Semin Yuri. Semin Yuri Pavlovich. Biography

On May 27, 2014, Yuri Semin became the head of FC Mordovia. November 29 of the same year, St. Petersburg "Zenith". 67 year old the honored coach of the Russian Federation and the Tajik SSR again gave reason to talk about his excellent organizational skills as a mentor of a football team.

Yuri Semin and his Little Red Riding Hood

Yuri Pavlovich Semin was born on May 11, 1947. Orenburg. Three years later, the family moved to Orel, where the boy joined football. After graduating from school, he got into the local "Sparatak". From there, to the RSFSR team for the championship of the republics of the USSR, where representatives already noticed him (Nikita Simonyan and Nikolai Starostin) and took him away.

The statistics of Semin-footballer in the Soviet championships are as follows: he played 280 matches (he was a striker and a midfielder), scored 29 goals, won the USSR Cup in 1970 and took 2nd place in the national championship the same year.

Yuri Pavlovich's club history includes the Novosibirsk FC Chkalovets, the Moscow Lokomotiv, the Krasnodar Kuban. Semyon won the Cup of the International Sports Union of Railway Workers twice: in 1976 as a player, and 11 years later as a coach.

All the main activities of Semin are connected with Lokomotiv. In 2002, he made the team the champion of Russia, then four times brought the club to the second place in the championship. In 1990, the Red-Greens reached the final of the last USSR Cup.

In the international arena, Yuri Semin was noted for his work with the Russian team (from 92 to 94 and from 96 to 99), as well as the preparation of the New Zealand team for the 1990 Olympics.

Semin and Eshtrekov became friends in Dynamo Moscow

Very many acquaintances with Semin note that he had not only the qualities of a coach in the Soviet sense, but also excellent managerial abilities, quoted in Western sports. He raised Lokomotiv almost from scratch, trying to turn it into a European superclub.

The statistics speak for themselves. For 57 championships of the USSR, the “railroad workers” only once climbed the podium (“silver” in 1959), while in Russian football Yuri Semin and his team achieved four silver, two bronze and one gold medal in 11 years.

The same Cup of the International Sports Union of Railway Workers

A bright playing career in many ways helped Semin become an excellent coach. In professional football, he began as a center in Spartak Moscow, replacing Yuri Sevidov. He scored both in the USSR and in European competitions. After he moved to Dynamo, where he played well with, as well as Georgy Ryabov, Valery Maslov. Semin himself considers five years among the "blue and white" the best in his career.

Dinamo Tbilisi and goalkeeper Gabelia remember that match well, when Semin kicked the ball into the top nine from 25 meters from the toe. In the 70th year, Dynamo simply destroyed Barcelona - 5:0!

Semin and FC Pamir

Yuri Pavlovich also showed character. I almost closed my way to the Major League once. When he was not taken to the squad for the game with Red Star (then still Yugoslav), Semin took and wrote a letter of resignation.

Moreover, he went to Kairat (Alma-Ata), from where, due to altercations with the new leader, he flew out with a disqualification.

Two more years later, Igor Volchok returned Semin to Lokomotiv Moscow. Here Yuri quickly became a leader.

Viktor Serebryanikov vs. Yuri Semin

The last game club for Semin was Kuban. With her, in 1982, he began his coaching career. The second club for the new Soviet coach was Pamir from Dushanbe. For two years, Semin almost brought the team to victory in the Major League, but then football functionaries got in the way. With the help of banal subpoenas from the military registration and enlistment office, the club's leading players were "pulled out" right before the decisive game with CSKA. Naturally, the game failed. However, that did not stop Tajik Pamir from making one of the strongest teams in the Soviet Union for a couple of seasons.

In addition to the red hat, Semin can also wear a red kurta

In the new Russia, Semin created a sensation already at an international level, when Lokomotiv beat Bayern Munich in the UKFA Cup. Then in 1998, Loko again reached the semi-finals of the Cup, where they played in a draw with Lazio twice.

Interview with Yuri Semin in 2009

Sooner or later, the bright streak ends. After the failed performance of the Red-Greens at the Russian Championship in 2007, Semin and Byshkovets were fired from their coaching posts. And three years later, Semin was again returned to him, and two more years later they were fired again. During the break, Yuri Pavlovich managed to work with Dynamo Kyiv.

Since this year, Semin has been coaching Mordovia Saransk. Maybe here he will get a European superclub.

