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Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev (Russian: Эдуард Васильевич Малофеев) (born 2 June 1942 in Kolomna) is a football coach and former international player who last managed of FC Pskov-747 Pskov.
Malofeyev played for Avangard Kolomna (1960), Spartak Moscow (1961–1962) and Dynamo Minsk (1963–1972). In 1962 he won the Soviet championship with Spartak.
He was capped 40 times for the USSR national team in 1963-1968 and scored 6 goals.
Malofeyev led FC Dinamo Minsk to the championship in the Soviet Top League in 1982. In 1984-1986 he was the head coach for USSR. With Malofeyev at the helm, the Soviet national team qualified for the 1986 World Cup but he was fired shortly before the World Cup started in favor of Valeri Lobanovsky.
He also coached the Belarus national football team from 2000 to 2003.
Eduard Malofeyev took charge of deposed Lithuanian champions FBK Kaunas following talks with club owner Vladimir Romanov. Eduard Malofeyev has left his post as head of the youth academy at FC MTZ-RIPO in Belarus, and was introduced to the players at Kaunas on 15 December.