How Andrei Arshavin, Bilyaletdinov Diystyar and other Euro-2008 stars managed to ride at the very bottom ...
The most successful in the history of Russian national football team, the international Euro 2008 tournament presented a lot of new stars in the world. But literally after a couple of years, all these stars went out just as quickly as tanned. At the same time, most of the heroes of that euro still continue to play career. We tell where they are now and how they have come to such a lifetime.
Andrey Arshavin
After the triumphant Euro 2008, where the Russians won bronze medals for the first time in the latest history, it seemed that the leader of Andrei Arshavin national team was about to turn into a star, not only Russian, but also the world.
From Zenit, he moved to the London Arsenal and initially demonstrated incredible results - after two weeks after the debut in England, Arshavin scored his first goal, and after another month, I designed poker in the gate of the principal opponent - "Liverpool". In the same year, Arshavin came out on the field already in the captain's dressing - no one expected such a rapid growth.
However, after a bright start, a series of failures followed. Andrey stopped calling sympathy from the British, and both actions on the field and beyond. Arshavin has repeatedly stated that he does not like the climate or people nor England as a whole. With partners in the club, the Russian is also failed, colleagues noted the arrogance of the attacker.
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In 2012, the Russians were convinced of Archavin's arrogance. After the failure of Euro-2012, the winged was the phrase of Andrei, who spent as a captain of the Russian national team: "Your expectations are not our problems. It's your problems". After that, not only the whole of England, but the whole of Russia already rolled into Arshavin.
This rash phrase played with Arshavin a bad joke, because after the euro he had to return to Russia, where he was not particularly expelled. Over the next three years in Zenit, Arshavin scored only three goals, and no one in the year in the "Kuban".
Now Arshavin protects the colors of Kazakhstan "Kairata", and there it is much better. He again scores and is the leader of the team, but it is unlikely that this was calculated by a football player, who was not so long ago the captain of the top club the strongest football league of the world.
Pavel Pogrebnyak
Tall and militant forward Pavel Pogrebnyak for many years up to the thresholds of top clubs for many years, and only in 2007 he noticed "Zenith". He did not miss his chance to Pogrebnyak, began to regularly score and as the result was called to the national team. Despite the fact that at Euro 2008, the attacker never marked with effective actions, in Europe it was appreciated and after a year he went to conquer Germany.
Photo: Ilya Smirnov / Komsomolskaya Pravda The fate of the Pogrebnyak in Europe practically repeats the history of Arshavin: a successful start, followed by a continuous decline. In the German "Stuttgart", the footballer lasted two from a small year, but after the expiration of the contract term, the club did not want to sign a new one. Moreover, in Germany, there were no wishing to smoke the football player, but even take it for free.
The sole option of the Pogrebnyak was the modest English "Reading", which in the same year flew out of the Premier League. Though there is a Russian and managed to score, the team still stuck in the second division, and in 2015 the Pogrebnyak was forced to be inspired to return to Russia. Since then, he has been listed for Dynamo Moscow, but for three years she scored only one ball.
Roman Pavlyuchenko
The most effective Russian at Euro 2008 Roman Pavlyuchenko immediately after the tournament signed Tottenham - one of the top clubs of the English Premier League. From Russians waited a lot, however, the first games have already shown that Pavlyuchenko lacks speakers, because the game in England is conducted at completely different speeds than in Russia. Yes, and the attacker himself complained that he was not suitable for the training system, which the head coach applies.
Photo: globallookpress.com. As a result, Pavlyuchenko tightly donkey on the bench, leaving the field only for replacement. The Russian has repeatedly the opportunity to move to another European club - in 2010, Forward wanted to acquire Liverpool, and in 2011 Espanyol. Perhaps, acceptance of Pavlyuchenko then a different decision, and his career would have formed differently, but for some reason he refused proposals.
