Valeri Karpin

Valeri Karpin

Personal information
Date of birth	(1969-02-02) 2 February 1969
Place of birth	Narva, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union[1][2]
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Right Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1988	Sport Tallinn	25	(1)
1988	CSKA Moscow	3	(0)
1989	Fakel Voronezh	25	(7)
1990–1994	Spartak Moscow	116	(29)
1994–1996	Real Sociedad	72	(16)
1996–1997	Valencia	36	(6)
1997–2002	Celta Vigo	168	(26)
2002–2005	Real Sociedad	107	(20)
Total		552	(105)
National team
1992	CIS	1	(0)
1992–2003	Russia	72	(17)
Teams managed
2009–2012	Spartak Moscow
2012–2014	Spartak Moscow
2014–2015	Mallorca
2015–2016	Torpedo Armavir
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Valeri Georgievich Karpin (Russian: Валерий Георгиевич Карпин; born 2 February 1969) is a Russian professional association football manager and a former player who played as midfielder. He was primarily a right midfielder.

Playing career

At club level, Karpin has played for Fakel Voronezh (1989), Spartak Moscow (1990–94), Real Sociedad (1994–96 and 2002–05), Valencia CF (1996–97), and Celta Vigo (1997–2002). He retired at the end of the 2004–05 season with Real Sociedad.

Russia/CIS

For Russia, Karpin has been capped 72 times, scoring 17 goals (he was also capped once for the CIS). He scored Russia's first goal after the breakup of the Soviet Union, in a 2–0 win against Mexico on 17 August 1992. Karpin played for Russia at the 1994 World Cup, Euro 96, and the 2002 World Cup.

Managerial career

In 2003, he took up Estonian citizenship, keeping the Russian one.^[3] In August 2008, Karpin was named as Director General of Spartak Moscow, replacing Sergei Shavlo. In April 2009, following a poor run of results, he replaced Michael Laudrup as caretaker manager of the club. On 18 April 2011, Karpin declared resignation from his position following one of the worse starts in club history. Eventually, he continued working as a manager up to the end of 2011-12 season.

After the sacking of the newly appointed manager Unai Emery on 25 November 2012, Karpin took the responsibility of caretaker manager up until the end of the year. He later officially became the team's coach again and wasn't the caretaker anymore.^[4]

On 18 March 2014, Karpin was relieved from his duties, after exiting the Russian Cup to third division FC Tosno and drawing with top flight's bottom side FC Anzhi Makhachkala.^[5] On 12 August 2014, he was appointed at the helm of RCD Mallorca.^[6]

He joined FC Torpedo Armavir for the 2015–16 season after it was newly promoted to FNL. Under his management, the team (by then renamed to FC Armavir) was relegated back to the third-tier PFL, and on 23 June 2016, he left the club "by mutual consent".^[7]

Retirement

Karpin in 2009.

In 2007 Karpin became the holder of road bicycle racing team Karpin-Galicia. He also owns a real estate company with former Celta Vigo team-mate Michel Salgado.

In 2009 he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.

Statistics

Club career statistics

International

^[8]

CIS

Russia

Coaching record

As of 25 May 2012

Honours

Club

• Spartak Moscow
  • Russian Top Division: 1992, 1993, 1994
  • Russian Cup: 1992
• Celta Vigo
  • Intertoto Cup: 2000

References

External links

• Valeri Karpin on the RSSSF-site
• All goals and career in Spain
• Valeri Karpin – FIFA competition record

Russia squads
Russia squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup 1 Cherchesov 2 Kuznetsov 3 Gorlukovich 4 Galyamin 5 Nikiforov 6 Ternavskiy 7 Pyatnitskiy 8 Popov 9 Salenko 10 Karpin 11 Beschastnykh 12 Tetradze 13 Borodyuk 14 Korneev 15 Radchenko 16 Kharin (c) 17 Tsymbalar 18 Onopko 19 Mostovoi 20 Ledyakhov 21 Khlestov 22 Yuran Coach: Sadyrin Russia squad – UEFA Euro 1996 1 Kharin 2 Tetradze 3 Nikiforov 4 Tsymbalar 5 Kovtun 6 Karpin 7 Onopko (c) 8 Kanchelskis 9 Kolyvanov 10 Mostovoi 11 Kiriakov 12 Cherchesov 13 Bushmanov 14 Dobrovolski 15 Shalimov 16 Simutenkov 17 Beschastnykh 18 Yanovsky 19 Radimov 20 Gorlukovich 21 Khokhlov 22 Ovchinnikov Coach: Romantsev Russia squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup 1 Nigmatullin 2 Kovtun 3 Nikiforov 4 Smertin 5 Solomatin 6 Semshov 7 Onopko (c) 8 Karpin 9 Titov 10 Mostovoi 11 Beschastnykh 12 Cherchesov 13 Daev 14 Chugainov 15 Alenichev 16 Kerzhakov 17 Semak 18 Sennikov 19 Pimenov 20 Izmailov 21 Khokhlov 22 Sychev 23 Filimonov Coach: Romantsev