Yuri Gavrilov

Football manager infobox
playername = Yuri Gavrilov


fullname = Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1953|5|3|mf=y
cityofbirth = Setun
countryofbirth = USSR
currentclub =
position = retired
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1970-1971 1972-1976 1977-1985 1986 1987, 1989-1991 1992
clubs = Iskra Moscow Dynamo Moscow Spartak Moscow Dnipro Lokomotiv Moscow Asmaral
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1978-1985
nationalteam = USSR
nationalcaps(goals) = 46 (10)
manageryears =
managerclubs = FC Agro Chişinău

Yuri Vasilyevich Gavrilov ( _ru. 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".

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.