With the arrival in Tottenham, Emmanuel Adebayor Pavlyuchenko and became a double player at all, and soon left the team, but he went not to another European club, but back to Russia. The following five years of Career Pavlyuchenko went downwards: from Lokomotiv in Kuban, from "Kuban" to Ural, and from the "Ural" to the newly minted Moscow club "Ararat", which is not even in the second, and in the third League. Just today and with this club Pavlyuchenko ruined the contract, but the options for continuing the career football player is already unlikely to find.
Diystyar Bilyaletdinov
The last of the failed "conquerors of Europe" is the Locomotive pupil of Bilyaletdinov. A whole year after Euro 2008, the best clubs of the old world fought for him. As a result, the Russian went to the English "Everton". In the new club, Bilyaletdinov quickly became the best sprinkler, overtaking all by the number of assists. Nevertheless, due to high competition, even these successes did not give the Russians in the starting lineup.
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Gradually, having resigned with the status of the reserve, DIITIONAR lost the form and interest in the game. Therefore, when the competitor of Bilyaletdinova for a place in the starting lineup Leon Osman was injured and the Russian has a chance to gain a chance at the heart, he could not use it. Critics celebrated the passivity of Bilyaletdinov, and soon he sat down again on the bench.
In 2012, after the rest of the cohort Russians, Bilyaletdinov returned to his homeland, in Spartak. However, the injury was prevented at the previous level - during the absence of the midfielder lost a place in the composition and continued, as in England, marinated on the reserve bench.
At this career Bilyaletdinova, actually ended - he changed three more clubs, but did not fit anywhere. In this season, there was no place in Russia for a football player, and Bilyaletdinov again went abroad, only not in England, but in the little Lithuanian club "Trakai". There, Bilyaletdinov, though it does not master themselves with hopes on great results, but it can feel like a real star.
Spartakovets Roman Pavlyuchenko started playing football in Cherkassk, where his family moved from the Krasnodar Territory. But basically it was only ordinary yard football, while at one fine moment in a friendly match in Stavropol, experts from the local school of the Olympic reserve were not visited. There he studied, at the same time speaking for the youth team of the Stavropol Club "Dynamo".
Selectors from the clubs of the Higher League began to look at the young talented forward. As a result, the most persistent were the representatives of the "Rotor" - in 2000 Pavlyuchenko moved to Volgograd. There he spent 3 years and received, finally, the ability to go to Moscow "Spartak", being at this point already won for the youth team of Russia.
Star path of football player
On October 8, 2002, Forward signed a five-year agreement with Spartak and moved to Moscow from the next season. From 2003 to 2006, Pavlyuchenko's football career slowly, but faithfully rose to the mountain. And 2007 and can be bold at all, "Pavlyuchenko's Year". Forward again became the best scorer of the Premier League (for a couple with Roman Adamov), as well as in the Russian national team, created a historic double in the qualifying match of Euro 2008 against the British.
The 2008 season for Pavlyuchenko started on a major note. He fell into the Russian national team at the European Championship. Roman became the main striker of the national team, playing in all 5 matches and scoring 3 goals.
On August 26, 2008, Roman Pavlyuchenko moved to Tottenham London, thus becoming the most expensive Russian footballer in modern history. In 2012, he signed a contract for 3.5 years with the Russian club "Lokomotiv", and also took part in the 2012 European Championship as part of the national team.
Personal life Roman Pavluchenko
With his future wife, Larisa met at the age of 12, when he went to study in the sixth grade School No. 6 of the village of Moscow. Roman and Larisa were planted for one desk. So they together and sat until the end of the ninth grade, after which the novel moved to Stavropol Sdyushor. But young people did not stop communicating, and in November 2001 got married. August 24, 2006, immediately after playing with "Slovan", Larisa gave birth to a novel daughter Christina.
