Edgar Gess

Edgar Gess

Personal information
Full name	Edgar Yakovlevich Gess
Date of birth	(1954-03-14) 14 March 1954
Place of birth	Taboshary, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder/Striker
Team information
Current team	FK Buxoro (manager)
Youth career
1969-1971	Kuroma Taboshary
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972-1979	Pamir Dushanbe	198	(44)
1979-1983	Spartak Moscow	114	(26)
1984-1986	Pakhtakor	93	(15)
International career
1979	USSR	1	(0)
Managerial career
1986	Pakhtakor
1987-1988	Zarafshan Navoi
1988-1991	FC Mittelbiberach
1991-1995	Wacker Biberach
1995	FC Mittelbiberach
1997-1999	FV Biberach
1999-2003	Türkspor Biberach
2004	Almaty
2005	Alania Vladikavkaz
2006	Vėtra
2006-2007	Andijan
2009-2011	Shurtan Guzar
2012-2013	Shurtan Guzar
2013-2014	FK Buxoro
2014-	Andijan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edgar Yakovlevich Gess (Russian: Эдгар Яковлевич Гесс/Edgar Yakovlevich Gess; German: Edgar Hess) (born 14 March 1954) is a retired Soviet football player and coach. He is currently head coach of FK Buxoro.

International career

Gess played his only game for USSR on 5 September 1979 in a friendly against East Germany.

In 2009-2011 he was head coach of Shurtan Guzar. During this time Shurtan Guzar finished 4th in the 2010 season and the team reached the Uzbek Cup final, losing 0-1 to Bunyodkor.

On 30 June 2011 he was sacked and Tachmurad Agamuradov was named as the new coach of Shurtan. In July 2012 Gess was appointed as head coach of Shurtan again, after Igor Kriushenko was sacked. On 15 May 2013 he was sacked again and left the club.

On 10 November 2013 FK Buxoro announced that they had hired Gess as their new manager, replacing Tachmurad Agamuradov in this position.

Personal life

He is a Russian German and emigrated 1989 to Ulm in Swabia, Germany.

Honours

Player

• Soviet Top League winner: 1979.

Manager

• Uzbek League 4th: 2010
• Uzbek Cup runners-up: 2010