Sergey Borovsky has been appointed head coach of the football club "Vitebsk"

December 24, Minsk / Sergey Vishnevsky - BELTA /. Famous former Belarusian footballer and ex-head coach of the Belarusian national team Sergey Borovsky has been appointed head coach of Vitebsk, a BELTA correspondent reports. As the official website of FC Vitebsk informs, Oleg Dulub will be Borovsky's assistant. These positions remained vacant after the contracts of head coach Yuri Konoplev and his assistant Sergey Vekhtev expired on December 6. Under their leadership, the Vitebsk team took 9th place out of 12 participants in the national championship and, with difficulty, retained its place in the top league. New agreements were not offered to the specialists. In the past Belarusian championship, Sergey Borovsky coached SKVICH Minsk, with whom he took 2nd place in the second-tier division. In the promotion play-offs for the right to play in the top league, SKVICH lost to Torpedo Zhodino on aggregate over two matches (1:3 at home and 0:0 away). Sergey Borovsky was born on January 29, 1956, in Minsk and is a graduate of the SDYUSSHOR-5 sports school in the capital (first coach - Leonid Lapunov). Throughout his playing career, the defender played for Dynamo Minsk (1972-1987), winning the USSR championship (1982) and a bronze medal (1983). He was a finalist of the USSR Cup (1987). He played 400 matches for the Dynamo team in the USSR championships (270 matches in the top league). He was the team captain in 1984-1985. He played 21 matches for the USSR national team from 1981 to 1985. He participated in the 1982 World Cup. He was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR (1979) and Master of Sports of International Class (1981). Sergey Borovsky began his coaching career in 1989. He coached Belarusian clubs Metallurg Molodechno (1989-1994), Torpedo-MAZ Minsk (2000-2003), Belshina Bobruisk (2004), Dinamo Brest (2005-2006), Torpedo Zhodino (2008), SKVICH Minsk (2009-2010), as well as Latvian Ventspils (1997-1998), Moldovan Sheriff (1998-1999), Lithuanian Kaunas (2003) and Vetra (2005), Ukrainian Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (2004). He twice headed the Belarusian national team (1994-1997 and 1999-2000). He is the winner of the Moldovan Cup (1999) and the Lithuanian champion (2003). On December 12, 2010, he received a PRO coaching license. Borovsky's assistant, 45-year-old Oleg Dulub, was part of the coaching staff of Minsk, which won bronze medals in the national championship last season. After the season ended, Dulub was one of the candidates for the head coach position at Dinamo Minsk, but ultimately the owner of the "white-blues" Yuri Chizh preferred to invite Russian specialist Oleg Vasilenko. FC Vitebsk will resume training on January 10, when the players return from vacation. On the same day, the new coaching staff will be introduced to the team. -0-