At the age of 14 he transferred from his hometown club in Slutsk to local top team
SKA Minsk. Here he played 18 years and won both the
Soviet Championship many times as well as the
European Cup in
1987 1989 and
1990. He also won the
EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and 1988. After the
fall of the Berlin Wall he joined German side
SV Blau-Weiß Spandau. He retired from playing in 1992 and became the head coach of
SV Blau-Weiß Spandau instead. In 1996 he joined
TBV Lemgo, where he won the
Handball-Bundesliga and
DHB-Pokal in hs first season. In 2001 he joined
TUSEM Essen. in 2005 he joined the
2nd Bundesliga team
SG Kronau/Östringen on a 4 year contract. He guided the team to the
DHB-Pokal final in 2006 and 2007. in 2008 he achieved a 4th place, the highest position ever for the club. After a bad start to 2008-09 season he was fired and replaced by
Christian Schwarzer. In July 2009 he became the head coach of the
Belarusian national team replacing
Georgi Sviridenko. ==References==