 Gazzaev in 2019 | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1954-08-07)7 August 1954 (age 71) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ordzhonikidze,Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | 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 | ||||||||||||||
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,footballmanager and former footballer ofOssetian descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of astriker enjoying successes with his teamFC Dynamo Moscow as well as theUSSR national football team in theOlympics.
Gazzaev became a coach in 1989. He was most successful when he was in charge inCSKA Moscow from 2004 to 2008. There Gazzaev won every possible Russian title three times each, as well as the2005 UEFA Cup. He is considered one of the best football coaches to have emerged from the formerSoviet Union because of these achievements.
Gazzaev was born 7 August 1954 in Ordzhonikidze,USSR, nowVladikavkaz,Russia. He started his playing career as a forward for his nativeSpartak Ordzhonikidze in theSoviet First League. In 1974, he moved toSKA Rostov-on-Don, which got promoted from the Soviet First League to theSoviet Top League after a second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league inSpartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don.
In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played inLokomotiv Moscow,Dynamo Moscow, andDinamo Tbilisi.
Gazzaev is aSoviet Cup winner withDynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches inSoviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1984–85.[1]
He became theunder-23 European champion with USSR in 1976 and under-21 European championin 1980. He also won the bronze medal with USSR at theSummer Olympics in Moscow.
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 theRussian championship withSpartak-Alania Vladikavkaz in 1995.
More titles followed after Gazzaev moved to coachCSKA Moscow. With them he won the2004–05 UEFA Cup, as well as the Russian Premier League in 2003, 2005 and 2006 and theRussian Cup in 2002, 2005, and 2006, on 5 December 2008 leftPFC CSKA Moscow.[2] Gazzaev'sCSKA Moscow team was the first side from theRussian Federation to win a European competition since the fall of theSoviet Union.
On 26 May 2009, the formerCSKA Moscow coach was named as the new head coach ofDynamo Kyiv, who signed a three years contract also until 2012.
After a spell asDynamo Kyiv head coach he returned to Vladikavkaz and became president (2011) and then also manager (November 2012) ofAlania 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]
| Team | 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 | 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 | |||
| PFC 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 | |||
| PFC 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 | ||||||
In 2016, he waselected to theState Duma as a member ofA Just Russia party. In the State Duma, he headed the Committee on Nationalities.[5] From 4 February 2020, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs.[6] Following the 2021 State Duma elections, he was not re-elected.[7]
He is a cousin ofYuri Gazzaev and father ofVladimir Gazzayev, both of them football coaches as well.
Dynamo Moscow
Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz
PFC CSKA Moscow
FC Dynamo Kyiv
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