Some football goalkeepers discovered their talent at a young age. Petr Cech, Iker Casillas, Igor Akinfeev - all of them have been the stars of European football at the age of twenty. However, Artyom Rebrov went for a long time to recognition, having played in the lower leagues of Russia for several years, patiently serving as a reserve goalkeeper. At twenty-two, due to constant injuries, he even left football for a short time and worked at the enterprise for his father. In the end, by the age of thirty, he became the undisputed base player and the vice-captain of Spartak Moscow.
Carier start
Judging by the photo, Artem Rebrov is a person who has come a long and thorny path to his goal. This impression is absolutely correct, which is confirmed by the football player's biography. He was born in Moscow in 1984. Unlike many of his colleagues on the football field, he did not study in the schools of large Moscow clubs. For a short time he attended the football section "Red October", then the most common sports school. However, a capable guy with good physical characteristics was noticed in "Saturn".
Already at the age of seventeen, he could be in the Moscow Region team, but the club could not provide him with a respite from the army.
On the advice of his father, Artem Rebrov entered a university after school in order to have an education and a specialty that could provide him with a future in case of failure in his sports career. The young man chose the non-standard profession of a veterinarian and began to study at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. In parallel with his studies, he played for the youth team of Dynamo, but later still became a footballer of Saturn.
Wanderings in Russia
In childhood, Artem Rebrov trained on hard artificial surfaces, and this could not but affect his health. He had regular cruciate ligament problems. Constant painful operations, difficult recovery periods - all this led to the fact that at twenty-two he even wanted to end up with football. For some time, Artyom worked for his father, performing various small assignments.
However, the management of “Saturn” was able to persuade him not to chop off the shoulder, and he remained in the club's system.
In those years, the unconditional first number of the Moscow Region club was Antonin Kinski, and Rebrov played the role of his understudy. So that a promising goalkeeper would not be left without playing practice, he was sent on lease to various clubs.
In 2007, Rebrov played for the Kursk Avangard, the next season he went to Tom. In the Siberian club, he also spent most of his time on the bench, but it was there that Rebrov played his first match in the Russian Premier League. Replacing the distant Pareiko, Artyom defended the whole time at the gate in the match with CSKA.
The footballer spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons at Saturn, acting as Kinski's understudy for eight matches. In 2011, there was a turning point in his life. Yaroslavl "Shinnik" then played in the first league, and to solve the problem of reaching the top division invited Rebrov to his place. For the first time, a goalkeeper had the opportunity to play at the gates of a serious club for a long period and did not miss his chance.
From understudy to vice-captain of "Spartak"
For the first half of the 2011 season, Artem Rebrov was one of the best goalkeepers in the second-strongest division in Russia. His play for Shinnik impressed the coach of Spartak goalkeepers, and not as young as other players, Rebrov was invited to the Moscow team. The first number of the club then was Andriy Dikan, and the game of the Ukrainian goalkeeper did not fail. In addition, Spartak had another strong goalkeeper - Belenov.
Artem Rebrov played his first match for the “red-whites” in the Russian Cup against the Nizhny Novgorod “Volga” in the fall of 2011. However, it was only in the spring of next year that he received a serious opportunity to prove himself. In the match of the 37th round, Andrei Dikan was injured, and Artem Rebrov defended the remaining eight matches at the goal until the end of the championship. Spartak received excellent goalkeeper into their ranks. The confident, cold-blooded play of the already experienced goalkeeper, the determination with which he commanded the defensive players - all this made him one of the favorites of the club's fans.
In autumn 2012, he made his Champions League debut against Benfica Lisbon. Then health problems fell on Artyom again. First, he suffered a shoulder injury, then, in the spring of 2013, he had a recurrent rupture of the cruciate ligaments. Artyom Rebrov was recovering for six months, and after his return he began to gradually displace Dikan from the main team.
In favor of Rebrov was the fact of the limit on foreign players in domestic football. The coaches preferred to put a Russian footballer at the goal in order to be able to launch one more foreigner into the attack.
Artem Rebrov finally became the first number of Spartak in the 2014/2015 season. With his confident, reliable play, he made the fans forget about both Dikan and Pletikos. An experienced footballer still plays as the main goalkeeper of the Moscow club, practically does not make mistakes and is already in the crosshairs of the country's national team coaches.
Personal life
The wife of Artyom Rebrov is one of the brightest and most spectacular among the spouses of Russian athletes. They met on social networks. Without becoming to play a loud wedding, at some point the couple simply signed without unnecessary noise and fuss. Since then, since 2009, the couple have been living together.
