Igor Denisov

Igor Vladimirovich Denisov is a midfielder of the Russian national team and the capital's Lokomotiv, widely known to football fans. From 2001 to 2013, he played for the Zenit football club. Many considered Igor Denisov one of the brightest figures of the famous St. Petersburg team: he brought the club many glorious victories. A rebel with a difficult character and at the same time a fighter, an inborn leader - he is a real star of Russian sports.

The native Petersburger Igor Denisov was born in May 1984. His zodiac sign is Taurus. It seems that it was he who generously endowed the football player with stubbornness and perseverance in achieving his goals.

Football became a part of his life from the age of 8, when the boy began to learn to play in the special school "Turbobuilder" of the Leningrad Metallurgical Plant, where he trained with Mikhail Sharov. A couple of years later, Igor moved to the sports school "Smena" to coach Kostrovsky. As part of this team, he won the 2000 youth championship. This championship became fateful: the promising footballer was noticed and invited to the prestigious St. Petersburg club Zenit.

After graduating from a sports school, Igor showed an excellent game during two football seasons as part of the youth squad of the famous team. His individual style and level of play did not go unnoticed by the coaches and the leadership of the Russian youth team.

For a little more than a year, he stayed in the reserve squad, and already in 2002 he was transferred to the base of the team, where the skillful management of Dick Advocaat polished the player's talent and raised his skill level. Victory follows victory, and since 2009, Igor Denisov has been strengthening his position in the list of 33 best players according to the RFK with his game, and since 2010 he has been occupying the honorable top line of this list.

Experts have repeatedly noted the universal qualities of the player. Igor Denisov is strong in attack and tenacious in defense. His assertiveness and determination allowed the footballer to tie up the attacks of the opponent's forwards. In 2008, Igor Denisov managed to score the decisive goal for the Glasgow Rangers. And in 2009, speaking at the Russian Championship, he won a bronze medal together with the Zenit team. During that season, the athlete played more than 30 matches with the St. Petersburg team, scoring one goal.

Denisov's debut in the Russian national team took place on October 11, 2008 in the qualifying match against Germany for the 2010 World Cup. The game, despite the defeat, allowed the player to gain a foothold in the national team. In just a short time before the beginning of 2009, Igor Denisov played 11 matches for the national team. The 2012 European Championship was his first international tournament with a national team. Having played three matches in the group, Denisov, like the whole team, did not achieve success.

In August 2012, at a friendly match with the Ivory Coast national team, Igor Denisov appeared in front of those present with a captain's armband. However, she soon migrated to Roman Shirokov.

As part of the team of St. Petersburg Zenit, Igor gained fame, the titles of the champion of Russia, the winner of the Premier League Cup, the Super Cup of Russia, the UEFA Super Cup, recognition by the Russian Football Union as the best football player of the year for several years in a row.

The skillful play of the young midfielder contributed to Zenit's victories in the Premier League two seasons in a row. These were the "gold" 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.

The complex character of a football player often led to all sorts of confrontations and scandals. An example is his refusal to enter the field in a crucial match against Krylya Sovetov in September 2012. As a result of disagreements with the leadership, Igor Denisov leaves his home club.

Igor Denisov repeatedly quarreled with the opposing teams. For example, in 2010, the athlete was disqualified by the ethics committee of the Russian Football Union for as many as 4 games. Motivation - "for aggressive and abusive behavior." In an open training session with Spartak, the footballer almost got into a fight with Vladislav Radimov, who headed the team. He reprimanded him when he saw the violation of the rules. Denisov swore at Radimov in front of many of those present.

For the first time Igor Denisov got into the chronicle of incidents after his 21st birthday. As it turned out, he was celebrating it so violently in one of the cafes in St. Petersburg that the residents of nearby houses called the police. The birthday boy did not even think to retreat. He almost got into a fight with law enforcement officers who came to calm him down.

And in 2010 Igor Denisov unexpectedly went out of action due to a mysterious injury. Meticulous journalists found out its nature very soon. As it turned out, the footballer in an off-road vehicle was driving to the team's location in the morning, but was "cut off" by a training vehicle. A girl was driving her. And although the accident was avoided, the instructor of the girl got well from the hot-tempered SUV driver, Denisov broke his nose. But at the same time he suffered himself: he arrived at the training, limping.

In 2012, during the match with Spartak, the athlete flared so badly that he kicked the ball with all his might towards the bench where the representatives of the opposing team were sitting. The head coach of "Spartak" Valery Karpin made a remark to the brawler. He did not remain silent. Karpin burst into abuse, to which the player responded in kind. The heated men almost clashed in hand-to-hand combat.

In the fall of 2012, the athlete announced to coach Luciano Spalletti that he would not enter the field due to "lack of motivation." As it turned out, he was referring to his salary. Dissatisfaction with the earnings happened when the legionnaires Hulk and Witsel came to the team, who were paid significantly more. Igor Denisov decided that he should receive no less. The peak of the heat was in the match against Krylia Sovetov. Then the coach of the team told reporters that the players during the game do not think about the result, but about money. As a result - a transfer and another "link" to another team.

