Gavriil Dmitrievich Katschalin

Gavriil Kachalin
Personnel
Surname	Gavriil Dmitrievich Katschalin
birthday	January 4th jul. / January 17, 1911 greg.
place of birth	Moscow ,  Russian Empire
date of death	May 23, 1995
Place of death	Moscow ,  Russia
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1928–?	Wolny Trud Kazan
? –1935	Dynamo Gomel
1936-1942	Dynamo Moscow	36 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1945-1948	Trudowyje Reserwy Moscow
1949-1952	Moscow locomotive
1954	USSR (assistant coach)
1955-1958	USSR
1960–1962	USSR
1963	Paxtakor Tashkent
1964-1965	Dinamo Tbilisi
1965	USSR U-21
1966-1968	Olympic selection of the USSR
1968-1970	USSR
1971-1972	Dinamo Tbilisi
1973-1974	Dynamo Moscow
1975	Paxtakor Tashkent
1 Only league games are given.

Gavriil Kachalin ( Russian Гавриил Дмитриевич Качалин ; born January 4 ^{. Jul} / 17th January  1911 ^greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 23. May 1995 ) was a Russian - Soviet football player and coach . His career as a player was ended early by World War II . Katschalin became known as the long-time coach of the Soviet national team, which took part in three World Cup finals under his leadership and won the gold medal at both the European Championship in 1960 and the Olympic football tournament in 1956 .

Career as a player

Katschalin began his career as a player in Kazan in 1928 , but only played for a top Soviet club in 1936 after moving to the capital club Dynamo . With this, the defensive midfielder was able to win the championship in 1937 and 1940, as well as the USSR Cup in 1937, his career ended early with the start of the Great Patriotic War . During Kachalin's active time, the Soviet Union was unable to participate in any official international matches because of a boycott by FIFA, which was connected with a threat of Fifa exclusion in the event of a violation, so that it only came in an unofficial selection game against the Basque football team.

Coaching career

Immediately after the war he started working as a trainer in Moscow. His first important club was Lokomotiv Moscow from 1949 , but could not lead the club out of the midfield of the Soviet league. At the turn of the year 1954/55 he was appointed coach of the Soviet national team for the first time in order to form a competitive team for the 1956 Olympic tournament. After the Olympic victory, the selection was not dissolved, as it was after the failure in 1952. Instead, the USSR decided to take part in world championships for the first time and Katschalin was further entrusted with the management of the team. After the successful qualifying round , Katschalin's team was able to leave England and the third from 1954, Austria , behind in the group stage . Nevertheless, Katschalin resigned from his coaching position, but was recalled to office shortly before the finals of the first European championship in 1960 . After winning the title, he was again entrusted with the formation of a team for the following World Cup in 1962 , but resigned after the final round-off in the quarter-finals.

This time he did not move to the Soviet Ministry of Sports, but was the club coach of the promoted to the Soviet elite league Paxtakor Tashkent , which he led to a disastrous last place with eight points behind relegation. Nevertheless, he was appointed coach of Dinamo Tbilisi , which he was able to lead to the Soviet championship for the first time the following year and only the second non-Moscow team after Dynamo Kiev .

In 1965 he was again an association coach, first for a year as the head coach of the youth national team, from 1966 to 1968 as the person in charge of the Olympic team, but despite the narrowly failed qualification for the finals of the Olympic football tournament in 1968, after the European Championships in the same year, he was promoted back to head coach of the A-selection . After the third World Cup tournament in 1970 , in which Katschalin was able to lead the USSR to the quarter-finals, where he failed, he resigned for the third and last time from the post of Soviet national coach.

He became a club coach again and was able to win the bronze medal of the Soviet championship three times in a row in the following three years with two different teams (1971, 1972 with Dinamo Tiflis, 1973 with FK Dynamo Moscow ). In his last assignment as a coach of a club team in 1975 at Paxtakor Tashkent, however, he had to accept the second descent with the club in his second engagement.

After the end of his career as a club coach, Katschalin became director of the Dynamo Moscow football school and an official in youth football training in the USSR.

Katschalin was also a member of the technical committee of FIFA .

Web links

Commons : Gawriil Dmitrijewitsch Katschalin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography of Katschalin on rusteam.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Titeev: " Glawny reschissjor sovetskowo futbola ( Memento of April 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )", championat.ru of January 17, 2008 (visited April 1, 2008, in Russian).
2. ↑ Sorin Arotăriţei: " Soviet Football: Season 1963 ", rsssf.com (English, December 19, 2002; visited May 7, 2008).