Yuri Semin is a former Soviet football player and current Russian coach. He achieved the greatest success in Lokomotiv, with whom he twice won the Russian championship.
Yuri Pavlovich Semin was born on May 11, 1947 in the city of Orenburg (USSR). Role of the game - midfielder, striker. Weight - 68 kg, height - 177 cm. Married. Has a son Andrei. Russian citizen. Cavalier of the Order of Honor (2007) and the Order of Glory of the Republic of Mordovia (2015). Honored Coach of the RSFSR (1989) and the Tajik SSR (1985).
Gaming career
The great Russian coach and one of the best players of the Soviet Union, Yuri Semin (photos are attached) began his playing career in youth clubs in the city of Orel (Lokomotiv, Spartak). In 1965, he as part of the youth team of the RSFSR took part in a tournament where young talents from the former republics of the USSR competed.
The game of the football player did not go unnoticed by the leaders of eminent clubs (Dynamo M, Dynamo K). But by decision of the central Spartak society, Semin moves to the Spartak club in Moscow. For three years of playing in the team, he played 43 matches, in which he played 7 goals against opponents. Yuri Semin is the first Spartak footballer to open an account for his team’s goals in European competition. For his merit, the player receives a room in the Beskudnikovo microdistrict and a Moscow residence permit. In 1968, unable to withstand the competition and losing his place in the squad, he transferred to the Dynamo M team.
Here, a fast and tenacious midfielder, characterized by high mobility and a biting blow, spends three seasons. He becomes the winner of the USSR Cup and the owner of silver championship medals, scores a lot (19 goals). But the career of a football player in Dynamo ended scandalously. Yuri Semin, a driven, stable base player, was not included in the European Cup match with the Yugoslav Red Star. Having quarreled with the team coach K. Beskov, he leaves for the Kairat club in Kazakhstan.
The epic Semin in Almaty ends with even greater scandal. Not finding a common language with the head coach of the team, he goes on to impartial attacks on the club management. Immediately followed by severe punishment. By decision of the chairman of the football federation of the RSFSR Viktor Osipov, Yuri Semin is transferred for one year to the second football league, to the Chkalovets team (Novosibirsk).
In 1975, Semin was a football player of the Moscow club Lokomotiv, his living legend as a player, and then a coach. For three years he is the permanent captain and the best player on the team, a member of the club’s coaching council.
Yuri Semin was finishing his football playing career in the Krasnodar team "Kuban". He helped the club enter the major league of the USSR Championship, after which he hung his boots on a nail.
Coaching career
Yuri Semin began his coaching career with the Kuban team, but, seeing no prospects for the club’s growth, he accepted the offer of the Pamir (Dushanbe). The fruitful work with the Tajik club could not go unnoticed. In 1986, Yuri Semin became the head coach of the Moscow “Locomotive”. Here he will linger for almost 20 years. This will be the best period in the history of both the team itself and Semin's coaching activities.
Under the leadership of Yuri Semin, Lokomotiv is a two-time champion and four-time winner of the Russian Cup, winner of the Russian Super Cup, and the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup. In addition, the team four times became the silver and two times the bronze medalist of the Russian Championship, the finalist of the USSR Cup and the Russian Cup.
Two Dynamo
In 2005, the first conflict of the coach with the club management took place. Having not found mutual understanding in matters of the composition of the team, Semin goes to Dynamo Moscow. Here, his job did not work out. The divided team suffered defeat after defeat. At the end of 2006, Yuri Semin resigned and returned to Lokomotiv, but already as president of the club. True, the stay in this post was short-lived. This was facilitated by the disastrous performance in the 2007 Russian championship (seventh place). Semin and coach A. Byshovets were fired.
Since January 1, 2008, Yuri Semin - Dynamo coach (Kiev). But at the end of May 2009, having broken the contract with the Kiev club, he returned to Moscow, to his native Lokomotiv. There, the post of head coach of the team was vacated. But the team was not the same. Having not achieved significant victories with the club, Yuri Semin returns to Kiev, where for three years he has been leading the main team of Ukraine. In September 2012, after a series of unsuccessful matches, coach Semin was fired.
During the period of work in Dynamo Kyiv, he made sure that the team once became the champion of Ukraine and three times the silver medalist of the championship, once won the Ukrainian Super Cup and played twice in the final of the Country Cup.
Downhill
Then there were teams that did not add coaching reputation to Yuri Semin. Clubs “Gabala” and “Mordovia” are not teams of the level of ambition of coach Semin. Since June 2015, Yuri Semin - Anji coach. He led the team that had just returned to the Russian Premier League, which had recently been the country's strongest football team. The contract, signed for one year, was broken after three and a half months.
Due to unsatisfactory results (15th place) Semin was fired.
We look forward to his next return to the “Locomotive”.
As a coach of the national teams, Yuri Semin did not show himself. In 1991, he failed to bring the New Zealand youth team to OI-92, and in 2005 he failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup with the Russian team.
Yuri Pavlovich Semin married in 1968. A year later, the son of Andrei was born in the family, who recently ended his career as a football player and works as a coach, like his father.