Former head coach of the Russian national football team Stanislav Cherchesov has been appointed to take charge of the national squad of Kazakhstan, the press office of the Kazakhstan Football Federation said.
Cherchesov took the reins of the national football squad in the summer of 2016, signing a contract with the Russian Football Union to work as the head coach of the team until August 2018.
Led by Cherchesov, the Russian national football team managed to reach the knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup advancing with a win over the Spanish team in the Round of 16 and then losing in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals to Croatia.
In 2021, Cherchesov signed a contract to manage Hungary’s Ferencvaros FC.
