |
1993-94 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | I | 21 | 9 |
1992-93 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | I | 31 | 15 |
1992 | Spartak Vladikavkaz | I | 10 | 5 |
1991 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | I | 30 | 14 |
1990 | II | 37 | 37 | |
1989 | II | 27 | 6 | |
1989 | Dnipro | I | 4 | 0 |
1988 | I | 10 | 2 | |
1987 | Karpaty Lviv | II | 38 | 11 |
1986 | II | 8 | 0 | |
1985 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | II | 26 | 2 |
1984 | I | 25 | 9 | |
1983 | I | 15 | 2 | |
1983 | FK Yangiyer | III | 11 | 4 |
1982 | III | 34 | 5 | |
1981 | III | 33 | 2 | |
Uzbek League top scorers | |
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Uzbekistan squad – 1996 AFC Asian Cup | ||
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Uzbekistan squad – 2000 AFC Asian Cup | ||
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