Where is Goncharenko? Football coach Viktor Goncharenko: biography. Football CSKA tied with Victoria Plyzen results of the matchday of the Champions League

/ Vladimir Sharpilo

CSKA Moscow announced on Twitter that a Belarusian specialist has been appointed to the post of head coach Victor Goncharenko. Goncharenko was part of the coaching staff Slutsky in the 2015/16 championship season, and in the first half of this year he led Ufa.

Dossier

Viktor Mikhailovich Goncharenko is a Belarusian football player and coach.

A student of the Youth Sports School of the city of Khoiniki and the Minsk football club RUOR (Republican School of Olympic Reserve).

From 1995 to 1997 he played in RUOR, after which he moved to the Belarusian football club "BATE" (Borisov), where he played from 1998 to 2002, becoming during this time, together with the team, twice the champion of Belarus (1999, 2002), twice silver (1998, 2000) and once bronze (2001) medalist.

He ended his playing career at the age of 25 due to a serious injury received during training - a ruptured cruciate ligament in the left knee joint.

In 2004 he graduated from the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture with a degree in football coaching.

As a head coach, he worked with the following teams: BATE (Borisov, Belarus), Kuban (Krasnodar) and Ural (Ekaterinburg).

BATE

From 2004 to 2006 he worked at BATE as a coach of the club's reserve team. In 2007, he became the senior coach of the BATE main team, and on November 13, 2007, he became the head coach.

In 2008, BATE reached the group stage of the Champions League - this is a rather rare and important achievement for Belarusian football. Goncharenko became the youngest head coach in the history of this tournament. At the end of the year, he became the winner of the national competition “Triumph” in the “Trainer of the Year” category. Also ranked 17th in the ranking of the best club coaches of 2008 according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

In 2011, Goncharenko led BATE to the group stage of the Champions League for the second time. His team was accompanied by Barcelona, Milan and Victoria (Pilsen, Czech Republic). BATE failed to win a single victory in this group.

In 2012, BATE, under the leadership of Goncharenko, reached the group stage of the Champions League for the third time, where they met Bayern, Valencia and the French Lille. This rally was the most successful: on September 19, 2012, BATE won for the first time in the group stage of the Champions League, beating Lille away (3:1), and on October 2 in Minsk they sensationally defeated Bayern (3:1). As a result, BATE took 3rd place in the group and reached the 1/16 finals of the Europa League, where they lost to the Turkish Fenerbahce (0:0, 0:1).

"Kuban"

On October 12, 2013, Viktor Goncharenko, who was one of the candidates for the post of head coach of Kuban, left the post of head coach of BATE. On the same day, he signed a contract with Kuban for 4.5 years with a salary of about a million euros per year. On October 20, Goncharenko made his debut as coach of Kuban

On November 13, 2014, the management of Kuban decided to dismiss Goncharenko “due to a lack of rigidity in communicating with football players.” At the same time, the team, having far from the strongest roster and modest (relative to other clubs) financial capabilities, was part of the championship leader group.

On June 14, 2015, Viktor Goncharenko was appointed as the new head coach of FC Ural (Ekaterinburg). The 38-year-old specialist signed a contract for three years. In 6 matches under the leadership of Goncharenko in the 2015/16 Russian Championship, Ural won 1 victory, drew 2 times and suffered 3 defeats, occupying 10th place. On September 1, FC Ural issued a statement about the termination of cooperation by mutual consent due to differences in views on the future path of development of the club. Moreover, this happened on the eve of the match with Terek Grozny under unclear circumstances. A number of media outlets suggested that the match between the clubs could have been fixed. According to these assumptions, Goncharenko found out about this and resigned from his post, not wanting to participate in such a game. However, club officials rejected the accusations of a “strange match”, and the “fixed” nature of the game was not proven.

CSKA

On September 13, 2015, Goncharenko joined the CSKA coaching staff, headed by Leonid Slutsky, where he took up the post of senior coach.

FC "Ufa"

On June 6, 2016, he was appointed to the post of head coach of the Ufa club. The employment agreement is for two years with the possibility of extending the contract for another season.

Achievements

Champion of Belarus: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Winner of the Belarusian Cup: 2010
Winner of the Belarusian Super Cup: 2010, 2011, 2013
Champion of Russia: 2016.
Best coach of Belarus: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014.

He ended his playing career at the age of 25. After this, he entered the BGUFK, which he graduated in 2004, receiving a specialty in “football coach”.

From 2004 to 2006 he worked at BATE as a coach of the club's reserve team. In 2007, he became the senior coach of the BATE main team, and on November 13, 2007, he became the head coach. Has a UEFA license of category “B” (received in December 2005), category “A”, and also from December 24, 2010 category Pro .

