Oleg Romantsev

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oleg Romantsev
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1954(1954-01-04)
Age	70
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Q19614375
Horoscope	Capricorn

Oleg Romantsev Biography

Oleg Romantsev is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on January 4, 1954 in Q19614375, Soviet Union. Oleg Romantsev was born four January 1954 at the Selo in Gavrilovskoye, Spassky District, Ryazan Oblast, situated about 150 miles to the east of Moscow. A road construction manager, the Romantsev family lived a nomadic existence throughout the world, with a variety of locations such as in the Kola peninsula Altay and Kyrgyzstan before eventually settling within Krasnoyarsk in the mid-sixties when, at the age of 12 years old, the boy was employed as a loader’s assistant in a factory for house construction earning 40 roubles. Although he initially had a love in trains Romantsev began to turn his attention to soccer for help when his father left on his family, leaving his mother to take care of the family of his brother and sister by herself.

Romantsev was part of nine games in his Soviet Union national team. He also played six games as well as scored a goal in the bronze medal-winning team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Romantsev took up the reins of the Russian national football team with the departure of Pavel Sadyrin after Russia’s exit from the 1994 World Cup. He was tasked with ensuring qualification for Euro 96, held in England, in two years and combined the role with his post as Spartak manager (and chairman, a rank to which he was appointed in 1993) in a dual capacity. He resisted the temptation to rebuild the squad and instead placed his faith in a great deal of the players who had taken part in the World Cup. Russia were placed in qualifying Group 8 alongside Faroe Islands, Finland, Greece, San Marino and Scotland. They finished in first place with eight wins and two draws from their ten games. At the tournament itself they were placed in Group C with Czech Republic, Germany and Italy – dubbed the “group of death”, featuring the eventual tournament winners Germany and beaten finalists Czech Republic. Russia finished bottom of the group after a 2–1 defeat to Italy in the opening match and a 3–0 defeat to Germany in a game that confirmed their exit from the tournament. The final match was a 3–3 draw with the Czechs. The campaign was a disappointing one and also was blighted by mild controversy after Sergei Kiriakov was dropped after calling Romantsev an “arsehole.” He, along with two other players, was sent home by Romantsev during the campaign. Romantsev left the post, to be replaced by Boris Ignatyev, and returned to Spartak after the tournament.

Drawn in Group 4 for qualification for the 2000 European Championship in a group containing Andorra, Armenia, France, Iceland and Ukraine, Russia lost their first three games – a sequence of results that outraged the Russian Football Union and led to the sacking of Anatoliy Byshovets. Despite his initial reluctance (“I cannot achieve anything in our football environment”), Romantsev was eventually talked around and re-appointed as national team manager. He oversaw a major turnaround in form with Russia winning their next six games on the bounce, the most impressive result being a 3–2 victory over France in Paris. Heading into the final game, against Ukraine, a win would have seen Russia qualify outright, extraordinarily, as group winners however a late mistake by goalkeeper Alexandr Filimonov meant the game finished 1–1 despite Russia having taken the lead. They would not be competing in the European Championship in Belgium and The Netherlands. The nature of the defeat struck Romantsev particularly hard. So much so that when mention of the game came up during a 2014 TV show with Romanstev as a participant, he remarked, “Please don’t remind me of the most terrible moments of my life. I am trying to forget them. None of us wanted to live after that game against Ukraine. We felt like it would have been better to shoot ourselves or at least to quit football forever. I don’t remember what exactly happened afterwards, it’s all in a fog. That was cruel and undeserved after all we had achieved, as if we had run a marathon and then dropped dead.”

Romantsev would later play in 180 games for the club and scored six goals during his time. He was made captain of the club in 1979 and remained in the captain’s post until injuries caused an end to his football career in 1983 at the age of 29. As an athlete with Spartak, Romantsev won the 1979 Soviet Top League, the 1977 Soviet First League title and was runner-up for the Soviet Top League in 1980 1981, 1980 and 1983.

Oleg Romantsev Net Worth

Oleg Romantsev is one of the richest Association Football Player from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oleg Romantsev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Oleg Romantsev Ivanovich (Russian: Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev born on January 4, 1954) is a former Soviet/Russian international player and coach. Romantsev was widely praised for his achievements in the club Spartak Moscow, whom he helped win a record number of domestic league championships, as well as his involvement as a coach for as coach of the Russian National team. Many consider him by experts to be the best coach in the time of Russian football.

It was in 1971 that Romantsev received a promotion to the team’s senior side of Avtomobilist who were at the time competing within the Soviet Second League. Romantsev marked his debut with the senior side with the goal of his life and scored twice during his second game, which eventually led him to become a regular for the first team. As time passed, Romantsev eventually underwent a alteration in his position on the field and was relegated to left- back. In the meantime the scouts from other clubs, including Dynamo Kiev, had begun to pay attention to the ability of the young defender and, in the year 1976, there was an international game against Avtomobilist and the team that will ultimately define his footballing career as Spartak Moscow.

Spartak dominated Russian football under Romantsev in the 1990s, using a system whereby the club scouted and discovered young talent from across the former USSR, developed the players talents to the full and then, availing of the newfound freedom to do business with the West following the fall of Communism in Europe, proceeded to sell them on to Western European clubs for a significant profit. A string of future Russian internationals passed through Spartak’s doors during this time – Valery Karpin, Dmitry Alenichev, Viktor Onopko, Igor Shalimov, Dmitry Radchenko and Sergei Rodionov all came and went with the money from their sales funding the next iteration. By the end of Romantsev’s time at the club, Spartak had won nine league titles (three successively from 1992 to 1994, and six in succession from 1996 to 2001) as well as four Russian Cups. Under his tenure, Spartak also reached the semi- finals of all three major European competitions (the 1990–91 European Cup, 1992–93 European Cup Winners’ Cup and the 1997–98 UEFA Cup) – a run that saw them eliminate sides such as Real Madrid, Liverpool and Diego Maradona’s Napoli.

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A year after the end of his playing career, Spartak Moscow’s founder Nikolai Starostin offered Romantsev a coaching role at Krasnaya Presnya – a little- known Moscow club in the Soviet Second League. It was here that he first crossed paths with future Russia star Aleksandr Mostovoi, then a 16-year-old central midfielder. The two quickly forged a close relationship that was to continue long into their professional careers. In an interview with UEFA’s Dmitri Rogovitski, Mostovoi said: “He was a very inexperienced coach back then but we quickly forged a close relationship. He became my father in football, it was thanks to him that I grew into a serious player.” Romantsev would ultimately spend three years in charge of Presnya, before spending several months in charge of Spartak Ordzhonikidze (now Spartak) in 1988.

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— Romantsev on his ambitions as a youth.