The date of birth of Andrey Kobelev is 10/22/1968. Moscow city. From the abundance of Moscow football schools, little Andrei chose Dynamo. He came to her in 1976. It is curious that it was in that year that the metropolitan Dynamo won gold for the last time in the championship of the USSR, and then Russia.
Young Andrei amazed the coaches with exquisite technique and vision of the game. They often appointed him captain of teams in different age categories until the end of their studies at the Dynamo Academy. His mentors were V.V. Ilyin and A.S. Nazarov.
Kobelev's game line is a midfielder.
First successes
Andrei Kobelev was invited to the youth teams of the USSR. It was a period from 1983 to 1986. During this time he spent 40 games and scored 15 goals. Moreover, in these years he wore a captain's armband.
In 1983, the young man participated with his team in the Youth Cup. And he became the best in this tournament. In the same year he was invited to the team of masters. He trained with her, played for the double, but he was not allowed to join the matches of the main team.
The first significant success in the biography of Andrey Kobelev was brought by the victory at the European Championship for football players no older than 16 years old. This tournament was held in 1985.
Then the young man was only 16 and his talent was appreciated by the head coaches of the Dynamo main team. After the triumphant Euro, he already played the first match for the team of masters. Andrei's game debut took place in a match with Zenit. This was and remains the youngest debut of a football player in the domestic championship.
The following year, Kobelev became a triumph at the Granatkin memorial. But a more significant achievement for him in 1986 was the second line of his Dynamo following the results of the next USSR championship.
Within the framework of this championship, the club rose to a high position only in 1990, then bronze was won. After 2 years there was a repeat of this result. And then the player left the team.
In total, he played 327 matches for his home club and scored 61 goals.
It is curious that in 1990 Kobelev again knew the joy of victory in Europe - the youth Soviet team became the best on the continent.
Other clubs
Andrey Kobelev is a pupil of Dynamo. And he devoted most of his career to his native club as a player, and then as a coach.
There are three Dynamo periods in the life of Kobelev as a football player:
- From 1983 to 1992.
- From 1995 to 1998.
- 2002.
After the first designated period, he decided to try his hand at Spain. And went to the Seville Betis, but there he did not achieve much success. Often found himself out of the basic structure, had a little game practice. And his return to Russia, to his native club, was logical. Then it was 1995. And the club was able to achieve important success - victory in the “Cup of Russia”. And after a couple of years, Dynamo again became the third in the final table of the national championship.
Period at zenith
In 1998, the football player Andrei Kobelev moved to St. Petersburg “Zenith”. In St. Petersburg, he was able to achieve two good results - the Cup of the country in 1999 and bronze following the results of the championship in 2001.
Kobelev played a key role in the team. She was then trained by Anatoly Davydov, in the middle of 2000 he was replaced by the legendary Yuri Morozov. Both mentors fully trusted Kobelev and put him in the main team.
During the “Zenit” period, the famous midfielder had many memorable games, but three stand out separately:
- The final of the Cup of Russia against Dynamo, where the St. Petersburg team won 3: 1.
- 2001 - home victory over Spartak 2: 1. It was after this game, “Zenith” began to confidently climb the table.
- year 2001. 26th round. The defeat of “CSKA” in the home walls 6: 1. Kobelev in this game was marked by a goal and an excellent game. The goal was scored by the young teammate Andrei Arshavin.
In total for “Zenith” Kobelev spent 69 matches and scored 9 goals.
Dynamo. 2002 year
After St. Petersburg, Andrei Kobelev returned to Dynamo to end his playing career here. The club at the end of the championship took only the eighth line. Things were not going well, the game was messing up.
Kobelev’s football career didn’t end on a bravura note, but he remained loyal to the team, focusing on coaching in it.
Team performance
In this regard, the player has a very modest story - just one match, even 30 minutes. Date of the event: August 16, 1992. This was the first official game of the team after the collapse of the USSR and it was friendly. The contender was Mexico. Venue - Lokomotiv stadium.
Andrey Kobelev appeared on the field in the second half, in the 60th minute he was demolished in the penalty area of ​​Mexico. A penalty was awarded.
In the 72nd minute, they again played against Andrei rudely. Hermosillo injured him, for which he received a red card. But Andrei had to be replaced in the 76th minute.
More players in the national team were not attracted. This was largely due to his frequent injuries.
Start of coaching
Having finished the player’s career, Kobelev immediately began to study at the coaching academy - he always wanted to manage the team, implement different game tactics and models.
In 2004, he received his first experience in the Dynamo Sports School, and then in the double. But this was practice until the fall, and in October of that year, Kobelev headed the main team: the leadership was tired of constant leapfrog with domestic and foreign coaches, and made a choice in favor of a person from his system.
Coach Andrey Kobelev got a great chance to develop his strategy. But then he became not the head coach, but only helped Oleg Romantsev, who was scandalously dismissed in May 2005.
Acting
In 2005, after the departure of Romantsev, Kobelev became the head coach of the team on a temporary basis. It was a difficult period. The team had many legionnaires from Portugal and Brazil, and all of their young specialist was able to restrain.
The acting period lasted from May 16 to July 19. After that, the leadership nevertheless appointed Kobelev as the main mentor. But on November 8, the abbreviation and was again assigned to his post. about.
On the 22nd of the same month, the team was headed by the venerable specialist Yuri Semin. But he did not stay at the helm of the team for long: until August 4 of next year. Kobelev was his assistant.
Finally the main
In 2005, Kobelev advanced his qualifications and received a FIFA license - category A. In 2006 - the PRO category. And got the right to officially work as a head coach.
After the resignation of Semin leapfrog with and. about. ended, and Andrei Nikolaevich was able to fully concentrate on working as a chief mentor. The team’s game began to gradually improve.
And in 2009 Dynamo took off on the third line, which gave the right to play in the qualifications of the Champions League in 2009. It was a major success after a long silence. True, the team did not qualify for the Champions League group stage, losing to Celtic. And then Dynamo did not make it to the Europa League group, losing to the modest Bulgarian CSKA.
At that time, many team leaders were sold, the microclimate seriously worsened in it. And in April 2010, on the 27th, Andrei Nikolayevich got a call from the management and said that he was fired. This decision was made at a special meeting, where the coach was not even invited.
Samara "Wings"
After resigning from Dynamo without clear explanations, Andrey Kobelev was unemployed for some time. In 2011, he was invited to work in Samara's “Wings of the Soviets”. Officially, he headed this club on June 30. He worked there for over a year. The official date of dismissal: 11/15/2012. During the period of its work, the club was able to maintain a residence permit in the top division, but the coach was removed anyway. The resignation was competently agreed with him and the club management, and Andrei Nikolaevich left at his own request. So he “did not lose face”, and the club won financially.
Dynamo again
Until July 2, 2015, Kobelev was officially unemployed again, but on the indicated day he became the sports director at Dynamo, and 11 days later, her main mentor.
But it was the worst team season of all time. She had huge financial problems. Many leaders, such as Kokorin and Zhirkov, left Dynamo. And the next year, on May 10, Kobelev was fired again, and Dynamo went to the FNL.
Today
Where is Andrey Nikolaevich Kobelev now? He was tired of coaching. He is often invited to television programs to parse various matches. There are his expertise in sports magazines and newspapers.
Where is Andrey Kobelev now? For example, most recently, he spoke in an interview with the RT portal about Fedor Smolov. Kobelev believes that this forward will soon reach its proper level.