Ilya Tsymbalar

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Ilya Tsymbalar
Personal information
Full name Ilya Vladimirovich Tsymbalar
Date of birth June 17, 1969 (1969-06-17) (age 40)
Place of birth    Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8+12 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
1977–1986 FC Chornomorets Odessa
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1986
1987
1987–1989
1989–1993
1993–1999
2000
2001–2002
FC Chornomorets Odessa
Dinamo Odessa
SKA Odessa
FC Chornomorets Odessa
Spartak Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow
Anzhi Makhachkala
000 0(0)

083 (13)
100 (14)
146 (42)
010 0(0)
016 0(1)   
National team
1992
1994–1999
Ukraine
Russia
003 0(0)
028 0(4)
Teams managed
2004–2006
2006–2008
2008–2009
2010–
FC Khimki (assistant)
FC Spartak-MZhK Ryazan
FC Nizhny Novgorod
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (assistant)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Ilya Vladimirovich Tsymbalar (Russian: Илья Владимирович Цымбаларь) (born 17 June 1969 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Ukrainian and Russian football midfielder and coach.

At club level, Tsymbalar has played for Dinamo Odessa (1987), SKA Odessa (1987–89), FC Chornomorets Odessa (1986, 1989–93), Spartak Moscow (1993–99), Lokomotiv Moscow (2000), Anzhi Makhachkala (2001–2002). Tsymbalar was named Russian Footballer of the Year in 1995. He retired after the 2002 season with Anzhi Makhachkala.

For Russia, Tsymbalar has been capped 28 times, scoring 4 goals. He played for his country at the 1994 World Cup and Euro 96, where he scored a goal against Italy at Anfield. Beforehand, in 1992, he had played in three international matches for the newly-formed Ukraine national team.

After retiring, Tsymbalar became vice-president of Anzhi Makhachkala, before turning to coaching by taking over Spartak’s reserve team, moving on to the coaching team of FC Khimki. In 2006 he became head-coach of FC Spartak-MZhK Ryazan, whom he led to promotion to the Russian First Division. In February 2008, he was named as head coach of FC Nizhny Novgorod. In January 2009 he resigned from the club.[1] On December 22, 2009 he was appointed an assistant of new Shinnik Yaroslavl coach and Tsymbalar's former teammate Igor Lediakhov.

His son, Sergey Tsymbalar, is also a footballer, having played in FC Chornomorets Odessa reserve team lately.

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