Gavriil Kachalin

Gavriil Kachalin
	Kachalin as manager of Dinamo Tbilisi in 1972
Personal information
Full name	Gavriil Dmitriyevich Kachalin
Date of birth	17 January 1911
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian Empire
Date of death	23 May 1995 (aged 84)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1928	Volny Trud Moscow
1933–1935	Dynamo Gomel
1936–1942	Dynamo Moscow
1945–1946	Trudovye Rezervy Moscow
Managerial career
1945–1948	Trudovye Rezervy Moscow
1949–1952	Lokomotiv Moscow
1955–1958	USSR
1960–1962	USSR
1963	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1964–1965	Dinamo Tbilisi
1965	USSR U-21
1966–1968	USSR Olympic
1968–1970	USSR
1971–1972	Dinamo Tbilisi
1973–1974	Dynamo Moscow
1975	Pakhtakor Tashkent
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gavriil Dmitriyevich Kachalin (Russian: Гаврии́л Дми́триевич Кача́лин; 17 January 1911 – 23 May 1995) was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach.

He led the USSR national football team to their greatest achievements, Olympics gold medals in 1956 and European Football Championship title in 1960, and also coached them in three World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970.

With Kachalin, FC Dinamo Tbilisi won the first Soviet Top League title in their history in 1964 and later finished 3rd twice, in 1971 and in 1972. Kachalin became 3rd again in 1973 with FC Dynamo Moscow.

Playing career

Kachalin started his career in 1928 in the club called Volny Trud. Then he played for Gomel city football team and FC Dynamo Gomel. From 1936 to 1942 he competed for FC Dynamo Moscow. During his career he played in 36 Soviet Top League matches, and became a twice champion in 1937 and 1940 and a Soviet Cup winner in 1937 with Dynamo Moscow. He also played against Basque Country national football team.^[1]

Coaching career

Gavriil Kachalin was a head coach of following club and national teams:

FC Trudovye Rezervy Moscow (1945–1948)
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (1949–1952)
USSR national football team as a head coach assistant (1954)
USSR national football team (1955–1958, 1960–1962, 1968–1970)^[2]
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK (1963, 1975)
FC Dinamo Tbilisi (1964–1965, 1971–1972)
USSR national under-21 football team (1965)
USSR national olympics football team (1966–1968)
FC Dynamo Moscow (1973–1974)

At the end of his career, Kachalin worked in Dynamo Moscow youth academy. He was a chairman of the Board of Coaches of Soviet Football Federation in 1963. Kachalin also was a member of FIFA technical committee.