Yuri Gavrilov

Gavrilov's football career started in Iskra Moscow football school when he was 7. He was invited by school director who saw Yury playing with other kids on the Iskra stadium. When he was 19, Konstantin Beskov took him to Dinamo Moscow from Iskra amateur team. But there was an expensive number of quality players in 1970s Dinamo, and Gavrilov couldn't find a permanent place in Dinamo squad. Gavrilov joined the Spartak Moscow in 1977 after he followed the Spartak coach Konstantin Beskov. The player who played as a winger in the Dynamo Moscow team was used as a playmaker in the new Spartak team by Beskov, becoming one of the best attacking midfielders in the SovietUnion. While he made a lot of good passes, he scored a lot of goals as well. Gavrilov was Soviet Top League top goal-scorer twice, scored 140 times during his career. During his professional career Gavrilov played also for the Finnish club Porin Pallotoverit and Moldovan club FC Agro Chişinău. In 2001 Gavrilov took charge of the DR Congo national football team for one game. He coached DR Congo in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Ivory Coast.

His son Yuri Gavrilov also professional footballer.