Aleksei Berezutski

Aleksei Berezutski
	Berezutski with CSKA Moscow in October 2015
Personal information
Full name	Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutski
Date of birth	20 June 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Center-back / Left-back
Youth career
	Smena
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2000	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow
2001	→ Chernomorets Novorossiysk (loan)
2001–2018	CSKA Moscow
International career
2001–2003	Russia U-21
2003–2016	Russia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Template:Eastern Slavic name Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutski (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Березуцкий; born 20 June 1982) is a Russian former football player who played as a centre-back.

Career

Club

He began his professional career in 1999 at the age of 17 in Torpedo-ZIL. He is now playing for CSKA Moscow.^[1] He tends to play as a central defender but he can play as fullback, wingback, defensive midfielder or even as a winger. He is a defender who can join attacks from the wing. He scored CSKA Moscow's first goal as they came from behind to win the 2005 UEFA Cup Final.

Following his side's Champions League match against Manchester United at Old Trafford on 3 November, Berezutsky (along with colleague Sergei Ignashevich) tested positive for the banned substance sudafed. The two players were provisionally suspended until the case was heard by the European governing body's disciplinary committee on 17 December, according to a UEFA statement. It was later revealed that they had taken a cold medicine which had not been reported, and both players were suspended for 1 game, which was applied retroactively.

In 2014, he scored a 90th-minute equaliser against Roma in the Champions League.

He officially announced his retirement from playing on 21 July 2018.^[2]

International

Berezutski is a Russia national football team regular, making 32 appearances since 2003.^[3] Aleksey took a big part in Russia's second goal against England in a vital euro 2008 qualification match which Russia won 2–1. He was on the attack and took a shot from just outside the box which Paul Robinson could only parry away. Roman Pavlyuchenko then quickly ran to it and touched it in to the net.

Aleksei was selected Russia's captain for the 0–3 friendly defeat against Romania, though it was speculated that Hiddink only gave him the captain's armband so he could differentiate between Aleksei and Vasili.^{[citation needed]}

He was confirmed for the finalized UEFA Euro 2012 squad on 25 May 2012.^[4]

On 7 March 2018, he officially retired from international football.^[5]

Personal life

Aleksei started to play football in sport school Smena in Moscow. He is married and has a daughter named Alyona. His identical twin brother, Vasili, is also a CSKA defender.

Career statistics

Club

As of 14 May 2018

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Torpedo-ZIL	2000	2	0	0	0	—		2	0
Torpedo-ZIL	Total	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Chernomorets	2001	14	1	0	0	—		14	1
Chernomorets	Total	14	1	0	0	0	0	14	1
CSKA Moscow	2002	16	0	1	0	2	0	19	0
	2003	30	0	3	0	1	0	34	0
	2004	27	0	2	0	10	0	39	0
	2005	27	2	8	0	15	1	50	3
	2006	29	0	8	0	8	0	45	0
	2007	26	0	4	0	8	0	38	0
	2008	24	2	3	0	5	2	32	4
	2009	16	0	3	0	9	0	28	0
	2010	23	1	1	0	8	0	32	1
	2011–12	40	0	5	0	10	0	55	0
	2012–13	5	0	5	0	0	0	10	0
	2013–14	13	0	4	0	5	0	22	0
	2014–15	7	0	1	0	2	0	10	0
	2015–16	21	1	4	0	9	0	34	1
	2016–17	18	1	2	0	5	0	25	1
	2017–18	19	1	0	0	10	0	29	1
	Total	341	8	54	0	98	2	502	10
Career total		357	9	54	0	98	2	518	11

Honours

Club

CSKA

UEFA Cup (1): 2005
Russian Premier League (6): 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Russian Cup (7): 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13
Russian Super Cup (5): 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013

International

Russia

UEFA European Football Championship: 2008 bronze medalist

Individual

In the list of 33 best football players of the championship of Russia (6): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

References

^ Березуцкий Алексей Владимирович (in Russian). Sportbox.ru. Retrieved 7 July 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Братья Березуцкие завершили профессиональную карьеру" (in Russian). PFC CSKA Moscow. 21 July 2018.
^ Arnhold, Matthias. "Russia – Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Advocaat announced the finalized Euro Squad" (in Russian). 25 May 2012.
^ БРАТЬЯ БЕРЕЗУЦКИЕ ЗАВЕРШИЛИ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport-Express. 7 March 2018.

External links

Player profile on CSKA official website (English)
Aleksei Berezutski at National-Football-Teams.com

Preceded by Andrei Arshavin	Russia national football team captain 2008	Succeeded by Sergei Semak

[1] Березуцкий Алексей Владимирович (in Russian). Sportbox.ru. Retrieved 7 July 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Братья Березуцкие завершили профессиональную карьеру" (in Russian). PFC CSKA Moscow. 21 July 2018.

[3] Arnhold, Matthias. "Russia – Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] "Advocaat announced the finalized Euro Squad" (in Russian). 25 May 2012.

[5] БРАТЬЯ БЕРЕЗУЦКИЕ ЗАВЕРШИЛИ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport-Express. 7 March 2018.

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