This is reported on the official website of FC Pakhtakor. A very kind initiative.
In this regard, I would like to recall this bright football player who played 159 matches for Pakhtakor and scored 16 goals.
At the same time, Shirshov played 63 matches for the Uzbekistan national team from 1996 to 2005 and scored 13 goals. He made his debut on November 19, 1996 in a friendly match of Uzbekistan against the UAE, lost 2:4. A year later, in the selection for the 1998 World Cup, the Uzbek national team lost at home with a score of 2:3, goals were scored by Nikolai Shirshov and Ravshan Bazarov. The highlight of Nikolai was the blows from the left foot.
In my opinion, the most successful performance of the first team at the Asian Cups was in 2004, when the team was coached by Hans-Jurgen Goede, a native of Schalke 04. Our team showed very compact football, beat Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan in the group due to goals from standard positions from Mirzhalol Kasimov and Alexander Heinrich. In the quarterfinals, they played 2-2 with Bahrain and lost in a penalty shootout.
After Pakhtakor, Nikolai Shirshov played in Rostov. In 2000-2005, he played in the Premier League for Rostselmash / Rostov. Then he played in the lower divisions for SKA Rostov (2006-2007), Bataysk-2007 (2008-2010), Taganrog (2010). In 2011, he played for MITOS Novocherkassk.
Nothing was reported about the causes of death of the 47-year-old football player who died in Rostov-on-Don. Another messenger of our football, Eldor Shomurodov, followed in his footsteps, for whom seasons at Rostov served as a good springboard for a successful career in Europe.
