Valery Gazzaev

Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev, born on 7 August 1954, is a Russian politician, football manager and former footballer of Ossetian descent. As a Soviet player he was a striker who had success with FC Dynamo Moscow and with the USSR national football team in the Olympics. He became a coach in 1989 and was most successful in charge of CSKA Moscow from 2004 to 2008, when he won every possible Russian title three times each as well as the 2005 UEFA Cup. Because of those achievements he is considered one of the best football coaches to emerge from the former Soviet Union, so the entry covers both his playing career and his managerial one.