Alexander Chugunov is a former Sovieta football player who is now a coach. He performed in big-time sports from 1970 to 1984. This player was not tied to a particular position and throughout his career was in the role of both a defender and a midfielder, and even a striker. He was remembered both for his versatility and his loyalty to the Kuban, which will be discussed a little later. Alexander Chugunov began coaching nine years after completing his professional career and continues to do it, although not in great football, as he had originally planned.
Carier start
Alexander Chugunov was born on the farm Sinyapkin inRostov region May 10, 1953. He started playing football at the age of ten, and Kamensky Progress became his first professional club. There he performed from 1970 to 1971. At first he played in Class B, after which he sank into the amateur division, but the player’s talent was obvious, so he was not held in such a hopeless club.
В 1972 году молодой талант присоединился к Rostov “SKA”, for which he played only six games, before the next season he moved to “Kuban”, where he managed to open up best of all. Alexander Chugunov found his real football home in this club.
Game for "Kuban"
Alexander Chugunov, whose biography is not yethad records of a long stay in any club, finally found the place where he could play and reveal his talent. He spent four years in Kuban, playing 164 matches and scoring 17 goals. It was there that he became famous, gained popularity and was formed as a full-fledged football player.
However, even this union came to an end, and in 1978year, Alexander Chugunov, whose photos could be seen in various Soviet sports publications, moved to Stavropol Dynamo. It is worth noting that this transfer did not particularly affect the attitude of local fans to the footballer - they still loved this player, so when he returned, they met him more than joyfully.
Further career
Alexander Chugunov - a football player who does notlingered in no other club for as long as in Kuban. In 1979, he left the team to join Dynamo from Stavropol, spent 38 games there, scoring five goals. However, he did not last long there, and a year later he returned to his favorite club.
Three years later, the footballer played for Kuban,adding to his own account 69 more matches and two goals. However, he did not finish his professional career here - in 1984, Chugunov signed a short-term contract with Novorossiysk "Cement". Having played for the new club just two matches, Alexander announced that he ends up with professional sports. It happened quite early, since at that time he was only 31 years old. Many players play a few years longer, there are even those who finish around forty. In any case, Chugunov ended his career quite early.
Career coach
For ten years, Chugunov did not figure inbig football and mainly engaged in his personal life. And only in 1995 it became known that he was appointed assistant coach of the Krasnodar "Kolos", however, he remained in office for only a year. After the next big break, Alexander tried his hand again - this time at the club “Krasnodar-2000”, where he was also an assistant to the head coach for a year.
Then he retired and returned only to2009, when he was appointed as a children's trainer for children at the Krasnodar Sports School No.5. In this position, he has already spent more than seven years and is still doing the same. He trains children up to fifteen, who can then grow into full-fledged local Krasnodar footballers.
In general, the career of this person as a football playercan not be called particularly outstanding, and the career of a coach was even less remarkable. However, we can safely say that as a player, and as a mentor, he eventually found his place under the sun. As a footballer, he played 7 years out of fourteen in Kuban, and after completing his career, after several unsuccessful attempts to work with adult teams, Chugunov stopped training young men, preparing them for the big football world and growing talents for Krasnodar "And for Russia.
