Andrey Arshavin is one of the most successful Russian footballers, a longtime captain of the Russian national team. He ended his career in Kazakhstan's "Kairat" quite recently. His fans are actively interested in what the legendary midfielder is doing now.

Football career and sporting triumph

Andrey had a penchant for football since childhood. Noticing this, the parents sent the boy to the "Change" school, where he formed as a player.

Andrey Arshavin's adult sports career began precisely with the "Change" team. From the age of 18, he was already on the lists of Zenit, and at 19 he was brought to the main team.

The star of fame came to Arshavin when he was already the captain of Zenit. In 2008, this team under his leadership took the UEFA Cup. In the same year, at the European Championships, the Russian team, in which he was also the captain, took third place in continental league. It was a takeoff.

After the championship, offers from European clubs began to arrive. For 8 years, Arshavin played with Zenit, then moved to Arsenal, where he became one of the most successful players in the London team. But "on top" he was not for long, and in 2014, according to The Mirror, he was recognized as the worst striker in the history of the British club. He had to return to Zenit.

Andrey spent only two years in the St. Petersburg club. Then there was a contract with Kuban, which he tore up to go to Kairat. At the end of 2018 - December 3 - the footballer announced his retirement from professional sports.

What is Andrei Arshavin doing now?

Having recovered from an injury received in 2017, Andrey played a season in Kairat and entered the top five. Despite this, the club did not renew the contract, and Arshavin left Kazakhstan. This prompted him to end his career.

Andrey spent six months of his life outside of sports in proceedings with his ex-wife Alisa Kazmina, who announced threats coming from Arshavin. There is no official information about the future plans of the football player. He has not participated in major sports or political projects since the end of his career.

However, in February 2019, the athlete received a coaching license, which gives hope to hear about him in the sports world in the future.

Andrey Arshavin for his 20th anniversary sports career has proven itself strong man and a great player. And despite the difficulties that the athlete has been facing lately, his strength of character is enough to solve problems and continue to contribute to the sport.

It seemed like yesterday: the quarter-finals of the 2008 European Championship, Russia's victory over the Netherlands - and mass festivities throughout the country, despite the night time (in Moscow, people poured into Manezhnaya and Pushkinskaya squares, traffic was completely blocked on Tverskaya, and the whole city heard the victorious rumble of cars ). However, it was celebrated not only in Russia.

It was a high point for a whole generation Russian players. But one still stood apart. Andrey Arshavin was the most important creator of success in that match and, in principle, the team's bronze at Euro 2008.

He was ranked among the best players in Russia long before he played on his first international tournament on such a scale. Peak club career Shavy became a victory in the UEFA Cup; at that time, Andrei was a playmaker and scorer in one person at Zenit. Lots of important goals and assists, victories over strong opponents - and here is the second most important European club trophy over the head of the best player in the final.

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Andrey Arshavin with the UEFA Cup

In the same year, Zenit also won the European Super Cup, and Arshavin became one of the contenders for the Golden Ball and took the most honorable 6th place according to the voting results. The time has come to move on, especially since the outstanding, and most importantly, stable game of a football player has attracted the attention of leading European clubs.

Andrei moved to Arsenal, although he dreamed of Barcelona (the football player will score in the 1/8 finals of the 2010/11 Champions League). The forward made his debut for new club in February 2009, and a month later he scored his first goal. Being on a dashing rise, the newcomer of the Gunners a month later designed poker for Liverpool - and it was a really cool achievement: before that, none of the players had scored four times at Anfield in the Premier League for 63 years.

Although the English championship was less suitable for Arshavin than the Spanish one, for the first couple of years the striker hard cemented his place in the history of the new club. Goals, assists, even captaincy - fans doted on Andrey, who from the first day at Arsenal showed a serious attitude towards partners and the press: he began to confidently communicate in a new language for himself. For the local media, a footballer from Russia spitting in English looked wild: Roman Pavlyuchenko, who had been in Foggy Albion for half a year by that time, still gave interviews exclusively in Russian. Arshavin, more than once during recent months On the eve of moving to the Premier League, they saw him with an English tutorial. Such determination could not but cause respect.

January 2011 - it was then that the unfortunate shooting of a player in an advertisement for chips happened.

