Valeri Karpin

Valeri Karpin

Personal information
Date of birth	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

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
USSR			League		Cup		Continental		Total
1986	Sport Tallinn	Soviet Second League	10	1	-	-	-	-	10	1
1987			15	0	-	-	-	-	15	0
1988	CSKA Moscow	Soviet First League	3	0	-	-	-	-	3	0
1989	Fakel Voronezh	Soviet First League	27	7	-	-	-	-	27	7
1990	Spartak Moscow	Soviet Top League	21	0	-	-	0	0	21	0
1991			28	3	-	-	8	0	36	3
Russia			League		Russian Cup		Europe		Total
1992	Spartak Moscow	Russian Top League	25	7	-	-	4	1	29	8
1993			30	13	-	-	8	4	38	17
1994			12	5	-	-	10	5	22	10
Spain			League		Copa del Rey		Europe		Total
1994–95	Real Sociedad	Primera Division	35	3	3	0	-	-	38	3
1995–96			37	13	2	1	-	-	39	14
1996–97	Valencia		36	6	2	0	8	0	46	6
1997–98	Celta Vigo		37	4	5	1	-	-	42	5
1998–99			34	8	2	0	7	0	43	8
1999-00			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
2002–03	Real Sociedad		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	USSR		104	11	-	-	8	0	112	11
	Russia		67	25	-	-	22	10	90	35
	Spain		384	68	25	3	45	8	454	79
Career total			555	104	25	3	75	18	655	125

International

^[8]

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

Coaching record

As of 25 May 2012

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Spartak Moscow	16 March 2009	18 March 2014	122	61	27	34	50.00
Mallorca	12 August 2014	10 February 2015	25	7	6	12	28.00
Total			147	68	33	46	46.26

Honours

Club

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

References

1. "Valeri Karpin competition coaching record". UEFA.
2. Valeri Karpin FIFA
3. (Russian) Кружков А. Валерий Карпин: «Живи и радуйся!» – Sport-Express. 31.05.2005.
   - Летом 2003–го вы получили эстонский паспорт. Российское гражданство при этом сохранилось?
   - Разумеется.
4. "Спартак": Карпин - главный тренер (in Russian). 26 November 2012.
5. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=2074158.html
6. "Valeri Karpin nuevo entrenador del RCD Mallorca" [Valeri Karpin new manager of RCD Mallorca] (in Spanish). Mallorca's official website. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
7. Карпин покидает «Армавир» (in Russian). FC Armavir. 23 June 2016.
8. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/karpin-intl.html

External links

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