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{{Short description|Russian footballer and manager}}
{{family name hatnote|Kuzmich|Nepomnyashchy|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Valery Nepomnyashchy
| fullname = Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy 
| image = ValeryNepomnyaschy.jpg
| image_size = 220
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|8|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Slavgorod]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]]
| height = 1.79 m
| currentclub = 
| position = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]]
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1961–1965 | clubs1 = SKIF Ashgabat | caps1 =  | goals1 =   
| years2 = 1965–1967 | clubs2 = [[FC Dinamo Samarqand|Spartak Samarkand]] | caps2 =  | goals2 = 
| manageryears1 = 1982–1983  | managerclubs1 = [[Köpetdag Aşgabat|Kolhozchi Ashkhabad]]
| manageryears2 = 1988–1990  | managerclubs2 = [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]]
| manageryears3 = 1991       | managerclubs3 = [[Chinese Football Association|China]] ''(technical consultant)''
| manageryears4 = 1992–1993  | managerclubs4 = [[Gençlerbirliği S.K.]]
| manageryears5 = 1993–1994  | managerclubs5 = [[Ankaragücü]]
| manageryears6 = 1995–1998  | managerclubs6 = [[Jeju United FC|Yukong Elephants / Bucheon SK]]
| manageryears7 = 2000       | managerclubs7 = [[Guangzhou City F.C.|Shenyang Haishi]]
| manageryears8 = 2001       | managerclubs8 = [[Sanfrecce Hiroshima]] 
| manageryears9 = 2002–2003  | managerclubs9 = [[Shandong Taishan F.C.|Shandong Luneng]]
| manageryears10 = 2004–2005 | managerclubs10 = [[Shanghai Shenhua F.C.|Shanghai Shenhua]]
| manageryears11 = 2006      | managerclubs11 = [[FC Pakhtakor Tashkent|Pakhtakor Tashkent]]
| manageryears12 = 2006      | managerclubs12 = [[Uzbekistan national football team|Uzbekistan]]
| manageryears13 = 2008–2011 | managerclubs13 = [[FC Tom Tomsk|Tom Tomsk]]
| manageryears14 = 2012–2013 | managerclubs14 = [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] (technical consultant)
| manageryears15 = 2014–2016 | managerclubs15 = [[FC Tom Tomsk|Tom Tomsk]]
| manageryears16 = 2018      | managerclubs16 = [[FC Baltika Kaliningrad|Baltika Kaliningrad]]
| manageryears17 = 2018–2019 | managerclubs17 = [[FC Baltika Kaliningrad|Baltika Kaliningrad]] (youth development)
}}
'''Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy''' ({{langx|ru|Валерий Кузьмич Непомнящий}}; born 7 August 1943) is a Russian [[association football]] manager and a former player.

Most famously he coached the [[Cameroon national football team]] when they surprisingly made the quarter-finals in the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]]. From 1992 to 1994 he coached clubs in Turkey. In 1995, he became manager of [[South Korea]]'s [[Jeju United FC|Yukong Elephants]] (currently [[Jeju United FC]]), and in 1996 led them to a victory in [[Korean League Cup|League Cup]]. In 2001, he took over as [[J. League]] club [[Sanfrecce Hiroshima]]'s manager from [[Eddie Thomson]]. He has also coached [[Shanghai Shenhua]], (whom he led to a second-place finish for the first time in his career), from 2004 to 2005, and the [[Uzbekistan national football team]] in 2006. He worked as a football commentator for a Russian television channel, “NTV-Plus”. In September 2008 he signed a 2-year contract with Russian club [[FC Tom Tomsk|Tom Tomsk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rian.ru/sport/20080911/151188080.html |script-title=ru:Валерий Непомнящий возглавит ФК "Томь" |publisher=RIA News |access-date=September 20, 2008|language=ru|date=11 September 2008 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Nepomnyashchy was born in [[Altai Krai]], [[Soviet Union]] during [[World War II]]. His mother, pregnant with him, was evacuated there from [[Moscow]], after his father was killed during the war. In 1947, they moved to the [[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]], nowadays [[Turkmenistan]], where he would start his youth career.<ref>{{cite web |title=DAVAI DAVAI !!: El Señor Valery Nepomnyashchy |url=http://davai--davai.blogspot.com/2010/05/yandexsu-valery-nepomniaschy.html |website=DAVAI DAVAI !! |date=13 May 2010 |language=es}}</ref> He graduated from the [[Turkmen State University]] in 1969.<ref>[https://turkmenportal.com/en/blog/29161/valerii-nepomnyashchii-u-menya-samye-priyatnye-vospominaniya-o-turkmenii Valery Nepomnyashchy: "I have the most pleasant memories of Turkmenistan"]</ref>

==Career==
Nepomnyashchy would start his career as a footballer where his greatest achievement was to play as a striker for third tier Soviet football club [[FK Samarqand-Dinamo|Spartak Samarkand]]. His career was however cut short due to health problems and he had to retire at the age of 25 years. This saw him move into physical education and coaching that would see him land a job within the football coaching sports committee of Turkmenistan from 1970 to 1978. By 1979 he would achieve his first assistant coaching job with third tier Turkmen football club [[Köpetdag Aşgabat|Kolhozchi Ashkhabad]] and by 1982 he was named as their head coach where he led them to eighth in his debut season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/su82.html |title=Soviet Union 1982 |date=16 Aug 2012 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date= 2013-06-11}}</ref>