Six months later, there was another one.

These videos have long become classics, like the word “chips eater”. And it's never about advertising potato products - in the end, even Messi participated in the promo of the same company. But after that only Andrey was spread rot. Because since then, a lot of things have happened that no one around liked: from the forward's family to the fans. In short, Arshavin:

• left his wife in the fifth month of pregnancy with two children
• after the failure of the national team at Euro 2012, he issued a resonant "Your expectations are your problems"
• being drunk disgraced on face control in night club London
• due to poor form and disregard for the game, he received many harsh epithets from analysts and fans, the most innocent of which is “the shame of all football”
• Dropped out of Arsenal

(Here we need to make a thematic digression: at the same time, the well-known bookmaker Paddy Power, not far from the Arsenal club store, posted a banner about Arshavin with the inscription: “Andrey, we learned that you could make an effort ... to clean the toilets in block D. How to translate the word "plunger" into Russian?".)

The motivation for the company was as follows (quote): “Arshavin does nothing and earns 50 thousand pounds a week for sitting on a comfortable bench, watching football and chatting with an assistant head coach. It's outrageous. We advocate that such highly paid reservists find a second job.

• asked for it back to Zenit, where, in the end, he also ended up on the bench

After Arshavin’s words “everything is between us,” Yulia Baranovskaya, who was not officially married to the father of her children and could not count on alimony, thought and thought - and filed first with the London court, and after - St. Petersburg. The final in the scandalous parting came only in the summer of 2014: the ex-partners entered into an amicable agreement, according to which the football player wrote Baranovskaya a three-ruble note in St. Petersburg and a car and undertook to pay half of the monthly income.

One must think that after the break with the captain of the Russian national team, Baranovskaya crossed herself three times. Now she is a successful TV presenter who can afford, for example, this.

But Andrey is not exactly sad. In September 2016, he played a wedding with former journalist Alisa Kazmina - the one to whom he left Baranovskaya - and in February 2017 they had a daughter.

In general, it somehow happened that Arshavin nevertheless took up his mind. True, not at Zenit anymore: the club did not renew the agreement with him. The forward moved to the championship of Kazakhstan - almost everyone was sure that they would finish the game. Andrey considered: to play. Since 2015, he has played 82 matches for Kairat, scored 26 goals and made 28 assists, won the Cup and the Super Cup of the country and became the best player in the Kazakhstan Championship - 2016. For example, a football player recently scored his 20th goal in a local Premier League.

The player, who has gained a second youth, is still enchanting, is included in the symbolic teams and generally lifts the Kazakh championship with all his might. And also - for once he says Right words: "Football is not tired - this is my favorite pastime in my life." Indeed, better late than never.

The World Cup is on the way, and given Andrey's cheerful mood and form, many fans and experts are calling for the return of the ex-captain to the national team. On May 29, 2018, Arshavin turned 37 years old - he is almost two years younger than Sergei Ignashevich, whom Cherchesov called to national team. Stanislav Salamovich, why not give a chance to Shava?

Passion for football in the biography of Arshavin manifested itself at the age of seven. It was then that he began to play football at a sports school under the coaching of Gordeev, Vinogradov. Andrey entered the Institute of Technology and Design in the chemical-technological department. In 1999, Andrei Arshavin was accepted into the Zenit reserve. Due to absences at the institute (I had to train a lot with the team), I moved to the department of technology, fashion design.

At the age of nineteen, he began to play in the main team. Since then, footballer Arshavin, being part of the Zenit team, has scored 71 goals.

In 2002, in the biography of Andrei Arshavin, he made his debut in the Russian national team, the next year he played for the youth team. At the end of Euro 2004, he began to participate in all Zenit games.

In 2007, football player Andrei Arshavin became the captain of Zenit. And a little later - the Russian team. At Euro 2008, despite a not very good start, he was named the best player in the match against Holland. In general, throughout his career, he received the title of the best football player many times.

FROM future wife Arshavin met in 2003. Now two children are brought up in the family of Andrei Arshavin: a son (born in 2005), a daughter (born in 2008).

