Semen Altman

Semen Altman
Personal information
Full nameSemen Yosypovych Altman
Date of birth21 April 1946
Place of birthChuhuiv, Soviet Union
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Youth career
Kiev Sport School #1
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1965Kolhospnyk (Rivne)3
1965–1966Volyn (Lutsk)15
1966–1972Chornomorets (Odessa)70
1973Zvezda (Tiraspol)
1974Lokomotyv (Kherson)
1975Zvezda (Tiraspol)
Teams managed
1982–1988Chornomorets Odessa
1989–1991Dynamo Moscow
1991–1994Chornomorets Odessa
1994–1996Korea Olympic team
1996–1999Zimbru Chişinău
1999–2002Metalurh Donetsk
2003–2006Ukraine (assistant)
2003–2007Chornomorets Odessa
2007Illychivets Mariupol
2008Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
2010Ukraine (assistant)
2011–2012Tavriya
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Semen Yosypovych Altman (Ukrainian: Семен Йосипович Альтман, born 21 April 1946 in Chuhuiv) is a Ukrainian football coach and former goalkeeper of Jewish ethnicity.[1]

Semen’s son, Hennadiy Altman is also a goalkeeper and has followed his father to many of the teams Semen has coached over the years.

Career

Altman played for Kolhospnyk (Rivne), Volyn (Lutsk), Chornomorets (Odessa), Zvezda (Tiraspol), Lokomotiv (Kherson).

Coach

He has worked as a coach of FC Chornomorets Odessa (1982–88), FC Dynamo Moscow (1989–91), Chornomorets (1991–94), Korea Olympic team (1994–96), FC Zimbru Chişinău (1996–99), Metalurh Donetsk (1999–2002), and Chornomorets again (2003–2007). Semen Altman was also Oleh Blokhin's assistant coach for the Ukraine national football team from 2003 to 2006. In 2007 Altman was replaced by Vitaliy Shevchenko at Chornomorets. In 2007 he was hired by FC Illychivets Mariupol as head coach on a one-year contract. On 14 December 2007, Semen was unexpectedly sacked, despite winning the first leg of the quarterfinal Ukrainian Cup match against his former club Chornomorets, and the club sitting in 2nd place at the time. In October 2008 he was appointed as head-coach of FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok.

Honours

As Coach

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