Valery Nepomnyashchy
Russian footballer and manager / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy (Russian: Валерий Кузьмич Непомнящий; born 7 August 1943) is a Russian association football manager and a former player. He is currently in charge of youth development with Baltika Kaliningrad.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy | ||
Date of birth | (1943-08-07) August 7, 1943 (age 80) | ||
Place of birth | Slavgorod, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Baltika Kaliningrad (youth development) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1961–1965 | SKIF Ashgabat | ||
1965–1967 | Spartak Samarkand | ||
Managerial career | |||
1982–1983 | Kolhozchi Ashkhabad | ||
1988–1990 | Cameroon | ||
1991 | China (technical consultant) | ||
1992–1993 | Gençlerbirliği S.K. | ||
1993–1994 | Ankaragücü | ||
1995–1998 | Yukong Elephants / Bucheon SK | ||
2000 | Shenyang Haishi | ||
2001 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||
2002–2003 | Shandong Luneng | ||
2004–2005 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
2006 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
2006 | Uzbekistan | ||
2008–2011 | Tom Tomsk | ||
2012–2013 | CSKA Moscow (technical consultant) | ||
2014–2016 | Tom Tomsk | ||
2018 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
2018– | Baltika Kaliningrad (youth development) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Most famously he coached the Cameroon national football team when they surprisingly made the quarter-finals in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. From 1992 to 1994 he coached clubs in Turkey. In 1995, he became manager of South Korea's Yukong Elephants (currently Jeju United FC), and in 1996 led them to a victory in League Cup. In 2001, he took over as J. League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima's manager from Eddie Thomson. He has also coached Shanghai Shenhua, (whom he led to a second-place finish for the first time in his career), from 2004 to 2005, and the Uzbekistan national football team in 2006. He worked as a football commentator for a Russian television channel, “NTV-Plus”. In September 2008 he signed a 2-year contract with Russian club Tom Tomsk.[1]