The football history of any country includes high-profile victories, the triumph of great clubs, and legends of great football players. In the 90s, in our country, football was associated with the Moscow Spartak. The team, led by Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev, dominated the football Olympus of Russian football. The players of this club were the idols of the boys, surrounded by a halo of mystery. One of these was Valery Kechinov - a football player who possessed amazing equipment, but due to various kinds of circumstances, did not fully realize his rich gaming potential.
Childhood
Valery Kechinov was born on August 5, 1974 in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. In fact, his life path was predetermined from birth. His father, Viktor Petrovich Kechinov, is an iconic figure in Uzbek football. At one time, he defended the colors of the leading Uzbek club - Tashkent “Pakhtakor". After the end of his playing career, Viktor Petrovich remained in big football, though in a slightly different quality. He became a football referee, while simultaneously coaching. It was he who was the first coach of his son, whom he systematically led to his debut in adult football.
Football debut
1991 was marked for domestic football as the year of the last championship of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the USSR entailed the creation of internal competitions, where the level of struggle and skill of individual teams was much lower than in the Union Championship, which was one of the five leading European competitions.
In the same 1991, Valery Kechinov played for the backup team of Pakhtakor. He played so brightly that he attracted the attention of the coaches of the youth team of the USSR, in which he became the winner of the prestigious international tournament, the Granatkin memorial. In the same year, a debut took place in the main team of Pakhtakor, he accounted for the cup match with the Lipetsk Metallurgist. It became clear that a new star lights up in the football horizon.
Valery Kechinov: biography. Uzbek football star
As mentioned above, since 1992, a championship has been held in each Union Republic. In Uzbekistan, the flagship of local football was rightfully considered Pakhtakor, which won the country's first championship. The 18-year-old Valery Kechinov stood out especially in the team, in the year of his full-fledged debut in adult football, he became the top scorer of the national championship. It was clear to everyone that the young player who scored 30 goals in 38 matches would not stay in the championship of Uzbekistan for a long time. Over time, it happened.
Transition to the Russian championship
Having brightly spent his first season at the adult level, Valery Kechinov was in the center of attention of scouts of many clubs, both Russian and foreign. In particular, Moscow Dynamo and Valery Gazzayev, who coached the club at that time, showed particular interest in Kechinov.
But the most persistent in terms of negotiations were the Moscow “Spartak”, who managed to convince the young football player to continue his career in this club. In the summer of 1993, Valery Kechinov moved to Moscow.
Moscow "Spartak"
The transition to the capital's club did not go as smoothly as we would like. The leaders of Pakhtakor, despite the fact that the player’s contract with the club ended, didn’t want to let Kechinov go to another club. As a result, the second half of the 1993 season, Valery just trained with Spartak, not having the opportunity to take part in official games. And only at the end of 1993 did documents come from Uzbekistan allowing the player to play for Spartak.
It would seem that all the obstacles are behind and you can safely prove your worth by playing with a game. But then Valeria was waiting for a new disaster. During the pre-season training camp in a friendly game against Dynamo Kyiv, Valery Kechinov receives a serious injury that left him for another season without football.
Return to the big football
Due to a number of circumstances, Valery Kechinov flew almost a half season. Many were quite pessimistic about his ability to play at a high level. The first full season, spent as a player in the main team of “Spartacus”, was not entirely successful in terms of place in the standings. The team that season for the first time in the history of Russian championships lost gold medals to the players of the Vladikavkaz “Alania”.
But then there was a positive moment: “Spartak” performed triumphantly at the group stage of the Champions League, the team of Oleg Romantsev won six victories in six matches held. It would seem that in the spring of the European campaign, Spartak can achieve a lot. However, the difficult financial situation in which all Russian football was, and Spartak in particular, forced Muscovites to sell a number of leading football players to foreign clubs. As a result, in the spring of “Spartacus” lost in a two-match confrontation to the French “Nantes”, although potentially the team could achieve a lot.
In 1996, the club was headed by Georgy Yartsev, and the young team under his leadership regained the title of the strongest in Russia. In the gold match, she outplayed last year's champion - the players of “Alania”.
Kechinov became the main player of “Spartacus”, showing himself in several positions. Starting as a pure striker, in “Spartak” he managed to play both in the position of a right midfielder, and in a clean striker, and in the center of the field.
In 1998, Valery Kechinov again received a leg injury, tearing the cruciate ligaments. And again, ahead of a difficult recovery, and again the lost season. Having recovered from this injury in the 2000 season, Valery Kechinov is no longer needed by Oleg Romantsev, who has already seen other players in his place. Parting with Spartak was inevitable. In total, Kechinov spent 112 goals for the Moscow club, scoring 35 goals in them.
Further career
Without falling into the main structure of “Spartak”, Valery began to consider various options for continuing his football career. The option of signing a contract with one of the leading clubs in Israel looked especially real, but in the end the parties did not agree on the price, and the option of continuing a career abroad had to be forgotten. As a result, Kechinov ended up in Saturn near Moscow, in which he played a season and a half.
This was followed by a trip to Yaroslavl, where in the local “Shinnik” the footballer played in three seasons, but another injury put an end to his desire to continue his playing career. As a result, at the age of thirty, Kechinov Valery Viktorovich, whose biography is presented to the attention of the reader in the article, decides to end his career as a professional football player.
National teams
Throughout his football career, Valery Kechinov was considered a gifted, potentially very strong player. But apparently the fate of technical players is such that throughout their careers they are pursued by injuries of varying severity. Because of injuries, Kechinov could not become the main player of the national team. He has six matches for the Russian team with two goals scored. But especially for the fans, his goal was scored during his performance for the Russian youth team. In the game with the German national team, Valery Kechinov scored the ball after a solo pass, beating half the German national team along the way.
Personal life
Is Valery Kechinov married? His wife is still unknown to the public. Rumor has it that he is an avid bachelor, and still has not tied the knot. But in the media there was a leak of information that he lives under the same roof with a certain Inna, and they together raise their son Semyon.
Coaching career
After the end of his playing career, Valery Kechinov tried himself in the coaching field. Together with his Spartak partner in the mid-90s, Miroslav Romashchenko, for three years he headed the backup team of this club. Also in his active work as a second coach in Tomsk “Tom” in tandem with the same Romashchenko. At the moment, Valery is engaged in his own business, alternating work with games for Spartak veterans.
This is the fate of one of the most talented players of Russian football of the 90s. Despite six gold medals of the Champion of Russia on football, there was a certain understatement, the feeling that Kechinov could achieve much more, left a more vivid mark on domestic football, but a series of injuries did not allow this to happen. Despite everything, Valery Kechinov remains one of the favorite players in the football world. The biography, statistics of this person simply impresses all his fans. This is the man in the world of football, from which it is worth taking an example to young generations!