Last November, Roman Pavlyuchenko finally turned into anyone who was not necessary veteran. With "Ararat" a contract due to unauthorized departure on vacation (there were rumors that he did not agree with leadership, although the novel himself approves the opposite), the big clubs were not called. The fans advised Pavlyuchenko to complete his career, rumors were held in the press about his return to the Stavropol Dynamo. But the attacker chose a completely different vector of development. On August 31, he signed a contract with the Noginsky "Banner". He commented on this move: "Go to Noginsk? Well, what transition, just friends were invited to play. I just play homemade matches with them, purely on a friendly basis. I will share my experience with young guys. Friends turned to me to play with them in the team. Conduct four home games. For me it is better, I will play football better, I will go with great pleasure. Especially this is essentially Moscow, so do not exaggerate "
What the team
Although Noginsk consider one of the centers of the emergence of Russian football, now the team with an interesting story is drowning in amateur football. In 1911, in Borodsk (so until 1930 called Noginsk) built a field and created the first team in the use. Since then, she has represented different cities, participated in the USSR championships, saved from bankruptcy and descended into the lower leagues. In total, for his long history, the Noginsky Club was remembered by several things:
In 1936 he reached the semifinals of the first Cup of the USSR, where he lost to Tbilisi "Dynamo" (1: 5).
In 1997, he got into 1/16 of the Russian Cup to the Moscow Spartak. And in this match there was a mass brawl, during which Oleg Romantsev wanted to lead the team from the field.
In the 98th "motorist" (the mayor of Noginsk ordered the way to call the team because of the sponsorship support of the motor transport plant) reached the butt matches for hitting the first division, but did not manage to go through this feature.
Gregory Fedotov, Nikita Bazhenov, Renat Yanbaev began their careers in the "banner".
In the XXI century, the team ended out due to financial difficulties, lost the license, moved to different cities. But as a result, the "banner" was arrested in amateur football. Now the team acts in the group A of the third largest division of the country. "Banner" trains Mikhail Kobyakov, who works in a team since 2009
How are Pavlyuchenko
The attacker performed in four home games "Banner". In these games, he spent 322 minutes on the field, scored 4 goals (2 of them - from a penalty). At the same time, the "banner" took the sixth line in the table, but thoroughly raised attendance and sales. If earlier the team had 500 people on the game, then with Pavlyuchenko, the stadium in Noginsk began to fill more than 85%. In addition, in the official group, the team sells
The rights of a free agent signed a contract with Moscow Ararat - a team that was created only a couple of months ago.
It is planned that Ararat will act in PFL, the third for the power of the Division of domestic football, the club has already been licensed in (RFS) to start speeches in the league this year.
The financial side of the agreement of Pavlyuchenko and the metropolitan team is not reported at the moment, however, it is known that the contract parties concluded for one year.
It is noteworthy that as part of Ararata and before the arrival of the Static Forward, it was possible to find familiar surnames - so, for example, one of the team goalkeepers is, a few years ago, he considered a successor to CSKA, and even spent a couple of matches for the army in the premier League, and in the midfield of the team played by Levan Gwazawa, for a long time speaking for a series of "middle peasants" of the RFPL.
Also, the colors of "Ararat" protect and, very recently represented teams from the highest division.
It should be noted that in the past season, Pavlyuchenko performed for, spending 21 games, which scored four goals, and helped the "bumblebee" without nerves save registration in the Premier League, as well as to enter the Russian Cup final.
In the decisive meeting of the tournament against Lokomotiv - also the former Club of Roman -
the attacking benefit did not have to bring to his team, because of what a trophy (and with him a ticket to the Europa League) went away from Yekaterinburg from under the nose.
And after the end of the season, it was announced that striker leaves the team and becomes a free agent.
Commenting on the decision of Pavlyuchenko to become a "Ararat" football player, the head coach of Urals admitted that he did not know about the intentions of his ex-ward, and also noted that the novel could remain in the RFPL for another year.
"The transfer of the Internet writes about the transfer of Pavlyuchenko. Why did he signed a contract with Ararat?
His agent said that for the novel, the family is now in the first place, so he chose Moscow.
