Georgi Yartsev

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Georgi Yartsev
Yartsev in 2018
Personal information
Full name Georgi Aleksandrovich Yartsev
Date of birth (1948-04-11)11 April 1948
Place of birth
USSR
Date of death 15 July 2022(2022-07-15) (aged 74)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Tekmash Kostroma
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1967 Spartak Kostroma (0)
1968–1970 Iskra Smolensk (19)
1970 CSKA Moscow 1 (0)
1971–1972 Iskra Smolensk (16)
1973–1974 Gomselmash Gomel 48 (27)
1975–1976 Spartak Kostroma 70 (32)
1977–1980 Spartak Moscow 116 (55)
1981 Lokomotiv Moscow 40 (12)
1982 Moskvich Moscow 22 (2)
International career
1978–1979
USSR
5 (0)
Managerial career
1982–1984 Neftyanik-Kapotnya Moscow football school
1984–1985
Krasnaya Presnya Moscow
(assistant)
1985–1988 SC Krasny Bogatyr Moscow
1994–1995 Spartak Moscow (assistant)
1996 Spartak Moscow
1997–1998 Spartak Moscow (assistant)
1998–1999 Dynamo Moscow
2000 Rotor Volgograd
2003–2005 Russia
2007 Torpedo Moscow
2013–2014
Milsami
2016–2018 Tambov (general director)
2018–2021 Tambov (VP)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Georgi Aleksandrovich Yartsev (Russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Я́рцев; 11 April 1948 – 15 July 2022)[1] was a Russian football coach and player.[2] He was the head coach of the Russia national team between 2003 and 2005.

Club career

He learned to play football in the Tekmash

USSR national team
. His playing career was unusual in that he only got to the highest level of club football in USSR when he was 29 years old. He achieved highest level success quickly once he got to Spartak Moscow. However, that sudden late-career revival did not last for too long and he retired soon thereafter.

Managerial career

After finishing his playing career, he became a coach at the Kapotnya Moscow football school (1982–1984), Krasnaya Presnya Moscow (1984–1985), SC Krasny Bogatyr Moscow (1985–1988), pop singers team that played exhibition games, Zvezdy Sporta (1993–1994).

In 1994, he was hired as an assistant coach for the top Russian club at the time, Spartak Moscow. When

Alania Vladikavkaz were level on points after the championship. How much of that team's success was due to Yartsev is still questioned, because Romantsev never really left the team and some say he continued to make all the important decisions behind the scenes. Romantsev took back his head coach position in 1997, moving Yartsev back into the assistant position.[3]

In June 1998 Yartsev was appointed the head coach of Spartak's cross-city arch-rival,

Rotor Volgograd
in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next three years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team.

In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their

Egor Titov
was disqualified for testing positive for an illegal performance-enhancing drug, Wales asked to be declared winners because of that, but that request was ultimately denied and their court case dismissed.

In

Sergei Ovchinnikov, who were sent off in the first two games. In their third and final game, Russia defeated Greece
2–1. That ended up being the only Greek loss in the whole tournament as Greece eventually won it all, defeating Portugal in the finals (Russia was not very lucky in getting drawn into the same group as two eventual finalists). Yartsev was not fired despite not coming out of the group stage.

After a 7–1 loss to Portugal in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying Yartsev kept his job, but then resigned after a 1–1 draw with Estonia.

In early 2007, he was hired as a coach for

First Division at the time (only the top 2 teams get promoted into the Premier League).[4]

Personal life

Yartsev was married, and has two daughters. His son Alexander was murdered 18 February 2007 in his own home.[5]

Yartsev was a member of the United Russia party. During the 2018 presidential election, he became part of the PutinTeam movement, which supported Vladimir Putin.[6]

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