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The best young footballers in Russia: what happened to them?

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 13:42:04

The prestigious British publication The Guardian annually publishes a list of the most talented soccer players in the world. Martin Odegaard, Kai Havertz, Christian Pulisic, Federico Valverde and other modern football stars have justified all hopes, but once upon a time Russian players were on the same level with them. The updated list for 2022 did without the Russians, but how did the careers of those who entered earlier play out?

year 2014 Timur Zhamaletdinov (CSKA)

In 2014, the CSKA graduate brilliantly declared himself in the Youth Champions League, in which he scored goals against Roma and Bayern. Analysts called him fast, endowed with technique and good field vision, and some even compared him to Luis Suárez.

Photo source: PFC CSKA

In 2016, the then CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky began to involve Timur in training camps with the main team, and later he even began to give opportunities in the RPL. Unfortunately, Zhamaletdinov never managed to adapt to adult football and scored only four goals for the “soldiers” before leaving for Lech. In Europe, the race did not work out either, after which Timur returned to the RPL. He first played for Ufa, and since this season he has been helping SKA Khabarovsk rise from the First League, scoring 3 goals and providing 3 assists in 15 games.

In a few months, the striker will turn 26, and it can already be stated with certainty that the talent did not materialize.

year 2015 Artem Galadzhan (Lokomotiv)

A year later, Lokomotiv graduate Artem Galadzhan was singled out by the British, and in particular, his positional play, reading of the game and incredible momentum-making were highlighted. This was reinforced not only by goals in the Russian youth championships, but also in the games of the country’s youth teams, in which Artem scored a total of 15 goals in 36 matches. Galadzhan had everything to realize himself, but even the fate of Zhamaletdinov will seem like a fairy tale against the background of Artem.

Photo source: FC Lokomotiv

Galadzhan was not useful to Yuri Semin, so he tried to break into big football through Kazanka, Orenburg, Rotor, Pari NN and Tom, for which he scored a total of 18 goals, 10 of which fell in the third strongest division in the country.

Galadzhan is only 24 years old, but since the summer of last year, no one needs him. After leaving Tom, the once considered promising striker has been without a club for more than six months and, apparently, there are no people who really want to sign him.

year 2016 Daniil Utkin (Krasnodar)

The Guardian appreciated Utkin’s shipping qualities and tactical versatility, but still Daniil did not take root in Krasnodar. However, he did not become another disappointment in this list, because at first he showed himself brilliantly in Akhmat, and then Rostov bought him for 3 million euros, where he became one of the best central midfielders in the RPL and a player. in the Russian team.

Photo source: FC Rostov

2017 year. Ilya Martynov (Krasnodar)

A year later, another product of Sergei Galitsky’s academy, namely central defender Ilya Martynov, made the list. British journalists believed that Martynov could become the replacement for the Berezutsky brothers and Sergei Ignashevich in the Russian national team for many years, but expectations were not met. Ilya could not gain a foothold in his native club, and the bosses did not even begin to keep him, so the defender first played for Tambov in the RPL, and then joined Rotor, for which he now plays in the second league, but even there it cannot be called a reinforced concrete base player.

Photo source: FC Krasnodar

2017 year. Kirill Kolesnichenko (Chertanovo)

2017 turned out to be a “fruitful” year for Russian football, because two players were included in the list at once. The second of these was Kirill Kolesnichenko, considered one of the most talented footballers at the Chertanovo Academy along with Sergey Pinyaev.

Only six years have passed, and Kolesnichenko has already managed to stroke decently. Kirill played 4 minutes for SKA-Khabarovsk in the RPL, went to Kairat for 250 thousand euros (but never played for him), returned to Rotor, had a powerful chance in Ural and in the summer of 2022- year he was left without a club. .

Photo source: FC Ural

Having spent several months without playing at the age of 22, Kolesnichenko went downhill and in January 2023 signed a short-term contract with Rodina of the same second league.

2020 year. Arsen Zakharyan (Dynamo)

For two years in a row, Russian players did not get into the rating, but in 2020 Zakharyan brilliantly broke through, who had already started playing for the main team of Dynamo. I don’t think it’s worth talking about his progress and a possible move to Chelsea one more time, but I’ll just point out that Zakharyan has a real chance of becoming one of the few Russians who can really put together a powerful career like the ones I have. listed at the beginning of the article.

Photo source: FC Dynamo (Moscow)

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Puck Henry
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