Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov (russian: Станислав Саламович Черчесов, ; os, Черчесты Саламы фырт Станислав, Ĉerĉesty Salamy fyrt Stanislav; born 2 September 1963) is a Russian
football
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manager and former international footballer who played as a
goalkeeper
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for
Soviet Union
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and
Russia
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. He is currently managing
Hungarian team
Ferencváros.
In August 2016 he was appointed as head coach of the
Russia national team and helped his team reach the quarter-finals of the
2018 FIFA World Cup
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. He was dismissed from the Russian national team after the team was eliminated in the
UEFA Euro 2020
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group stage.
Club career
The goalkeeper played 57 matches in the
German top-flight for former
East German
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powerhouse
Dynamo Dresden
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a couple of years after
reunification between East and West.
International career
Cherchesov played for
Russia
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at the
1994 World Cup and
1996 Euro. He also was named to the squad for the
2002 FIFA World Cup
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, but was an unused substitute. He made 39 appearances for the team after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. Cherchesov also made one appearance for the FIFA team in the charity game against America in 1995, and for Europe vs Africa in 1997.
Managerial career
Cherchesov was the manager of
FC Kufstein
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from January to November 2004 and the manager of
FC Wacker Tirol
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from November 2004 to May 2006. In June 2006 – June 2007 he was the sporting director of
FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyn ...
. From 19 June 2007 to 14 August 2008 he was the manager of
FC Spartak Moscow
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. On July 12, 2008, Spartak suffered a historic crushing defeat against CSKA with a score of 1:5. On August 13, 2008, Spartak lost another crucial match to Dynamo Kyiv with a score of 1: 4 in the Champions League qualification. The next day, general director Valery Karpin announced the dismissal of the head coach of the team - Cherchesov Stanislav. Manager of
Amkar Perm since June 2013 to April 2014.
On 8 April 2014, Cherchesov left
Amkar Perm.
On 9 April 2014, Cherchesov was named as manager of
FC Dynamo Moscow
FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Fo ...
replacing
Dan Petrescu
Daniel Vasile Petrescu (; born 22 December 1967) is a Romanian football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Liga I club CFR Cluj.
As a player, Petrescu was deployed as a full-back or a winger and represented Premier Leag ...
. He left Dynamo by mutual consent on 13 July 2015.
On 6 October 2015, he became the manager of Polish side
Legia Warsaw
Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, ...
. That season he won
the top Polish professional league championship and Cup double for
Legia Warsaw
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In August 2016, Cherchesov was named as the new head coach of
Russia
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on a two-year contract through to the
2018 FIFA World Cup
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. Under his management Russia would beat
Saudi Arabia
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5–0,
Egypt
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3–1, and
Spain
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, ...
1-1 (
pen. 4-3), reaching the quarterfinals for the first time since 1970. He has become the first ever Russian manager, since the collapse of USSR, to bring Russia into the knockout stage of a major tournament for the second time (Dutchman
Guus Hiddink
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led Russia to the
UEFA Euro 2008
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semi-finals), which others like
Pavel Sadyrin
Pavel Fyodorovich Sadyrin (russian: Павел Фёдорович Садырин; 18 September 1942 – 1 December 2001) was a Soviet and Russian footballer and manager.
Career
Sadyrin played as a midfielder for Zvezda Perm and Zenit Leningra ...
,
Oleg Romantsev
Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev (russian: Олег Иванович Романцев; born 4 January 1954) is a Soviet/Russian former international footballer and coach. Romantsev was acclaimed for his success with Spartak Moscow, whom he led to a rec ...
,
Georgi Yartsev
Georgi Aleksandrovich Yartsev (russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Я́рцев; 11 April 1948 – 15 July 2022) was a Russian football coach and player. He was the head coach of the Russia national team between 2003 and 200 ...
and
Leonid Slutsky have failed to do.
On 27 July 2018, he signed a new contract with the Russian national team, on a two-year term with a further two-year extension option. On 12 March 2020, he extended the contract until 30 December 2022. It would be extended to 31 July 2024 if Russia qualifies for the knockout stage at the
2022 FIFA World Cup
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.
Following the failure to advance from the group stage at the
UEFA Euro 2020
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which was played in June 2021, the
Russian Football Union
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dismissed Cherchesov on 8 July 2021.
Ferencváros
On 20 December 2021, he was appointed as the manager of the
Nemzeti Bajnokság I club
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváro ...
.
Personal life
Cherchesov is married and has two children. His son, Stanislav, is also a goalkeeper. Having taken career in Germany and Austria, he has learnt to speak fluent
German
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and has taken up coaching education in Germany.
He was named "Coach of the Year" in the nomination "Pride of Russia" by the
Ministry of Sport of Russia.
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Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Spartak Moscow
* Soviet Top League
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The professional top level ...
/Russian Premier League
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: 1987, 1989
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, 1992
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, 1993
* Soviet Cup
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: 1992
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FC Tirol Insbruck
* Austrian Bundesliga
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: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02
Individual
* Soviet Top League Best Goalkeeper: 1989, 1990
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, 1992
Manager
Legia Warsaw
* Ekstraklasa
Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams.
Contested by 18 ...
: 2015–16
* Polish Cup
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: 2015–16
Ferencváros
* Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2021–22
* Hungarian Cup
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: 2021–22
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
People from Alagirsky District
Ossetian people
Ossetian footballers
Soviet footballers
Soviet Union international footballers
Russian footballers
Russian football managers
Russia international footballers
Dual internationalists (football)
UEFA Euro 1992 players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1996 players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
Dynamo Dresden players
Soviet Top League players
Russian Premier League players
Association football goalkeepers
FC Spartak Moscow managers
Russian Premier League managers
Russian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Austria
FC Wacker Innsbruck managers
FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi managers
FC Akhmat Grozny managers
FC Amkar Perm managers
FC Dynamo Moscow managers
Legia Warsaw managers
Russia national football team managers
Russian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Austria
Expatriate football managers in Poland
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
2017 FIFA Confederations Cup managers
2018 FIFA World Cup managers
UEFA Euro 2020 managers
Sportspeople from North Ossetia–Alania