Valery Kechinov

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Valery Kechinov
Full name	Valery Kechinov
Date of birth	August 5, 1974 (age 32)
Place of birth	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Height	1.79 m
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1993 1993-2000 2001 2002-2004	Pakhtakor Tashkent Spartak Mosocw Saturn Shinnik Yaroslavl	38 (30) 115 (36) 24 (9) 54 (11)
National team²
1994–1998	Russia	6 (2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of March 27, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Valery Kechinov is a former Russia international footballer, who spent the majority of his playing career at Spartak Moscow.

Kechinov was born in Uzbekistan and started his professional career at local Pakhtakor, with who he won the Uzbek League title, before moving to Moscow.
With Spartak, Kechinov won six Russian Premier League titles and one Cup. In 2003, after falling out with Oleg Romantsev, Kechinov spent almost entire season on the bench and at the end of the season signed a deal with Saturn Ramenskoe. Kechinov wasn't the only players to have problems with Spartak management, earlier other star players like Ilia Tsymbalar, Andrey Tikhonov and Evgeni Bushmanov were forced to leave the team for similar reasons.

After a brief spell at Saturn, Kechinov moved to Shinnik, where he spent the next three years of his career, until retiring in 2004.