At the same time, he learned about the decision of the attacker only now - I did not speak Pavlyuchenko in advance about this team. He also, of course, could act in the RFPL, but the desire to be in the capital near the family turned.
I can not say about the prospects of his new team, but people do there, it seems rich came, "said a specialist in a conversation with the newspaper.ru correspondent.
Pavlyuchenko began his professional career in Stavropol "Dynamo", after which the transit through the Volgograd "Rotor" moved to Spartak, where most of the "football life" of the attacker took place.
Having shifted himself as one of the best Russian forwards of generation, the novel in 2007-2008 told about his talent and the whole world -
the brilliant game of Pavlyuchenko in Eurocups and, most importantly, the Euro 2008 triumphal for Russians opened all the doors before him.
As a result, almost immediately at the end of the European Championship, where the wards woke bronze medals, the footballer moved to the London Tottenham, where he spoke until 2012, after which he returned to his homeland by signing a contract with Lokomotiv.
The last years, Pavlyuchenko defended the colors of "Kuban" and "Urals", often remaining outside the starting composition of the teams.
In an interview with Gazeta.Ru, the former president, in which the "sleeping giant", as the novel was called for an externally lazy manner of the game, came to the Red and White Club, supported the shuttle service of a football player in Ararat, and also called Pavlyuchenko's career successful.
- Is it possible to say that the transition of Pavlyuchenko in PFL actually precedes the rapid completion of his career?
- I think it's all yes. Perhaps, of course, that "Ararat" will rise to FNL in the next season, but the Roman, probably, you can already forget about the Premier League.
- What do you think, for the club itself, this acquisition is a marketing stroke or a real strengthening?
"It seems to me that it is worth talking about the desire to make it easy to break into the FNL, and then, perhaps, try to go out in RFPL.
By the way, I would not call this idea utopian. And she is quite, so let's say interesting.
- Could the novel still at least a year spent in the highest division?
- In FNL, I think I could. But for the Premier League, it seems to me that he is still not enough speed - plus at the moment in the league now everything is so tight, all "from the knife" goes, everyone is fighting, such a pace at such age is already hard to withstand.
And in the first division you can play both striker, and slightly lowering - in principle, it would be normal if Pavlyuchenko moved there. However, the novel seems to have received a tempting offer from Ararat: I think, everything is put in the club in a quick exit to FNL. So still a year there - and that's it.
- Could Pavlyuchenko offer in Ararat's salary of some teams of RFPL?
- I will not be surprised if you even offered and slightly more.
- Could you imagine that his career would be so?
- We never know how the career ending will pass. And how ended, the same, is a prime confirmation. Or is it better to finish in Kazakhstan than in Ararat?
In addition, it is confident that during his career Pavlyuchenko received everything - won the bronze of the European Championship in 2008, performed in a serious club of the Apple. And it seems to me that his career has developed perfectly. And where to finish ... Everyone must be stocking money before going to the "retirement". And if such an opportunity gives a team from the third division - yes, even from the tenth - it needs to be used.
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Roman Pavlyuchenko was born in the village of Mostovskaya, which is in the Krasnodar Territory. However, his football training passed in other regions of southern Russia - first in a squirrel "victory" in Karachay-Cherkessia, from where at 14 years old Roman moved to the Stavropol "Dynamo". It is in the composition of the white-blue Pavlyuchenko and began his professional career.
However, it was quite quickly noticed at the level of the Supreme Russian Division - and already in 1999, the 18-year-old striker became a player who spent then in the elite of the Volgograd "Rotor". In its first season at such a high level, Pavlyuchenko spent 16 matches, which scored five heads. In total, as part of "Rotor", Forward recorded himself into an asset 67 matches and 15 goals scored.
