“Russian Messi” - this is exactly what the team owner and vice-president of the oil company Leonid Fedun striker Denis Davydov . It is unlikely that he himself came up with this biting nickname. No, we in no way doubt the talents of Leonid Arnoldovich; only the coach who defended his interests before the management, the one who saw him every day in training and games of the reserve team, could simply call the young player that way. These words were put into the mouth of the owner of the red and white club.
One way or another, now no one calls Denis Davydov anything other than “Russian Messi”. However, recently this nickname has acquired a more ironic character, because throughout his entire career in the main team, which, after all, is 29 matches in the squad, the forward, who is compared to the Argentine super-scorer, scored only one goal.
Throughout all this time, experts demanded to wait until he opened up, fans demanded to put more money in the main team... but the guy did not live up to expectations and continued to show a lackluster game in the red and white T-shirt of the main club, as if a curse had been placed on him.
Everything was supposed to change with the arrival of Dmitry Alenichev , the favorite of the “Spartak” torsida. He really had to start correctly using the main wealth of Moscow “Spartak” - its graduates, who had previously scattered to other Russian clubs and became stars there.
“The red and whites have a good school, graduates play in many clubs throughout the country. I think that you need to rely on your students. They have a different motivation, a different attitude towards the emblem on their chest than the legionnaires,” - at the beginning of May 2014, these words of Dmitry Alenichev, then still the coach of the Tula Arsenal, were quoted by the website Sportbox.ru.
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And what do we have now, when Alenichev headed his favorite club, which, in his opinion, should rely on its students? It is enough to analyze the rhetoric. Dmitry Anatolyevich uttered these words in February 2020, at the very height of the transfer window, when he was expected to take some action to strengthen the club, which was in an unsatisfactory position in the standings:
“The transfer can happen at any moment, there is time, right up to the very last day. High-profile transfers happen on the day of the deadline. Now the priority is a foreign forward,” Soviet Sport quotes the red-and-white coach.
And after all, the words of the coach do not diverge from the deeds: “the future of the red and white team”, “Russian Messi”, the footballer whom the fans loved so much, in whom the specialists who did not hide their sympathy for Spartak believed so much, Denis Davydov is going on loan - to the Czech Republic, to the Mlada team from the city of Boleslav. Analyzing the experience of Spartak, we can say that the players who went on loan will never become the main ones in the red and white club again. They can become the country's top scorers in some Rostov, earn a call to the national team and an invitation to the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League, playing for Zenit, receive the title of captain of the national team, playing in Krasnodar... But in “ In Spartak, such players will no longer prove themselves, of course, judging by experience. Perhaps Denis Davydov will break this stereotype. Let's see.
And it’s not only in Spartak that this happens. Many Russian clubs cannot give star young players a start in adult life, leaving them as football underdogs, always showing promise.
Anton Mitryushkin
Spartak player Anton Mitryushkin.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Pesnya In one “Spartak” there will be a whole bunch of such players. But we will try to pay attention to the most striking examples of the recent past. By the way, you don’t have to go far for the first one. As recently as the end of January 2020, a football player whom European experts vying with each other called perhaps the most promising goalkeeper on the continent left Russia. Yes, yes, we are talking specifically about the star of the European Youth Championship, won by the Russian team, whose captain was Anton Mitryushkin. Later, he amazed everyone at the Youth World Championships, where he was the best in our team, managing to save us from defeat by Brazil. But the talented footballer could not find a place in the Spartak goal. Artyom Rebrov , who fights off criticism flying from all sides . As a result, Mitryushkin could not stand it and left. They didn’t let him go to another Russian club. I had to go to Sion, Switzerland. The leaders of Spartak answered all questions about him by saying that he was still young. Although the current first number of the Russian national team, CSKA star Igor Akinfeev , entered the goal of the red and blue at the age of 17. But back then they didn’t give him the same advances as Mitryushkin.
Jano Ananidze
Spartak player Jano Ananidze.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Mikhail Voskresensky There is another example of a wasteful attitude towards personnel in the current Spartak, playmaker Jano Ananidze. This Georgian football player is still with the club. Having gone on loan to Rostov, he showed that he is an excellent player at the level of not the weakest team in the Russian Premier League. At the same time, as part of the southerners, he shone precisely in conjunction with another Spartak player, Artyom Dzyuba . But instead of taking and using a ready-made tandem in their team, the red and white club kicked out Dziuba, sending their current leader to Zenit. Dzhano, apparently, is destined to sit on the bench and in the reserve team until the end of his contract. The main complaint against the young player is that he thought too much of himself, considering himself worthy of playing in the first team. Moreover, Dzhano had a conflict with his previous coach, but Dmitry Alenichev continues to marinate the talent “in the can.”
