Biography of Yuri Semin

Born on May 11 of the year in the Chkalovo of the Orenburg region. Soviet football player and midfielder, Soviet and Russian coach. As a coach of FC Lokomotiv, Moscow three times became the champion of Russia, and six times the owner of the Cup of Russia,,,, Honored Coach of the Tajik SSR, Yuri Semin, was born on May 11 in the Chkalovo of the Orenburg region. Father - Pavel Ilyich Semin, driver.

Mother is Vera Filippovna Semina when Yuri Semin was three years old, his family moved to the city of Eagle, where he grew up. His classmate was actor Valery Barinov, with whom they have preserved friendship for life. In childhood, we played football together. Valery Barinov recalled: “Once Semin came to congratulate me on some anniversary and said:“ In childhood, my dad gave me a football ball!

In fact, he was not football, but basketball. It’s just that Uncle Pasha did not understand anything about this, he just went to the store, realizing that Yurka was obsessed with football, and chose the most beautiful and largest ball. Then there were still leather basketball balls. We, boys, were approximately knee -deep. And when we beat him, the leg flew in one direction, and the ball remained in place.

But nothing, we mastered it. And it so happened that at first Yurka played with us, then after school the boys came older, and later the men pulled themselves up. And one ball is him. And so he had to play with everyone. And on the anniversary, he says: “It’s good that the ball was presented to me in childhood, not Valera. Otherwise, we would have lost a wonderful artist; Yes, and I got something in football.

" The career of the player Yuri Semin began his career as a football player in the Spartak club Eagle. At the age of 18, Semin participated in the national team at the championship of the republics of the USSR, where his game was noticed by the leaders of several clubs, including the Kiev Dynamo, Moscow Dynamo, Metallurg Zaporozhye. Semin moved to the Spartak club Moscow, where it was sent by the Central Council of Spartak.

In the year he began to play for Spartak. The first year of career in the red and white lived at the base in Tarasovka. He recalled: “In the first year, I often wanted to escape from Moscow. It is difficult for the provincial to get used to the capital. This is later even the idea of ​​leaving it becomes impossible, and then if it were not for people like logofet, maybe he would not have felt in Moscow.

” In the year, Semin for his football achievements received a meter room in Beskudnikovo from Spartak. In the same year, Nikolai Osyanin moved to Spartak, who gradually squeezed Semin from the main composition of the team. After that, Semin decided to leave Spartak. Yuri Semin is the author of the first two goals of Spartak in European competitions. He spent three years as part of the “blue and white”, speaking at the position of a midfielder.

In the year, he left the team after the head coach, Konstantin Beskov, decided not to put Semin in the main team for the match with the “Croven Star”: “In the beginning, they were preparing for the quarterfinals of the Cup Cup against the“ Criven Star ”. Konstantin Ivanovich assured that I would play, and even called the opponent on the flank - Achimovich. But at the last moment I decided not to put me.

I was very offended - and came to the coach with a request to let me go from the team.

Then he realized that he got excited. Wash a little, calm down - and, I am sure, would have returned a place in the composition. ” There he spent two seasons. In the second of them, a new head coach was appointed to the club, Artem Belian, who began to find fault with the players who came from Moscow clubs. Semin had a fight with Flyan alone. A few days later an article appeared in the newspaper where Semin was accused of inappropriate behavior.

The chairman of the RSFSR football Federation Viktor Osipov, familiar with Semin, was able to achieve only the softening of the sentence in the form of a transfer of Semin to the second league, to the Chkalovets club, where he spent one season. At the end of the year, Semin moved to the Moscow Lokomotiv. In this club, he entered, as a veteran, in the coaching council, organized by the head coach of the railway workers, Igor Volchk.

He completed his career Semin in the Kuban club, where he was the captain of the team. Semin helped to bring Kuban to the Premier League. The coach's career completed to play on the field, he began a coaching career. Since September, the head coach of the Kuban. In the Years - the coach of FC "Pamir" Dushanbe. From January 5 to April 18, Moscow led the Lokomotiv club. In Soviet times, Semin twice managed to withdraw Lokomotiv to the upper league of the USSR championship, but the team could not gain a foothold in it.

