Footballer Valery Reingold

Valery Reingold is a former Soviet football player, who gained fame on the performance in the Moscow "Spartak". One of the best extreme attackers of the 60s. He also played in other clubs of the USSR, but this was already the decline of the career of the famous football player of those times. For the national team did not act, although he was the champion of the USSR as part of his team.

Dossier

Rheingold Valery Leonidovich was born on February 18, 1942 in Moscow. Citizen of the USSR. Height 168 cm, weight 69 kg. Position on the football field - midfielder / forward. The years of playing in big football are 1960-1974. Nicknames: "The Electric Train", "Rex", "The Horseman without a Head". He has the title of Master of Sports of the USSR. Included in the list of players entered in the Hall of Fame "Spartacus".

Career football player

As a football player Valery Reingold played 378 matches, in which he scored 69 goals. All his football awards were received, protecting the honor of the team "Spartacus". He became the champion of the USSR (1962), the owner of silver (1963) and bronze medals (1961), two-time winner of the USSR Cup (1963, 1965).

• 1960-1967 - "Spartak Moscow).
• 1968-1969 - "Work" (Voronezh).
• 1970-1974 - "Shinnik" (Yaroslavl).

Stages of football path

Like most post-war boys, Valery Reingold honed football skills in backyard battles. Here he was accidentally noticed by the well-known player of the Moscow "Dynamo" Leonid Soloviev. He recommended Valery to appear to the coach of the Dynamo sports school Vladimir Haydin. He immediately saw in the young boy an extraordinary talent and perspective for further sports growth.

Studying in the Dynamo Sports School, Valery participated in various competitions, held at that time among students of sports schools. It was different school tournaments, the championship of Moscow, the Games. In one of such competitions on the young football player, the eyes of representatives of the capital's "Spartacus". A scandal broke out, which reached the level of the federation of football in the USSR. "Dinamo" with all his might tried to keep the young talent, protested, but the fate of Valery was already sealed. In 1959 he became a player of "Spartacus".

Valery passed the youth team of the club, the backup team, took part in the Cup among amateur production teams. In the spring of 1960, he made his debut in the main team of "Spartacus" in the USSR Championship. However, the 18-year-old was not immediately entrenched in the main part of the club. After four matches, he settled in double. And only in the autumn Valery Reingold becomes a full-fledged player of red and white.

Career in three clubs

Eight seasons played Valery in the team "Spartacus". What did he remember as a football player? First of all, with its unique technique, crazy speed, tremendous efficiency, strong and precise impact, unbending will to win. He was compared to Garrincha, admired, loved, went to him.

Went to see his famous feint, which consistently came across the best defenders of the leading teams, to his unique blows, after which the ball flew on a completely unpredictable trajectory. In the "Spartacus" Valery Reingold played 176 matches, held 32 goals at the opponents' gate.

In the autumn of 1967, Valeriy transferred to the team "Trud" (Voronezh), performing in the first league of the championship of the country. Voronezh football fans he enjoyed for two years. For "Trud" he played 55 games and scored seven goals.

Finished Valery Reingold, football player, in the club-middle of the second allied league "Shinnik" (Yaroslavl). For four years he was always happy with his sparkling game, and only in the last, fifth season, he came to the football field 5 times. For Yaroslavl team he played 147 matches, scoring 30 goals.

After football

Valery Reingold's post-game football career did not work out. He worked as a chauffeur, taxi driver, builder, installer in the DCS, foreman. For merits in construction was awarded the title of drummer of communist labor.

In 1987, Rheingold Valery Leonidovich - director of the stadium "Locomotive". He was happy to return to football in any capacity. With his direct participation, the stadium was put in order as soon as possible: the premises were renovated, and the football field was arranged. When in 1998 the construction site was filled with commercial markets, the stadium director resigned and retired. Currently, Valery Reingold earns money at one of the many sports sites by a football analyst. He is married for a long time, lives in Moscow, has two daughters and four grandchildren.

On one of the Internet sites came a note called "Jewish Football World." Here were listed many famous Soviet football players of Jewish origin, performing in different years in the leading teams of the USSR championship. Such football players as Mikhail Yakushin, Mikhail Koman, Roman Schneiderman, Mikhail Gershkovich, Semyon Altman, Valery Reingold and others were listed.

What does the name Reingold mean ? In German: rein - "pure", gold - "gold." This name is of German origin. So in the questionnaire the former football player would have written: Reingold Valery Leonidovich. Nationality Russian.