Valery Kechinov

Infobox Football biography
playername= Valery Kechinov
fullname = Valery Kechinov
height = 1.79 m
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1974|8|5
cityofbirth = Tashkent
countryofbirth = Soviet Union
current club = retired
clubnumber = -
position = Midfielder
years = 1992-1993
1993-2000
2001
2002-2004
clubs = Pakhtakor Tashkent
Spartak Moscow
Saturn
Shinnik Yaroslavl
caps(goals) = 38 (30)
115 (36)
24 (9)
54 (11)
nationalyears = 1994–1998
nationalteam = Russia
nationalcaps(goals) = 6 (2)
date=last update March 27, 2007
pcupdate = 09:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
ntupdate = March 27, 2007

Valery Kechinov is a former Russia international footballer, who spent the majority of his playing career at Spartak Moscow.

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 2003, 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 and Evgeni 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.

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 September 4, 2008 after a string of bad results.

Achievements

*1 time topscorer of the Uzbek League: 1992
*7 time Russian champion with Spartak Moscow: 1993, 1994, 1996-2000.
*2 time Russian Reserve Championship winner with Spartak Moscow Reserves (as a coach): 2006, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/php/spieler.php?id=21060 National Football Teams entry]
* [http://pl.kc-camapa.ru/eng/plist.shtml?0=2004&1=games&2=ads Profile at Krylia Sovetov unofficial website] ru icon
* [http://rusteam.permian.ru/players/kechinov.html Bio at Rusteam] ru icon