In 2008, BATE reached the group stage of the Champions League, and Goncharenko became the youngest head coach in the history of this tournament. Success in the international arena - the club reached the main round of the tournament for the first time, in which it tied with Juventus - 2:2, 0:0 and Zenit in St. Petersburg - 1:1 - was supported by a victory in the Belarusian championship. At the end of the year, he became the winner of the national competition “Triumph” in the “Trainer of the Year” category. Also ranked 17th in the 2008 list of the best club coaches by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

In 2009, Goncharenko was unable to lead BATE to the group stage of the Champions League, losing in the 3rd qualifying round to the Latvian Ventspils (0:1, 2:1). In the Europa League playoffs, BATE beat the Bulgarian Litex (0:1, 4:0) and reached the group round, where the team took 3rd place.

On December 15, 2009, information appeared that Goncharenko could head the Russian club Kuban, but on the same day a refutation was received from BATE.

In 2010, BATE under the leadership of Goncharenko also did not make it to the group stage of the Champions League. The Danish “Copenhagen” (0:0, 2:3) stood in the way of the Borisov team in the 3rd qualifying round. In the Europa League, BATE's opponents were the Ukrainian Dynamo, the Dutch AZ and the Moldavian Sheriff.

On October 29, 2010, the management of the Moscow club Lokomotiv announced Goncharenko as a candidate for the post of head coach of the team. However, Goncharenko remained in BATE and, together with the club, managed to overcome the group stage of the Europa League, taking 2nd place in the group and for the first time in history leading the Belarusian team to the 1/16 of this tournament, where BATE lost to the French Paris Saint-Germain (2: 2, 0:0).

In 2011, Goncharenko led BATE to the group stage of the Champions League for the second time. His team was accompanied by Barcelona, Milan and Victoria. BATE failed to win a single victory in this group.

On May 23, 2012, rumors appeared that Goncharenko had become a contender for the post of head coach of CSKA Moscow.

On June 4, 2012, it became known that the Belarusian coach refused to head Karpaty Lviv.

In 2012, BATE, under the leadership of Goncharenko, reached the group stage of the Champions League for the third time, where they met Bayern, Valencia and Lille. This rally was the most successful: on September 19, 2012, BATE won for the first time in the group stage of the Champions League, beating Lille away (3:1), and on October 2 in Minsk they sensationally defeated Bayern (3:1). As a result, BATE took 3rd place in the group and reached the 1/16 finals of the Europa League, where they lost to the Turkish Fenerbahce (0:0, 0:1).

"Kuban"

The start of the new season for Kuban turned out to be very successful - the team went on a nine-game undefeated streak, losing only in the 10th round match to the current champion CSKA. On November 13, 2014, the management of Kuban decided to dismiss Goncharenko “due to a lack of rigidity in communicating with football players.” At that time, after 13 rounds, Kuban was in 5th place in the Russian Championship with 24 points, only 1 point behind second place. Leonid Kuchuk became the new coach of Kuban, with whom the team won one victory in 15 matches of the Russian championship, but reached the final of the Russian Cup, where they lost to Lokomotiv in extra time.

"Ural"

On June 14, 2015, Viktor Goncharenko was appointed to the post of head coach of Ural. The 38-year-old specialist signed a contract for three years. On August 25, 2015, reports appeared that Goncharenko left Ural of his own free will. The information appeared before the home match of the 7th round of the Russian Championship against Terek. In 6 matches under the leadership of Goncharenko in the 2015/16 Russian Championship, Ural won 1 victory, drew 2 times and suffered 3 defeats, occupying 10th place. The next day, the club denied Goncharenko's resignation. On September 1, FC Ural issued a statement about the termination of cooperation by mutual consent due to differences in views on the future path of development of the club.

CSKA

On September 13, 2015, Goncharenko joined the coaching staff of CSKA, headed by Leonid Slutsky, where he took the post of senior coach. Before this, he was offered the post of vice-president of BATE. On May 21, 2016, the CSKA coaching staff, after defeating Rubin with a score of 1:0, brought the team the championship title, and soon after that Goncharenko left the team, wanting to continue working independently.

"Ufa"

On June 6, 2016, he was appointed to the post of head coach of the Ufa club. The employment agreement was for two years with the possibility of extending the contract for another season.

On October 14, 2016, he became the first head coach in the history of the Russian Premier League to comment on the events on the field directly during his team’s match - during a live broadcast of the CSKA - Ufa match. Under the leadership of Goncharenko, Ufa demonstrated confident play and by the winter break was able to gain a foothold in the middle of the standings, and also reach the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup. In December 2016, Goncharenko left the club.