During their marriage, they had two sons: Platon and Artem. Ekaterina Rebrova is a very energetic and active woman, she is engaged in design and, together with her friend, opened her own studio.
Artem Rebrov revealed his football talent rather late, having spent many years on loan, on the bench, but now, together with Spartak, he is close to the first victory in the Russian Championship in fifteen years in the club's history.
"A good goalkeeper is never a bad person," says Spartak's main goalkeeper, famous footballer Artem Rebrov. Indeed, Artem enjoys considerable authority in the team, not only as a player, but also as a person. Today, when the legendary club has once again shown Spartak character and is about to regain the title of the champion team, the goalkeeper of the "red-white" is a figure that attracts everyone's attention.
But at the beginning of his football career, goalkeeper Artem Rebrov was considered a loser. Until thirty - his sports career did not develop in any way. Now Artem Rebrov is thirty-four years old, and he is aiming for champions. The story of such a player is a story of perseverance, a story of late, but well-deserved success in sports.
On the way to the Premier League
Artem Rebrov was born in Moscow on March 4, 1984. His father went from a collective farmer to the director of a power plant, in his youth he played in a volleyball team. From early childhood, Gennady Rebrov addicted his son to sports. Subject played volleyball, basketball, went in for swimming. The decision to try his hand at football turned out to be almost accidental - Artem Rebrov went with a friend to the Krasny Oktyabr school, which was located very close to home.
Soon football became the main hobby of the student, began to occupy free time Artyom. Looking out of the window into the courtyard, my father grumbled: "all the children are running around, and only mine is lying in the mud like a felt boot." The son chose the "dirty" specialty of the goalkeeper: catching balls was always to his taste.
On real game the future Spartak player first looked from the podium in 1995.
Then Spartak defeated Rosenborg in the Champions League match (4: 0).
In the same year, Artyom conceded eight unanswered goals in the Krasny Oktyabr match against a higher class opponent - the team of the children's and youth school MEPhI. Another goalkeeper in a similar situation, probably, would have missed twice as much, because after the match a phone call rang in the Rebrovs' apartment. The coach of the opposing team was calling. He invited the boy to go to the MEPhI school. Artyom still refused (far from home!), But, fortunately, his sister "persuaded" him.
However, on the way to sports glory, not everything was cloudless. The future goalkeeper of "Spartak" did not have too much good health, it was impossible to enter a sports university. I had to get a "regular" profession, pass exams in chemistry - Artyom knew the material so well that his high school students wrote off. But still, without football, he could not ...
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Photo: Artem Rebrov in training
The vicissitudes of football
In 2003, Artem Rebrov began playing in the Dynamo double, and in 2005 he moved to football club Premier League Saturn. The goalkeeper still has a good memory of Saturn. It would seem that a brilliant career is assured, however ...
Injury! The goalkeeper injured the cruciate ligaments in his knees. Several operations followed, including in European clinics. The father paid for the expensive treatment, and Artem Rebrov understood that he had to return to sports at all costs and meet his parental expectations. And yet it seemed that a cross was put on a career in sports.
There was a time when Artyom left Saturn altogether and for three months worked for his father in an energy company (they joked that he was “the highest paid courier in Moscow”). But he decided to try his luck again and returned to the club. Moreover, everyone called from the club, invited back ...
The goalkeeper was in Saturn until 2010, but missed all interesting matches. The fact is that the Rebrovs were leased. In 2007 he played for Avangard Kursk, in 2008 - for Tom Tomsk.
Strangely, as we get older, injuries have become less frequent. Standing at the gate, Artyom demonstrated an ever higher level of skill. In 2011, he spent a successful season in a new team, Shinnik Yaroslavl. At that moment, Valery Kleimenov, the coach of Spartak goalkeepers, drew attention to the game of Artem Rebrov.
Artem Rebrov and Spartak
“What are you going to do in Spartak? Here, in “Shinnik”, you are the main goalkeeper, and in “Spartak” you will become only the third, you will sit on the bench and lose shape, ”the friends were indignant. And yet, Artem decided to take the risk! I really wanted to play in the team of childhood dreams.
The main goalkeeper in the club "red-whites" was at that time the most experienced professional, Andrei Dikan. The two goalkeepers quickly became friends and did not consider themselves "competitors", they were friends even with families. Rebrov was ready to replace him at any moment and did not think at all that goalkeepers should be divided into “main” and “reserve” ones.
