Igor Kolyvanov is a former Soviet and Russian footballer who played in the championships of three different countries (USSR, Russia, Italy). He also played in three national teams (USSR, CIS, Russia). Currently working as a trainer.
Dossier
Igor Vladimirovich Kolyvanov was born in 1968 in Moscow. The playing position on the football field is the striker. Years of performance in big football - 1986-2001. Russian citizen. He has the title of Master of Sports of the USSR of the international class and Honored Coach of Russia. Included in the club of Grigory Fedotov (117 goals). Married.
Football career
As a football player, Igor Kolyvanov played in the championships of two countries (USSR and Italy) for three different clubs. He played 333 matches, in which he scored 90 goals.
- 1986-1991 - Dynamo (Moscow);
- 1991-1996 - “Foggia” (Italy);
- 1996-2001 - Bologna (Italy).
Igor Kolyvanov played for three different national teams from 1989 to 1998.
He spent 59 matches and scored 15 goals.
- 1989-1992 - USSR national team;
- 1992 - CIS national team;
- 1992-1998 - Russian team.
Stages of a gaming career
We well remember the players who showed themselves brightly at the turn of the late 80s - early 90s. This is Sergey Juran, and Andrey Kanchelskis, and Igor Dobrovolsky, and Victor Onopko. Igor Kolyvanov also fully applies to these.
The biography of the football player suggested him a career as a musician (his father played dombra, his mother played the piano). But he chose sport, or rather football.
The basics of football Igor Kolyvanov began to comprehend at the age of 9. And already at the age of 14 he played for the youth team of Moscow and the USSR. At 16, he tries himself in the Spartak team. But after playing several matches in the club’s backup team, he is leaving for Dynamo in Moscow to Eduard Malafeev . Here he is a player of the main team, simultaneously acting as part of the USSR youth team. In 1989, he made his debut in the national team to play at the European Youth Championship next year, win the tournament and become his top scorer, scoring 9 goals. That was the young player Igor Kolyvanov (photo below).
The following year 1991 is the last year of Igor Kolyvanov’s performance not only as part of Dynamo Moscow, but also in a country that soon did not. It was one of the best football seasons for the player. He is the best scorer of the last USSR championship (18 goals) and the best soccer player of the championship. At the same time, Igor Kolyvanov duplicates the speed record in one championship match (5 goals). For six seasons in the Moscow club, he played 140 matches, scoring 42 goals.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many football players got the opportunity to try their hand at foreign championships. Igor was among the players who went abroad. Dynamo received two and a half million dollars for the football player, and Kolyvanov himself became an attacking midfielder of the Italian club Foggia.
The first three seasons were quite successful. The footballer became a player in the main team, scored a lot. But then there was an episode that affected his entire remaining career. In one of the matches in the Russian national team, Igor Kolyvanov received a very unpleasant and often widespread injury - a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee. Having finished his sixth season for Foggia, he is on loan to be transferred to the team of the rookie of the Italian championship Bologna.
For 4 years, Kolyvanov becomes the club’s best footballer, his main scorer (17 goals in the 1996-97 season). Further the player was constantly pursued by injuries. He lost his place in the team, having left the football field only once in the 2000/2001 season. The contract with the club expired in the summer, and Igor Kolyvanov, the footballer who played 6 seasons with Bologna, spent 87 matches and scored 26 goals, ended his career as a player.
Thus, having played in the Italian championship for more than 10 years, far from not the strongest teams, he managed to become one of the best foreign players who played in Serie A (193 matches, 48 goals). Kolyvanov is one of the few Soviet and Russian football players who have successfully developed a playing career in European championships in the 90s.
Coaching career
Igor Kolyvanov began his coaching career in 2002. Until 2010, he works with junior and youth Russian teams (U-17, U-19). As a coach of the youth team, Kolyvanov won the European Championship in 2006 (U-17). With youth teams did not work out. After a series of unsuccessful matches, he was fired in 2010. In the same 2010, Igor Kolyvanov was the coach of the Russian national team at the Commonwealth Cup tournament.
In May 2012, he enters into a contract with the team of the first Russian division Ufa. In the first season, the club takes sixth place, and in the next championship - fourth. Having won butt matches for the right to play in the Premier League with the Tom team, the Ufa club, which does not have sufficient funding and selection of players, sensationally makes its way to the top division of Russian football.
Everyone was waiting for the inevitable departure of the team in the first season, but Kolyvanov managed to keep the club in the Premier League. The team started the next championship unsuccessfully. Having gained only one victory and having suffered seven defeats, “Ufa” took the 16th position after the 12th round.
On October 21, 2015, the club management announced that coach Igor Kolyvanov had been fired.
The resignation was made by mutual agreement: calmly, respectfully and professionally.
Trophies and Achievements
Igor Kolyvanov won almost all of his awards by playing in the USSR Championship for Dynamo Moscow. He becomes the owner of silver (1986) and bronze (1990) medals, the best footballer and scorer (1991), 2 times included in the list of “33 best players of the season in the USSR” (1990, 1991).
As a football player of the national team Kolyvanov is a European champion (U-19), as a coach he is a winner of the European Championship (U-17).
A family
Igor Kolyvanov is a man long married. He got married, being a player of the Moscow Dynamo. The wife's name is Mona. In 1989, their daughter Anna was born.
The family lives in Moscow.