CSKA

On December 12, 2016, Goncharenko returned to CSKA, replacing Leonid Slutsky as head coach. The contract of the Belarusian specialist is valid for two years. Goncharenko's first match as head coach of CSKA ended in a goalless draw with Zenit. Under the leadership of Goncharenko, CSKA had a good part of the season, losing only one match in the Europa League until the end of the championship. In the 1/16 finals, CSKA beat the Serbian Red Star with difficulty, and in the 1/8 they defeated the French Lyon. CSKA's opponent in the quarterfinals was one of the tournament favorites, London Arsenal, to which the army team lost with a total score of 3:6. Nevertheless, this European Cup campaign was the best for the team in recent years.

Outstanding football coach Viktor Goncharenko, at the age of 39, took over the leadership of CSKA. In the past - brilliant successes in other teams: BATE, Kuban. However, this specialist never stops there...

Victor Goncharenko, photo

Short playing career

Viktor Mikhailovich Goncharenko was born on June 10, 1977 in the small town of Khoiniki (Belarus). The boy studied straight A's until another priority appeared in his life - football. Victor contracted football fever in the seventh grade from his father, an avid fan.

The boy played with the ball both at home and on the street. At the same time, he began to show leadership qualities: in the yard, Victor commanded even the older boys.

After the Chernobyl disaster, the city was partially contaminated; dosimeters hung in many houses. My father worked as an accident liquidator. In 1993, my father died. The young man went to Minsk, to the boarding school of the RUOR children's and youth sports school.

The football player's career turned out to be bright, but short-lived. The football biography of Viktor Goncharenko began in 1995. Since 1998, he has already played in BATE - this is one of the best clubs in the country. As part of this team, Victor twice became the champion of Belarus.

Goncharenko's football role is defender. Throughout his career, Victor scored only a few goals, one of them an own goal. However, in other cases the footballer acted with great reliability. He played tough: Victor’s attackers were afraid. The defender's trademark was a hard and risky tackle. Unfortunately, Goncharenko rarely talked to the doctor - the doctor would have told him how such tackles would end.

In the fall of 2002, Goncharenko was 25 years old - for a football player this is the prime of his life. During training, while performing a “signature tackle”, the BATE defender suffered a torn cruciate ligament. Goncharenko survived five operations on the knee joint. He could not return to his playing career...

BATE coach

Becoming a champion twice is already a good result. And yet, the successes of Goncharenko the coach turned out to be much more significant. He began studying immediately after the injury, without wasting any time, and already in 2004 he was working in the BATE structure. Viktor Goncharenko, at the age of 27, headed the youth team and became almost the youngest coach in the entire post-Soviet space. Already in 2007, Viktor Goncharenko became the head coach of BATE. He will hold his post for six long years. These years will become an entire era in the history of the team.

It’s paradoxical, but true: the early end of his playing career helped Victor quickly realize his role as a coach. How old is Viktor Goncharenko now? He's not forty. And what coach at this age has so many credentials?

The club won the Belarusian championships six times in a row (from 2008 to 2013). However, the Belarusian team played the most glorious and difficult matches in the Champions League.

The Belarusians were unlucky there. In the group stage of the League, they almost always faced star opponents: PSG, Juventus, Barcelona. However, the players were not timid, they resisted, and even took points from the giants. The most successful European Cup season for Goncharenko and BATE came in 2012, when the team was able to beat Bayern with a score of 3:1 and reached the 1/16 finals of the Europa League. It's hard to expect more from a club with a modest budget, from a minor national league. Let us remind you: in the ranking of European football associations (May 2017), Belarus is only in 17th place. Russia, by comparison, is sixth.

In 2008, Goncharenko became the youngest coach in the history of the Champions League and in the same season took an honorable 17th place in the world ranking of club coaches. The BATE coach was 31 years old at the time: usually at that age people play football. It happened that a mentor in a team uniform was confused with a football player...

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In 2013, Goncharenko switched to Russian Premier League teams. Russia has long been interested in specialists from neighboring countries. Already in 2009, Victor was considered as one of the candidates for the post of head coach of Kuban. True, then Goncharenko remained in BATE. He led Kuban much later, in 2013-2014.

Goncharenko went to Krasnodar with his small team of specialists. He was assisted by Vadim Skripchenko and Ruslan Zubik. Later, Skripchenko became an independent coach of Premier League teams, and Ruslan Zubik still works under Goncharenko at CSKA.

