Jurijs Popkovs

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Jurijs Popkovs
Personal information
Full name Jurijs Popkovs
Date of birth (1961-07-06) 6 July 1961 (age 62)
Place of birth )
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1983 Dinamo Minsk 1 (0)
1984–1991 FK Daugava Rīga 309 (35)
1992 Kompar-Daugava 22 (6)
1993–1994
Visby IF Gute
43 (14)
1995–1996
Amstrig/Daugava Rīga
23 (5)
International career
1992–1994 Latvia 18 (1)
Managerial career
1995–1997
Amstrig Rīga
1998–2000
Liepājas Metalurgs
2001–2002 PFK Daugava
2003–2006
FK Jūrmala
2008
FK Blāzma Rēzekne
2009 FK Tauras Tauragė
2011–2012
FK Jūrmala-VV
2012 FK Daugava Riga
2013 FK Spartaks Jūrmala
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 February 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 February 2015

Jurijs Popkovs (born 6 July 1961) is a

football manager and former player. He last managed the Latvian Higher League club FK Spartaks Jūrmala
.

Playing career

Jurijs Popkovs was born in

Aleksandr Kanischev and Genādijs Šitiks he formed the strong midfield on the Daugava squad.[citation needed][1]

In 1993 transferred to

Amstrig Rīga as a player he was offered to replace club's coach Georgijs Gusarenko
.

Popkovs also played for Latvia national football team in early 1990s, making in total 18 appearances for Latvia.

Coaching career

Popkovs' first club as a manager was the one where he finished playing -

Virslīga in 1998 and 1999. In 2000 Popkovs was fired from Metalurgs as the club still couldn't stop the hegemony of Skonto in the Latvian league. In 2001, he took up PFK Daugava
, a team with no big ambitions and little finance. Both the 2001 and 2002 seasons PFK Daugava finished fifth in the Latvian league, but after the 2002 the team dissolved.

In 2003 Popkovs took up the new and ambitious team

FK Jūrmala with which he won the 1st Latvian league and earned a promotion for 2004 Virslīga. In 2004 Jūrmala proved itself as a tough team by finishing 5th in its debut year, just two points behind one of the league heavyweights - Dinaburg FC
. However the team owners ambitions for the team to climb higher failed to materialize - in 2005 it finished 6th and in the middle of the 2006 season when Jūrmala was again struggling Popkovs was fired.

Popkovs sat without a club the entire 2007 season, but after the end of the season he was appointed head coach of

Virslīga newcomers.[3]

In July 2009, he moved to

A lyga season,[4]
but left the team in November just after the season ended.

In September 2011 he joined

Jūrmala-VV in the Latvian Higher League. In March 2012 the team was renamed to Daugava Riga and he stayed in the manager's position. He left the club in December 2012, being replaced by Virginijus Liubšys.[5]

In September 2013 Popkovs was appointed by the Latvian Higher League club FK Spartaks Jūrmala, as he replaced Aleksandrs Stradiņš, who had worked with the team since July 2013.[6] Popkovs was replaced by Fabio Micarelli in December 2013.

Popkovs has also worked with Latvia national under-21 football team.

References

  1. ^ Popkovs stats in Soviet leagues Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Popkovs profile on Gute website Archived 3 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Popkovs - to Rēzekne (in Latvian)". Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  4. ^ Tauras appoint Latvian coach(in Lithuanian)
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Popkovs līdz sezonas beigām kļūst par "Spartaka" galveno treneri". 22 September 2013.