Nowadays, it is rarely possible to meet a player who spends his entire career in one club. Favorable offers, lack of playing practice or disagreement with the coach encourage players to change teams. However, loyal players are now and have been before. One of these players is Vladimir Maminov, who gave 16 years of his life to the game for Moscow “Locomotive”, after which he spent 4 more years as a coach in it.
Parenting and first steps
Vladimir Maminov, whose biography as a football player began and ended at Lokomotiv, showed great promise at school. As a result, at the age of 17, he began to be included in the application of the “railway” for the season, but the debut of the young midfielder took place only in October 1993 as part of the Russian championship, where he replaced the match against Uralmash.
Each year, the player progressed, and the coaching staff allotted him more and more time on the field. As a result, by 1996, Vladimir Maminov had become an indispensable player in the foundation. His ability to read the game and correctly manage the ball, the midfielder helped Lokomotiv achieve good results, thanks to which the railroad won the Russian Cup in the same season.
Major career successes
However, the main success of Vladimir was yet to come. For three years in a row, starting in 1999, Muscovites came to the finish line in second place, with each season becoming an increasingly cohesive and skilled team. The result of such growth was not long in coming, and already in 2002, Lokomotiv came to its first championship title, and a year later confirmed a high level.
After that, Vladimir Maminov for another 4 years showed an excellent game as part of the “red-green”, after which in December 2008 he announced his retirement, having played exactly 400 official matches for Muscovites, in which he scored 41 goals.
Coaching track in Lokomotiv
Despite the completion of the career of a football player, the player did not part with his native club. Soon after leaving the football field, Vladimir Maminov began coaching at Lokomotiv and in the summer of 2009, for two months, became the acting head coach of the team.
With the return of the former coach of Maminov, Yuri Semin, the ex-midfielder became the chief assistant to the mentor. The paths of the midfielder and the club diverged only in 2013, when Vladimir left the team as a coach, soon entering the coaching staff of Kazan “Rubin”. In 2016, Maminov headed the Moscow club “Solaris”, playing in the PFL, whose coach is to this day. The athlete has a wife and two children - son Vladislav and daughter Maria.