Vladimir Gaev

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Personal information
Vladimir Gaev
Full name	Vladimir Gaev
Date of birth	October 28, 1977 (1977-10-28) (age 30)
Place of birth	Mozyr, Soviet Union
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Youth clubs
?–1995	MPKC
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996–2002 2001 2003 2003–2006 2007 2008	MPKC/Slavia → Zvyazda Minsk (loan) FC Gomel Dinamo Bucharest Chornomorets Odessa FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk	95 (0) 10 (0) 15 (0) 36 (0) 0 (0)
National team²
?	Belarus	14 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 29, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of November 29, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Vladimir Gaev (born October 28, 1977) is a football (soccer) goalkeeper from Belarus, who currently plays for the Belarusian Premier League football team FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk.

1 Career
2 References

[edit] Career

[edit] Club

Gaev began his playing career with the home-town team MPKC, (which later changed its name to FC Slavia Mozyr), in the Belarusian Premier League. Playing first in the youth team, before making his senior team debut in 1996, the year they won their first championship. In 2000 he won the league championship with Slavia. After a brief loan spell at Zvyazda Minsk, he played his last season for Slavia in 2002, moving another Belarus club, FC Gomel. His only season there brought another championship medal, in 2003. That success brought the attention of the top Romanian club, Dinamo Bucharest, who signed him to a three-year deal in 2003^[1]. His first game for Dinamo came in the second half of the 2003/2004 season, in a game against Farul Constanţa on April 24, 2004; a game Dinamo won 2:1. That season he played only 2 games, but enough to earn a Championship medal. Gaev went on to play for 3 more seasons in Romania, winning the Romanian Cup in 2004 and 2005, as well as the Romanian Super Cup in 2005. He has also played in 11 European cup matches for Dinamo. In 2007 he was transferred to Chornomorets. During the winter break he was sold to the Belarusian Premier League club FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk.

[edit] International career

Vladimir Gaev has played for the Belarus national football team on 14 occasions. The most recent of which was a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying game against Slovenia on September 12, 2007. He was recalled to the team, after a long absence, by the new head coach of Belarus, Bernd Stange.