Documentary film about Yuri Semin "12th player"

In addition to football, Yuri Pavlovich loves table tennis and theatrical performances (apparently this is typical of football coaches, since he also loves the theater).

Yuri Semin has been married since 1968. Spouse calls Love. His son Andrei also became a football coach.

Born May 11, 1947 in Orenburg. Father - Pavel Ilyich Semin (born in 1921), driver. Mother - Syomina Vera Filippovna (born in 1913). Wife - Lyubov Leonidovna Semina (born in 1948). Son - Andrei (born in 1969), graduate of the Higher School of Economics, football coach.

Yuri Semin was as if born for real professional football - both as a player, but even more so as a manager in the Western understanding of the meaning of this profession. Officially, professionalism in Russian football received the right to life in the early 1990s, when Y. Semin had already managed to gain authority in the coaching field. However, having caught the spirit of the time, immediately realizing what opportunities professional football opens up, he became obsessed with the idea of ​​​​creating a European-level superclub under the banner of Lokomotiv. And he was not embarrassed that, unlike the famous and popular Spartak, Dynamo or CSKA, he would have to start almost from scratch. And he himself became a locomotive that attracted a lot of people on whom the future of the club depended, made them his like-minded people and in a little over ten years brought a team almost unknown outside the country to a worthy place in the pan-European club rating, leaving behind in terms of organization and development of Dynamo, CSKA, Torpedo, with whose merits in Soviet football Loko could not be compared.

The result was not long in coming. If in 57 championships of the USSR “Lokomotiv”, under the guidance of a dozen and a half coaches, only once reached the podium, having won silver in 1959, then under the leadership of Yuri Semin, for 11 Russian championships, the piggy bank of railway workers was replenished with four sets of silver, two bronze medals, topped with championship gold 2002. Four Russian cup triumphs against two in Soviet times once again emphasize the level and role that Lokomotiv now plays in domestic football. The railway club now has the best stadium and training facilities in the country, with which even in Europe a rare club can be compared.

Who would have thought that the lean, clumsy Oryol boy (Pavel Semin's family moved to his parents in Orel when his son was 3 years old) would become not only a prominent figure in the most famous Soviet clubs, but also an outstanding football organizer, one of the most advanced Russian coaches . But everything went to this from early childhood. The Semin family lived modestly at that time, no better than its neighbors, but only Yura, as his childhood friend, now People's Artist of Russia Valery Barinov, said, had a real soccer ball - his father wanted to see his son as a football player. And after school, his comrades were always waiting for him at the entrance to start the next street football battle.

However, Yura did not start with football, but with athletics, with high jumps and middle-distance running. And if it was not possible to jump high, then the young athlete "ran" for the title of city champion among schoolchildren at his age. But in his 19th Oryol school there was also a football section, and, after running and jumping to his heart's content, Yura found time to kick the ball there. Gennady Savkin, a well-known football player and coach in the city, soon invited him to the Dynamo boys team, with which he worked that year. “Wow, and he was strict,” later recalled Semin, already a well-known football player. “God forbid, at least two minutes late for training, he immediately sent me home. A couple of times I, of course, got caught on this, but then how cut off. to instill discipline in anyone who was obsessed with football." He was like a second father to his pupils, and therefore, when he moved to the training group under the then Oryol team of masters Lokomotiv, Semin went after him. In the last school year, he, 16-year-old, on the recommendation of Savkin, was taken to the team of masters. I went with her to Ordzhonikidze for a pre-season training camp and was accepted as a trainee. A year later, they began to let him into the main team, renamed Spartak.

And then, in the summer of 1965, a tournament was held in Moscow for teams of young talents from all the republics of the USSR. Yuri Semin, who played at this tournament for the RSFSR national team, received the prize of the best striker and immediately received a bunch of invitations to major league clubs, including Moscow and Kiev Dynamo and the USSR youth team, led by Yevgeny Lyadin. And he intended to move to the capital's Dynamo, which he had sympathized with since childhood, when he suddenly found out that his fate had already been decided. The leaders of the Moscow "Spartak" Nikolai Starostin and Nikita Simonyan told the young football player that through the "Spartak" society he was being transferred to the most popular metropolitan club. He did not argue, he considered playing in Moscow to be happiness and most of all he was afraid to frighten off unexpected luck.

