Aleksandrs Starkovs
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(now Republic of Latvia)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 26 July 1955 | ||
| Place of birth |
Madona, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Latvia) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1975 | RPI Madona | ||
| 1975–1977 | Daugava Rīga | ||
| 1977–1978 | Dynamo Moscow | 0 | (0) |
| 1978–1989 | Daugava Rīga | 417 | (189) |
| International career | |||
| 1979 | Latvia amateur | 6 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1990–1993 | FK Daugava Rīga (assistant) | ||
| 1992–1994 | Latvia U-21 | ||
| 1993–2004 | Skonto FC | ||
| 1995–2001 | Latvia (assistant) | ||
| 2001–2004 | Latvia | ||
| 2004–2006 | Spartak Moscow | ||
| 2006–2007 | Skonto FC (sporting director) | ||
| 2007–2013 | Latvia | ||
| 2010–2011 | Skonto FC | ||
| 2011–2012 | FC Baku | ||
| 2016–2017 | Latvia (assistant) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Latvia | ||
| 2019 | Liepāja | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955) is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer who played as a forward. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja.
Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and Skonto FC in Latvia. He had three stints with the Latvia national team.
Starkovs started playing football in Madona where he played for the local Olimpija Madona playing for which he was selected the best forward of the 1969 Latvia Leather ball tournament. In 1975 Starkovs joined FK Daugava Rīga. In 1978 Starkovs went to FC Dynamo Moscow but it was not the right team for him, so soon Starkovs was back in Riga. However his best years were still to come - in the 1980s Starkovs was one of the best snipers of the Soviet first league, scoring over a hundred goals for Daugava.
In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Latvia by the Latvian Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.
