Roman Shishkin

Roman Shishkin is the kind of player I notice precisely because most people do not. A Russian right-back from Voronezh, he built a career on the unglamorous work of shutting down the flank, the sort of defending that wins matches without ever making highlight reels. What interests me more is his move into coaching after retiring. Defenders often make sharp tacticians, having spent careers reading the game backwards, and I like the idea of him passing that hard-won positional sense to younger players. The quiet pro turned mentor is a path I genuinely admire in football.

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Name (English)

Roman Shishkin

Name (Japanese)

ロマン・シシュキン

Reading

ろまん・ししゅきん

Born

January 27, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Voronezh, Russia

Height

177 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Shishkin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q645750

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.