According to the style of play, Semin gravitated more towards the middle of the field, but in Spartak a misfortune happened to Yuri Sevidov - the team was left without a center forward, and the newcomer, who had not yet found a solid place in the line-up, was put forward at the forefront of the attack. He then did not care where - just to play, and at first things went well, he began to score in matches of the USSR championship, and in the fall of 1966 he opened the scoring for Spartak's goals in European competition, scoring in Belgrade in the local OFK in the 1/16 match of the Cup Winners' Cup . Despite the compliments addressed to him, Semin felt uncomfortable in the place of the central striker, and then he began to find himself in the reserve more and more often.

And then he decided to accept the invitation of the mentor of the Moscow “Dynamo” Konstantin Beskov, especially since the time for the army draft had come. The Dynamo master expected that the newcomer would add passion and fighting character to his team. And, as usual, he didn't fail. Semin moved to Dynamo together with Vladimir Eshtrekov, with whom he became friends back in Spartak - so much so that they still do not part, working as a coaching duo in Lokomotiv. And then both young, hot, eager for football, they quickly won the respect and favor of the friendly Dynamo team, its leaders - Lev Yashin, Igor Chislenko, Viktor Anichkin, Georgy Ryabov, Valery Maslov, Gennady Gusarov. The best years in his 17-year career as a football player Yuri Semin considers the five years spent at Dynamo. “We played great, enjoying each other on the field, but we never became champions,” Semin likes to recall. not enough - happiness, luck bypassed us. But the “silver” of the championship and the USSR Cup won.

Good, cunning in the Dynamo game was the indefatigable, for all his natural thinness, inflexible fighter Yuri Semin, sometimes breaking the applause of the stands with his unexpected game tricks. And sometimes he surprised the goalkeepers of opposing teams immensely. Once, for example, he seemed to be slowly moving towards the gates of Dinamo Tbilisi, and suddenly from 25 meters he hit the ball with practically no backswing - from the toe, "pyr", as this kick was called in the old days, exactly in the "nine". The most experienced goalkeeper of Tbilisi Gabelia did not even have time to raise his hands. And at the end of August 1970, almost together with Eshtrekov, in front of 95 thousand spectators, they literally tore the famous Spanish Barcelona at the Nou Camp - 5:0. Eshtrekov opened the scoring, and Semin finished the job with the fourth and fifth goals. “He joined the team so confidently, as if he had played with us all his life. He is a diligent player and as reckless as Maslov” - such an assessment from the lips of the great Lev Yashin is worth a lot.

But the path of the football player Semin was not always strewn with roses, he drank and grief in his career. His strong-willed, adamant character erupted not only for the benefit of the team, but sometimes to the detriment of himself. So, not getting into the squad for the semi-final match of the Cup Winners' Cup with the Yugoslav Red Star, he suddenly flared up and, despite the likelihood of his participation in the final of this prestigious European tournament, wrote a letter of resignation from Dynamo. He moved to Alma-Ata "Kairat" to an excellent not only football specialist, but also a teacher Viktor Korolkov. However, he soon lost his post, and the cool and power-hungry Artem Falyan, who replaced him, for some reason immediately disliked the Muscovites (except for Semin, the colors of Kairat were defended by the former Spartak Osyanin and Rozhkov) and soon literally squeezed them out of the team, and Semin, apparently , due to its intractable nature, - also with disqualification.

Since he was forbidden to play in the major leagues, on the recommendation of the head of the football department of the Sports Committee of the RSFSR Vladimir Osipov, Semin went to the team of the lower allied echelon - the Novosibirsk Chkalovets, which set as its goal to break into the first league. But the team turned out to be motley and did not achieve the goal. The following year, Lokomotiv coach Igor Volchok returned the "prodigal son" to Moscow. In the railway team, 28-year-old football player, who has already mastered the role of a dispatcher, organizer of attacking actions, along with other masters Givi Nodia, who has seen a lot in his football life, Alexander Averyanov became the leader. And in 1977, for the first time in a decade and a half, the railway workers aimed at the winners of the championship, but the overkill of veterans affected the finish line, and the team was content with only 7th place, however, the highest for itself since the early 1960s.

Yuri Semin completed his playing career in the major league - in Kuban, in which 2 years later he began coaching, returning to Krasnodar in September 1982 to keep the sinking team in the major league. And almost pulled it out. But at the end of the decisive match in Donetsk with Shakhtar, which had almost reached the saving shore, Kuban conceded an absurd goal and nevertheless “sank”. And Semin went to seek coaching happiness in sunny Tajikistan, where, just like the “Kuban”, only in the first league, the Dushanbe “Pamir” was almost hopelessly “burning”. "If you help the team out of trouble, you will receive the title of Honored Coach of the Republic," they promised the debutant coach.

