Nikolai Nikolayevich Kovardaev (russian: Николай Николаевич Ковардаев; born 24 September 1970) is a Russian professional

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coach and a former player. He is the manager of

FC Torpedo-2 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 Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Моск ...

Club career

He made his professional debut in the

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in 1987 for SK EShVSM Moscow. He played 1 game in the

UEFA Cup 1992–93 Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...

for

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footb ...

. He also played for

FC Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three oc ...

in 1988 in

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Coaching career

On 18 August 2022, Kovardaev was appointed as an assistant manager of the

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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

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 {{Russia-footy-forward-1970s-stub