Valery Viktorovich Kechinov (; born 5 August 1974) is a former international footballer, who played as a midfielder. He spent the majority of his playing career at Spartak Moscow. Born in Uzbekistan, he was an Uzbek and Russian international.
Playing career Kechinov was born in Uzbekistan and started his professional career at local Pakhtakor, with whom he won the Uzbek League title, before moving to Moscow. With Spartak, Kechinov won six Russian Premier League titles and one Cup.
In 2001, after falling out with Oleg Romantsev, Kechinov spent almost entire season on the bench and at the end of the season signed a deal with Saturn Ramenskoe. Kechinov wasn't the only player to have problems with the Spartak management at that time, earlier other star players such as Ilia Tsymbalar, Andrey Tikhonov, Sergey Yuran, Ramiz Mamedov and Evgeniy Bushmanov were forced to leave the team for similar reasons.
After a brief spell at Saturn, Kechinov moved to Shinnik, where he spent the next three years of his career, until retiring in 2004.
Managing career He worked as Spartak Moscow reserve coach in 2006–2008, assisting Miroslav Romaschenko. In June 2008, Romaschenko left to manage Tom Tomsk, and Kechinov followed him to an assistant manager role. He was fired from Tom along with Romaschenko on 4 September 2008 after a string of bad results.
Career statistics International goals No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition16 April 1995Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, RussiaUEFA Euro 1996 qualifying230 April 1997Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
Honours Player Pakhtakor Uzbek League: 1992
Spartak Russian Premier League: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Russian Cup: 1993/1994 Russian Cup runner-up: 1995/1996
Individual Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year: 1992 Uzbek League Top Scorer: 1992 (24 goals) The best 33 football players of Russia: 1997
Manager Spartak Russian Reserve Championship: 2006, 2007
External links
Profile at Krylia Sovetov unofficial website Bio at Rusteam