The football history of any country includesloud victories, the triumph of great clubs, the legends of great footballers. In the 90s in our country football was associated with Moscow “Spartak”. The team, led by Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev, dominated the Russian football football Olympus. The players of this club were idols of boys, surrounded by a halo of mystery. One of these was Valery Kechinov, a football player who possessed an amazing technique, but due to various circumstances he did not fully realize his rich gaming potential.
Valery Kechinov was born on August 5, 1974 inthe capital of Uzbekistan, the city of Tashkent. In fact, his life was predestined from birth. His father, Viktor Petrovich Kechinov, is a significant 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 great football, but in a slightly different capacity. He became a football judge, while at the same time engaging in coaching work. It was he who was the first coach of his son, who systematically led to the debut in adult football.
1991 marked for national footballas the year of the last championship of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the USSR led to the creation of domestic competitions, where the level of struggle and skill of individual teams was much lower than in the All-Union Championship, which was among the top five European competitions.
In the same 1991, Valery Kechinov played forbackup composition of Pakhtakor. He played so vividly that he attracted the attention of the coaches of the USSR junior national team, which included winning the prestigious international tournament, the Granatkin Memorial. In the same year, the debut took place in the main team of Pakhtakor, he came to the cup match with the Lipetsk Metallurgist. It became clear that a new star lights up on the football sky.
As mentioned above, since 1992 in eachUnion Republic began to hold its own championship. In Uzbekistan, Pakhtakor was rightfully considered the flagship of local football, which won the first national championship. 18-year-old Valery Kechinov stood out in the team, in the year of his full-fledged debut in adult football, he became the top scorer in the national championship. It was clear to everyone that the young player, who scored 30 goals in 38 matches, will not stay long in the championship of Uzbekistan. Over time, it happened.
Проведя ярко свой первый сезон на взрослом level, Valery Kechinov was the focus of scouts of many clubs, both Russian and foreign. In particular, Moscow Dinamo and Valery Gazzaev, who was training at that time, showed particular interest in Kechinov.
Но самыми настырными в плане переговоров Moscow turned out to be Spartak players, who managed to convince a young football player to continue his career in this particular club. In the summer of 1993, Valery Kechinov moved to Moscow.
The transition to the capital club was not as smoothas we would like. The leaders of Pakhtakor, despite the fact that the football player’s contract with the club ended, did not want to let Kechinov go to another club. As a result, the second half of the 1993 season, Valery just trained with “Spartak”, not being able to take part in official games. And only at the end of 1993 documents came from Uzbekistan allowing the player to play for Spartak.
It would seem that all the obstacles behind and you can safelygame to prove their worth. But here Valeria was waiting for a new misfortune. During the preseason gatherings in a friendly game against Dynamo Kiev, Valery Kechinov gets a serious injury, leaving him for a season without football.
Due to a number of circumstances, Valery Kechinovflew almost half a season. Many were quite pessimistic about his ability to play at a high level. The first full season, spent as a player of the basic structure of “Spartacus”, was not entirely successful in terms of a place in the standings. The team that season for the first time in the history of the Russian championships lost the gold medals to the players of Vladikavkaz “Alania”.
But there was then a positive point:“Spartak” triumphantly performed at the Champions League group stage, the team of Oleg Romantsev scored six wins 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 the entire Russian football was located, and Spartak in particular, forced the Muscovites to sell a number of leading players to foreign clubs. As a result, in the spring, “Spartak” lost in the two-game opposition to the French “Nantes”, although the team could potentially achieve a lot.
В 1996 году клуб возглавил Георгий Ярцев, и The young team under his leadership regained the title of the strongest in Russia. In the gold match, she beat last year's champion - the players, “Alania”.
Kechinov became the main player of "Spartacus",manifesting itself in several positions. Starting as a pure striker, in “Spartacus” he managed to play both the position of the right midfielder, and a clean striker, and in the center of the field.
In 1998, Valery Kechinov again injuredlegs, tearing cruciate ligaments. And again there is a heavy recovery ahead, and again a lost season. Having recovered from this injury by the 2000 season, Valery Kechinov does not need Oleg Romantsev, who has already seen other players in his place. Parting with “Spartacus” was inevitable. In total for the Moscow club Kechinov spent 112 Machey, scoring 35 goals in them.
Not getting into the main part of "Spartacus", ValeryI began to consider various options for the continuation of a football career. Particularly real was the option of signing a contract with one of the leading clubs in Israel, but ultimately the parties did not agree on the price, and the option of continuing a career abroad had to be forgotten. As a result, Kechinov was in the suburban “Saturn”, in which he played a half season.
Then followed a voyage to Yaroslavl, where in the local“Shinnik” football played in three seasons, but another injury put an end to his desire to continue playing career. As a result, at the age of thirty Kechinov Valery Viktorovich, whose biography is presented to the reader in the article, decides to end his career as a professional footballer.
His entire football career Valery Kechinovconsidered a gifted, potentially very strong player. But apparently the fate of technical footballers is such that throughout their career, injuries of varying severity pursue them. So Kechinov because of injuries and could not become a major player in the team. He has six matches for the Russian national team with two goals. But especially for the fans, I remember his goal scored during the performance for the youth team of Russia. In the game with the German national team Kechinov Valery scored the ball after a solo pass, beating half the German national team on the way.
Is Valery Kechinov married?His wife is still unknown to the public. Rumor has it that he is an avid bachelor, and has not yet 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 together they raise his son Semyon.
After the end of the playing career Valery KechinovI tried myself in the coaching field. Together with his partner in “Spartacus” in the mid-90s, Miroslav Romashchenko, he headed the backup team of this club for three years. Also in his active work is the 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 veterans of "Spartacus."
This is the fate of one of the most talentedRussian football players of the 90s. Despite six gold medals of the Champion of Russia in football, there was a certain understatement, a feeling that Kechinov could achieve much more, leave a brighter mark in domestic football, but a series of injuries did not allow this to happen. In spite of everything, Valery Kechinov remains one of the favorite players in the football world. Biography, the statistics of this person is simply impressive to all his fans. This is the man in the world of football, from which it is worth taking an example to the younger generations!
