Yuri Farzunovich Gazzaev (russian: Юрий Фарзунович Газзаев, os, Гæззаты Фарзуны фырт Юри; born 27 November 1960) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

Playing career

As a player, he made his debut in the

Soviet First League The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футб� ...

in 1978 for

FC Spartak Ordzhonikidze FC Spartak Vladikavkaz (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб «Спартак Владикавказ») was a Russian football club based in Vladikavkaz (formerly Ordzhonikidze), North Ossetia–Alania. Founded in 1921, the club playe ...

. He signed for Chamois Niortais F.C. on a fake paperwork, pretending he was 9 years younger than he actually was (his birth year was changed from 1960 to 1969). He was released a few months later after the

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was discovered.

Personal life

His son

Ruslan Gazzayev Ruslan Yuryevich Gazzayev (russian: Руслан Юрьевич Газзаев; born 14 April 1991) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He works as a coach at the FC Dynamo Moscow academy. Cl ...

was a professional footballer.

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* 1991 career at Tempo (Serbia magazine) #1338, pgs.2–3 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gazzaev, Yuri 1960 births Sportspeople from Vladikavkaz Living people Soviet footballers Russian footballers Soviet Top League players FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players PFC Spartak Nalchik players FK Mačva Šabac players Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players Vasa IFK players Chamois Niortais F.C. players Russian football managers FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny managers Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Yugoslavia Expatriate footballers in Greece Expatriate footballers in Finland Expatriate footballers in France PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara managers Russian Premier League managers FC Shinnik Yaroslavl managers Soviet expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia Soviet expatriate footballers FC Volgar Astrakhan managers FC Spartak Vladikavkaz managers FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players Men's association football forwards Russian football chairmen and investors FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk managers