Aleksandrs Starkovs was born on 26 July 1955 and is a Latvian football coach and a former player.
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Aleksandrs Starkovs was born on 26 July 1955 and is a Latvian football coach and a former player.
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Aleksandrs Starkovs started playing football in Madona where he played for the local Olimpija Madona playing for which he was selected the best forward of the 1969 Latvia Leather ball tournament.
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However his best years were still to come - in 1980s Aleksandrs Starkovs was one of the best snipers of the Soviet first league, scoring over a hundred goals for Daugava.
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Aleksandrs Starkovs returned to Latvia in 2007 and took over the Latvian national team, which had been struggling under Jurijs Andrejevs.
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In late 2009 Aleksandrs Starkovs accepted the offer to manage Skonto FC and officially became the manager of the club in January 2010 as Paul Ashworth left.
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Aleksandrs Starkovs's return was explicitly successful as he managed to win the league.
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In January 2011 Aleksandrs Starkovs left Skonto FC, signing a contract in Azerbaijan with FC Baku.
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Aleksandrs Starkovs is currently working at the Latvian Football Federation as the chairman of the National teams' committee.
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