Oleg Romantsev
Romantsev at a game in 2012
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| Full name | Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 4 January 1954 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth |
Gavrilovsky, Ryazan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1971–1976 | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | ? | (10) | |||||||||
| 1976–1983 | Spartak Moscow | 180 | (6) | |||||||||
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| 1980–1982 | Soviet Union | 9 | (0) | |||||||||
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| 1984–1987 | Krasnaya Presnya Moscow | |||||||||||
| 1988 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | |||||||||||
| 1989–1995 | Spartak Moscow | |||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Russia | |||||||||||
| 1997–2003 | Spartak Moscow | |||||||||||
| 1998–2002 | Russia | |||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Saturn Ramenskoye | |||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Spartak Moscow (consultant) | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev (Russian: Олег Иванович Романцев, born 4 January 1954) is a Soviet/Russian former international footballer and coach. Romantsev was acclaimed for his success with Spartak Moscow, whom he led to a record eight domestic league titles, and his work with the Russian national team. He is considered by some observers to be the finest coach in the history of Russian football.
Oleg Romantsev was born on 4 January 1954 in the selo of Gavrilovsky, Ryazan Oblast, situated about 120 miles southwest of Moscow. The son of a road construction manager, Romantsev's family led a peripatetic existence, living in various places including the Kola peninsula, Altay, and Kyrgyzstan before settling in Krasnoyarsk in the early 1960s where, at age 12, the young man worked as a loader's assistant at a house-building factory on a salary of 40 roubles. Having initially harboured a passion for trains, Romantsev found himself turning to football for support after his father walked out on the family, leaving his mother to support him and his brother and sister alone.
“[As a child] I never dreamed of a professional football career. At [the] time I thought it was just a beautiful game, not a profession for which you could get money. One dream was to become a train driver. In Krasnoyarsk, we lived relatively close to the railway and I really liked watching the passing trains… racing into the distance, dreaming of someday standing at the helm. By the way, this dream has not yet passed. And today I still dream of riding in the cab, from that I think I would get great pleasure.”
Romantsev joined a local youth team named Metallurg where he played as a striker and within two years was appointed the team's captain. His performances there earned him an invite to play for Avtomobilist, another Krasnoyarsk team, at the Siberia & Far East Youth Championship where he scored seven goals in four games. He stayed with Avtomobilist after the tournament where he helped them to third place in the USSR Youth Championship.
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