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Andrey Arshavin could remain in the memory of the fans as a symbol Russian football. For some time he was such, but numerous scandals greatly spoiled the reputation of a football player. Now former captain of the Russian team was out of work and most Russian clubs they just don't want to deal with him. He was at the pinnacle of fame and managed to lose everything in a few years. A family, successful career and the respect of the fans is now for Arshavin in the past. But in this past there are many episodes worthy of attention.

Biography of Andrei Arshavin

Arshavin Andrey Sergeevich was born on May 29, 1981 in St. Petersburg. Already at the age of seven, he became interested in football, and his parents brought the future player of the Russian national team to sports school"Change"(current academy of FC Zenit), Where is Andrey Arshavin gradually turned into professional football player. And in 2000, at the age of 19, the midfielder will make his debut for main team Northern capital, after which it is quickly fixed at the base. In Arshavin, as in many other young players like Malafeeva and Kerzhakova then believed Main coach"Zenith" Yuri Andreevich Morozov. At first, the mentor was criticized for dubious personnel policy. However, when in the 2001 season "Zenith" for the first time in 15 years he won the medals of the Russian championship, it became clear to everyone that Morozov's bet played. Arshavin begins to get into the ratings over and over again the best players countries, sometimes rising to the first place in them. And Zenit, in the heyday of Arshavin, becomes one of the leading clubs in Russia and gradually begins to make itself known in Europe.

In 2002, the midfielder could end up in the Moscow "Spartacus", whose head coach, Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev, I wanted to see in the team a player of this type, like Andrey Arshavin. Biography the player could look different now if the parties had come to an agreement then. But Arshavin did not agree to the transfer when he found out that Spartak planned to use him only as a right midfielder. Arshavin remains in St. Petersburg, where a year later he meets the future mother of his children - Julia Baranovskaya. This girl will play a very important role in Arshavin's life, supporting him in all life situations. The difficult character of Arshavin has been well known for a long time, but Yulia managed to find an approach to him and Andrei for many years, largely due to her influence, did not always show him in public. Almost immediately after they met in 2003, they began to live together, and two years later the couple had their first child - son Artem.

The Dick Lawyer era

With coming Dick Advocaat to the post of head coach of Zenit in 2006, the team played at a new level. The team finished the season in 4th place, and this allowed them to participate in the draw UEFA Cup 2007/2008, and Andrey Arshavin was recognized as a best football player of the year and received the captain's armband in the Russian team.

He also started the 2007 season at Zenit as a captain, but was soon convicted of violating the sports regime and lost the captain's armband. Then this role passed to Anatoly Timoshchuk, who had just moved to Zenit from Donetsk Shakhtar» for 20 million dollars, and this amount at that time became record for Russian clubs in. The team begins to win victory after victory and, at the end of the season, wins the gold medals of the Russian championship. It was the first victory in the national championship in 23 years since USSR Championship-1984.

In the UEFA Cup, Zenit did not go through the group stage without problems and advanced to the playoffs only from third place. But then Villarreal, Marseille Olympic, Bayer and Bayern! Fans after the match "Petrovsky", when the most titled team in Germany was defeated with a score of 4: 0, they were ready to carry the team in their arms. Arshavin did not take part in that match due to disqualification, but he was destined to become the hero of the final match. And on May 14, 2008 at the stadium City of Manchester St. Petersburg club scores against the Scottish Rangers two unanswered balls and becomes UEFA Cup winner, and Andrei Arshavin is recognized as the best player of this meeting. The hunt for the Russian midfielder begins best clubs Europe, and he himself is preparing to go to Euro 2008.

EURO 2008

AT last match qualifications for European Championship 2008 Andrey Arshavin received a red card and missed the first two matches of the tournament. The start was not the most successful, and in the first match the Russian team was defeated by the Spaniards with a score of 4:1. But the team did not lose heart and next game defeated the Greek national team (1:0). By the third match, Arshavin had already served his suspension and made a significant contribution to the final victory of the team, scoring the second goal against the Swedish national team. And in the quarterfinals, the most powerful Holland national team, which was considered the favorite not only of this match, but of the entire tournament.

