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Yuri Pavlovich Semin: biography, career and personal life

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 treasury of railway workers was replenished with four sets of silver, two bronze medals crowned 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 their 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 their neighbors, but only Yura, as his childhood friend, now People's Artist of Russia Valery Barinov, said, had a real soccer ball - so much 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 footballer. “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 a bunch of invitations to major league clubs, including Dynamo Moscow and Kiev and the USSR youth team, led by Evgeny 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 footballer 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 to 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 didn’t 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 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 tireless, for all his natural thinness, inflexible fighter Yuri Semin, sometimes with his unexpected game tricks, breaking the applause of the stands. And sometimes he surprised the goalkeepers of opposing teams immensely. Once, for example, he seemed to be slowly advancing towards the gates of Dynamo 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 as 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 former Spartak Osyanin and Rozhkov defended the colors of Kairat) 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 team of railway workers, the 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 age, 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 the 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, 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 leadership 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 its 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 was not even a question of whom to offer this position,” Ignatiev said. He only counted on Semin. Even when I was the coach of the youth national team of the USSR, Semin, one of the very few, always willingly sent his players to us for training, 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 semi-finals they did not lose to the Italian “Lazio”, for which world-class stars Christian Vieri, Sinisa Mikhailovich, 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 difficult 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.

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.

Yuri Semin is a big personality in our football. He is a very authoritative and respected person, whose contribution to the development of domestic football can hardly be overestimated.

Semin, as a coach, is a whole era. The era of bright victories and achievements. Semin's career as a coach was a success.

Date of birth of Yuri Semin

Yuri Semin football player biography

For many, Yuri Pavlovich is known only as a coach. But this is far from true. Semin was an excellent football player with a bright career. Yuri began his professional career on the football field in the city of Orel, at the local Spartak.

In the team, the striker showed himself well, and soon ended up in Spartak Moscow. Yuri quickly established himself at the base, for his achievements he received a room in Beskudnikovo from the club. Became the author of the first European Cup goals in the history of red and white.

In 1966, the team was replenished by Nikolai Osyanin, who ousted the forward from the squad. The football player decided to change the team, and became a player in the capital's Dynamo. The striker spent three years in a new team. During this time, Yuri won the USSR Cup and became the silver medalist of the national championship. Soon the team had to leave. The reason for leaving was a conflict with head coach Beskov.

There was a game in European competition with "Chervena Zvezda" from Belgrade. Konstantin Ivanovich said he was getting ready, but at the last moment he did not release the player on the field. Semin was disappointed and approached the coach, saying that he was leaving. Very offended. In the end, of course, I realized that I got excited. But with Beskov you can’t throw words into the wind, Konstantin Ivanovich is an authority, and a stern man.

The football player had to go to Kairat. Then there was Chkalovets, and finally Lokomotiv. Igor Volchok was the coach of the railway workers, who at that time were considered the weakest team in Moscow football, his fifth wheel. Here Yuri Pavlovich will spend several years, will become a real leader of the club. Semin will end his career as a football player in the Krasnodar Kuban, which he will lead to the top allied league.

Semin coach

Semin's coaching career began at Pamir Dushanbe. Then there was Kuban. There were no special successes in the debut years of his coaching career. In 1986, Semin became the coach of Lokomotiv. Under his leadership, the team reached the top division. This continued until 1991. In the year of the collapse of the Union, Yuri Pavlovich went to New Zealand, where he worked as a coach of the Olympic team.

In 1992, Semin returned to Lokomotiv, whose coach he will be until 2005. Yuri Pavlovich, together with the president of the club, Valery Filatov, did a great job. Lokomotiv seriously claimed the highest places in the Russian championship, tried to break the hegemony of Spartak. In the UEFA Cup and the Champions League, Loko fought on equal terms with the cities of world football. Tandem Filatov - Semin turned Lokokotiv from the fifth wheel of Moscow football into the leader of the capital.

Yuriy Pavlovich opened up a whole galaxy of great players for our football. Loskov, Chugainov, Kharlachev, Pashinin, Sennikov, Khokhlov, Ignashevich, Izmailov, Evseev, Ignashevich, Pimenov, Bulykin, Buznikin, Solomatin shone under him. Legionnaires - Asatin, Lekheto, Obiora, Parks, Gurenko.

The locomotive of the mid-90s, early 2000s was a very nice club. The team played real football, did not cause irritation, there were no scandals around it. In the 2003/04 season, Loko fought in the Champions League in the 1/8 finals with Monaco. It was amazing, incredible. At home, the Muscovites beat the French 2:1, but lost away. Next came the French, who lost to Porto in the final of the tournament.

In 2005, Semin left Lokomotiv and joined the national team. Remembering that time, any fan will say that there was no better candidate for the post of coach of the national team. Yuri Pavlovich was invited so that the team could overcome the qualifying stage and get to the 2006 World Championship. The miracle didn't happen. The national team did not go to the tournament, and the RFU did not renew the contract with the coach.

In the winter of 2006, Semin became the head coach of Dynamo, where a large-scale selection was carried out for him. A series of failures and confusion, lowered the team into the relegation zone. Already in the middle of the championship, he resigned. Semin had carte blanche in his hands, experienced Ovichnnikov, Khokhlov, perky Semshov and Danny, and the magnificent Derley. But it didn't work. Even more skillful specialists could not rock the Dynamo. In Dynamo, Semin was remembered, except for the immortal expression "Take off your mittens and start working." It was an appeal to the forward.

After that there was a voyage to Kyiv, short but successful. Then an unsuccessful return to Lokomotiv, work with Gabala, Mordovia and Anji.

Since August 2016, Yuri Pavlovich has been the head coach of Lokomotiv again. The collaboration has been quite successful.

Personal achievements

Career

Personal life

Yuri Pavlovich is married, he has a son and two grandchildren.

Hobbies

Yuri Semin loves theater, playing sports. Palych especially likes table and tennis.

Results

Yuri Pavlovich Semin is a coach who gave the Russian fan an amazing Lokomotiv. Incredible team, with tactical innovations for that time: extreme laterals covering the entire sideline, defensive line play, great Loskov as a playmaker.

Loko was a cute team playing smart football. The whole country did not sleep at night, choosing instead of traveling to the kingdom of Morpheus, the NTV channel, which had the Champions League. Everyone watched how the "railroad" defend the honor of Russia in European football.

"(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 grandee - 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 disastrous performance in the 2007 Russian Championship (7th place was Lokomotiv's worst result in Russian history at that time), both Byshovets and Semin were fired from their posts (despite the fact that the team still managed to win the Russian Cup) .

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 Andrei 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.

Who would have thought that the lean, clumsy Oryol boy (Pavel Semin's family moved to their 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.

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 team of railway workers, 28-year-old footballer, 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.

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 semi-finals 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.

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