Leonid Slutsky

Slutsky saw his professional playing career ended aged 19, after he injured his knee falling from a tree while saving a cat.

Early career

Slutsky became head coach of FC Moscow on 14 July 2005 until the end of the 2007 season. His final match as head coach of Moscow was a 3–1 win against Luch-Energiya Vladivostok on 11 November 2007. Slutsky became head coach of Krylia Sovetov on 1 January 2008.

CSKA Moscow

On 26 October 2009 he replaced Juande Ramos to become the head coach of CSKA Moscow. In December 2009, under Slutsky, CSKA reached the knock-out stage of the Champions League for the first time in the club's history, before being knocked out by José Mourinho's Inter Milan, the eventual champions, in the quarter-finals. Two years later, the achievement was repeated, when CSKA defeated Inter Milan at the San Siro in the last game of the group stage. Towards the 2012–13 season, Slutsky strengthened the team defense and re-organized the attack, which helped the team set a record of 15 games without being scored against, and to win all the games where the team scored first, resulting in a title. On 7 August 2015, it was announced that Slutsky would take over the Russian national football team in place of the outgoing Fabio Capello. The contract was until the end of UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying. Slutsky won all of his qualifying games and got Russia into UEFA Euro 2016. On 14 November 2015, Russia beat Portugal 1–0 in a friendly game and Slutsky repeated Pavel Sadyrin's achievement of winning his five first games as the head coach of Russia. On 21 May 2016, CSKA beat Rubin Kazan 1–0 to…

Slutsky has commented on football games many times on Russian TV. His commentating career was disrupted after he repeated the word "Navalny" following his co-commentator's using the term навальный футбол (navalny futbol); the term навальный (navalny) is a term best translated as "overwhelming" or "storming", but is also the surname of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. The incident led to his sacking from the TV pundit role at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Medal "100 years anniversary of the foundation of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"

CSKA Moscow

Russian Premier League: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16 Russian Cup: 2010–11, 2012–13 Russian Super Cup: 2013, 2014 Shanghai Shenhua

Chinese FA Super Cup: 2024, 2025