And he rescued. Moreover, after 2 years, "Pamir" by leaps and bounds set off already in the big leagues. But before the decisive match with CSKA, several leading players were pulled out of the team by means of subpoenas from the military registration and enlistment office at once, and the ascent failed. And yet, thanks to the gaming base laid down by Semin, Pamir, in a short time, found itself among the strongest teams in the country. But Semin at that time was already bringing Lokomotiv Moscow into the group of the strongest - a club with which he later set the Russian coaching longevity record (16 years) and which, thanks to him and his entourage, the interest of the Ministry of Communications and the management of the Moscow Railway, became along with " Spartak" as the leader of national football at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Appointed in 1992 as the first coach of the Russian national team, Pavel Sadyrin attracted his assistants along with Boris Ignatiev and Yuri Semin, although at that time his Lokomotiv had not yet managed to conquer any of his future peaks. Sadyrin, according to his confession, was attracted by the thoroughness with which Semin created his team, not resorting to the “big leap” tactics, thanks to which many one-day teams broke out, but by erecting a building for years, slowly, as if brick by brick, building a game and selecting the right , reliable performers. Having joined the national team, Yuri Semin did not lose his independence of opinions and judgments, which Sadyrin respected and listened to. And Boris Ignatiev, who accepted the Russian national team in the summer of 1996, first of all invited Semin as an assistant. “For me, it wasn’t even a question of who to offer this position to,” Ignatiev said. He only counted on Semin. Even when I was the coach of the USSR youth team, Semin, one of the very few, always willingly sent his players to our training camp, and then he invariably took a detailed interest in how his wards showed themselves in training and games. In the Russian national team of the first convocation, his influence was great, and his coaching experience is priceless. "

Semin began to accumulate serious international experience not only in the national team, but also after Lokomotiv entered the European Cup arena. Already in his second UEFA Cup draw, Lokomotiv created a sensation in the fall of 1995, beating Bayern Munich at the Olympic Stadium in Munich. And although he lost in the return match, the whole of Europe recognized the team. And soon the railway workers confirmed their nascent international reputation, in the spring of 1998 reaching the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup. In the next season of European competition, they repeated this achievement. Moreover, in the semifinals they did not lose to the Italian “Lazio”, for which world-class stars Christian Vieri, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Marcelo Salas, Pavel Nedved, Roberto Mancini, Alen Boksic played, made two draws - 1:1 and 0:0, and the Italians went to final only thanks to a goal scored in a foreign field.

It is only the second year that Lokomotiv has played in the Champions League, the most prestigious European club tournament. But even in his debut, he managed to chalk up victories over world celebrities - Madrid "Real" - 2:0, Brussels "Anderlecht" - 5:1 and almost reached the next stage. And in the 2002/03 Champions League, the railroad workers, until the last round of the first group stage, claimed access to the next round.

The team of Yuri Semin has reached the European level, to which it has been going for more than 10 years. Almost all this time, Lokomotiv was represented in the Russian national team, and now Dmitry Loskov, Sergei Ovchinnikov, Sergei Ignashevich, Gennady Nizhegorodov, Ruslan Pimenov, Vadim Evseev, who have passed the school of Yuri Semin, form the basis of the team that successfully started in the next qualifying round of the European Championship.

Now it seems that the long-established leading core of Lokomotiv in the person of Semin, club president Valery Filatov, team leader Vladimir Korotkov, coaches Vladimir Eshtrekov, Nikolai Khudiev, Alexander Rakitsky, heads of club services Khasan Bidzhiev, David Shaginyan still have a lot to do. After all, everything that Yuri Semin conceived at the beginning of his coaching career at Lokomotiv is gradually coming true. Accessible, extremely communicative, he managed to captivate government people with his ideas. For example, the now former Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksenenko, as a result of which Lokomotiv got an ultra-modern training base in Bakovka, and then a miracle stadium of the 21st century level, which is hard to find equal in design, comfort for football players and spectators, and the level of amenities in Europe and the world. Led by Semin, Lokomotiv not only creates European authority for itself, but also restores its former glorious reputation to all domestic football, won by previous generations of outstanding Soviet masters.