The game with Holland is still fresh in the memory of many fans. It was, perhaps, best match Russian national team for the entire period of its existence. And Arshavin played so brilliantly that even the most ardent critics of this football player wrote laudatory odes to him after the game. An assist and a goal in extra time, which put an end to this confrontation. The emotions of Russian fans knew no bounds. Only 700 thousand people took to the streets of Moscow after the match to celebrate the victory. Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink then he commented on the game of Arshavin:

“He allows opponents to run close, but it is almost impossible to take the ball away from him! Nature generously rewarded him. In addition, he has a strong character. He is a winner by nature. And I really enjoy working with him.”, said the coach.

After there was a defeat in the semi-finals from Spain national team, which will eventually become the champion and begin to dominate European football for many years, but no one reproached this Russian football players. The Russian national team was greeted at home as heroes, and Arshavin was the first violin of that magnificent team.

After Euro 2008, the midfielder won another European club trophy. in the match for UEFA Super Cup was defeated "Manchester United". In the same year, another joy happened in the Arshavin family - Yulia Baranovskaya gave birth to his daughter Yana. And according to the results of voting on "Golden Ball-2008" attacking midfielder took sixth place.

"Arsenal"

In February 2009 after long negotiations with the leadership of Zenit, the football player moves to London Arsenal. The agreement was signed for three years, and Andrey Arshavin's salary amounted to 3.64 million euros per year. Later, the contract will be revised, since at that time the player did not know that he would have to give almost half of his earnings to pay taxes. Andrey Arshavin and Yulia Baranovskaya move to London where a completely different life awaits them. None of them knew English, and at first it was not easy in a new place. As Baranovskaya later said, at meetings with the wives of Arsenal footballers, she often not only did not understand her interlocutors and looked like a black sheep. But soon the young family adapted, and the eldest child in the Arshavin family eventually began to speak English more often. English language than in Russian.

Arshavin made his debut in a new club February 21, 2009 year and after that gradually became a player of the main team. Among London fans, he acquired the nickname "Shava", which in England is still called a football player. The Russian midfielder was named Man of the Match in the Premier League several times, and in April 2009 he scored the first in his career. "poker". And this is in match with Liverpool on the "Enfield Road"! Four goals from one player in one match "red" not missed for 63 years.

Scandals

In 2011, changes begin in Arshavin's life. First, he leaves the main squad "Gunners", increasingly staying on the bench, and after that the club leases him to Zenit. The footballer goes to St. Petersburg alone, leaving his family in London. But in the composition "blue-white-blue" Arshavin no longer showed the game that they were used to fans of Zenith.

In the summer of 2012, the Russian team went to Euro 2012 held in the fields Ukraine and Poland. The national team was assigned great expectations and the team was expected to at least qualify from the group. In the first match, Russia defeated the Czech Republic 4:1 and such a start was promising. But then there were draws with Poland and a defeat from Greece, which did not allow the Russian team to continue playing at the tournament. After the match, a group of fans approached Arshavin, headed by a deputy State Duma Anton Belyakov. The football player was asked if he was not ashamed in front of tens of millions of Russian football fans for the failed result of the team and unjustified expectations? To which the midfielder replied: “Your expectations are not our problems. It's your problems". This statement caused a big wave of indignation, and the leadership of Zenit refused to buy Arshavin's contract from Arsenal. Companies pepsi and "Lays" also stopped working with the footballer, and he returned to London ingloriously.

Andrey Arshavin personal life

After returning to Arsenal, Arshavin was unable to become a base player again. Moreover, he was even recognized as the worst football player following the results of the match with "Machester United". The midfielder began to be noticed drunk, and this further spoiled the attitude of the Arsenal management towards the player. The football player returns to Zenit again, but no longer in the status of a European football star. And in St. Petersburg, the football player finds himself at the epicenter of another scandal, this time not related to football. The midfielder starts an affair with journalist Alisa Kazmina at a time when Yulia Baranovskaya is expecting his third child in London. The football player's wife finds out about the betrayal from the media, and the player's family begins to crumble. do not hide the relationship and often appear together at social events. The football player leaves the family and becomes the main character of the yellow magazines. And on the football field, the midfielder can no longer even occasionally resemble himself five years ago. He falls into depression and finally loses shape.