Before Goncharenko, Kuban was not performing brilliantly. The new coach quickly brought the club to fifth place in the standings. The team went undefeated for nine matches in a row. After such successes, Viktor Goncharenko was unexpectedly fired: as the club management explained, for an excessively “soft” attitude towards the players. Apparently this is just an excuse. We do not know the true reason for the dismissal of a successful specialist. In any case, the Kuban management made a big mistake then: under the next coach, the team entered a losing streak.

In 2014, after his dismissal, Goncharenko took a break. He refused the leadership of the Belarusian national team and a number of other offers. In 2015, Victor led the Ural team. Goncharenko did not work at the Yekaterinburg club for long. The day before the match with Terek, Victor suddenly flew away from Yekaterinburg, and a little later his resignation was announced. There are good reasons to believe that the Belarusian specialist left the team due to his unwillingness to participate in a fixed match. The club's leaders wanted to confront Goncharenko with a fait accompli, but the coach showed integrity and left (naturally, all this information cannot receive official confirmation).

In 2015-2016, Victor worked for CSKA. In 2016, the army team became champions not without the participation of Viktor Mikhailovich. This experience will be very useful for the Belarusian specialist later, when he manages CSKA on his own.

The two coaches have had a friendly relationship for many years. They met in 2006: at that time Goncharenko was interning in the Moscow team, coached by Leonid Slutsky.

In the fall of 2016, Goncharenko took charge of Ufa and showed very good results there. The team no longer fought for survival and consolidated in the middle of the standings.

Finally, in December 2016, Viktor Goncharenko became the head coach of CSKA. When Slutsky was fired, the team was in a deep crisis. Personnel shortages and financial difficulties made themselves known. It was unclear whether CSKA would be able to compete for any trophies!

Under Goncharenko, the club again began to show consistently high results. The defense played especially reliably - the army team's strong point. This year CSKA will no longer become the champion of Russia, but has a very good chance of taking second place.

Coach as a person

Victor is stern but fair. He is punctual in German and fines a player for being late for training. And if a football player makes serious mistakes during exercises, then the coach can kick him out of training. If the first half of an important match ends in failure, water bottles and other objects fly around the locker room (as the players say). All this has a positive effect on the players! After all, Goncharenko is a born leader and has a great sense of the psychology of his athletes and knows how to motivate. In addition, he can always joke and defuse the situation.

Viktor Goncharenko often trains in European countries, trying to adopt the best from the West. Two seasons before BATE’s famous victory over Bayern, the BATE coach underwent an internship at the same Bayern... The Belarusian also went to Roma. He did not neglect Russian clubs either. All this brought not only experience, but also extensive connections in the football community.

At the same time, Goncharenko admits that he still does not know English very well and is only going to master it perfectly.

The coach is distinguished by great personal modesty. If Victor is congratulated on his victories, the specialist reminds that the success of the club is not the merit of one coach. This is the work of tens and hundreds of people.

Goncharenko's favorite football team is Manchester United, his favorite football player is Ronaldo, the most respected coaches are and.

Viktor Goncharenko’s motto is to do more tomorrow than you do today. The coach says that he does not know how to work carelessly and completes any task.

Family and hobbies

Victor Goncharenko's wife's name is Margarita. Victor and Margarita have a schoolboy son. The coach tries to devote all his free time to his family. It doesn’t turn out very well: Victor is a typical workaholic and can think about the training process even while talking with his wife. True, they live in perfect harmony. And the coach adores his son.

In his spare time, Goncharenko likes to watch hockey and Formula 1. In his childhood, Victor played both hockey and volleyball. He took up football only because there was a strong football school in his hometown. Otherwise, a talented hockey player could appear in Belarus.

Viktor Goncharenko's height is 171 centimeters. Weight - about 70 kilograms.

Goncharenko Viktor Mikhailovich is a former famous Belarusian football player, today he is the head coach of CSKA Moscow.

Player's career and serious injury

Viktor Goncharenko began his playing career in 1995 in Belarus. He played 3 seasons in the local championship, but the footballer gained fame by moving to the national champion BATE. The career of the talented defender was developing rapidly, but at the age of 25 he was forced to retire after a banal injury received in training. Doctors diagnosed Victor with a ruptured knee ligament. The damage turned out to be serious and incompatible with the ability to play football.

Viktor Goncharenko - BATE coach

The former defender became the youngest coach in the post-Soviet space. He headed the youth team of the club from Borisov at the age of 27. Later, the young specialist received a Pro category license and in 2007 became the head coach of his native BATE.

