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Yuriy Nikiforov

1970 - Today

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Yuriy Valeryevich Nikiforov (alternate spelling Valeriovych; Юрий Валерьевич Никифоров, Ukrainian: Юрій Валерійович Никифоров; born 16 September 1970) is a professional football coach and a former player who played mainly as a central defender. He is an assistant coach with the Russia national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuriy Nikiforov is the 4,492nd most popular soccer player (down from 4,277th in 2024), the 880th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 887th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Ukrainian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yuriy Nikiforov ranks 4,491 out of 21,273. Before him are Jiří Feureisl, Fábio, André Ooijer, Roberto Mouzo, and Kazumi Kishi. After him are Motoki Imagawa, Guillermo Sepúlveda, Andrés D'Alessandro, Prvoslav Mihajlović, Kazuaki Nagasawa, Rubén Héctor Sosa, and Johan Elmander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yuriy Nikiforov ranks 257. Before him are Kaoru Kadohara, João Ricardo, Lee Jung-eun, Edin Mujčin, Jeanette J. Epps, and Avishai Cohen. After him are Valery Bolotov, Nigo, Whigfield, Axel, Andrea Giani, and Shin Tae-yong.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yuriy Nikiforov ranks 880 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexandra Marinina (1957), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Sidney Fox (1907), Dmytro Yarosh (1971), Aleksei Dikiy (1889), and Boris Chirkov (1901). After him are Yozhef Betsa (1929), Andrzej Mostowski (1913), Vladimir Vasyutin (1952), Alex Len (1993), Pavel Cebanu (1955), and Viktor Putyatin (1941).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among soccer players born in Ukraine, Yuriy Nikiforov ranks 38. Before him are Yuriy Istomin (1944), Volodymyr Troshkin (1947), Igor Dobrovolski (1967), Viktor Chanov (1959), Viktor Matviyenko (1948), and Oleksandr Zinchenko (1996). After him are Yozhef Betsa (1929), Pavel Cebanu (1955), Artem Dovbyk (1997), Viktor Onopko (1969), Yevhen Konoplyanka (1989), and Andriy Lunin (1999).

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