Valery Gazzaev

Valery Gazzaev
	Gazzaev in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev
Date of birth	7 August 1954 (age 70)
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
1970–1973	Spartak Ordzhonikidze
1974	SKA Rostov-on-Don
1975	Spartak Ordzhonikidze
1976–1978	Lokomotiv Moscow
1979–1985	Dynamo Moscow
1986	Dinamo Tbilisi
Total
International career
1978–1980	USSR
1980–1983	USSR (Olympic)
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
Representing Soviet Union
Men's Football
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

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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.

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Soviet First League

Gazzaev 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

In 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]

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He 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.

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After 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]

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More information Team, Nat ...

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Spartak Ordzonikidze		1 January 1989	2 April 1991	86	36	22	28	041.86
Dynamo Moscow		3 April 1991	15 September 1993	106	59	22	25	055.66
Alania Vladikavkaz		1 January 1994	31 December 1999	215	103	45	67	047.91
Dynamo Moscow		1 January 2000	16 April 2001	40	17	9	14	042.50
Russia U-21		15 May 2001	10 November 2001	4	3	1	0	075.00
CSKA Moscow		11 November 2001	13 November 2003	69	41	13	15	059.42
Russia		8 July 2002	25 August 2003	10	4	3	3	040.00
CSKA Moscow		13 July 2004	5 December 2008	188	103	46	39	054.79
Dynamo Kyiv		1 June 2009	1 October 2010	59	38	11	10	064.41
Alania Vladikavkaz		16 November 2012	10 June 2013	15	2	3	10	013.33
Total				792	406	175	211	051.26