Georgy Aleksandrovich Yartsev is a Soviet footballer who played the position of striker, at the end of his career he transferred to the coaching posts of various Soviet and Russian football clubs. For his love and dedication to the sport, he was awarded several state awards and honorary sports titles.
Georgy Yartsev is a native of the small village of Nikolsky, located ten kilometers from Kostroma. The future famous football player and coach was born on April 11, 1948 in a large family. He was brought up in an atmosphere of modesty and moderation in all that befits the post-war years. From a young age imbued with a love of football. He took his first steps in sports in the children's team of the village of Nikolsky. At the end of eight classes of the school, he entered the Kostroma Medical School, where he was educated as a feldsher. Over the years of training, he did not leave football, played for the Tekmash team from Kostroma.
Club player career
The extreme striker paved the way for his professional career through the Kostroma Spartak, which he played for as a youth from 1965 to 1967. After that he moved to the Iskra Smolensk, in which by 1970 he had 43 matches, having managed to score 13 goals. In 1970, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army, which allowed to attract the attention of the head coach of CSKA football. Yartsev was even able to play one match for this club, but was injured, after which he did not return to the squad and was returned to FC Iskra (Smolensk).
Until 1977, Yartsev was not distinguished by anything remarkable among other talented football players; he played for the teams Gomselmash and Spartak (Kostroma). The striker’s talent was fully revealed later - only by the age of thirty, when the outstanding coach of Moscow “Spartak” Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov drew attention to him, who had invited an elderly footballer to the “national team”.
It was in Spartak that the now famous Georgy Aleksandrovich showed all his football creativity. Paired with the striker “Spartak” Yuri Gavrilov was the main main attacking power of the club.
Yartsev was called the top scorer of the USSR Championship in 1978 with 19 goals, in 1979 he became the champion of the country, and a year later he won silver medals with Spartak. In total, during his career at the Moscow club Yarets, as his close friends called him, he spent 116 matches in which he scored 55 goals.
From Moscow “Spartak”, Yartsev was summoned to the Union team for high performance, but he could not gain a foothold in it for a long time. Spent only five matches, in which he did not score scored goals.
In 1981, he moved to Moscow “Locomotive”, where he played 40 matches and 12 times hit the opponent’s goal.
The last club in Yartsev’s playing career was FC Moskvich. In 1982, the biography of Yartsev as an active football player was completed, then he was awaited by the path of a coaching career.
Coaching career Yartseva
The love of football did not leave Georgy Alexandrovich even after the completion of a player’s career. The first significant club in Yartsev’s coaching career was Moscow Spartak. In it, Georgy Aleksandrovich proved himself as an already formed football expert and specialist. He trained Muscovites from 1994 to 1998. In 1996, he led Spartak to the title of Champion of Russia.
The following years he coached the Moscow “Dynamo” (1998 - 1999) and the Volgograd “Rotor” (2000).
In 2007, Yartsev coached the Moscow “Torpedo”, and his last club in the coaching career was the Moldavian “Milsami”, in which Georgy Alexandrovich spent the 2013-2014 season.
