Krivets acclaimed as Belarus's best
Saturday, December 13, 2014
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Midfielder Sergei Krivets has been named as Belarus's Player of the Year for 2014 having left FC BATE Borisov for French side FC Metz midway through the campaign.
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Sergei Krivets has been named as Belarus's Player of the Year, having left FC BATE Borisov in the summer to join French side FC Metz.
The 28-year-old midfielder joined the Ligue 1 club in late August having scored ten goals and supplied 11 assists in 20 league games in 2014 to set BATE on course for a ninth successive title. Krivets last left the Zholto-Sinie in 2009, to play for KKS Lech Poznań and then Jiangsu Sainty, returning to Borisov in 2013. This season, he scored vital goals against Debreceni VSC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava to help the Belarusian champions on their way to the UEFA Champions League group stage.
Former BATE coach Viktor Goncharenko, who was released by FC Kuban Krasnodar last month, was named as Belarus's best coach while FC Dinamo Minsk midfielder Igor Stasevich was named as the best player in the Belarusian Premier League last term. Other league awards went to FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk's Estonian international Artur Kotenko (best goalkeeper), BATE's Egor Filipenko (best defender), Krivets (best midfielder) and BATE's Mikhail Gordeychuk (best forward).