Sasha Gotsmanov (born September 19, 1982, in Minsk, Belarus) is an American-Belarusian soccer player, who spent one season in the MLS and two in the USL First Division.
His father, Sergey Gotsmanov was a member of the Soviet Union national team that were runners-up for the 1988 European Football Championship.
In 2001, he enrolled under scholarship at the University of Rhode Island where he would play soccer for the next four years.
He earned his lone MLS appearance on October 12 against Real Salt Lake.
[2] In the beginning of June 2006 he was loaned to the Minnesota Thunder but returned to the Rapids in July.