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EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Borisov-Arena - Borisov Sunday 12 October 2014 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Belarus Group C - Matchday -10 Slovakia Last updated 12/07/2021 15:36CET Official Partners of UEFA EURO 2020 Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Belarus - Slovakia Sunday 12 October 2014 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Borisov-Arena, Borisov Previous meetings Head to Head Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Belarus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Slovakia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FIFA* Belarus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Slovakia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies Belarus - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 4 Slovakia - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 4 0 Total Belarus - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 4 Slovakia - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 4 0 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Belarus - Slovakia Sunday 12 October 2014 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Borisov-Arena, Borisov Match background Belarus will look for a dramatic improvement on their only previous meeting with Slovakia as the sides come together in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group C. Match background • In the only previous match between the two nations, Slovakia beat Belarus 4-0 in a friendly game in Nitra on 27 March 1996. Július Šimon (24), Jaroslav Timko (32), Marek Ujlaky (60) and Jozef Juriga (83) the scorers. • Slovakia have won all three of the nations' meetings in UEFA age-group competitions. The most recent of those was a 5-0 triumph for the Under-19s in Senec in 2011. • In ten meetings between the nations' clubs in UEFA competition, the Slovakian sides have recorded six wins and three draws, with their lone defeat coming this season as FC BATE Borisov eliminated ŠK Slovan Bratislava in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. • Slovakia defender Erik Čikoš and Belarus's Sergei Chernik, Egor Filipenko, Denis Polyakov, Edgar Olekhnovich, Ilya Aleksievich, Mikhail Gordeychuk, Maksim Volodko and Vitali Rodionov all featured in the course of this tie. • Slovakia midfielder Filip Kiss turns 24 the day after the Belarus game. • Having won 1-0 in Ukraine in their opening Group C match, Slovakia are unbeaten in four competitive away games (W2 D2). • On 9 October Slovakia were 2-1 winners against Spain in Zilina, inflicting the European champions' first qualifying defeat in UEFA European Championship/FIFA World Cup in eight years and 36 matches. 3 Belarus - Slovakia Sunday 12 October 2014 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Borisov-Arena, Borisov Squad list Belarus Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers Torpedo - Yuri Zhevnov 17/04/1981 33 - 1 0 0 0 54 - Moskva - Andrei Klimovich 27/08/1988 26 Gomel - 0 0 0 0 - - - Sergei Chernik 20/07/1988 26 BATE - 0 0 0 0 3 - Defenders - Maksim Bordachev 18/05/1986 28 Rostov - 0 0 0 0 33 2 - Aleksandr Martynovich 26/08/1987 27 Krasnodar - 2 0 0 0 40 2 Chornomorets - Mikhail Sivakov 16/01/1988 26 - 0 0 0 0 3 - Odesa - Egor Filipenko 10/04/1988 26 BATE - 2 0 0 0 34 1 - Igor Shitov 24/10/1986 27 Mordovia - 1 0 0 0 39 1 - Dmitri Verkhovtsov 10/10/1986 28 Ufa - 1 0 0 0 43 3 - Denis Polyakov 17/04/1991 23 BATE - 1 0 0 0 9 - Midfielders - Timofei Kalachev 01/05/1981 33 Rostov - 2 0 0 0 65 8 - Sergei Kislyak 06/08/1987 27 Rubin - 2 0 0 0 47 6 - Igor Stasevich 21/10/1985 28 Dinamo Minsk - 2 0 0 0 18 2 Krylya - Stanislav Dragun 04/06/1988 26 - 2 1 0 0 25 4 Sovetov - Sergei Krivets 08/06/1986 28 Metz - 2 0 0 0 27 4 - Sergei Balanovich 29/08/1987 27 Amkar - 2 0 0 0 21 2 - Renan Bressan 03/11/1988 25 Rio Ave - 0 0 0 0 17 3 - Sergei Matveychik 05/06/1988 26 Shakhtyor - 0 0 0 0 - - - Mikhail Gordeychuk 23/10/1989 24 BATE - 1 0 0 0 4 1 - Ilya Aleksievich 10/02/1991 23 BATE - 1 0 0 0 8 1 - Edgar Olekhnovich 17/05/1987 27 BATE - 1 0 0 0 14 1 Forwards Krylya - Sergei Kornilenko 14/06/1983 31 - 2 0 0 0 63 15 Sovetov - Pavel Savitski 12/07/1994 20 Neman - 1 0 0 0 3 2 Coach - Georgi Kondratiev 07/01/1960 54 - 2 0 0 0 27 - 4 Belarus - Slovakia Sunday 12 October 2014 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Borisov-Arena, Borisov