Valery Kechinov

Valery Kechinov
Personal information
Full name	Valery Viktorovich Kechinov
Date of birth	5 August 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth	Tashkent, Soviet Union
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1992–1993	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1993–2000	Spartak Moscow
2001	Saturn
2002–2004	Shinnik Yaroslavl
International career
1992	Uzbekistan
1994–1995	Russia U-21
1994–1998	Russia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valery Viktorovich Kechinov (Russian: Валерий Викторович Кечинов; born 5 August 1974) is an Uzbekistani and Russian former international footballer, who played as a midfielder. He spent the majority of his playing career at Spartak Moscow.

Playing career

Kechinov was born in Uzbekistan and started his professional career at local

Uzbek League title, before moving to Moscow. With Spartak, Kechinov won six Russian Premier League titles and one Cup

.

In 2001, after falling out with

Sergey Yuran, Ramiz Mamedov and Evgeniy 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.

Managing career

He worked as

Tom Tomsk

, and Kechinov followed him to an assistant manager role. He was fired from Tom along with Romaschenko on 4 September 2008 after a string of bad results.

Career statistics

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	6 April 1995	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Faroe Islands	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying
2	30 April 1997	Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Luxembourg	1–0	3–0	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification