Viktors Ņesterenko

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Viktors Ņesterenko
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-05-03) 3 May 1954 (age 69)
Place of birth
Ukrainian SSR
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Fk Union (Manager)
Youth career
Kolos Nikopol
1971 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1972 Elektrons Rīga
1973–1977 Daugava Rīga 87 (18)
1978–1979
Zvejnieks Liepāja
66 (6)
1980–1986 Celtnieks Rīga
1988–1989 RAF Jelgava
Managerial career
1988–1992 RAF Jelgava
1992–1993 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
1994 DAG Riga
1995 DAG Liepāja
1996–1997
Universitāte Rīga
1998 Dinaburg Daugavpils
2001–2003 FK Rīga
2004
Dinamo Brest
2009–2012 Karelia-Discovery Petrozavodsk
2013–2014 Lokomotiv Jõhvi
2016 FK Progress
2017–2018 AFA Olaine
2019
JK Järve
(assistant)
2019–2021 SK Super Nova
2022– Fk Union
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktors Ņesterenko (born 3 May 1954) is a Latvian football coach and former player.

Career

Playing career

Ņesterenko was born in

Spartak Kostroma
.

Ņesterenko tried to return to Daugava Rīga more than once, but the club's head coach didn't believe that Ņesterenko could still be of any use to the club, so Ņesterenko settled with Celtnieks Rīga where he soon switched from playing to coaching.

Coaching career

With Ņesterenko as a playing coach, Celtnieks Rīga won the

Latvian Cup
three times in a row - from 1984 to 1986. The team also secured two second-place finishes in the Latvian league.

In 1988, Ņesterenko was offered a coaching position with the second team of

Virslīga season; the club went lost the gold medals to Skonto FC
in an extra game.

Ņesterenko signed a 1+1 year deal with Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk which had been just relegated to the Ukrainian Premier League and was hoping to return there after one season. Under his management, the club finished 4th in out of 22 teams, which wasn't enough for Ņesterenko to keep his job with the club.

In 1994 Ņesterenko took up with his next club -

Baltika Liepāja and relocated to Liepāja. Almost all the players had left DAG, the club had no financial support the first half of the season, and the only money came in from the transfer of Dzintars Sproģis to Spartak Moscow. The season was disappointing (especially the first half), however the club again reached the cup final. That season, DAG had young players like Viktors Dobrecovs and veterans such as Jānis Intenbergs and Ainārs Linards. After the season Ņesterenko was asked to leave Liepāja
.

In 1996 Ņesterenko returned to RAF which had relocated from

was chosen instead.

After a brief stint of consulting work with Ranto/Miks, Ņesterenko signed for the 1998 season with Dinaburg FC, the bronze medalists and cup finalists of 1997.[2] His first season Ņesterenko was less successful - fourth place in the league and a cup exit in the quarter-finals. Ņesterenko left Dinaburg in the middle of the season and was replaced by Roman Hryhorchuk whom Ņesterenko had coached as a player in Ivano-Frankivsk.

The next stage in Ņesterenko's career was FK Rīga for which he was an assistant coach under Jānis Gilis and later under Georgijs Gusarenko. In 2001, Ņesterenko was appointed head coach. His work with Rīga didn't bring great results - the club was stuck in mid table and lacked direction, and Ņesterenko had to leave the club after the 2003 season.[3]

In 2004, he took up work with

Dinamo Brest in Belarus
but as the team failed to impress he was fired rather speedily.

His last club to date was

FK Venta Ventspils
, which went bankrupt in 2005. Ņesterenko started as a scouting coach, but when the club finances worsened took up the position of head coach.

In his work as club manager Ņesterenko has worked with Aleksandrs Dorofejevs in many clubs.[4]

References

  1. ^ Anatolijs Kreipāns. Seven teams of Viktors Ņesterenko (in Latvian).
  2. ^ Vladimirs Ivanovs. Viktors Ņesterenko - to Daugavpils (in Latvian), Diena, 1998-01-08
  3. ^ Ņesterenko won't be working with Rīga (in Latvian)
  4. ^ Aleksandrs Dorofejevs: I hope that beautiful football will return (in Latvian), 2003-07-19.

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