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Georgi Yartsev played for which team from 1965 to 1967?
Georgi Yartsev Georgi Aleksandrovich Yartsev ( ; born 11 April 1948 ) is a Russian football coach and former player . He was the head coach of the Russian national team between 2003 and 2005 . Club career . He learned to play football in the Tekmash Kostroma football school . Played forward for Spartak Kostroma ( 1965–1967 , 1975–1976 ) , Iskra Smolensk ( 1968–1972 ) , CSKA Moscow ( 1970 ) , Gomselmash Gomel ( 1973–1974 ) , Spartak Moscow ( 1977–1980 ) , Lokomotiv Moscow ( 1981 ) , Moskvich Moscow ( 1982 ) . Played 82 games and scored 38 goals in the premier league of the USSR championship . USSR champion in 1979 . He was the top scorer at the USSR championship in 1978 ( 19 goals ) . He played five ( 5 ) games for the USSR national team . His playing career was unusual in that he only got to the highest level of club football in USSR when he was 29 years old . He achieved highest level success quickly once he got to Spartak Moscow . However , that sudden late-career revival did not last for too long and he retired soon thereafter . Managerial career . After finishing his playing career , he became a coach at the Kapotnya Moscow football school ( 1982–1984 ) , Krasnaya Presnya Moscow ( 1984–1985 ) , SC Krasny Bogatyr Moscow ( 1985–1988 ) , pop singers team that played exhibition games , Zvezdy Sporta ( 1993–1994 ) . In 1994 , he was hired as an assistant coach for the top Russian club at the time , Spartak Moscow . When Oleg Romantsev , who was head coach of Spartak and of the Russian national team , decided to focus on the national team in 1996 , Yartsev was appointed the head coach of Spartak . Spartak was rebuilding at the time , but even with many young players in the lineup , they won the league that year . They did so in a golden game which had to be played because Spartak and Alania Vladikavkaz were level on points after the championship . How much of that teams success was due to Yartsev is still questioned , because Romantsev never really left the team and some say he continued to make all the important decisions behind the scenes . Romantsev took back his head coach position in 1997 , moving Yartsev back into the assistant position . In June 1998 Yartsev was appointed the head coach of Spartaks cross-city arch-rival , Dynamo Moscow . Despite getting to the Russian Cup final in the spring of 1999 , generally he did not have much success with that team and was fired in June 1999 . Before one of the Dinamo games that was played on Yartsevs birthday , Sergei Stepashin , who was the Prime Minister of Russia at the time , gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony . Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough , when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000 . However , he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year . For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team . In August 2003 , Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev , was fired . Most of the other high-level Russian coaches have already coached the national team at one point or another , so unexpectedly Russian soccer federation decided to put Yartsev in charge . Under Yartsevs management , Russia qualified for the playoff preliminary qualification matches , in which they beat Wales . That series ended with controversy . First Russia asked UEFA to disqualify Wales midfielder Ryan Giggs for elbowing a Russian defender in the first leg of the playoffs , which UEFA refused to do . Later key Russian midfielder Egor Titov was disqualified for testing positive for an illegal performance-enhancing drug , Wales asked to be declared winners because of that , but that request was ultimately denied and their court case dismissed . In Euro 2004 Russia lost the first two games to Spain and Portugal 0-1 and 0-2 and was the first team to be eliminated . After the first game Yartsev sent home one of the most experienced Russian midfielders , Alexander Mostovoi , after Mostovoi complained to the press that Yartsev is overworking players in training sessions , so they do not have any energy left for the games . Yartsev changed lineup extensively in every game , first because some key defenders were injured and he had to play the reserves and young players , and then because of disqualifications to Roman Sharonov and Sergei Ovchinnikov , who were sent off in the first two games . In their third and final game , Russia defeated Greece 2-1 . That ended up being the only Greek loss in the whole tournament as Greece eventually won it all , defeating Portugal in the finals ( Russia was not very lucky in getting drawn into the same group as two eventual finalists ) . Yartsev was not fired despite not coming out of the group stage . After a 1-7 loss to Portugal in the 2006 World Cup qualifying Yartsev amazingly kept his job , but then resigned after a 1-1 draw with Estonia . In early 2007 , he was hired as a coach for FC Torpedo Moscow , who got relegated in 2006 from the Russian Premier League for the first time in its history . He was fired on June 20 , 2007 , Torpedo was in 7th place in First Division at the time ( only the top 2 teams get promoted into the Premier League ) . Personal life . Yartsev is married , and has two daughters . His son Alexander was murdered 18 February 2007 in his own home . External links . - Profile in Russian