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Dmitri Popov
Personal information
Full name Dmitri Lvovich Popov
Date of birth (1967-02-27) 27 February 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth Yaroslavl, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
FC Shinnik
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1989 FC Shinnik 129 (11)
1989–1993 Spartak Moscow 78 (7)
1993–1996 Racing Santander 98 (21)
1996–1999 Compostela 76 (4)
1999 Toledo 6 (0)
2000 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 (0)
International career
1992–1998 Russia 21 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dmitri Lvovich Popov (Russian: Дмитрий Львович Попов; born 27 February 1967) is a Russian retired footballer who played as a left midfielder. He is currently the director of sports for FC Spartak Moscow.

Football career

Popov was born in Yaroslavl, Soviet Union. He started playing professionally at local FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, then signed with country giants FC Spartak Moscow.

In 1993 Popov moved to Spain alongside teammate Dmitri Radchenko, and would spend there the following six 1/2 years, with Racing de Santander (in the 1995–96 season, he teamed up there with compatriot Ilshat Faizulin), SD Compostela and CD Toledo. In January 2000 he joined Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, retiring at the end of the campaign.

Popov returned to Spartak Moscow in 2008, as its director of football. He obtained 21 caps and scored four goals for the Russian national team, and was part of the national squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup;[1] in 2009, he played in the national team that won the Legends Cup.

Honours

References

  1. ^ Dmitriy Leonidovich Popov – International Appearances; at RSSSF

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