In 2003, the Moscow Spartak, which had views of Pavlyuchenko, even by his Dynamo player, bought a transfer of Roman from Rotor. A rather fast young attacker joined the main composition of the Red-White and the summer of the same year became the owner of the Russian Cup. Every year Pavlyuchenko progressed and brought more and more beneficial to his team, and the 2006 and 2007 began to be the best bombardr of the Premier League for him during this period.
However, all this will not compare with the success of Roman Pavlyuchenko, together with the Russian national team partners, has achieved at the 2008 European Championships in Austria and Switzerland. Having scored the national team of Spain, Sweden and Holland, he was recognized as one of the best in the team of Gus Hiddink and eventually fell into the symbolic national team of the tournament.
After a successful performance on the euro, the eye on the novel was put in Europe. All of all turned out to be London Tottenham, which was paid for Pavlyuchenko unprecedented money for the Russian championship. Pavlyuchenko signed a contract for four years with the possibility of his prolongation for another year, but not all this time was smooth and stable in the career of the attacker.
It is amazing, but with impressive statistics in the form of 42 goals for 112 matches (it was that she turned out to be the novel from England) Tottenham's mentor far did not always find Pavlyuchenko in the starting lineup of his team. However, even leaving for a replacement and not being in constant game tone, the Russian national team striker scored a lot of important heads. And about his proper attitude to work, he says at least the love of the fans of Tottenham, "they would definitely suspect false immediately. Nevertheless, in the last year-2011/12, Pavlyuchenko provided less than playing time, and he decided to return to his homeland.
May In May spent one match - against "Ruby". Scored.
April went to replace in matches with Dynamo, Torpedo, "Ural" and "Ufa". He received a small injury that did not allow to play with the Gasovik in the Russian Cup.
March went on replacement in the Russian Championship matches with Rostov, Arsenal and Mordovia.
February continued to stamp goals in the second and third assembly in Spain and Turkey. Brought a "locomotive" victory in the match with Dynamo from Bucharest (1: 0), distinguished himself in the game with Elfsborg (2: 0), scored the victorious goal "Wings of the Soviets" (1: 0), won the time against Atletico Paranaense "(0: 0). Became the best scorer of the team on three charges, writing to your account four goals.
January spent one half in the control match with Borussia U-23 (0: 1) on the collection in Turkey. I installed the final bill in a meeting with "Ulysses" (4: 0), scoring a goal at the 81st minute.
December match against the "Urals" spent on the bench. The Grozny Roman did not fly.
November went on a replacement in matches against Dynamo, Torpedo and Ufa. In the metropolitan derby against the white-blue, scored his second ball in the championship, and in the game against the "Avtozavodsky" fell into the crossbar at the very end of the meeting.
October Confident replacement for a replacement in the match with Terek and the scored victorious ball did not allow the Bogovich to leave the novel outside the starting lineup on the Cup Fight. Pavlyuchenko, as always, performed a huge amount of draft work and brought the invaluable benefit of the team, which in October, which had found a decent result on both "battle fronts".
September won 58 minutes in the match with Mordovia.
August appeared on the field in all team matches in August in the championship of Russia. Earned two yellow cards. I scored the "Goal of Prestige" in the home match against Apollon.
July in four control matches was marked by two scored balls at the Black Sea gate. In the last game with the "Bayer" remained on the bench, but came out on the field instead of the lady N'Doye at the 77th minute.
May played in all May Locomotive games. The meeting with CSKA began in the starting lineup of the team.
April The best player of the 26th round of the league, two goals scored and one head transfer are such a Pavlyuchenko achievement in April. In the match against the unstainless "Terek", the novel clearly showed everyone: in the "locomotive" there are two forward of extra-class. It was nominated for the "Player of the Month" award.
March played in four "Locomotive" matches. In the game against the "Wings of the Soviets" replaced N'Doye and already seven minutes after the exit on the field made an ass transfer to Magomed Ozdoeva, whose goal became victorious in the match.
February took part in the five control games "Locomotive". In the match against Yurgorden, I scored one ball, and in a meeting with "Swirling" - three.