In 2008, Viktor Goncharenko became the youngest manager to lead his team to a Champions League match. The strongest European teams (Juventus, Real Madrid and Zenit) were included in the group of players from Borisov. Viktor Goncharenko’s team was able not only to provide decent resistance to more eminent opponents, but also took points from all representatives of the quartet. Predictably, the Spanish and Italian teams left the group that year, but the successes of BATE and its head coach were noted at the highest level in Belarus. Goncharenko became coach of the year in his country, and according to the International Federation of Football Statistics, he took the high 17th place among the best club coaches in the world.

The next season, the team from Borisov was left without the Champions League; instead, the Bulgarian Litex went there. However, the credit of trust in his own pupil was so great that resignation was out of the question. Moreover, in the domestic championship, BATE continued to dominate its rivals.

Rumors and reality

The successes of the Belarusian specialist could not go unnoticed, and such headlines could increasingly be found in the press: “Viktor Goncharenko is the coach of Kuban”, “Goncharenko is the main contender for the coaching position of CSKA”, “Goncharenko and Karpaty signed a preliminary agreement”, etc. .

However, despite the rumors, Goncharenko continued to lead the Belarusian team, and in 2010 he created a new sensation with it. For the first time in its history, BATE overcame the group stage of the most prestigious European tournament and reached the 1/16 finals. Fate was not further favorable to the Belarusians and prepared the French PSG as their opponent in the playoffs. It should be noted that the Parisians advanced to the next round only thanks to an away goal. The following year, BATE again found itself in the group stage of the Champions League. The rivals of the Belarusian team were regulars of the prestigious tournament and leaders of European football: Barcelona, Milan and the champion of the Czech Republic Victoria. During the coaching work of Viktor Goncharenko, BATE managed to try in the Europa League, where they failed to overcome the group stage.

In Russia

The first club in the Russian stage of his coaching career was Krasnodar “Kuban”. Viktor Goncharenko created a small miracle here too, bringing the eternal middle peasant of the Premier League to fifth place (the gap from second place, which gives the right to be classified into the Champions League, was only one point). Against this background, the decision of the Kuban management to dismiss the coach with the wording “does not communicate strictly enough with the team players” looked very strange.

Viktor Goncharenko, CSKA and Slutsky

In transit through Ural, the specialist ultimately ended up in CSKA Moscow. He came to the army camp under the patronage of the head coach, Leonid Slutsky, and was supposed to become his assistant. After the championship season of 2015-2016, Viktor Goncharenko decided to take up coaching on his own again and headed Ufa. Under the leadership of the Belarusian coach, the club showed confident play in the championship and in the national cup.

Since December 2016, Viktor Goncharenko has been the coach of CSKA. He returned to the Moscow team just six months after leaving due to the resignation of Leonid Slutsky.

Full name: Goncharenko Viktor Mikhailovich
Date of Birth: June 10, 1977.
Place of birth: Khoiniki, Gomel region, Belarusian SSR, USSR

Viktor Goncharenko - the story of the Belarusian coach

Goncharenko began studying the basics of football back in Khoiniki at the local youth sports school, and later at the Minsk ROUR. His professional career as a player took place in such clubs as MPTsK-2, MPTsK-96, RUOR and BATE. On October 3, 2002, during training, Victor received an injury, which subsequently put an end to the playing career of the future coach. At that time the player was 25 years old.

In 2004 he graduated from BSUPC and received a specialty as a football coach. Until 2006 he coached the reserve team of BATE Borisov. In 2007, he became the senior coach of the BATE main team, and on November 13, 2007, he became the head coach.

In 2008, he led BATE to the main round of the Champions League and became the youngest coach in the history of the European Cup. At the end of the season, he wins the Triumph competition in the Coach of the Year category. In the ranking of the best club mentors in 2008, he ranks 17th. Until 2010, a specialist from BATE was no longer able to overcome the Champions League qualification. In the 2010 season, he takes BATE out of the Europa League group, but loses on aggregate to the French PSG. In 2011, for the second time, he managed to bring the Belarusian club to the main stage of the Champions League, and in 2012, the specialist repeated this achievement.

On October 12, 2013, Viktor Mikhailovich signed a contract with Kuban Krasnodar for a period of 4.5 years. The new chapter in Victor’s career began to take shape quite successfully. The team under Goncharenko won 9 victories in a row. But on November 13, 2014, the management of the Krasnodar club dismissed him, explaining their decision by the fact that he was not harsh when communicating with the players.

On June 14, 2015, Mikhailovich signed a contract with the Russian Ural, but after working in this position for several months, he left the club.

On September 13, 2015, he served as senior coach on Leonid Slutsky’s coaching staff at CSKA Moscow. Together with the team he wins the championship of the 2015/16 season.

Later he leaves the club, expressing a desire to work independently and take the position of head coach. After that, he headed the Ufa football club, but after working there for a little less than 3 months, he left the team.