Valery Kechinov Explained

Valery Kechinov
Full Name:Valery Viktorovich Kechinov
Birth Date:1974 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Tashkent, Soviet Union
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1992–1993
Years2:1993–2000
Years3:2001
Years4:2002–2004
Clubs1:Pakhtakor Tashkent
Clubs2:Spartak Moscow
Clubs3:Saturn
Clubs4:Shinnik Yaroslavl
Caps1:38
Caps2:115
Caps3:24
Caps4:54
Goals1:30
Goals2:36
Goals3:9
Goals4:11
Nationalyears1:1992
Nationalcaps1:3
Nationalgoals1:0
Nationalyears2:1994–1995
Nationalcaps2:10
Nationalgoals2:2
Nationalyears3:1994–1998
Nationalcaps3:6
Nationalgoals3:2

Valery Viktorovich Kechinov (Russian: Валерий Викторович Кечинов; born 5 August 1974) is an Uzbekistani and Russian former international footballer, who played as a midfielder. He spent the majority of his playing career at Spartak Moscow.

Playing career

Kechinov was born in Uzbekistan and started his professional career at local Pakhtakor, with whom he won the Uzbek League title, before moving to Moscow. With Spartak, Kechinov won six Russian Premier League titles and one Cup.

In 2001, after falling out with Oleg Romantsev, Kechinov spent almost entire season on the bench and at the end of the season signed a deal with Saturn Ramenskoe. Kechinov wasn't the only player to have problems with the Spartak management at that time, earlier other star players such as Ilia Tsymbalar, Andrey Tikhonov, Sergey Yuran, Ramiz Mamedov and Evgeniy Bushmanov were forced to leave the team for similar reasons.

After a brief spell at Saturn, Kechinov moved to Shinnik, where he spent the next three years of his career, until retiring in 2004.

Managing career

He worked as Spartak Moscow reserve coach in 2006–2008, assisting Miroslav Romaschenko. In June 2008, Romaschenko left to manage Tom Tomsk, and Kechinov followed him to an assistant manager role. He was fired from Tom along with Romaschenko on 4 September 2008 after a string of bad results.

Career statistics

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
16 April 1995Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, RussiaUEFA Euro 1996 qualifying
230 April 1997Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia1998 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Player

Pakhtakor

Spartak

Individual

Manager

Spartak

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