Leonid Slutsky (football coach)

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Leonid Slutsky
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Slutsky with CSKA Moscow in 2016
Personal information
Full name Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky
Date of birth (1971-05-04) 4 May 1971 (age 50)
Place of birth Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Rubin Kazan (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989 Zvezda Gorodishche 13 (0)
Teams managed
2000 Olimpia Volgograd
2003–2004 Uralan Elista
2005–2007 Moscow
2008–2009 Krylia Sovetov
2009–2016 CSKA Moscow
2015–2016 Russia
2017 Hull City
2018–2019 Vitesse
2019– Rubin Kazan
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Eastern Slavic naming convention, the patronymic is Viktorovich and the family name is Slutsky.

Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky (Russian: Леонид Викторович Слуцкий; born 4 May 1971) is the current head coach of Rubin Kazan and a former professional football player. He has managed Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia, Hull City, and Vitesse.

Playing career[]

Slutsky’s professional playing career ended aged 19, after he injured his knee falling from a tree.[1]

Coaching career[]

Early career[]

Slutsky became head coach of FC Moscow on 14 July 2005[2] until the end of the 2007 season.[3] His final match as head coach of Moscow was a 3–1 win against Luch-Energiya Vladivostok on 11 November 2007.[4] Slutsky became head coach of Krylia Sovetov on 1 January 2008.[5]

CSKA Moscow[]

On 26 October 2009[6] he replaced Juande Ramos to become the head coach of CSKA Moscow.[7] In December 2009, under Slutsky, CSKA reached the knock-out stage of the Champions League for the first time in the club's history,[8] before being knocked out by José Mourinho's Inter Milan, the eventual champions, in the quarter-finals.

Two years later, the achievement was repeated, when CSKA defeated Inter Milan at the San Siro in the last game of the group stage.[9]

Towards the 2012–13 season, Slutsky strengthened the team defense and re-organized the attack, which helped the team set a record of 15 games without being scored against, and to win all the games where the team scored first, resulting in a title.[10]

On 7 August 2015, it was announced that Slutsky would take over the Russian national football team in place of the outgoing Fabio Capello.[11] The contract was until the end of UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying.[11] Slutsky won all of his qualifying games and got Russia into UEFA Euro 2016.[12]

On 14 November 2015, Russia beat Portugal 1–0 in a friendly game and Slutsky repeated Pavel Sadyrin's achievement of winning his five first games as the head coach of Russia.[13]

On 21 May 2016, CSKA beat Rubin Kazan 1–0 to secure the title ahead of surprise challengers Rostov. This gave Slutsky his third title in four years with the Moscow club.

On 20 June 2016, Slutsky decided to resign from being the coach of the Russian team after a 0–3 loss to Wales, which meant Russia finished bottom of their Euro 2016 group.[14] He resigned on 25 June.[15]

On 6 December 2016, Slutsky announced his resignation as CSKA manager. His last game was a Champions League group stage match against Tottenham Hotspur the following day.[16]

Later career[]

On 9 June 2017, Slutsky was appointed manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.[17] On 3 December 2017, he left the club by mutual consent after a run of bad results.[18]

On 12 March 2018, it was announced that he would replace Henk Fraser as the new manager of Eredivisie side Vitesse Arnhem, for the start of the 2018–19 season. Under his tenure, Vitesse entered the draw for the third qualifying round of the Europa League, being drawn against seeded FC Basel. The two legs were played at home on 9 August and away on 16 August 2018. Vitesse lost 2–0 on aggregate, resulting in their elimination from the Europa League. At the domestic level, Vitesse finished fifth in the Eredivisie that season. After five lost games in a row, he decided to quit with his job as manager from Vitesse Arnhem at the end of November 2019.[19]

On 19 December 2019, he signed a 5-year contract with Russian Premier League club FC Rubin Kazan.[20] In his second season with Rubin, he led the club to 4th place in the 2020–21 Russian Premier League, securing UEFA competition qualification for the first time since the 2015–16 season.

TV commenting career[]

Slutsky has commented on football games many times on Russian TV. His commentating career was disrupted after he repeated the word "Navalny" following his co-commentator's using the term навальный футбол (navalny futbol); the term навальный (navalny) is a term best translated as "overwhelming" or "storming", but is also the surname of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. The incident led to his sacking from the TV pundit role at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[21]

Coaching statistics[]

As of match played 27 August 2021
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Moscow 14 July 2005[2] 11 November 2007[3][4] 89 39 26 24 120 102 +18 043.82
Krylia Sovetov 1 January 2008[5] 26 October 2009[6] 59 22 19 18 77 61 +16 037.29
CSKA Moscow 26 October 2009[7] 7 December 2016 287 160 57 70 474 284 +190 055.75
Russia 7 August 2015[11] 20 June 2016[14] 13 6 2 5 23 17 +6 046.15
Hull City 9 June 2017[17] 3 December 2017[18] 21 4 7 10 34 39 −5 019.05
Vitesse 12 March 2018 29 November 2019 62 27 15 20 114 90 +24 043.55
Rubin Kazan 19 December 2019 Present 51 24 12 15 61 49 +12 047.06
Total 582 282 138 162 903 642 +261 048.45

Honours[]

CSKA Moscow

References[]

  1. ^ Charles, Chris (11 November 2009). "Quotes of the week". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "FK Moskva » Manager history". Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Blokhin takes command at Moskva". UEFA. 14 December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "FK Moskva » Fixtures & Results 2007/2008". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Krylia Sovetov » Manager history". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "CSKA appoint Slutski as Ramos departs". UEFA. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Juande Ramos sacked by CSKA Moscow after six weeks in job". The Telegraph. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  8. ^ "CSKA earn their rest in Istanbul". UEFA.com. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  9. ^ "CSKA Moscow through after late winner downs Inter". uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  10. ^ "7 лучших тренеров российского сезона" (in Russian). Sports.ru. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Russia appoint CSKA Moscow's Leonid Slutsky as coach on short-term deal". The Guardian. Associated Press. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Сергей Иванов: "Слуцкий должен до лета совмещать посты. Потом РФС нужно будет вести переговоры о выкупе его контракта"" (in Russian). Sports.ru. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  13. ^ "Слуцкий одержал пятую подряд победу во главе сборной России и повторил достижение Садырина" (in Russian). Sports.ru. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b "Russia coach Leonid Slutsky hints at resignation after thrashing by Wales". ESPN FC. ESPN. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  15. ^ Crellin, Mark (25 June 2016). "Russia coach Leonid Slutsky resigns after Euro 2016 exit". Sky Sports. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  16. ^ Леонид Слуцкий покидает ПФК ЦСКА (in Russian). PFC CSKA Moscow. 6 December 2016.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b "Tigers Confirm Leonid Slutsky As Head Coach". Hull City A.F.C. 9 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  18. ^ "Sloetski stapt op als trainer van Vitesse". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  19. ^ "ЛЕОНИД СЛУЦКИЙ – ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР "РУБИНА"" (in Russian). FC Rubin Kazan. 19 December 2019.
  20. ^ "Ex-Hull City boss Leonid Slutsky 'sacked' from Russia World Cup TV pundit role". 21 June 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
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