Slovakia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers Krylya - Ján Mucha 05/12/1982 31 - 0 0 0 0 41 - Sovetov - Matúš Kozáčik 27/12/1983 30 Plzeň - 2 0 0 0 6 - Rapid - Ján Novota 29/11/1983 30 - 0 0 0 0 1 - Wien Defenders - Martin Škrtel 15/12/1984 29 Liverpool - 1 0 0 0 67 5 - Peter Pekarík 30/10/1986 27 Hertha - 2 0 0 0 56 1 Lokomotiv - Ján Ďurica 10/12/1981 32 - 2 0 0 0 70 5 Moskva - Ľubomír Michalík 13/08/1983 31 Kairat - 0 0 0 0 7 2 Dinamo - Tomáš Hubočan 17/09/1985 29 - 2 0 0 0 33 - Moskva - Norbert Gyömber 03/07/1992 22 Catania - 2 0 0 0 6 - Midfielders - Viktor Pečovský 24/05/1983 31 Žilina - 2 0 0 0 18 1 - Marek Hamšík 27/07/1987 27 Napoli - 2 0 0 0 72 11 - Miroslav Stoch 19/10/1989 24 Al-Ain - 2 1 0 0 45 5 - Vladimír Weiss 30/11/1989 24 Lekhwiya - 2 0 0 0 38 3 - Karim Guédé 07/01/1985 29 Freiburg - 0 0 0 0 13 - - Róbert Mak 08/03/1991 23 PAOK - 2 1 0 0 13 3 - Juraj Kucka 26/02/1987 27 Genoa * 2 1 0 0 37 3 Ross - Filip Kiss 13/10/1990 23 - 2 0 0 0 6 - County Spartak - Erik Sabo 22/11/1991 22 - 0 0 0 0 2 - Trnava Forwards - Stanislav Šesták 16/12/1982 31 Bochum - 0 0 0 0 55 12 Union - Adam Nemec 02/09/1985 29 - 1 0 0 0 12 1 Berlin - Martin Jakubko 26/02/1980 34 Amkar - 0 0 0 0 36 9 Mladá - Michal Ďuriš 01/06/1988 26 - 2 0 0 0 14 - Boleslav Coach - Ján Kozák 17/04/1954 60 - 2 0 0 0 12 - 5 Belarus - Slovakia Sunday 12 October 2014 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Borisov-Arena, Borisov Head coach Georgi Kondratiev Date of birth: 7 January 1960 Nationality: Belarusian Playing career: FC Dvina Vitebsk, FC Dinamo Minsk, FC Dinamo Brest, FC Chornomorets Odesa, FC Lokomotiv Moskva, SKN St Pölten, FC Molodechno, FC Temp Shepetivka, KaIK Kaskinen, FC Slavia Mozyr Coaching career: FC Slavia Mozyr (assistant), FC Dinamo Minsk (assistant, caretaker coach), FC Lokomotiv Vitebsk, FC Smorgon, Belarus Under-21s (assistant, head coach), Belarus • A renowned striker in the USSR during the 1980s, Kondratiev's best years came at Dinamo Minsk as they won the Soviet title in 1982 and finished third a year later. He scored four goals in 14 games for the Soviet Union in that period. • Played various sports in his youth and participated in regional athletics competitions before focusing on football at 15. Quickly graduated from the academy to the first team at Soviet third-tier club Dvina Vitebsk. • Moved to Dinamo Minsk and went on to make 284 top-flight appearances, scoring 92 goals and earning a reputation for being committed, good in the air and having an eye for goal. • Started his coaching career in 1998 as an assistant at Slavia Mozyr and Dinamo Minsk. His best achievement at club level came in 2008 when he guided Smorgon to an eighth-place finish in Belarus. • Steered Belarus to the semi-finals of the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship and coached the team at the 2012 Olympics. Replaced Bernd Stange at the senior helm after UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying. Ján Kozák Date of birth: 17 April 1954 Nationality: Slovak Playing career: LB Spišská Nová Ves, Lokomotíva Košice (three times), RFC Seraing, FK Dukla Praha Coaching career: Lokomotíva Košice, MFK Zemplín Michalovce, FC Steel Trans Ličartovce, 1. FC Košice, Slovakia • A creative midfielder, Kozák spent much of his playing career with local team Lokomotíva Košice, where he had three spells. He returned for the first time in 1982 at the conclusion of his military service in Prague, where he turned out for Dukla. • A member of the Czechoslovakia squad that finished third at the 1980 UEFA European Championship, beating Italy 9-8 on penalties in the bronze-medal match, he scored nine goals in 55 international appearances. Kozák also travelled to the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain but did not feature due to injury. • Won the Czechoslovak Cup three times and the 1982 league championship with Dukla before retiring in 1990. Moved into coaching several years later and proved an instant success, steering 1. FC Košice to successive titles (1997, 1998) and into the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League where, as Slovakia's first ever group stage representative, they lost all six games in a section containing Feyenoord, Juventus and Manchester United FC. • Left Košice in 1998 but came back for further stints in 2005 and 2012. He stood down in summer 2013, succeeding Stanislav Griga and Michal Hipp as coach of Slovakia on a two-year contract.