In addition, in the year the Zheleznodorozhniki reached the final of the USSR Cup, where Dynamo Kyiv with a devastating account. In the year, immediately after the railwaymen entered the upper league of the USSR championship, he decided to change the situation and work abroad - he accepted an invitation from New Zealand and headed the Olympic team of this country.

In the qualifying group to the OI, his team took second place, losing only to the recognized favorite - the Australian national team. In the end he returned back to Lokomotiv.Under the leadership of Yuri Semin, in the years, Lokomotiv turned into one of the flagships of Russian football, often successfully competing with another Moscow club - Spartak. In the year, Zheleznodorozhniki won the first trophy in 39 years - the Russian Cup, in the final match, having won a strong -willed victory over Spartak.

A year later, Semina’s wards repeated success, having overcome the other Moscow Grand - Dynamo, the team was close to the third victory in the Cup in a row, but in the final match lost Spartak. Also, Lokomotiv regularly became a winner of the Russian championship, but it was not possible to win gold medals, but certain successes in European competitions were achieved - in the years the “red -green” reached the semifinals of the Cup Cup.

In the XXI century, Lokomotiv achieved new great successes: in the years, Semin’s wards won two more national cups, and for the first time in history they won gold medals of the championship, overcoming the Golden Match with a CSKA account. In the year, Lokomotiv repeated the success of two years ago, for the second time in history, becoming the champion of the country.

In the years, if we had good players, they were soon taken away, and we had to take others, in time to respond to the fact that you will definitely lose some strong position after the season. It spurred. I had the trust of leaders who gave me the right to my own decisions. It never happened that someone would go to another territory. Everything related to football was my territory.

Game, result, development, including a children's school, was mine. And the fact that football did not concern, I already did not cross the barrier - whoever said anything. Even when the grounds appeared for this - I became a coach who won many titles, ”said Semin. At the beginning of the year, Semin was seconded to the Russian team as head coach. Having completed the qualifying cycle led by Semin, the team did not fulfill its main task - getting to the World Cup in Germany.

Semin did not renew the contract with the RFU, despite the fact that the national team held several memorable matches under its leadership, not suffering a single defeat. Under Yuri Semin, football players such as Igor Akinfeev, Brothers Vasily and Alexei Berezutsky, Dinius Bilyaletdinov, Andrey Arshavin, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Yuri Zhirkov, were entrenched in the team in the roles of the main players - they composed the backbone of the Russian national team, who took bronze medals at the European Championship of the year.

In November, Semin signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow. Unable to rally the players of the team and did not establish due discipline, after the next defeat, Yuri Pavlovich resigned in August. At the end of the year, Yuri Semin returned to the Moscow Lokomotiv, becoming president of the club. Anatoly Byshovets was appointed head coach of the team. After a failed performance in the Russian Championship, 7th place - the worst of the Lokomotiv result in Russian history Byshovets and Semin were dismissed from their posts.

The contract was signed for two and a half years. In the year, Semin led Dynamo to the gold medals of the Championship of Ukraine, and also brought the team to the semifinals of the UEFA Cup, where in a fundamental confrontation he lost to another Ukrainian team - Shakhtar, which eventually became the owner of the trophy. The return to Lokomotiv, however, did not success either the coach or the team and on November 29, the board of directors removed Semin from his post.

However, at the end of the season, Semin left the team. Under his leadership, the team took 8th place in the Russian championship, which was the best result in the history of the club. He was dismissed on September 29 after the tour, when the team occupied a place in the Premier League standings. Thus, the coach once again left the team, which at that time was in second place in the standings.

In early June, after the end of the contract with Lokomotiv, he announced the beginning of the release of sportswear in conjunction with the Moscow brand of Olovo. In December, he took part in the jury of the show "Ice Age" on Channel One. Yes, there were extreme, difficult situations. You will come after some loss home and tell yourself - you need to throw this business, nothing happens.

But in the morning the whole situation changed. The main thing for me was to sleep, but I always slept well. And also think, analyze. In the morning I have always been a different person. I needed night.