Aleksandr Shirko

Aleksandr Shirko
Shirko in 2008
Personal information
Full name Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko
Date of birth (1976-11-24) 24 November 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth Moscow, Soviet Union
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–2001 Spartak Moscow 127 (40)
2001–2003 Torpedo Moscow 61 (22)
2004 Shinnik Yaroslavl 27 (7)
2005 Terek Grozny 3 (0)
2005–2006 Shinnik Yaroslavl 34 (6)
2007–2008 Tom Tomsk 28 (3)
2009 FC MVD Rossii Moscow 12 (1)
Total 292 (79)
International career
1994 Russia U-19 2 (0)
1996–1997 Russia U-21 9 (8)
1999–2001 Russia 6 (1)
Managerial career
2018–2021 Khimki (scout)
2018–2021 Academy Khimki (director)
2021–2024 SSh Olimp Fryazino (director)
2024 Academy Torpedo Moscow (director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Shirko.

Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko (Russian: Александр Петрович Ширко; born 24 November 1976) is a Russian football scout and a former player.

Playing career

Shirko started his professional career with Spartak Moscow, with whom he won six Russian Premier League titles, from 1996 to 2001, and become one of the top scorers of the UEFA Cup in the 1997/1998 season, before leaving for city-rivals Torpedo.
In 2004 Shirko joined Shinnik Yaroslavl as part of a loan deal from Torpedo, but then extended his stay at the club by two years.
In 2006 Aleksandr Shirko was involved in a fight with Shinnik fans, after a disappointing 1–6 defeat to Rostov. That accident earned him a ten-match ban.
At the start of 2007, Shirko signed with Tom Tomsk, in club's attempt to replace Pavel Pogrebnyak, who left for Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Shirko scored 78 goals in 281 Russian league matches. Shirko won the 1997–98 Russian Cup with Spartak and was awarded Master of Sports of Russia.[1]

During his professional career, Shirko earned six caps for Russia national football team from 1999 to 2001, scoring one goal in a 3–0 win over Faroe Islands in 2001.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 2001-09-05 Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands  Faroe Islands 0 – 3 0–3 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification

References

  1. ^ Mereminsky, S.G. "ШИРКО́". old.bigenc.ru (in Russian). Great Russian Encyclopedia.