Aleksandr Minayev

Personal information
Full name	Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev
Date of birth	(1954-08-11)11 August 1954
Place of birth	Zheleznodorozhny, Russian SFSR
Date of death	6 December 2018(2018-12-06) (aged 64)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	FC Spartak Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1975	FC Spartak Moscow	92	(10)
1976–1984	FC Dynamo Moscow	209	(21)
Total		301	(31)
International career
1976–1979	USSR	22	(4)
Managerial career
1985–1995	FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams)
1996–1997	FC Dynamo-2 Moscow (assistant)
1998	FC Serpukhov (assistant)
2000	FC Stolitsa Moscow
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Olympic medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Men's football
	1976 Montreal	Team

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Минаев; 11 August 1954 – 6 December 2018^[1][2]) was a Russian football player and coach.

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1976 (spring).
• Soviet Cup winner: 1977.
• Olympic bronze: 1976.
• European Under-23 Championship winner: 1976.

International career

Minayev made his debut for USSR on 20 March 1976 in a friendly against Argentina. He played in the quarterfinal for the UEFA Euro 1976 and qualifiers for 1978 FIFA World Cup (USSR did not qualify for the final tournament for either).

Personal life

In the first half of the 1980s, he was in a long relationship with actress Natalya Gundareva.^[3]