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Pavel Yakovlev
Spartak player Pavel Yakovlev.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Stupnikov There is such an award in Russia - “First Five”, it is awarded to the best young football player of the year. In 2010, it went to the attacking left midfielder of Spartak Moscow Pavel Yakovlev. This fast player with an excellent cross showed himself superbly as a substitute for the red and white club. But the competition for a place on the field did not allow him to become the main player. As a result, it was decided to loan the footballer to Krylya Sovetov Samara. There the footballer began to play even better, so that the next season Spartak decided to keep him. After sitting on the bench for a year, he went on loan again, to the same wings, then to Mordovia. In between loan spells, Pavel played for the second team of Spartak. Not long ago he was again sent to Krylya Sovetov, again on loan. But now he is already 24 years old, and no one has any special hopes for the football player.
Davydov, Denis Alekseevich
Davydov as part of Spartak
early years
He started playing football at the age of 6 at the Torpedo-ZIL school (later FC Moscow). The first coach is Vasily Mikhailovich Zhupikov. In the summer of 2010, after the team was disbanded, he moved to Spartak[2], where in 2012 he graduated from the Academy. F. Cherenkova[3].
"Spartak Moscow)
In the 2012/2013 season, he began playing for the red-white youth team. He played his first game for the main team of Spartak on September 28, 2013, entering the field in the 88th minute instead of Yura Movsisyan in the away match of the 11th round with Zenit[4]. After the new head coach Murat Yakin arrived at Spartak, he began to regularly come on as a substitute. On August 17, 2014, he took part in his club's victory over CSKA (1:0) in the derby, coming on as a substitute in the 67th minute instead of Majid Waris[5].
On September 5, 2014, he took part in the opening match of the Otkritie Arena stadium, where he came on as a substitute[6].
On March 8, 2020, in a match against Krasnodar, he provided an assist to Quincy Promes[7]. On March 15, in a match against Dynamo Moscow, he was in the starting lineup[8], and in the next match against Torpedo he spent all 90 minutes on the field and again assisted Quincy Promes[9]. On October 25, in a match against Dynamo, he scored his first goal for Spartak in the RFPL, and also provided an assist[10].
During the 2016/2017 season he played for the red-white farm club Spartak-2, scoring 13 goals and giving 9 assists. He played only 4 matches for the main team of Spartak.
In the 2017/18 season he also played for Spartak-2, scoring only 2 goals and giving 2 assists. For the main team of Spartak he played only one match in the 1/8 of the Russian Cup against the Spartak-Nalchik club, in this match he gave two assists to Lorenzo Melgarejo.
On February 19, 2020, Davydov’s contract with Spartak Moscow was terminated by mutual agreement of the parties[11].
Rentals
In February 2020, he moved to the Czech Mlada Boleslav on loan[12], but received a shoulder injury in a youth team match and, without playing a single match for the main team, returned to Spartak[13][14 ].
On June 19, 2020, until the end of the year, he moved to Spartak Jurmala on loan[15]. On June 22, 2020, he made his debut in a home match against RFS (0:2), replacing Oleg Dmitriev. On July 6, 2018, in the away match of the 1/8 Latvian Cup against the Ghetto club (8:1), he scored his first goal. On July 22, 2020, he scored his first goal in the major league against the Jelgava club (4:1), and in the same match he made an assist for Evgeniy Kobzar.
"Nizhny Novgorod"
On February 21, 2020, Davydov signed a contract with Nizhny Novgorod for six months[16][17]. He made his debut for the new club on March 3, 2019 in the match of the 25th round of the 2018/19 FNL against Sochi (0:0), in this match he came on as a substitute in the 88th minute instead of Pavel Ignatovich[18]. On March 24, 2020, in the 28th round match against his former club, Moscow Spartak-2, being in the starting lineup, he scored his first goal for Nizhny Novgorod[19]. On May 21, 2020, he left the club[20].
CSKA (Sofia)
On May 28, 2020, he moved to the Bulgarian CSKA (Sofia), the contract was signed for 3 years[21][22]. He made his debut on July 12 in the match of the 1st round of the Bulgarian championship against Etar (2:2), coming on as a substitute in the 60th minute instead of Diego Fabbrini (English)Russian.[23]. On September 24, he scored his first goal for the club - in the 1/16 of the Bulgarian Cup against Lokomotiv Gorna-Oryahovitsa (3:0).[24] In the Bulgarian Premier League in the 2019/2020 season, Davydov played three matches and was not effective[25]. On April 30, 2020, he left the Bulgarian club, terminating the contract by mutual agreement of the parties[26].