Yu.P. Semin - Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation (1989) and the Tajik SSR (1985). In the championships of the USSR, he played 280 matches as a striker and midfielder, scoring 39 goals. 2nd medalist of the USSR championship in 1970. USSR Cup Winner (1970). He was the captain of the Novosibirsk "Chkalovets", the Moscow "Locomotive", the Krasnodar "Kuban". Winner of the Cup of the International Sports Union of Railway Workers (1976 - as a player; 1987 - as a coach). Under his leadership, Lokomotiv became the champion of Russia (2002), the silver medalist of the Russian championships (1995, 1999, 2000, 2001), the bronze medalist (1994, 1998), the owner of the Russian Cup (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001), the Cup finalist USSR (1990), semi-finalist of the Cup Winners' Cup (1998, 1999). He worked as a coach of the Russian national team (1992-94, 1996-99), a coach of the New Zealand Olympic team (1990).

Free time gives big and table tennis, other sports games, visiting theaters.

Lives and works in Moscow.

The new hero of our photo section is better known as a coach-epoch in the history of Lokomotiv and all Russian football, rather than as a former football player. After all, it is Semin made from the notorious "fifth wheel", which no one considered for a long time, a team-champion. To achieve the goal, he had to work at the club for 15 years. The former midfielder and striker went through a football school at Spartak, Dynamo and Lokomotiv. "Railwaymen" became the last Moscow team where Semin managed to play. Subsequently, in transit through Kuban, the ex-player returned to Loko, but already as a coach, from where he was forced to leave in 2005 in order to work in the national team. He left already as a two-time champion of Russia and a four-time winner of the Cup of the country.

Semin is still a sought-after specialist. The last job of the coach was Anji Makhachkala. And now, being temporarily without a team, the titled mentor found time for our traditional photo section. Moments of Semin's life and career with his comments are in front of you.

“The period of performance for Spartak. In the photo from left to right: Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Meshcheryakov, Kazimiras-Vaidotas Zhitkus, Nikolai Osyanin, Vladimir Maslachenko, Valery Dikarev (top row), Valery Reingold, me, Alexei Korneev, Vladimir Yanishevsky, Galimzyan Khusainov (bottom row) . I ended up in Spartak Moscow after I, young and talented, was transferred from Spartak Oryol to the capital.

USSR Championship. Spartak vs Dynamo. Viktor Anichkin takes the ball away from me. At the moment we don't have such strong central defenders. It was very difficult to beat him.

Stadium "Luzhniki". USSR Championship. Spartak vs CSKA. More than 100 thousand spectators came to the match. I score a goal in the fall against CSKA. Then we beat the "army" with a score of 2:1.

The next period of his career is Dynamo. I decided to move to the Dynamo camp, since at that time Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov worked at the club. Besides, I had to go to serve. As a child, I supported Dynamo, so I was glad to move to this club. Next to me is striker and teammate Igor Chislenko. He had a great kick. His crown is a kick with his left foot into the far corner of the goal. He was exactly the player who inspired me with his example.

USSR Championship. Dynamo vs Spartak. Spartak goalkeeper Anzor Kavazashvili is next to me.

Australia. Dynamo Moscow Tour. In the photo - Anatoly Piskunov, Lev Yashin, Miss Australia, Evgeny Zhukov and me. I really liked Australia, I have been there many times since that trip. In this country, simply extraordinary nature.

Stadium "Luzhniki". USSR Cup Final. Dynamo Moscow vs Dynamo Tbilisi. I'm trying to take the ball away from the opponents' defender Sergei Kutivadze in a jump. We won that match 2-1. Winning this tournament was considered a great achievement, especially at the time.

There. Dynamo with the USSR Cup. In the photo from left to right: coach Adamas Solomonovich Golodets, head coach of the team Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov, Lev Yashin, Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Utkin, Valery Zykov, Vladimir Shtapov, coach Vladimir Ilyin (top row), doctor, me, Yuri Avrutsky, Vladimir Kozlov , Vladimir Eshtrekov, Gennady Evryuzhikhin, Valery Maslov, Viktor Anichkin (bottom row). I consider Yashin the personification of not only a football player, but also an athlete of those times. It was very easy to play with him. For example, in Dynamo I acted as an extreme midfielder, and Yashin prompted me and the whole team all the time. During defensive actions, you play from behind, and Yashin immediately tells you that you have a player behind you. Lev Ivanovich made the game easier for us with a timely prompt.

