Nikolai Nikolayevich Kovardaev (russian: Николай Николаевич Ковардаев; born 24 September 1970) is a Russian professional
football
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coach and a former player. He is the manager of
FC Torpedo-2 Moscow
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Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Моск ...
.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the
Soviet Second League in 1987 for
SK EShVSM Moscow
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.
He played 1 game in the
UEFA Cup 1992–93
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for
FC Dynamo Moscow. He also played for
FC Lokomotiv Moscow in 1988 in
USSR Federation Cup.
Coaching career
On 18 August 2022, Kovardaev was appointed as an assistant manager of the
Russian Premier League club
FC Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...
.
Honours
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Russian Premier League bronze: 1992, 1993.
References
1970 births
People from Volokolamsky District
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Russian men's footballers
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
FC Dynamo Moscow players
Russian Premier League players
FC Tyumen players
FC Elista players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Khimki players
Russian football managers
Russian Premier League managers
Men's association football forwards
FC FShM Moscow players
Footballers from Moscow Oblast
FC Krasnoznamensk players
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