Denis Tumasyan is a footballer who defends the colors of the Russian Premier League club Ufa. The tall defender has been playing for the team from Bashkortostan for the fourth season, one of which he played for the "citizens" on loan, while still a player of "Ural".
Biography
Denis Tumasyan was born in 1985 in Kyiv. Soon the boy's family moved to permanent residence in Russia, where he played football in one of the Rostov Youth Sports Schools. Denis's father worked as a football coach, so it is not surprising that the guy also decided to follow in his footsteps. Best of all, the young player managed to prove himself in the position of a defender - in this role he spent most of his playing time. In Rostov, Denis began his professional career as a football player, the guy at that time was barely seventeen years old.
Player career
Having spent his debut season at a high level for SKA Rostov and in professional sports in general, Denis Tumasyan was considered one of the most promising young defenders in Russian football. Nevertheless, with the assistance of coach Alexei Eremenko, in 2004 the Russian player moved to the Finnish Championship, where he defended the colors of the Yaro football club for the next two seasons. For the team from Jakobstad, Tumasyan played 40 matches, in which he managed to score eight times with goals scored - a very serious indicator, especially considering the role of a football player.
Return to Russia
After the Finnish voyage, Denis Tumasyan continued his career in the country, which became his second home. The defender has signed a contract with a club whose glorious traditions date back to the dawn of the last century. However, today Torpedo Moscow only plays in the PFL, but with an eye on the Premier League.
Tumasyan spent two seasons in the capital's team and in 81 matches upset the opponents' goalkeepers nine times with goals scored. Since 2009, Tumasyan has defended the colors of Ural, in which he spent six whole years. The most successful period for the player was the 2012/2013 championship, which the team from Yekaterinburg held in the PFL. The club won the championship and went up in class, and the defender himself, according to the results of voting, became the best player of the year in his role, as well as the top scorer among defensive players.
Denis Tumasyan: Ufa and prospects
Throughout the entire period of playing for the Ural team, Tumasyan remained not only a player in the main team, but also the undisputed leader on the field. However, over time, the club's management "took a course" to rejuvenate the squad. Therefore, a thirty-year-old player in 2014 was forced to go on loan to Ufa. And a season later, he signed a full-fledged contract with the team from Bashkortostan.
Team career
Due to the presence of Armenian roots in the biography of the footballer, in 2011 he received a call to the Armenian national team, but for unknown reasons he never joined the team.
Denis Tumasyan was born into a purely sports family, in which, in addition to his father, a coach, there is a mother - a master of sports in athletics, and two more brothers who are also involved in football.
In his youth, Denis played football well and studied just as badly at school. According to the defender himself, he hardly graduated from high school, after which he immediately went into professional sports.
The football player spent his first earned amount on food from the supermarket. At the age of fifteen, he brought home a huge bag of groceries. Now he is thirty-two, but football and family are still in the first place, and only after - money and other values.
Tumasyan is completely devoted to the sport. He wants to play football for as long as he can, and after the end of his career, he wants to move to an administrative position. But Denis does not aspire to be a coach like his father.
Tumasyan Denis Alexandrovich is one of the most underestimated footballers of his generation. He has Armenian roots, but according to his passport he is Russian.
Childhood and youth
He was born in April, in 1985, in Kyiv. As a child, I was not very fond of sports. He just liked to play football outside. After some time, I decided that I wanted to try myself in this direction. The young man's parents were not opposed and fully supported him. In Kyiv, he studied exclusively at the children's level. When I worked out a little football, I felt all the charm of this sport. Begins to dream of one day entering the field as a professional.
Denis Tumasyan did not stay long in the capital of Ukraine and at the age of seventeen he moved to Rostov. The guy showed himself well at the training camp and signed a contract with the local SKA. This is how his career began, which he so dreamed of a few years ago.
Performances at a professional level
Season 2002/2003 spends in the Rostov team. Plays pretty well. Thirty-one times he enters the field and scores two goals. The next year he decides to go to Finland. The athlete spent some time in YaBK, after which he moved to Yaro. There is information that the move to this country greatly contributed. Outside of Russia, he will spend only one year and show a simply amazing game. He will enter the field forty times and score eight goals. It is noteworthy that he became the most productive defender of the championship.
In 2006, Denis Tumasyan joined the ranks of the capital's Torpedo. Here he will be the main defender for two years. During this time, he will play in eighty-one matches and score nine goals. Rumors began to appear in the press that the giants of Russian football were interested in the center back, but he moved to Ural, which at that time represented the First League. In the new team, he immediately becomes the main one. For five years he was a stable player in the starting lineup. He became one of the main "culprits" of the "bumblebees" entering the Major League. In total, he played one hundred and twelve matches for the club and scored eleven goals.
In 2014, he went on loan to Ufa. He will show a confident game right away and next year he will become a permanent player of Ufimtsy, where he still plays to this day.
Team career
A very productive defender is Denis Tumasyan. The football player has scored thirty-eight goals since 2004. Despite the excellent statistics, he never played for the Russian national team. In 2011, the Football Federation of Armenia decided to take advantage of this. This summer, he received a call from the Armenian team. It was planned that the player would make his debut in one of the friendly matches. Unfortunately, it was not possible to enter the field.
The media actively began to disseminate information that the defender has some problems with documents. Since then, he has not received any more calls to any national team.
Many experts confidently say that this player is one of the best defenders in Russia. He could be a great reinforcement for the national team, but the coaches do not want to use this opportunity.
Achievements and awards
In the 2012/2013 season, together with Ural, Denis Tumasyan became the winner of the National Football League. In 2012 and 2013 replenished the collection of awards with the National League Cup.
In the championship 2012/2013 he became the best defender of the First League. At the end of the season, he also received the title of the most scored defensive player.
Unfortunately, the player has no more awards. There is no doubt that if he had played in stronger clubs, he would have had much more team and individual awards.
Now the Ufa player is only thirty years old. If he continues to perform at the same high level, there is a chance that he will join the ranks of one of the championship leaders. It is believed that this age is the most suitable for defenders. It remains only to wish good luck and hope that Denis Tumasyan will still be able to declare himself at the top of his voice and, perhaps, make his debut in the national team. This defender is one of the few who really deserves to spend the rest of his career at the highest level.
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