There. Next to me is Vladimir Shtapov.

There. With Eshtrekov after winning the USSR Cup.

Central Stadium. USSR Championship. Dynamo Moscow vs Dynamo Kyiv. In the photo you can recognize Valery Maslov and Anatoly Puzach (left). Then we defeated the people of Kiev with a score of 2:0, and I scored the winning goal.

Valery Gazzaev and I played together in Lokomotiv, and after that we were rival coaches in different teams. We maintain friendly relations.

World Championship in USA. Next to me is the head coach of the national team Pavel Fedorovich Sadyrin (center) and coach Boris Petrovich Ignatiev (right). At that time, I was part of Sadyrin's coaching staff. I don’t consider our performance at the World Championship a failure, even though the team did not leave the group. We lost to the winners of the tournament, the Brazilians, and the bronze medalists of the World Cup, the Swedes. We got a very tough group. I also think that if the confusing situation with the “letter of fourteen” had not arisen, then this generation of Russian football players could have achieved great success at that World Cup. As for Sadyrin, at that time he was the best Russian coach. He was a decent, correct, sociable and very cheerful person.

Bakovka. I took a picture against the background of a beautifully painted panel, which was presented to me by the fans. Previously, it hung on the base. How things are now, I don't know.

In the photo with the actor and just a friend Valery Barinov and his wife Lyubov. They lived with Barinov in the same city on the same street, almost simultaneously left Orel to find their happiness in the capital. He is my closest friend. Lokomotiv entered his heart in connection with our friendship. Valera is a fan of the club to this day, and he does the right thing.

In Bakovka at home. My favorite photograph hangs on this wall.

Another victory in the Cup with Lokomotiv - the fourth in a row and the second in a row. In the photo - Jacob Lekheto, Ambassador of South Africa, me and James Obiora. The Ambassador of South Africa came to watch the game of Lekheto and the entire Lokomotiv. In the final of the tournament, we beat Anji on penalties.

Next to me is the wife of Vladimir Eshtrekov, friends, wife Lyubov (far right).

Lokomotiv's first championship. Tears of our captain Dmitry Loskov. In the golden match, we beat CSKA 1:0, and Dima scored the only goal. It is not right for Lokomotiv that Loskov never found a job at the club. He would be very helpful. We must respect such players and people, and we must help so that they will be useful in the future.

Interview with Dmitry Guberniev after the "golden" match with CSKA.

Restaurant "Dynamo". With a trophy. My friend Igor Zhuk is next to me.

That year, Lokomotiv won its first Russian Super Cup, beating CSKA on penalties. Next to me are Oleg Pashinin (left) and Vladimir Maminov, pupils of the "railroad workers" school. Volodya should succeed in everything in the coaching field, he has the necessary inclinations. As a football player, he analyzed both his game and the opponent very well. If we talk about Oleg, then we no longer have a Russian physical training coach of such a level as Pashinin. He was a very reliable defender. When a more attacking team played against us, we needed to release Pashinin in the starting lineup. Oleg insured his partners remarkably, played strongly in the air, and was distinguished by good speed.

The legendary Konstantin Beskov presents me with the prize "The Best Football Coach of Russia in 2002". Beskov gave the right education to his players - the same Romantsev, who later developed many of his ideas. Beskov always said: "When you own the ball, you are the master on the football field." Subsequently, we saw this in the Romantsev "Spartacus".

At the same event. In the photo with Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev. Romantsev is a special coach. He had to be perceived as a winner and help him in everything, and then success would come to him in any team after Spartak. And he didn't feel it.

Lokomotiv Stadium". Banner in honor of my 60th birthday from Loko fans. You can't force fans to do a performance on purpose. If they remember me, then I did something. It was very nice to see such a banner at the stadium.

Stadium "Luzhniki". Russian Cup final. Lokomotiv won this trophy for the fifth time. In the decisive match, we defeated the football club "Moscow" with a score of 1:0. Of course, the tandem with Byshovets did not work out, but I am flattered that, as president, I also won the trophy with Lokomotiv.

Period of work in Kiev "Dynamo". Joint photo of the coaching staff before the game against Arsenal in the Champions League. We tied with the Gunners - 1:1.

Lokomotiv Stadium". In 2009, I returned to Lokomotiv, where I worked for another year.