Andrey Arshavin and Alisa Kazmina

Arshavin stops communicating with his children for a while. Yulia Baranovskaya sues him in the summer of 2014 and seeks monthly payments for the maintenance of children in the amount of 50% of the salary she receives Andrey Arshavin. Personal life The midfielder once again comes under the scrutiny of journalists when he, together with Kazmina, flies to the Maldives with her son and his two older children, Artem and Yana.

Andrey Arshavin and Alisa Kazmina wedding

The footballer's acquaintances begin to talk about the couple's intention to legalize the relationship. A mansion is being completed near St. Petersburg, which Baranovskaya began to plan, but they move in Andrey Arshavin and Alisa Kazmina. On September 1, 2016, Andrey and Alice got married, and on February 11, 2017, their daughter Yesenya was born. Andrei Arshavin became a father for the fourth time. This is the first joint child star couple. Prior to this, the football player lived for 10 years in a civil marriage with the host Yulia Baranovskaya, who bore him three children: Artem, Yana and Arseniy. For his wife Alice, the newborn became the third child, from a previous marriage she has a son and a daughter, whom Andrei has now taken care of. He has not seen his own children for two years, although Baranovskaya does not interfere with their communication.

Where is Andrei Arshavin?

Now Andrei Arshavin has completely moved with his family to Alma-Ata and is a midfielder for the Kazakhstani Kairat. According to Arshavin himself, Russian fans are unlikely to see him on the field in official matches. He appears on the playing field less and less, but, in the least, does not regret the decision to move to Kazakhstan. The current game brings him pleasure, since in no club Andrey Arshivin will be able to play on professional level, except in veteran matches.

It's time to end your career. When asked by correspondents about his future career, Andrey Arshavin answered this way: “I would like to work more in the club, dealing with sports issues, and not bureaucratic or some other.” He himself said that he did not want to be a coach, explaining this with his difficult character. It remains only to guess what Arshavin will surprise us with next time.

The peak of Arshavin's career came at the beginning of the millennium, and in 2008 he was recognized as the best player in the Russian team. For four years, Andrei Arshavin played for the English Arsenal, and then returned to Zenit, where he began his professional career.

Now he is a player of the Kazakh "Kairat" and last season he entered the top five players in the Kazakh Premier League. In the personal life of Andrei Arshavin, during all this time there have been many events that have been actively discussed in the media.

Personal life of Andrei Arshavin

The football player created his first family during the take-off of his career, and when he was invited to play for the London Arsenal, he already had two children. The fact that Andrei became a real family man did not prevent him from having affairs on the side, about which Andrei Arshavin's first wife, Yulia Baranovskaya, might have guessed, but forgave a lot.

In the photo - Andrey Arshavin and Yulia Baranovskaya

However, after nine years of marriage, her husband announced to her that he was leaving for another - the former model Alisa Kazmina turned out to be Arshavin's new love. But even in a new marriage, the football player could not refuse novels on the side, because of which his second family almost collapsed.

Alisa Kazmina and Andrey Arshavin

Andrey Arshavin and Yulia Baranovskaya

They met when Andrei was just starting his career at Zenit and was already showing great promise. Baranovskaya said that their first meeting, which took place during a walk along Nevsky Prospekt, completely changed her biography.

Before meeting Arshavin, Yulia was going to enter a university, but the rapidly developing relationship with the Zenit football player changed all her plans.

They almost immediately began to live together, in 2005 Baranovskaya gave birth to their first child - the son of Artem, and two years later, daughter Yana was born.

When her daughter was two years old, Andrei Arshavin was invited to London to play for the local Arsenal, and they were not going to refuse such an advantageous offer.

Together with his family, the footballer moved to the British capital, where they had to live for three whole years.

Despite having two children, Arshavin and Baranovskaya were in no hurry to register their marriage officially - Andrei Arshavin’s wife says she didn’t see the point in this, because next to her husband she always had a feeling real family that will last forever.

When the contract ended, and Arshavin had to return to St. Petersburg, his wife decided to stay in London so as not to tear her older children away from their studies and not deprive them of their familiar environment. However, hopes for a happy future collapsed when she found out that her husband had met a new love and decided to leave the family.

Andrei told Yulia about this by phone - he already knew that his common-law wife was expecting a third child, but this did not stop him from making such a decision.

The third child of Arshavin was born in London, but his appearance did not force Andrei to return to the family.

