Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov (russian: Юрий Васильевич Гаврилов; born May 3, 1953 in Setun,

Odintsovsky District Odintsovsky District (russian: Одинцо́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #64/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of ...

, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian football manager and a former midfielder who played for Dynamo Moscow and

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. He made 46 appearances for the

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and scored 10 goals. He also competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. His creative skills are immortalized by Konstantin Beskov's famous phrase "If you don't know what to do with the ball, pass it to Gavrilov". Yuri Gavrilov has his own football school in Moscow called SC Svyatogor.

Career

Gavrilov's football career started in Iskra Moscow football school when he was 7. He was invited by school director who saw Yury playing with other kids on the Iskra stadium. When he was 19, Konstantin Beskov took him to

Dinamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

from Iskra amateur team. But there was an expensive number of quality players in 1970s Dinamo, and Gavrilov couldn't find a permanent place in Dinamo squad. Gavrilov followed Konstantin Beskov into

in 1977. Gavrilov achieved the key playmaker role in new Spartak Moscow team built up by Beskov. After being winger in Dinamo, Gavrilov's new role in Spartak team let him show his best abilities and proved himself one of the all-time best

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football creative mid-fielders. While he made a lot of good passes, he scored a lot of goals as well. Gavrilov was

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top goal-scorer twice, scored 140 times during his career. During his professional career Gavrilov played also for the

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club Porin Pallotoverit and

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n club FC Agro Chişinău. In 2001 Gavrilov took charge of the DR Congo national football team for one game. He coached DR Congo in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Ivory Coast.

External links

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Pictures of Yuri Gavrilov in FinlandYouTube Channel of Yuri GavrilovPictures of Yuri Gavrilov (russian)Yury Gavrilov Foundation for the support and development of physical culture and sport (russian)

References

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