Lokomotiv Stadium. Farewell match of Vadim Evseev. The Russian team met with the world team. Evseev was the main joker at Lokomotiv.

The next stage of his coaching career is Mordovia. The game of the 1st round of the Premier League with the "Ural". Our team won over the Yekaterinburg team - 3:2. The Saransk club was a single whole, that's why we were able to succeed.

Makhachkala. At the moment, my last place of work is Anji. RFPL 2nd round match between Anji and Lokomotiv. Then we lost with a score of 1:3. Tough duel between Anji midfielder Amadou Mutari and Lokomotiv defender Vitaly Denisov.

"(Dushanbe). Semin failed to achieve any particular success in this team.

"Locomotive"

From January 5, 1986 to April 18, 2005, he led the Moscow Lokomotiv. In Soviet times, Semin twice managed to bring Lokomotiv to the top league of the USSR championship, but the team could not gain a foothold in it (in addition, in 1990 the railroad workers reached the final of the USSR Cup, where they lost to Dynamo Kyiv with a devastating score of 1:6 ").

New Zealand national team

In 1991, immediately after the railway workers entered the top 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 for OI-92, his team took second place, losing only to the recognized favorite - the Australian team. At the end of 1991, he returned back to Lokomotiv, realizing that he would not achieve other successes here, but as a professional he could quickly degrade.

"Locomotive"

Under the leadership of Semin in the 1990s, Lokomotiv turned into one of the flagships of Russian football, often successfully competing with another Moscow club - Spartak. In 1996, the "railwaymen" won the first trophy in 39 years - the Cup of Russia, in the final match, having won a strong-willed victory over Spartak. A year later, Semin's wards repeated their success, defeating another Moscow giant - Dynamo, the team was close to the third victory in the cup in a row, but lost to Spartak in the final match. In addition, Lokomotiv regularly became the winner of the Russian championship, but it was not possible to win gold medals, but some success was achieved in European competitions - in 1998 and in 1999 the red-greens reached the semifinals of the Cup Winners' Cup. In the 21st century, Lokomotiv achieved new great successes: in 2000 and 2001, Semin's wards won two more national cups, and in 2002, for the first time in history, they won championship gold medals, defeating CSKA in the "golden match" with a score of 1: 0. In 2004, Lokomotiv repeated the success of two years ago, becoming the national champion for the second time in history. In the same year, Lokomotiv reached the 1/8 finals of the Champions League for the first and only time, losing there to the future finalist Monaco.

Russian team

Semin led Lokomotiv in early 2005, but after several matches he was seconded to the Russian national team as head coach. Having completed the qualifying cycle under the leadership of Semin, the team did not fulfill its main task - getting to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Semin did not renew the contract with the RFU, despite the fact that the team played several memorable matches under his leadership, without suffering a single defeat. Semin did not return to Lokomotiv either, explaining that his views and the views of the club's management began to differ greatly.

Dynamo (Moscow)

In 2006, Semin signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow. Having failed to rally the team players and having not established proper discipline, after another defeat, Yuri Pavlovich resigned in August 2006.

President of the club "Lokomotiv"

Already at the end of the year, the president of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, announced the return of Semin to the Moscow Lokomotiv, but in a new position for himself. The honored coach of Russia becomes the president of the club, Anatoly Byshovets is appointed head coach of the team. After a failed performance in the 2007 Russian Championship (7th place - the worst result of Lokomotiv at that time in Russian history) both Byshovets and Semin were fired from their posts (despite the fact that the team still managed to win the Russian Cup) .

Dynamo (Kyiv)

Dynamo (Kyiv)

On December 23, 2010, Semin signed a contract with Dynamo Kyiv for a period of three and a half years, but he failed to achieve repeated success. On September 24, 2012, the coach was dismissed after a series of failures of the Kyiv club. According to Dynamo Kyiv player Andrey Nesmachny, Semin built the game in Dynamo as follows: “Five players are attacking, and the other five remain behind. It was Semin's task. For example, I had a clear intention not to connect to attacks. Reliably play in defense, do not concede, and there - we will find a moment and score.

"Gabala"

May 29, 2013 became the head coach of the Azerbaijani club Gabala. Under the guidance of a specialist, Gabala became the bronze medalist of the Azerbaijan Championship in the 2013/14 season, having won the right to play in the Europa League in the upcoming season, and reached the final of the country's Cup. However, at the end of the season, Semin left the team.