Valery Reingold is a former Soviet footballer who gained fame for his performance as part of the Moscow Spartak. One of the best extreme hitters of the 60s. He also played in other clubs of the USSR, but it was already the sunset of the career of a famous football player of those times. He did not play for the national team, although he was the champion of the USSR as part of his team.
Dossier
Reinhold Valery Leonidovich was born on February 18, 1942 in Moscow. A citizen of the USSR. Height 168 cm, weight 69 kg. Position on the football field - midfielder / striker. Years of performance in big football - 1960-1974. Nicknames: Electric Train, Rex, Headless Horseman. He has the title of Master of Sports of the USSR. Included in the list of players listed in the Spartak Hall of Fame.
Football career
As a football player, Valery Reingold played 378 matches, in which he scored 69 goals. He received all his football awards, defending the honor of the Spartak team. He became the champion of the USSR (1962), the owner of silver (1963) and bronze medals (1961), two-time winner of the USSR Cup (1963, 1965).
- 1960-1967 - "Spartak Moscow).
- 1968-1969 - “Labor” (Voronezh).
- 1970-1974 - “Shinnik” (Yaroslavl).
Stages of the football path
Like most post-war boys, Valery Reingold hone his football skills in yard battles. Here he was accidentally spotted by the then famous Dynamo Moscow player Leonid Soloviev. He recommended Valery to appear to the coach of Dynamo sports school Vladimir Khaidin. He immediately saw an extraordinary talent and perspective for further sports growth in the young boy.
Studying in the Dynamo Youth Sports School, Valery participated in various competitions held at that time among students of sports schools. These were various school tournaments, championships of Moscow, Spartakiad. At one of such competitions, representatives of the capital's Spartak laid eyes on the young football player. A scandal erupted that reached the level of the USSR Football Federation. Dynamo did its best to preserve the young talent, filed a protest, but Valery’s fate was already a foregone conclusion. In 1959 he became a player in Spartak.
Valery passed the youth team of the club, the duplicating composition, took part in the Cup among amateur production teams. In the spring of 1960, he made his debut in the main team of Spartak in the USSR Championship. However, the 18-year-old footballer did not immediately gain a foothold in the club’s main staff. After four matches, he donkey in a double. And only in the fall Valery Reingold becomes a full-fledged player in red and white.
Career at three clubs
Valery played eight seasons in the Spartak team. What did he remember as a football player? First of all, with its unique technique, crazy speed, enormous capacity for work, a strong and accurate strike, an unbending will to win. He was compared with Garrincha, he was admired, loved, visited.
We went to see his famous feint, which the best defenders of leading teams constantly came across, his unique blows, after which the ball flew along a completely unpredictable trajectory. As part of Spartak, Valery Reingold played 176 matches and held 32 goals against opponents.
In the fall of 1967, Valery transferred to the Trud team (Voronezh), playing in the first league of the national championship. He delighted Voronezh football fans for two years. For “Labor” he played 55 meetings and scored seven goals.
Finished Valery Reingold, football player, in the middle club of the second union league “Shinnik” (Yaroslavl). For four years he constantly pleased with his sparkling game, and only in the last, fifth season he entered the football field only 5 times. For the Yaroslavl team, he played 147 matches, scoring 30 goals.
After football
Post-game football career at Valery Reingold did not work out. He worked as a driver, taxi driver, builder, installer in DCS, foreman. For merits in construction he was awarded the title of drummer of communist labor.
In 1987, Reinhold Valery Leonidovich - Director of the Lokomotiv Stadium. He was glad to be back in football in any capacity. With his direct participation, the stadium was put in order as soon as possible: the premises were repaired, the football field was arranged. When trade markets filled the construction site in 1998, the stadium director resigned and retired. Currently, Valery Reingold moonlights on one of the many sports sites as a football analyst. He has been married for a long time, lives in Moscow, has two daughters and four grandchildren.
On one of the Internet sites came out a note called "Jewish Football World." Here were listed many famous Soviet football players of Jewish origin, who played in different years in the leading teams of the USSR championship. The following players were listed: Mikhail Yakushin, Mikhail Coman, Roman Shneiderman, Mikhail Gershkovich, Semyon Altman, Valery Reingold and others.
And what does the name Reinhold mean ? In German: rein - “pure”, gold - “gold”. This is a surname of German origin. So in the questionnaire, a former football player would write: Reinhold Valery Leonidovich. Nationality Russian.