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In 1971 \u0145esterenko was invited to move to Riga, Latvia, for studies. In 1971, \u0145esterenko joined Elektrons R\u012bga and played for the youth squad of Daugava R\u012bga. He spent the entire 1972 season in the Latvian league with Elektrons, but in 1973 when Daugava R\u012bga was in a desperate need for a scoring forward, \u0145esterenko was offered a position with Daugava. In the first season, he made 5 appearances and scored 5 goals. His best season with Daugava was in 1975 when the club qualified for the first Soviet league, but in 1976 \u0145esterenko was injured for a big part of the season. \u0145esterenko tried to secure a position in Kolos Nikopol but that didn’t bring him much success. In 1978 and 1979 he played with Zvejnieks Liep\u0101ja, and for half a season he played with Spartak Kostroma.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4\u0145esterenko tried to return to Daugava R\u012bga more than once, but the club’s head coach didn’t believe that \u0145esterenko could still be of any use to the club, so \u0145esterenko settled with Celtnieks R\u012bga where he soon switched from playing to coaching.Coaching career[edit]With \u0145esterenko as a playing coach, Celtnieks R\u012bga won the Latvian Cup three times in a row – from 1984 to 1986. The team also secured two second-place finishes in the Latvian league.In 1988, \u0145esterenko was offered a coaching position with the second team of RAF Jelgava (the first team played in the second Soviet division, the second team in the Latvian league). RAF won the Latvian league both seasons which \u0145esterenko spent with the club. After the 1989 season the two RAF clubs merged and \u0145esterenko became the head coach of a club playing in the lowest division of Soviet football. The club had many young talented players, including future Latvia national football team players Vladimirs Babi\u010devs, Igors Troickis and Dzintars Spro\u0123is. In his second season with RAF, \u0145esterenko’s coaching fell one extra point short of earning the club a promotion to a higher division, but the collapse of the Soviet Union ended that dream. \u0145esterenko left RAF in the middle of the 1992 Virsl\u012bga season; the club went lost the gold medals to Skonto FC in an extra game.\u0145esterenko signed a 1+1 year deal with Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk which had been just relegated to the Ukrainian Premier League and was hoping to return there after one season. Under his management, the club finished 4th in out of 22 teams, which wasn’t enough for \u0145esterenko to keep his job with the club.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 1994 \u0145esterenko took up with his next club – DAG R\u012bga (former VEF). DAG had a good squad which included Andrejs Piedels, Vits Rimkus, Art\u016brs Zakre\u0161evskis and Dzintars Spro\u0123is. In the Latvian league the club finished 3rd that year and reached the Latvian Cup final. After the season the club experienced financial difficulties, merged with Baltika Liep\u0101ja and relocated to Liep\u0101ja. Almost all the players had left DAG, the club had no financial support the first half of the season, and the only money came in from the transfer of Dzintars Spro\u0123is to Spartak Moscow. The season was disappointing (especially the first half), however the club again reached the cup final. That season, DAG had young players like Viktors Dobrecovs and veterans such as J\u0101nis Intenbergs and Ain\u0101rs Linards. After the season \u0145esterenko was asked to leave Liep\u0101ja.In 1996 \u0145esterenko returned to RAF which had relocated from Jelgava to Riga.[1] The season in Virsl\u012bga wasn’t especially successful, but \u0145esterenko and his club earned his first trophy in independent Latvia – RAF won the Latvian Cup by beating Skonto FC in overtime in a thrilling match. For the 1997 season, the club was renamed to Universit\u0101te R\u012bga, but the change did not help – it finished sixth in the Latvian league, and after the season the club dissolved leaving \u0145esterenko without a club again. In 1997 \u0145esterenko was a candidate for head coach position with the newly founded FK Ventspils but Sergei Borovski from Belarus was chosen instead.After a brief stint of consulting work with Ranto\/Miks, \u0145esterenko signed for the 1998 season with Dinaburg FC, the bronze medalists and cup finalists of 1997.[2] His first season \u0145esterenko was less successful – fourth place in the league and a cup exit in the quarter-finals. \u0145esterenko left Dinaburg in the middle of the season and was replaced by Roman Hryhorchuk whom \u0145esterenko had coached as a player in Ivano-Frankivsk.The next stage in \u0145esterenko’s career was FK R\u012bga for which he was an assistant coach under J\u0101nis Gilis and later under Georgijs Gusarenko. In 2001, \u0145esterenko was appointed head coach. His work with R\u012bga didn’t bring great results – the club was stuck in mid table and lacked direction, and \u0145esterenko had to leave the club after the 2003 season.[3]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 2004, he took up work with Dinamo Brest in Belarus but as the team failed to impress he was fired rather speedily.His last club to date was FK Venta Ventspils, which went bankrupt in 2005. \u0145esterenko started as a scouting coach, but when the club finances worsened took up the position of head coach.In his work as club manager \u0145esterenko has worked with Aleksandrs Dorofejevs in many clubs.[4]References[edit]^ Anatolijs Kreip\u0101ns. Seven teams of Viktors \u0145esterenko (in Latvian).^ Vladimirs Ivanovs. Viktors \u0145esterenko – to Daugavpils (in Latvian), Diena, 1998-01-08^ \u0145esterenko won’t be working with R\u012bga (in Latvian)^ Aleksandrs Dorofejevs: I hope that beautiful football will return (in Latvian), 2003-07-19.External links[edit]Viktors \u0145esterenko managerial positions     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/viktors-nesterenko-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Viktors \u0145esterenko – Wikipedia"}}]}]