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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy | ||
| Date of birth | (1943-08-07)7 August 1943 (age 82) | ||
| Place of birth | Slavgorod,Russian SFSR,USSR | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961–1965 | SKIF Ashgabat | ||
| 1965–1967 | Spartak Samarkand | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1982–1983 | Kolhozchi Ashkhabad | ||
| 1988–1990 | Cameroon | ||
| 1991 | China(technical consultant) | ||
| 1992–1993 | Gençlerbirliği S.K. | ||
| 1993–1994 | Ankaragücü | ||
| 1995–1998 | Yukong Elephants / Bucheon SK | ||
| 2000 | Shenyang Haishi | ||
| 2001 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||
| 2002–2003 | Shandong Luneng | ||
| 2004–2005 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
| 2006 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
| 2006 | Uzbekistan | ||
| 2008–2011 | Tom Tomsk | ||
| 2012–2013 | CSKA Moscow (technical consultant) | ||
| 2014–2016 | Tom Tomsk | ||
| 2018 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 2018–2019 | Baltika Kaliningrad (youth development) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy (Russian:Валерий Кузьмич Непомнящий; born 7 August 1943) is a Russianassociation football manager and a former player.
Most famously he coached theCameroon national football team when they surprisingly made the quarter-finals in the1990 FIFA World Cup. From 1992 to 1994 he coached clubs in Turkey. In 1995, he became manager ofSouth Korea'sYukong Elephants (currentlyJeju United FC), and in 1996 led them to a victory inLeague Cup. In 2001, he took over asJ. League clubSanfrecce Hiroshima's manager fromEddie Thomson. He has also coachedShanghai Shenhua, (whom he led to a second-place finish for the first time in his career), from 2004 to 2005, and theUzbekistan national football team in 2006. He worked as a football commentator for a Russian television channel, “NTV-Plus”. In September 2008 he signed a 2-year contract with Russian clubTom Tomsk.[1]
Nepomnyashchy was born inAltai Krai,Soviet Union duringWorld War II. His mother, pregnant with him, was evacuated there fromMoscow, after his father was killed during the war. In 1947, they moved to theTurkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, nowadaysTurkmenistan, where he would start his youth career.[2] He graduated from theTurkmen State University in 1969.[3]
Nepomnyashchy would start his career as a footballer where his greatest achievement was to play as a striker for third tier Soviet football clubSpartak Samarkand. His career was however cut short due to health problems and he had to retire at the age of 25 years. This saw him move into physical education and coaching that would see him land a job within the football coaching sports committee of Turkmenistan from 1970 to 1978. By 1979 he would achieve his first assistant coaching job with third tier Turkmen football clubKolhozchi Ashkhabad and by 1982 he was named as their head coach where he led them to eighth in his debut season.[4]
By the end of 1983 Nepomnyashchy had returned to the Turkmenistan Sports committee until in 1984 when he was doing training courses in Moscow, he was asked by the Russian Office of football if he wanted to work abroad. Nepomnyashchy soon accepted the offer and was expected to provide training courses and assistance to developing countries such as Algeria, Tunisia and Suriname. Nepomnyashchy would find these trips as too frustrating and periodical in there planning untilCameroon offered him a concrete proposal.[5] Initially Nepomnyashchy thought that the Russian funded aid would see him coach one of the Cameroon youth teams, however with the previous managerClaude Le Roy deciding to leave to joinSenegal there was an unexpected vacancy for the senior Head coach position, which Nepomnyashchy took and signed a two-year contract with the team.[citation needed]
At first Nepomnyashchy would struggle with the French language and had to use an interpreter, however he would eventually get his message across on what he wanted his team to do and they would qualify for the1990 FIFA World Cup. Drawn in Group B they unexpectedly beat reigning championsArgentina as well asRomania to book their place within the last 16.[6] After beatingColombia 2-1 in extra-time Cameroon eventually lost toEngland in the Quarter-Finals.[7] While he was offered an extension to his contract, Nepomnyashchy decided to leave the team after his contract expired to take on a more lucrative position with theChinese Football Association as a technical consultant.[citation needed]
In the1992–93 1.Lig season Nepomnyashchy would return to management with Turkish sideGençlerbirliği S.K. before joining another Turkish side inAnkaragücü the following season. After an uninspired time within Turkey he would move to South Korea where he had a successful spell withBucheon Yukong where he won the1996 Korean League Cup with them.[8] After his time in South Korea ended he returned to Russia forFC Dynamo Stavropol where he acted as a consultant in 1999 before returning to Asia where he went on to manage several different clubs before returning to national team management when he coachedUzbekistan after having a spell with one of its clubs,Pakhtakor FK where he won the 2006 league title with them.[citation needed]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 2000 | 2000 | 30 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 043.33 |
| Total | 30 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 043.33 | ||
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