There are a lot of such stories with scandals in which Igor Denisov fell. The recalcitrant, obstinate and at the same time bright football player was bought by Anji Dagestan, paying € 15 million for him. Having signed a contract for 4 years in July 2013, Igor did not yet know that in August of the same year he would have to look for a new team.

In August 2013, the media reported that the player had a conflict with Anji captain Samuel Eto'o. They started talking about terminating the contract with Denisov. But the chairman of the board of directors of Anji denied this information. As the correspondents of the newspaper "Sport Day by Day" managed to find out, the former Zenit player from the very beginning did not work out relations with Samuel Eto'o and midfielder Lassana Diarra. Igor Denisov believed that Eto'o was provoking him on purpose in order to make way for his friend Diarra.

Soon after the St. Petersburg player left, Suleiman Kerimov disbanded the team. In football circles, they started talking about the fact that the hot-tempered Igor Denisov provokes crisis situations in the teams. A meme with an image of an athlete and the inscription: “I'm breaking up teams. Expensive".

In mid-August, Igor Denisov, together with Yuri Zhirkov and Alexander Kokorin, moved to Dynamo Moscow. Igor confidently controls the center of the field as a defensive midfielder. His unpredictable transmissions lead to dangerous thrills. The quarrel with coach Stanislav Cherchesov after losing to Zenit 0: 1 became a turning point in the football player's career at the Moscow club. Denisov received a fine of RUB 21 million. for being rude towards the coach. The footballer filed a lawsuit against Dynamo and won the case, after which the relationship with the coaching staff finally came to naught.

The young and talented football player was repeatedly called up to the Russian national team in 2005-2006, but he did not take part in matches. Igor Denisov also managed to make a scandal in the national team. So, in May 2008, he was not included in the preliminary list of players for Euro 2008. In this regard, he sent complaints to the coaching staff of the national team.

Denisov received the long-awaited invitation to the national team after Zenit's victory in the UEFA Cup, but refused it. In the end, the head coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink, announced that Igor Denisov was a full candidate for the Russian national team, but only after the end of the European Championship. In 2014, the official decision was made that the holding midfielder of Dynamo Igor Denisov will go to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.

Igor Denisov was supposed to play as part of the Russian national team at the European Championship in 2016. But on June 5, during a friendly match with the Serbian team in the 49th minute of the game, he was seriously injured. The doctors, having examined the athlete, decided that he would not be able to play at full strength. Therefore, Igor Denisov gave way to Zenit midfielder Artur Yusupov.

In August 2016, he transferred to the Moscow club Lokomotiv on a free lease basis. Soon the athlete distinguished himself by scoring a goal against the Tom team. A year later, Denisov signed a full-fledged contract with the football club. Thanks to Igor's goal scored against the Yekaterinburg Ural in May 2017, Lokomotiv won the seasonal Russian Cup.

Both the career and personal life of Igor Denisov have developed. The footballer has a strong family. Together with his wife Elena Denisova, the footballer is raising four children: daughter Victoria and three sons: Igor, Ivan and Daniil.

It is known that Igor Denisov is strong in chess. According to the famous grandmaster Peter Svidler, he would have made an excellent chess player. This conclusion was made by the master after 3 games with a football player.

It is known that Igor Denisov is very fond of dogs. Two pets lived in his house - dogs Brunya and Afonya, a rare breed of Boerboel. Some fans of the athlete jokingly nicknamed their pet Boerboel.

The football player is fond of diving. Initially, he began diving in the Maldives, then studied in St. Petersburg. A professional instructor instilled a love of the ward for the ocean. Now Igor can easily dive even where there are sharks.

Denisov's fans are interested in his salary. Initially, at the age of 18, Igor received 1 thousand rubles each. per month. A year later, having become the captain of the second team, his earnings increased to 13,200 rubles. After the footballer announced himself in the main squad two years later, his income amounted to $ 150 thousand. At this time, Denisov managed to establish his life, buy a car, an apartment.

The football player's income during his stay in the Makhachkala club reached € 5 million per season. Igor Denisov managed to play 3 meetings for the Anji team. And when the player moved from Anji to Dynamo Moscow, it became known that the midfielder earned € 4 million a year under the contract. This information appeared on one of the sports sites.

Denisov prefers live communication with friends and family, therefore only photos dedicated to the game of football are posted on the Instagram page acting on his behalf.

The 2017/2018 season turned out to be successful in the sports biography of Igor Denisov. Together with the team of Lokomotiv Moscow, the footballer became the champion of Russia. The second and third places were shared by other capital clubs - CSKA and Spartak, respectively.

In May 2018, Igor Denisov met with the popular blogger Yuri Dude, to whom he gave a detailed interview.

2007, 2010, 2011/12 - champion of Russia with Zenit 2003, 2012/13 - silver medalist of the Russian championship with Zenit 2009 - bronze medalist of the Russian championship with Zenit 2003 - winner of the Premier League Cup with Zenit 2009/10 - Winner of the Russian Cup with Zenit 2008, 2011 - Winner of the Russian Super Cup with Zenit 2007/08 - Winner of the UEFA Cup with Zenit 2008 - Winner of the UEFA Super Cup with Zenit 2016 / 17 - Winner of the Russian Cup with Lokomotiv 2017/18 - Champion of Russia with Lokomotiv

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