In March 2012, due to a careless blow, Andrei Dikan broke his jaw and received a concussion. Rebrov replaced him for a long time.
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The goalkeeper's finest hour came during the Champions League match with Benfica: Spartak won 2-1. In the return leg in Portugal, Artem helped the team, reflecting a penalty. This success was accumulated: before the match, Rebrov and the goalkeeping coach Kleimenov studied the opponent's players and their manner of hitting, including from the penalty spot.
Soon Artyom was again brought down by the cruciate ligaments, only in November 2013 he again stood at the gate. It was a fundamentally important match between Spartak and Zenit. As a result, the "red-white" team won with a score of 4: 2. The goalkeeper's merits were so obvious that the owner of the club, Leonid Fedun, announced the birth of a new football star.
Now the best saves of Artem Rebrov are actively discussed by the fans. Already in 2014, he became the main goalkeeper of the team. Rebrov's authority in Spartak is so high that in 2014 he receives the captain's armband and remains captain until 2016. Now Rebrov is the vice-captain of Spartak.
In 2015, Artem Rebrov received the Lev Yashin Goalkeeper of the Year prize, and in November he played for the Russian national team for the first time in a friendly match with the Croats.
2016 began unsuccessfully for Rebrov, and for some time he lost his position as the main goalkeeper of Spartak, giving way to Sergei Pesyakov at the base. However, under Artem, he once again strengthened his position and earned a lot of flattering reviews. The fact that "Spartak" became the leader in the Russian championship is also the goalkeeper's merit.
Anton Rebrov, video of the best saves in the 2015-2016 season.
However, Rebrov himself evaluates his own merits quite modestly and still considers himself an "average goalkeeper."
Artem Rebrov's statistics (since 2008) as of December 4, 2016: 108 matches and 120 conceded goals. 40 matches were played "with zero".
Most of the matches Artem played in 2014-2016. Only in recent years has he been able to fully reveal himself as a football player. Previously, injuries were not allowed to play ...
The height and weight of Artem Rebrov is 193 centimeters and 93 kilograms.
In the family
The goalkeeper is married and happily married. Artyom Rebrov's wife's name is Ekaterina. They met in 2008 via the Internet - thanks to a chance meeting in Odnoklassniki. Artem saw the photo and could not resist commenting ("Girl, what a smile you have ...").
Now two little Rebrovs are growing up in the family: Platon and Artem. The youngest is still too young, and Plato is already involved in sports. Mom wanted to see her son as a football player, but his father, a football player, flatly refused. Therefore, Plato started playing hockey. At first, the boy was bought miniature skates, and he learned to walk on them at home. Now he goes to the sports section.
The wife did not stay long on maternity leave. Now she runs her own business (she has a small store).
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Children and wife of Andrei Rebrov: photo
The goalkeeper says that he really considers raising children to be the meaning of his life. Almost all the time that remains with Artyom after training, he gives to the family. We can say that the family is Artem Rebrov's main hobby.
Curious facts
As we have already mentioned, the Spartak goalkeeper has an “unsportsmanlike” specialty. Artem Rebrov is a veterinarian by education. When Artem was a freshman and still doubted his football future, he enthusiastically studied to be a veterinarian. He studied medical Latin, dissected the corpses of dogs and foxes. Over time, football began to consume all strength: to complete my education, I had to "make friends" with the dean and give the teachers candy ... And yet it was not without embarrassment!
Rebrov still remembers how he tried to inject a rabbit at a workshop. Medicines are injected into these animals through the ear. The student could not get into the desired vein and almost pierced the animal's ear through and through. The unfortunate rabbit, drugged with anesthesia, did not react too strongly to this mockery, but the student suffered more than the patient.
At this point, the fourth-year student realized two things. First, he won't become a veterinarian. Never. Second: a football player, while playing on the field, should not master other professions. Otherwise, it can happen, as in the proverb about two birds with one stone ...
However, at the institute, Artyom finished his studies: after all, it is necessary to bring the matter to the end.
The goalkeeper is a nervous job. Goalkeepers develop unusual habits. Rebrov says that before the start of the match he kisses the barbell every time, even talks to her. Comrades in "Spartak" joke: he has to kiss the barbell more often than his wife.
You can understand Artyom: the bar is the goalkeeper's best friend. And if the defenders fail, the only hope is on her.
Rebrov likes to speculate about his own goalkeeper craft.
