Yuri Gavrilov

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Men's Football
Bronze 1980 Moscow Team Competition
Yuri Gavrilov
Personal information
Full name Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov
Date of birth May 3, 1953 (1953-05-03) (age 55)
Place of birth    Setun, USSR
Playing position retired
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1970-1971
1972-1976
1977-1985
1986
1987, 1989-1991
1992
Iskra Moscow
Dynamo Moscow
Spartak Moscow
Dnipro
Lokomotiv Moscow
Asmaral
   
National team
1978-1985 USSR 46 (10)
Teams managed
FC Agro Chişinău

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Гаврилов) (born May 3, 1953 in Setun) is a Russian football manager and a former midfielder who played for Dynamo Moscow and Spartak Moscow. He made 46 appearances for the USSR national football team and scored 10 goals. His creative skills are immortalized by Konstantin Beskov's famous phrase "If you don't know what to do with the ball, pass it to Gavrilov".

[edit] Career

Gavrilov's football career started in Iskra Moscow football school when he was 7. He was invited by school director who saw Yury playing with other kids on the Iskra stadium. When he was 19, Konstantin Beskov took him to Dinamo Moscow from Iskra amateur team. But there was an expensive number of quality players in 70's Dinamo, and Gavrilov couldn't find the permanent place in Dinamo squad.

Gavrilov followed Konstantin Beskov into Spartak Moscow in 1977. Gavrilov acvieve the key playmaker role in new Spartak Moscow team built up by Beskov. After being winger in Dinamo, Gavrilov's new role in Spartak team let him show his best abilities and proved himself one of the all-time best Soviet football creative midfielders.

While he made a lot of good passes, he scored a lot of goals as well. Gavrilov was Soviet Top League top goalscorer twice, scored 140 times during his career.