Sergei Petrovich Derkach (Russian: Серге́й Петрович Деркач; born 14 November 1966) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

Sergei Derkach
Personal information
Full name Sergei Petrovich Derkach
Date of birth (1966-11-14) 14 November 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
RSDYuSShOR Kishinyov
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984 Nistru Kishinyov 0 (0)
1985 Dinamo Brest 22 (3)
1986–1988 Dinamo Minsk 41 (7)
1989–1993 Dynamo Moscow 91 (10)
1993–1994 Basel 12 (0)
1994 Dynamo Moscow 5 (0)
1995–1996 Alania Vladikavkaz 38 (6)
1997–1998 Saturn Ramenskoye 18 (1)
Managerial career
2002–2003 Khimki
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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Derkach joined Basel's first team for their Basel's 1993–94 season, under head-coach Claude Andrey. After playing in one test game, Derkach played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 28 July 1993 Basel as were defeated 1–2 by local rivals Old Boys.[1]

Derkach's teammates that season were the likes of Swiss international goalkeeper Stefan Huber, defenders Massimo Ceccaroni, Marco Walker and Samir Tabakovic, the midfielders Mario Cantaluppi, Martin Jeitziner, Admir Smajić and Ørjan Berg and the Swiss international strikers Dario Zuffi and Philippe Hertig. Together they won the promotion/relegation group and became Nationalliga B champions and thus won promotion to the top flight of Swiss football. This after six seasons in the second tier.[2]

In his one season with the club Derkach played a total of 22 games for Basel scoring a total of two goals. 12 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, two in the Swiss Cup and eight were friendly games. He scored both goal during the test games.[3]

He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1986 for FC Dinamo Minsk.[4]

Honours

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European club competitions

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References

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  1. ^ "FC Basel - BSC Old Boys 1:2 (1:2)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. ^ Erik Garin, Luc Nackaerts. "Nationalliga A+B Promotion/relegation 1993/94". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Sergei Derkach - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ^ Sergei Derkach at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)  

Sources

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  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5