One of the most odious figures of domestic football, Valery Karpin, during his playing and coaching career, had many ups and downs. He also worked in the business field. Now Karpin himself posed a new challenge by heading the Torpedo FNL club (Armavir). He is trying to prove to everyone that he is a very independent unit as a coach.
early years
Many experts Valery Karpin is noted as one of the most talented players of the late Soviet era. He began his career at the children's football school of his native Estonian city of Narva. As a child, Karpin had a choice between football and hockey, and he preferred the summer sport, as he showed good results in the game with the ball.
Estonia did not have a representative in the major league of the USSR championship; moreover, in Soviet times, draft-age football players had to serve in one of the army clubs. So in 1988, Valery Karpin was part of Moscow CSKA. The young football player was leaving for service in the Voronezh Fakel. Immediately after the end of his military duty, Karpin transferred to the Moscow Spartak.
The heyday of a player's career
The talent of the young football player playing for Fakel was noticed by breeder Valentin Pokrovsky. Despite the fact that in the crumbling Union there were beggarly salaries for athletes, we can say that the Russian generation of football players of the late 80s and early 90s was one of the most talented.
Another thing is that their talents could not be reinforced with their titles, but this was prevented by the circumstances of the collapse of a huge power. Speaking for Spartak, Valery Karpin was able to clearly prove himself with the light hand of coach Oleg Romantsev, who changed the role of a young football player. So, Karpin was retrained as a right midfielder, which brought a lot of benefits to the club.
Letter of fourteen
Before the 1994 World Cup, held on the sidelines of the United States of America, a grandiose split was outlined in the Russian team, which received the right to act at international competitions as the successor of the CIS. The players did not want to see Pavel Sadyrin at the helm of the national team and openly stated this in an official message. 14 players, among whom was Karpin Valery Georgievich, convinced the country's Football Federation to return Anatoly Byshovets to the coaching bridge, which laid the foundation for the team before the 1992 European Championship.
Football players were dissatisfied with scanty prize payments, sponsorship and contractual deductions. Of course, an attempt to influence the country's football leadership of the main group of Spartak football players (namely, they were the backbone of the national team) did not lead to anything. Players who could successfully speak at the world forum, infected by a thirst for money and tormented by internal schism, suffered a complete fiasco at the 1994 World Cup.
Careers in Spain
After the poor Russian championship, the Spanish team seemed to Karpin a paradise. Having played a little in Real Sociedad, after 2 years the footballer moved to Valencia. However, Karpin managed to gain a foothold in the club’s main staff for a long time only in Celta. As part of this club, Valery Karpin was officially recognized as the best midfielder in Spain.
In parallel with playing practice, the football player conducted active social activities, appeared on television, quickly mastered the Spanish language, and also participated in court hearings, defending the rights of Russian legionnaires in Spain to full social security. Successful social activities and accumulated capital enabled Karpin to start owning his own business in Spain. The player later received Spanish citizenship.
Business
Initially, Valery Karpin did not plan to become a coach. At the end of his football career at Real Sociedad, having some capital in his hands, he was busy in business: he founded a construction company, sponsored the Spanish team of road cyclists, managed to work as president of a little-known volleyball club, and led a program on Spanish television. Business skills in the sports team came in handy a bit later when he returned to his homeland.
Coaching career
The leadership of the native Moscow “Spartak” invites Karpin to the post of general director of the club in 2008. Foreign coaches who were actively involved in working with the club could not provide the desired result. Therefore, without a coaching license in hand, Karpin himself decides to head the club and try to pull Spartak to its former heights.
A trainer's license was soon obtained, but the first results in the new field were not so impressive. The head of the club Leonid Fedun was again forced to resort to the help of a foreign specialist. But even under Unai Emery, the results did not come. Spartak no longer represented such a formidable force as in the 80s and 90s of the last century.
In his second coming as a coach of Spartak, Karpin never surpassed his best achievement with the team - second place in the national championship in the 2011-2012 season.
Valery Karpin, “Torpedo” (Armavir): from scratch
Without gaining laurels as the head coach of Mallorca, in the summer of 2015, Karpin heads the FNL club, based in the city of Armavir. Who knows, maybe this is his finest hour. In any case, Karpin in case of failure will have a chance to return to the field of business.