Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev (Russian: Вале́рий Гео́ргиевич Газза́ев; Ossetian: Гæззаты Георгийы фырт Валери, romanized: Gæzzaty Georgijy fyrt Valeri; born 7 August 1954) is a Russian politician, football manager and former footballer of Ossetian descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of a striker enjoying successes with his team FC Dynamo Moscow as well as the USSR national football team in the Olympics.
Gazzaev in 2019 | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 7 August 1954 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1966–1969 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1970–1973 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | 53 | (9) | |||||||||||
1974 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 12 | (1) | |||||||||||
1975 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | 33 | (14) | |||||||||||
1976–1978 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 72 | (14) | |||||||||||
1979–1985 | Dynamo Moscow | 197 | (70) | |||||||||||
1986 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 14 | (5) | |||||||||||
Total | 381 | (113) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1978–1980 | USSR | 8 | (4) | |||||||||||
1980–1983 | USSR (Olympic) | 11 | (2) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1989–1991 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | |||||||||||||
1991–1993 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||
1994–1999 | Alania Vladikavkaz | |||||||||||||
1999–2001 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||
2001–2003 | CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||
2001–2002 | Russia U21 | |||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Russia | |||||||||||||
2004–2008 | CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Dynamo Kyiv | |||||||||||||
2011–2014 | Alania Vladikavkaz (president) | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Alania Vladikavkaz (president and manager) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Gazzaev became a coach in 1989. He was most successful when he was in charge in CSKA Moscow from 2004 to 2008. There Gazzaev won every possible Russian title three times each, as well as the 2005 UEFA Cup. He is considered one of the best football coaches to have emerged from the former Soviet Union because of these achievements.
Playing career
editSoviet First League
editGazzaev was born 7 August 1954 in Ordzhonikidze, USSR, now Vladikavkaz, Russia. He started his playing career as a forward for his native Spartak Ordzhonikidze in the Soviet First League. In 1974, he moved to SKA Rostov-on-Don, which got promoted from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League after a second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don.
Soviet Top League
editIn the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi.
Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1984–85.[1]
International career
editHe became the under-23 European champion with USSR in 1976 and under-21 European champion in 1980. He also won the bronze medal with USSR at the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Coaching career
editAfter finishing his playing career in 1986 Gazzaev coached the youth team of Dynamo Moscow before moving to work with professional clubs. His first major success as a manager was winning the Russian championship with Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz in 1995.
More titles followed after Gazzaev moved to coach CSKA Moscow. With them he won the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, as well as the Russian Premier League in 2003, 2005 and 2006 and the Russian Cup in 2002, 2005, and 2006, on 5 December 2008 left PFC CSKA Moscow.[2] Gazzaev's CSKA Moscow team was the first side from the Russian Federation to win a European competition since the fall of the Soviet Union.
On 26 May 2009, the former CSKA Moscow coach was named as the new head coach of Dynamo Kyiv, who signed a three years contract also until 2012.
After a spell as Dynamo Kyiv head coach he returned to Vladikavkaz and became president (2011) and then also manager (November 2012) of Alania Vladikavkaz. In February 2014, the football club "Alania", led by Gazzaev, ceased to exist and pulled out of the 2013–14 Russia First Division, due to financial liquidation and sponsorship problems, and the club was dissolved.[3][4]
Managerial statistics
editTeam | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
Spartak Ordzonikidze | 1 January 1989 | 2 April 1991 | 86 | 36 | 22 | 28 | 41.86 | ||||
Dynamo Moscow | 3 April 1991 | 15 September 1993 | 106 | 59 | 22 | 25 | 55.66 | ||||
Alania Vladikavkaz | 1 January 1994 | 31 December 1999 | 215 | 103 | 45 | 67 | 47.91 | ||||
Dynamo Moscow | 1 January 2000 | 16 April 2001 | 40 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 42.50 | ||||
Russia U-21 | 15 May 2001 | 10 November 2001 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | ||||
CSKA Moscow | 11 November 2001 | 13 November 2003 | 69 | 41 | 13 | 15 | 59.42 | ||||
Russia | 8 July 2002 | 25 August 2003 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 40.00 | ||||
CSKA Moscow | 13 July 2004 | 5 December 2008 | 188 | 103 | 46 | 39 | 54.79 | ||||
Dynamo Kyiv | 1 June 2009 | 1 October 2010 | 59 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 64.41 | ||||
Alania Vladikavkaz | 16 November 2012 | 10 June 2013 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13.33 | ||||
Total | 792 | 406 | 175 | 211 | 51.26 |
Politics
editIn 2016, he was elected to the State Duma as a member of A Just Russia party.
Personal life
editHe is a cousin of Yuri Gazzaev and father of Vladimir Gazzayev, both of them football coaches as well.
Honours
editPlayer
editDynamo Moscow
- Soviet Top League: 1976
- Soviet Cup: 1977, 1984
- Soviet Super Cup: 1977
- Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy: 1976
Manager
editSpartak-Alania Vladikavkaz
PFC CSKA Moscow
- Russian Premier League: 2003, 2005, 2006
- Russian Cup: 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06
- Russian Super Cup: 2004, 2006, 2007
- UEFA Cup: 2004–05
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Individual
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ RSSF Stats. Rsssf.com (18 December 2003). Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ Valery Gazzaev has left PFC CSKA Archived 7 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Pfc-cska.com. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ Футбольный клуб "Алания" прекратил свое существование. rg.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ "Russia's Bankrupt Ex-Champions Alania Vladikavkaz Pull Out of League". Rsport. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
External links
edit- Valery Gazzaev at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Valery Gazzaev at Sportbox.ru (in Russian)
- Profile at RussiaTeam[dead link] (in Russian)
- Biography by International united biographical centre at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-08-25) (in Russian)
- Valery Gazzaev at Olympedia
- Valery Gazzaev at Olympics.com