Later, Baranovskaya and her children moved to Moscow, where she had to build new life. The profession of a TV presenter, which she discovered for herself in the Russian capital, gave Yulia a lot. Baranovskaya started with the show "The Bachelor" on TNT, then - the project on "Russia-1" "Girls", and later she became co-host of Alexander Gordon in the talk show "Male / Female".

In the photo - Yulia Baranovskaya with children

Julia says that after her ex-husband left her alone with three children, she had to seek child support through the courts and prove that they have the right to it.

Andrey Arshavin and Alisa Kazmina

The second, but already the official wife of Andrei Arshavin, was the former model Alisa Kazmina.

Arshavin with his second wife

They began dating three years before their wedding in September 2016. Then Alice was already divorced and raised two children from her first marriage.

For the first time, together with Arshavin, they saw her in the spring of 2013, when they came to basketball game between Barcelona and Real Madrid. At first, Kazmina, an unknown graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg University, was confused with the English top model Leilani Daudin, and conflicting rumors about Andrei Arshavin's novel appeared in the media.

Meanwhile, Alice acted decisively, not embarrassed by relations with a married football player, and soon they began to openly appear in public places.

Alice Kazmina went down the aisle with a noticeably rounded belly, and soon the newly-made wife of Andrei Arshavin gave birth to his daughter Yesenia, who became the third child for Alice and the fourth for Andrei.

Scandal in the Arshavin family

Alice's cloudless personal life was a little over a year, and thirteen months after the wedding, rumors reached her that Andrei was cheating on her with another. The secret passion of the football player was a model named Ekaterina, whom he met even before the wedding with Kazmina - at his birthday.

The relationship did not end with just one date and lasted a whole year - Arshavin simultaneously had an affair with two women at once, one of whom was his future wife.

The secret relationship with Katya lasted a whole year - they arranged dates in hotels, restaurants and airports, Arshavin gave his beloved expensive gifts, invited him to his matches.

Catherine was also not free then - she had a relationship with a young man who did not suspect that his girlfriend was cheating on him with a famous football player.

When Alice found out about this, she put the question squarely and told Arshavin about her intention to divorce him. It is interesting that Katya's husband, whom she married not so long ago, informed about the betrayal of Andrei Kazmina.

But the seemingly inevitable divorce in the new Arshavin family did not take place - Alice, after thinking, decided to forgive the wrong one. She was touched by the tearful apologies of her husband, who sincerely repented of his betrayal. It seemed especially valuable to Kazmina that her husband asked her forgiveness publicly and repented of treason in one of his interviews.

Alisa Kazmina with children

From this, the football player's wife concluded that he values ​​\u200b\u200bthe family very much and does not want to lose her. To completely smooth out the conflict, Arshavin gave his wife a fabulous vacation, and took Alice with her children to the Maldives, where they spent a fabulous vacation.

In one of the interviews, the football player admitted that he walked away from Alice, but now he is madly sorry about it. However, it is not known how sincere Arshavin was, assuring his wife that the family is the main thing for him - after some time there were rumors that he had twisted new novel, this time with the Kazakh model Olga Semenova, with whom he was seen in one of the restaurants.

He not only talked with a gorgeous blonde, but also hugged her waist. Alice, having seen the video from this party posted on Instagram, responded to her opponent with threats, and Semenova, in retaliation, presented the video to the public. The model does not say anything about whether it was a fleeting date, or whether it had a continuation.

Short biography of Andrey Arshavin

Arshavin was born in Leningrad on May 29, 1981. His father himself played football well and decided to introduce his son to this sport.

When Andrei was seven years old, his mother brought him to the Smena sports school, and at sixteen he began to play for the school's adult team.

In 2000, Arshavin was invited to the Zenit main team, and before that he was a player in his farm club.

Andrey scored his first hatt-trick in 2003 in a match with Saturn near Moscow, and after ten assists in the Russian championship in 2003, Arshavin became one of the most productive assistants in the championship.

Andrei Arshavin's highest achievement was playing in the UEFA Cup, and in the same year he became the owner of the European Super Cup. In February 2009, Arshavin began playing for the London Arsenal, in 2013 he returned to Zenit, and since November 2015, Andrey Arshavin has been playing for the Kazakh Kairat.