Valeri Karpin

Valeri Georgievich Karpin (Russian: Валерий Георгиевич Карпин; born 2 February 1969) is a Russian football manager of FC Rostov and a former midfielder, primarily a right midfielder.

Valeriy Karpin

Karpin coaching Rostov in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	2 February 1969
Place of birth	Narva, Estonia[1]
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Right midfielder
Club information
Current team	FC Rostov (manager)
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
2017–	Rostov
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 1996, and the 2002 World Cup.In 2003, he won Cyprus International Football Tournaments when Russia beat Romania[2]

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 was not 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]

On 19 December 2017, Karpin was announced as the new manager of FC Rostov on a two-and-a-half-year contract.[8]

TV career

In 2016, he started working as analyst with Match TV. On 16 February 2017, he was appointed editor-in-chief of football broadcasts for the channel.[9] He left the channel on 24 July 2017.[10]

Personal life

Karpin has four daughters named Veronika (born in 1990),[11] Maria (born 23 February 1996), Valeria (born 18 February 2001) and Daria (born 4 September 2018). Since 2017, Karpin is married to an English teacher and singer Daria Gordeeva (before that he was married twice).[12]

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.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sport Tallinn	1986	Soviet Second League	10	1	-	-	-	-	10	1
	1987		15	0	-	-	-	-	15	0
	Total		25	1	0	0	0	0	25	1
CSKA Moscow	1988	Soviet First League	3	0	-	-	-	-	3	0
Fakel Voronezh	1989	Soviet First League	27	7	-	-	-	-	27	7
Spartak Moscow	1990	Soviet Top League	21	0	-	-	0	0	21	0
	1991		28	3	-	-	8	0	36	3
	1992	Russian Top League	25	7	-	-	4	1	29	8
	1993		30	13	-	-	8	4	38	17
	1994		12	5	-	-	10	5	22	10
	Total		116	28	0	0	30	10	146	38
Real Sociedad	1994–95	Primera Division	35	3	3	0	-	-	38	3
	1995–96		37	13	2	1	-	-	39	14
	Total		72	16	5	1	0	0	77	17
Valencia	1996–97	Primera Division	36	6	2	0	8	0	46	6
Celta Vigo	1997–98	Primera Division	37	4	5	1	-	-	42	5
	1998–99		34	8	2	0	7	0	43	8
	1999–2000		34	6	2	0	10	5	46	11
	2000–01		30	5	6	1	9	1	45	7
	2001–02		33	3	2	0	3	2	38	5
	Total		168	26	17	2	29	8	214	36
Real Sociedad	2002–03	Primera Division	36	8	1	0	-	-	37	8
	2003–04		38	7	0	0	8	0	46	7
	2004–05		34	5	0	0	0	0	34	5
	Total		108	20	1	0	8	0	117	20
Career total			555	104	25+	10	75	18	655+	132

International

Source:[13]

CIS

CIS national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	1	0
Total	1	0

Russia

Russia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	3	1
1993	6	0
1994	6	1
1995	8	3
1996	12	4
1997	2	0
1998	5	0
1999	9	6
2000	4	1
2001	9	0
2002	7	1
2003	1	0
Total	72	17

Managerial statistics

As of match played 8 December 2019

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Spartak Moscow	16 April 2009	18 March 2014	161	80	36	45	049.69
Mallorca	12 August 2014	10 February 2015	25	7	6	12	028.00
Torpedo Armavir	10 July 2015	23 June 2016	40	11	10	19	027.50
Rostov	19 December 2017	Present	67	27	20	20	040.30
Total			293	125	72	96	042.66

Honours

Club

Spartak Moscow

• Russian Top Division: 1992, 1993, 1994
• Russian Cup: 1992

Celta

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2000
• Copa del Rey runner-up: 2000-01

Individual

• Winner of the National Team Leader Prize: 2000[14]

References

1. "Valeri Karpin competition coaching record". UEFA.
2. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/cypr-intltourn03.html
3. (in Russian) Кружков А. Валерий Карпин: «Живи и радуйся!» – Sport-Express. 31 May 2005.
   - Летом 2003–го вы получили эстонский паспорт. Российское гражданство при этом сохранилось?
   - Разумеется.
4. "Спартак": Карпин – главный тренер (in Russian). 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
5. Spartak part company with Karpin. UEFA.com (18 March 2014). Retrieved on 14 July 2017.
6. "Valeri Karpin nuevo entrenador del RCD Mallorca" [Valeri Karpin new manager of RCD Mallorca] (in Spanish). Mallorca's official website. 12 August 2014. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
7. Карпин покидает «Армавир» (in Russian). FC Armavir. 23 June 2016.
8. Валерий Карпин – новый главный тренер ФК Ростов. fc-rostov.ru (in Russian). FC Rostov. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
9. Карпин — главный редактор футбольных трансляций «Матч ТВ» (in Russian). Match TV. 16 February 2017.
10. Валерий Карпин прекратил работу на телеканале "Матч ТВ". R-Sport. 24 July 2017.
11. От Карреры до Романцева. Чем занимаются дети звездных спортсменов в соцсетях. Sovsport.ru. 25 January 2017.
12. Валерий Карпин женился. Sportbox. 10 June 2017.
13. Valery Georgievich Karpin – International Appearances. Rsssf.com (31 July 2008). Retrieved on 14 July 2017.
14. https://m.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2004-12-29/1_1/

External links

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