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n professional football coach and a former player. In 2009, he worked as a goalkeeping coach with FC Vityaz Podolsk

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. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League

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 in 1976 for FC Torpedo Taganrog.

His younger brother Sergei Balakhnin

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Sergei Nikolayevich Balakhnin is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He manages FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League. As a player, he made his debut in the Soviet Second League in 1979 for FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don....

also played football professionally.