 Gazzaev in 2019 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 August 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1966–1969 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1970–1973 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | 53 | (9) | |||||||||||
| 1974 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 12 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1975 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | 33 | (14) | |||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 72 | (14) | |||||||||||
| 1979–1985 | Dynamo Moscow | 197 | (70) | |||||||||||
| 1986 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 14 | (5) | |||||||||||
| Total | 381 | (113) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1980 | USSR | 8 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 1980–1983 | USSR (Olympic) | 11 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | |||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1999 | Alania Vladikavkaz | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Russia U21 | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Russia | |||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Dynamo Kyiv | |||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Alania Vladikavkaz (president) | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Alania Vladikavkaz (president and manager) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev (Russian: Вале́рий Гео́ргиевич Газза́ев; Ossetian: Гæззаты Георгийы фырт Валери, romanized: Gæzzaty Georgijy fyrt Valeri; born 7 August 1954) is a Russian politician, football manager and former footballer of Ossetian descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of a striker enjoying successes with his team FC Dynamo Moscow as well as the USSR national football team in the Olympics.
Gazzaev became a coach in 1989. He was most successful when he was in charge in CSKA Moscow from 2004 to 2008. There Gazzaev won every possible Russian title three times each, as well as the 2005 UEFA Cup. He is considered one of the best football coaches to have emerged from the former Soviet Union because of these achievements.