Valery Petrakov, biography

Valery Petrakov is a Russian and Soviet football player and coach. Acted in the position of the striker. Has the title of master of sports of international class. At the moment he heads the team of the Premier League "Tom".

Player's career

Valery Petrakov - a pupil of the Bryansk football school. In the local "Dynamo" he began his career at the age of 17. For two years he spent 29 home matches for the home team, in which he scored 1 goal.

In 1976 he received an invitation from the capital's "Locomotive". As part of this club, he made his first hat-trick in professional football. Three goals scored in the goal of "Wings of the Soviets", that meeting ended with a score of 4: 0. Valery Petrakov played for the "railroad" until 1980. In total, he played 107 matches, which scored 36 times.

In 1981, a young football player made his debut in the team of the Higher League of the USSR championship - the Moscow "Torpedo". In his first season as part of the new team, Petrakov could count on bronze medals, but at the finish of the championship the team did not count 4 points, exceeding the draw limit. As a result, finished only in the 5th place. I managed to repeat this achievement only in 1985. At this time, "avtozavodtsam" did not have 4 points to win medals. In total, in the "Torpedo" Petrakov Valery Yurievich conducts 121 matches and scores 33 goals.

In 1986 he returned to the "Locomotive", which still performs in the First League. With perestroika begins his overseas career. First in the GDR in the team of GSVG. Then also in the German "Eintracht" from Wernigerode and "Nordhausen". Completes his career in 1992 in the Swedish "Luleå".

In the USSR team

In 1978, Valery Petrakov, then a player of the Moscow "Locomotive", receives a challenge to the national team of the Soviet Union. For the national team, he will make his debut in a friendly match on April 5. The rival - the national team of Finland - could not make a worthy resistance, having suffered a crushing defeat 2:10. One scored ball was noted and Petrakov.

Once again in the national team shirt he appeared a month later in the game against Romania (1: 0). These two matches and limited his career in the team.

On the coaching bridge

Having finished the career of a professional player, Valery Petrakov becomes a football coach. His first team is the Tomsk Tom. In 2001 she performs in the First Division. For two and a half seasons of working with the club, Valery Yuryevich turns the team from a middle middle man into one of the leaders of the championship. Twice - in 2002 and 2003 - "Tom" takes bronze medals, stopping a step from a trip to the Premier League.

In 2004, Petrakov moved to the elite division of Russian football on his own. He heads the "Torpedo-Metallurg", which was later renamed "Moscow". In the first season in the Premier League Valery Petrakov leads his team in the top ten. The coach takes 9th place with the "torpedo".

After that, he changed many teams, working both in the Premier League and in the first division. Petrakov headed "Rostov", Vladikavkaz "Alania", Bryansk "Dynamo", "Khimki", Moscow's "Torpedo".

In April 2016, for the third time in his career, he returned to Tom as a mentor. The team took the third place in the first division and in the play-offs against the Krasnodar "Kuban" won a place in the Premier League (0: 1, 2: 0).

At the winter break, "Tom" left in the rank of an outsider, having won in 17 games, only 2 wins.