Serhiy Mazur
Serhiy Mykolaiovych Mazur (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Мазур; born 23 May 1970) is a former Ukrainian football midfielder and football manager. Currently he is a vice-president of FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (2020) in the Ukrainian Second League.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Serhiy Mykolaiovych Mazur | ||
| Date of birth | 23 May 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Hirnyk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (vice-president) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Voroshylovhrad boarding school of sports profile | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1991 | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 2 | (0) |
| 1991–1993 | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 70 | (7) |
| 1993 | → FC Zoria-MALS Luhansk (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | FC Sirius Zhovti Vody | 14 | (0) |
| 1994 | → FC Sportinvest Kryvyi Rih (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 1995 | FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 21 | (4) |
| 1996 | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 14 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | FC Spartak Ryazan | 11 | (1) |
| 1999–2000 | FC Access-Esil Petropavlovsk | 30 | (4) |
| 2001 | FC Irtysh Pavlodar | 6 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2008–2012 | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (U-21) | ||
| 2015–2020 | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
He started his football career in the Soviet Union, played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk reserves in 1987 debuting for senior squad in 1990. Having difficult time to make the senior squad, in 1991 Mazur left for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih that played in the Soviet Lower Second League (Ukrainian championship). Following dissolution of the Soviet Union, he played in the very first championship of Ukraine and as a player of Kryvbas was promoted to the Vyshcha Liha (better known as Ukrainian Premier League). In 1994 Mazur joined a team from Zhovti Vody for which he played until it went bankrupt. Later for a half a season Mazur played for a team from Carpathian region, but soon return to Kryvbas again. In 1996 he left Ukraine and played abroad in Russia and Kazakhstan.
After retirement in early 2000s, Mazur returned to Kryvbas where he was appointed as a senior coach of its youth team. After Kryvbas went bankrupt, he stayed with the team and in 2015 was appointed as its head coach competing at the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast championship. In fall of 2011 Mazur survived a mass heart attack.[1]