Yuri Andreevich Morozov

Memorial plaque for Yuri Andreevich Morozov in Saint Petersburg

Yuri Andreevich Morozov ( Russian Юрий Андреевич Морозов ; born May 13, 1934 in Sinyavino , Leningrad Oblast , † February 16, 2005 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian football player and coach.

Morozov played for Zenit Leningrad from 1953 to 1958 . Other clubs were Admiralteyets Leningrad and Dynamo Leningrad , where he also wore the armband.

In 1965, the midfielder, who had also been appointed to the B national team of the Soviet Union, ended his active career and trained the youth at Zenit. Between September 1964 and December 1966 he was an aspirant at the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture. Morosow taught football and hockey at the Lesgaft Academy for Physical Exercise from 1967 to 1974 , where he was dean for football studies.

In 1974 he took on an assistant coaching position for the Soviet national soccer team, which he held until 1990. From 1986 he was assistant to Valery Lobanovsky . Her greatest success was second place at the 1988 European Championship.

In October 1977 he was appointed head coach of Zenit Leningrad. Morosow held this position until December 1982, when he and the team achieved third place in the state championship and thus the best placement since the club was founded.

In December 1983 he took over the team from Dynamo Kiev and in December 1984 switched to CSKA Moscow in the same function , where he was in charge of training until 1988. 1990 Morosow followed a call abroad and took over the training of the national soccer team of Iraq .

Morozov returned to Zenit Leningrad in December 1990, where he was head coach until February 1992. He then resumed teaching at the Lesgaft Institute until he took over the team from the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. In 1994 he coached the Kuwaiti Olympic selection and the country's youth selection.

At Zenit St. Petersburg Morosow was employed as a sports director from January 1995 to December 1997. In December 1999 he took over the trainer function again. Because of an illness he gave up his office in 2002; the young team he built became Russian runner- up in 2003 under his successor Vlastimil Petržela .

Morosow took over the lower-class Petersburg team FK Petrotrest in February 2003, until he finally had to give up his coaching position because of his poor health. Morosow was considered a candidate for the office of president at Zenit, but had to decline this office for health reasons.

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• Obituary (RU)
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• Obituary UEFA (D), incorrect