Yury Puntus

Yuri Puntus

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Personal information
Full name	Yuri Iosifovich Puntus
Date of birth	(1960-10-08) 8 October 1960
Place of birth	Tivoli, Belarusian SSR
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Belshina Bobruisk (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1979	Traktor Minsk
1979–1980	Granit Mikashevichi
1980	Lokomotiv Baranovichi
1981–1986	Sputnik Minsk
1986	Spartak Semipalatinsk	12	(4)
1992	Luch Minsk	2	(0)
1994	Samotlor-XXI Nizhnevartovsk	2	(0)
Managerial career
1987–1990	Sputnik Minsk (assistant)
1991–1992	Luch Minsk (assistant)
1993	Dinamo Yakutsk (assistant)
1994	Samotlor-XXI Nizhnevartovsk (assistant)
1995	Rybak Starodubskoye (assistant)
1996–2004	BATE Borisov
2000–2005	Belarus U-21
2004–2006	MTZ-RIPO Minsk
2006–2007	Belarus
2007–2009	MTZ-RIPO Minsk
2009–2011	Dinamo Brest
2011–2013	Smolevichi-STI
2014–2017	Slavia Mozyr
2019–	Belshina Bobruisk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuri Puntus (Template:Lang-be; Template:Lang-ru; born 8 October 1960) is a Soviet football player and a Belarusian football coach. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute (specialty – mechanical engineer) in 1983 and Belarusian State University of Physical Training in 1996.

Managerial career

After working for a few seasons in Russian and Belarusian lower leagues' clubs, in 1996 Puntus was appointed as a head coach for newly-reformed BATE Borisov. Puntus led the team to the Belarusian Premier League in just two seasons and eventually won two championship titles (in 1999 and 2002).

In 2004 Puntus joined MTZ-RIPO Minsk and led the team to winning Belarusian Cup in 2005. In January 2006 he was appointed as Belarus national football team head coach and later that year he left MTZ-RIPO to focus on national team's UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. In late 2007 he was sacked due to unsatisfying results and immediately rejoined MTZ-RIPO, before leading them to another Cup title in 2008.

In the following years Puntus coached Dinamo Brest (from 2009 to 2011), Smolevichi-STI (from 2011 to 2013), whom he led to the promotion from Second League to First League, and Slavia Mozyr, whom he joined in early 2014.

Honours

As Coach

BATE Borisov

• Belarusian Premier League champion: 1999, 2002

MTZ-RIPO Minsk

• Belarusian Cup winner: 2004–05, 2007–08