Semen Yosypovych Altman is a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 coach

Coach (sport)

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 and former goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

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. He is the current manager of SC Tavriya Simferopol

SC Tavriya Simferopol

SC Tavriya Simferopol is a football club from Simferopol, Crimea, which plays in the Ukrainian Premier League. Tavriya is Crimea's most successful football club and is the winner of the very first Ukrainian Premier League, making them one out of 3 teams that have ever held this title.- History...

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Semen’s son, Hennadiy Altman is also a goalkeeper and has followed his father to many of the teams Semen has coached over the years.

Career

Altman played for Kolhospnyk (Rivne)

FC Veres Rivne

FC Veres Rivne is a Ukrainian football club based in Rivne. The team ran into financial difficulties after the winter break of the 2010–11 season and was removed from the PFL . From 1992–1995, Veres Rivne took part in the Ukrainian Premier League, and achieved their best result of 12th place in...

, Volyn (Lutsk)

FC Volyn Lutsk

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, Chornomorets (Odessa)

FC Chornomorets Odessa

FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...

, Zvezda (Tiraspol), Lokomotiv (Kherson).

Coach

He has worked as a coach of FC Chornomorets Odessa

FC Chornomorets Odessa

FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...

 (1982–88), FC Dynamo Moscow

FC Dynamo Moscow

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 (1989–91), Chornomorets (1991–94), Korea Olympic team (1994–96), FC Zimbru Chişinău

FC Zimbru Chisinau

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 (1996–99), Metalurh Donetsk (1999–2002), and Chornomorets again (2003–2007). Semen Altman was also Oleh Blokhin's assistant coach for the Ukraine national football team

Ukraine national football team

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 from 2003 to 2006. In 2007 Altman was replaced by Vitaliy Shevchenko

Vitaliy Shevchenko

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 at Chornomorets. In 2007 he was hired by FC Illychivets Mariupol

FC Illychivets Mariupol

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 as head coach on a one-year contract. On 14 December 2007, Semen was unexpectedly sacked, despite winning the first leg of the quarterfinal Ukrainian Cup

Ukrainian Cup

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 match against his former club Chornomorets, and the club sitting in 2nd place at the time. In October 2008 he was appointed as head-coach of FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok.

As Coach

• 2006 FIFA World Cup
  2006 FIFA World Cup
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  • Quarter-finalist (as assistant-coach)
• Ukrainian Premier League
  Ukrainian Premier League
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  • Bronze medals: 2001–02
    Ukrainian Premier League 2001-02
    -Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final.Play-off:-Top goalscorers:-European competitions:Champion's Cup Champion's Cup...
    
    , 2002–03
    Ukrainian Premier League 2002-03
    -Final standings:-Top goal scorers:-European competitions:Champion's Cup Champion's Cup UEFA Cup UEFA Cup -External links:*...
    
     (both with Metalurh Donetsk
    FC Metalurh Donetsk
    FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...
    
    ); 2005–06
    Ukrainian Premier League 2005-06
    The 2005–06 Ukrainian Premier League season was the fifteenth since its establishment.The season started on July 12, 2005 with six games of the first round. The last day of the competition was May 10, 2006. However, because the top two teams have finished with equal amount of points, it was decided...
    
     (with Chornomorets Odessa
    FC Chornomorets Odessa
    FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction , the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium...
    
    )
• Moldovan National Division (all with FC Zimbru Chişinău
  FC Zimbru Chisinau
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  )
  • Champion: 1997–98, 1998–99
  • Silver medals: 1996–97
• Moldova Cup
  • Winner: 1996–97, 1997–98

External links

• Chornormorets sign Shevchenko at UEFA.com
• Profile at KLISF