By the end of 1983 Nepomnyashchy had returned to the Turkmenistan Sports committee until in 1984 when he was doing training courses in Moscow, he was asked by the Russian Office of football if he wanted to work abroad. Nepomnyashchy soon accepted the offer and was expected to provide training courses and assistance to developing countries such as Algeria, Tunisia and Suriname. Nepomnyashchy would find these trips as too frustrating and periodical in there planning until [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]] offered him a concrete proposal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/1998-02-26/11_2/ |script-title=ru:ЗА ВЫХОД В ЧЕТВЕРТЬФИНАЛ ЧЕМПИОНАТА МИРА Я ПОЛУЧИЛ 700 ДОЛЛАРОВ |publisher=sport-express.ru |date=1998-02-26 |access-date= 2013-06-11|language=ru}}</ref> Initially Nepomnyashchy thought that the Russian funded aid would see him coach one of the Cameroon youth teams, however with the previous manager [[Claude Le Roy]] deciding to leave to join [[Senegal national football team|Senegal]] there was an unexpected vacancy for the senior Head coach position, which Nepomnyashchy took and signed a two-year contract with the team.{{fact|date=March 2022}}

At first Nepomnyashchy would struggle with the French language and had to use an interpreter, however he would eventually get his message across on what he wanted his team to do and they would qualify for the [[1990 FIFA World Cup]]. Drawn in Group B they unexpectedly beat reigning champions [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] as well as [[Romania national football team|Romania]] to book their place within the last 16.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/worldcup/italy1990/matches/round=322/match=26/index.html|title=1990 FIFA World Cup Italy: Argentina - Cameroon|publisher=fifa.com |access-date=2014-11-07}}</ref> After beating [[Colombia national football team|Colombia]] 2-1 in extra-time Cameroon eventually lost to [[England national football team|England]] in the Quarter-Finals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/worldcup/italy1990/matches/round=751/match=103/index.html|title=1990 FIFA World Cup Italy: England - Cameroon|publisher=fifa.com |access-date=2014-11-07}}</ref> While he was offered an extension to his contract, Nepomnyashchy decided to leave the team after his contract expired to take on a more lucrative position with the [[Chinese Football Association]] as a technical consultant.{{fact|date=March 2022}}

In the [[1992–93 1.Lig]] season Nepomnyashchy would return to management with Turkish side [[Gençlerbirliği S.K.]] before joining another Turkish side in [[Ankaragücü]] the following season. After an uninspired time within Turkey he would move to South Korea where he had a successful spell with [[Bucheon SK|Bucheon Yukong]] where he won the [[1996 Korean League Cup]] with them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/skor96.html |title=South Korea 1996 |date=23 Mar 2003 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=2013-06-11}}</ref> After his time in South Korea ended he returned to Russia for [[FC Dynamo Stavropol]] where he acted as a consultant in 1999 before returning to Asia where he went on to manage several different clubs before returning to national team management when he coached [[Uzbekistan national football team|Uzbekistan]] after having a spell with one of its clubs, [[Pakhtakor FK (Tashkent)|Pakhtakor FK]] where he won the 2006 league title with them.{{fact|date=March 2022}}

==Managerial statistics==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!D!!L!!Win %
|-
|align="left"|[[Sanfrecce Hiroshima]]
|align="left"|2000
|align="left"|2000
{{WDL|30|13|0|17}}
|-
!colspan="3"|Total
{{WDLtot|30|13|0|17}}
|}

==Honours==
===As a manager===
'''[[Jeju United FC|Yukong Elephants / Bucheon SK]]'''

* [[Korean League Cup]] Winner: 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/skor96.html|title=South Korea 1996|date=2003-03-23 |access-date=2019-07-05}}</ref>

'''[[Pakhtakor FK (Tashkent)|Pakhtakor FK]]'''

* Champion of [[Uzbek League]]: 2006<ref name="Pakhtakor FK">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/oez06.html|title=Uzbekistan 2006|date=2007-01-31 |access-date=2019-07-05}}</ref>
* Cup holder in [[Uzbekistan Cup]]: 2006<ref name="Pakhtakor FK"/>

===Individual===

* Honored coach of the Turkmen SSR (1990)
* Legion of Honor (Cameroon, 1990)<ref name="Honor">{{cite web|url=http://www.footballplayers.ru/players/Nepomniachi_Valeri.html|title=ВАЛЕРИЙ НЕПОМНЯЩИЙ|access-date=2019-07-05}}</ref>
* Award for "Contribution to the development of the South Korean Football" (1996)<ref name="Honor"/>
* Best Coach of the Year in China (2000)<ref name="Honor"/>
* The badge "For Services to the Tomsk region" (2010)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.footballplayers.ru/players/Nepomniachi_Valeri.html Profile on footballplayers.ru]
*{{J.League manager}}
* [https://news.sportbox.ru/Vidy_sporta/Futbol/spbnews_NI989774_Valerij_Nepomnashhij_V_Kamerune_nas_vstrechali_kak_v_Moskve_Gagarina Valery Nepomnyashchy Interview]

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