Konstantin Bazelyuk
FC Torpedo player Konstantin Bazelyuk.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Vasily Ponomarev Naturally, such mistakes occur not only at Spartak. The same award, “First Five”, was received in 2013 by the promising striker of the capital CSKA Konstantin Bazelyuk. Perhaps it was this recognition of his talent that let Konstantin down. Soon, coaches began to notice the young player’s lack of desire to work in training sessions. CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky , constantly experiencing problems with the squad, especially in the position of central striker, tried to integrate the youth team's scorer into his scheme - it did not work. As a result, I had to lease it out, first to Torpedo and then to SKA-Energia. Judging by the matches played in these clubs, Konstantin cannot yet count on getting into the CSKA team, much less the national team.
Taras Burlak
Lokomotiv player Taras Burlak.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf How happy Russian football fans were when they learned that a young and very promising central defender named Taras Burlak was growing up at Lokomotiv Moscow. Tall, powerful, quite fast, he inspired hope not only in the fans of the red-green club, but also in all Russian football fans. They have already begun to recruit him into the national team to replace the eternal Sergei Ignashevich, who has no one to replace. However, Burlak’s successful season gave way to an unsuccessful one, and he was put on Lokomotiv’s reserves for a long time. Taras was no longer able to get out of there. He quickly found himself on loan at Volga Nizhny Novgorod. Then Taras moved to Rubin, where he did not find a common language with the head coach and was exiled to the reserve team. Today Burlak whiles away his days playing for Krylia Sovetov, one of the outsiders of the national championship.
Childhood
The first years of my life were spent on the territory of Ukraine. Denis’s father was a military man; perhaps this fact later determined the poet’s choice of a creative genre. Military affairs attracted Denis from childhood, and the boy’s ideal commander was Alexander Suvorov, who was his father’s commander. Denis met Suvorov at the age of 9, and then the great commander noticed a future noble military man in the boy. During the reign of Peter the Great, the Davydov family was forced to sell off their estate and purchase a small house in the village of Borodino. During the same period, Denis Davydov joined the ranks of the cavalry guards (thanks to his father).
Anton Shunin
Dynamo goalkeeper Anton Shunin.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko In second place after the Moscow “Spartak”, of course, in terms of the number of lost talents is the capital’s “Dynamo”. Now Andrei Kobelev has returned and started giving playing time to young football players, betting on them, and not on expensive foreign players. How this approach was not enough for goalkeeper Anton Shunin at one time. After a successful season at Dynamo, they began to call him almost the second Yashin. But the white stripe gave way to black. After several mistakes, Anton lost his place in the starting lineup. Then Vladimir Gabulov , who finally put an end to perhaps the most talented goalkeeper in the country of the last two to three decades, not counting, of course, Mitryushkin.
Last years
Over the past years, Denis Davydov lived in the small village of Verkhnyaya Maza. Here, in a quiet corner of nature, the poet completely indulged in creative impulses. He loved to hunt, was engaged in winemaking, and even built his own small distillery. Denis carried out extensive work on compiling military notes, and at the same time as creative activity - active correspondence with other talented writers. Among them were Alexander Pushkin and Vasily Zhukovsky.
Denis Davydov died on April 22, 1939 on his estate located in the village of Verkhnyaya Maza.
Ivan Solovyov
Dynamo player Ivan Solovyov.
Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Pesnya But for the failures of the talented midfielder Ivan Solovyov, also a Dynamo graduate, the football player can only blame himself. Having proven himself at the end of one of the seasons, he felt so important that he began to demand from the club contract terms at the level of the team's leading stars. This midfielder was denied. Unfortunately, his current agreement with the cube was coming to an end. As luck would have it, an offer was received from Zenit, who assured that due to the strengthening of the limit on foreign players, Solovyov would play in St. Petersburg in the first team with enviable regularity. The player was flattered by the offer, which was tempting, of course, from a financial point of view, and signed the contract. Since then, from 2013 to the present, Ivan has played for Zenit only once...
Personal life
In the life of Denis Davydov there were several beloved women.
First love - Aglaya de Gramont. Unfortunately, this beauty chose his cousin over the brave hussar. Tanya Ivanova, a successful ballerina, also captivated the hussar's heart. But even here Davydov was disappointed - the girl chose as her companion not a gallant warrior, but a choreographer. The next chosen one is Lizaveta Zlotnitskaya. The parents of the young lady of marriageable age demanded that Davydov take steps to obtain a state-owned estate. Denis fulfilled this request, but then another love disappointment came - Elizabeth preferred Prince Golitsyn to him. The meeting with the next chosen one, Sonya Chirikova, took place thanks to Denis’s friends. Already in 1819, the wedding of this couple took place, and after the birth of the child, Denis completely stopped thinking about military battles. The marriage with Chirikova gave the hussar nine children. In 1831, the union was under threat, or rather, it fell apart for three whole years. The cause of the crisis was Denis Davydov’s new hobby - Evgenia Zolotareva, the niece of one of Davydov’s colleagues. The big age difference (the girl was 27 years younger than Davydov) did not prevent this couple from being together for 3 long years. Then Zhenya married someone else, and Denis decided to reunite with his family.