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He completely agrees with the Juventus goalkeeper Buffon: masochists are usually goalkeepers. No matter how ace the goalkeeper may be, he absolutely knows that he will concede goals, that it will be unpleasant and all the "bumps" will fall on him. The goalkeeper has a colossal responsibility - much more difficult than all the other players in the club. Such a role can only be played by a player who is absolutely reliable and hyperresponsible. Therefore, Rebrov says that a good goalkeeper is never a bad person.
Many goalkeepers not only concede, but also score balls themselves. They are good at shooting penalties, as they understand the psychology of the enemy. Goalkeeper Rebrov once scored a goal while still playing for Saturn's double - but after that he swore to take a penalty. Why? If an ordinary penalty taker is worried before the strike, then Rebrov was worried after. He hit the goal, but the goalkeeper's solidarity awakened in his soul. He felt an acute pity for the goalkeeper!
Rebrov's dream is the championship, and the goalkeeper says that he is ready to "put an arm and a leg on him." Judging by the results shown by Rebrov and his team, in the spring of 2017, a dream may become a reality. Let's see!
". However, the Moscow Region team was unable to issue a reprieve from the army to Rebrov, in connection with which he graduated from MGUPB (now MGUPP) as a veterinarian. Even then, the player had problems with the cruciate ligaments of the knees. Having moved to Saturn, I could not get to the main squad for a long time due to constant knee problems. In 2006, Rebrov even thought to end his football career, but after 3 months he returned to the team. In 2007 he played for Avangard Kursk on a leasehold basis, and in 2008 - on the same terms for Tom. He made his debut with Tom on September 27, 2008, in the match of the 23rd round of the Russian championship against CSKA in Moscow. Came on as a substitute at 42 minutes instead of the deleted Sergei Pareiko. He made his debut with Saturn on May 29, 2009 in the 11th round match of the Russian Championship against Amkar in Perm. He played his second match for the club on May 2, 2010, received a red card in the 25th minute for playing with his hands outside the penalty area. On January 13, 2011 he moved to Shinnik, where in six months of playing as the main goalkeeper he attracted the attention of Spartak.
"Spartak Moscow)
On August 23, 2011, at the invitation of the coach of the goalkeepers of Moscow "Spartak" Valery Kleymenov (they were familiar with Dynamo's double), he joined the club's roster. In his new team, he chose the number 32 as a game number. The debut took place on September 21, when, as part of the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup, Muscovites at the Luzhniki stadium hosted the Volga from Nizhny Novgorod. At the beginning of the match Volzhan's goal was struck by Spartak midfielder Aiden McGeady, and until the end of the match they managed to keep the score 1: 0 for their team. However, in the 86th minute of the game, Rebrov conceded a goal after being hit by Shota Bibilov. In extra time, the opponents did not score more goals, and the meeting turned into a series of post-match penalties, in which the guests were luckier - 6: 5. In the match of the 37th round, he replaced the injured Andrei Dikan. In the spring part of the 2011/2012 transition championship, he played 8 matches (including 7 full ones), in which he conceded 8 goals. Confident, reliable play of the reserve goalkeeper, coupled with his decisiveness in conflict situations and constant gratitude to the fans made him one of the main heroes of the final segment of the tournament. [ ]
On October 23, 2012, Rebrov made his Champions League debut in a home match against Benfica Lisbon (2: 1). However, he soon received an unpleasant shoulder injury (partial damage to the shoulder joint capsule), due to which he could not finish the season. In March 2013, there was a recurrence of an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Already in September he returned to training as part of the team. For the first time in the new season he played for Spartak in the match against St. Petersburg Zenit on November 10, 2013 (4: 2). After the match, the owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun said that "I hope we witnessed the birth of a new star - the star of Rebrov" .
He started the 2014/2015 season as the main goalkeeper and captain of Spartak and earned a call to the Russian national team.
On September 5, 2014 he took part in the opening match of the Spartak stadium. The club drew (1: 1) with the Serbian team "Crvena Zvezda". In this match was included in starting line-up... In September 2014, he extended his contract with Spartak until 2018.
In 2015 he was recognized as the goalkeeper of the year according to the Ogonyok magazine.
Spartak started the 2015/2016 season with a home match against Ufa, in which the team drew 2: 2. However, in matches with Krasnodar, Rubin and Wings of the Soviets, he played “to zero” and received flattering marks for the match.
Before the start of the next season, he became vice captain. He started the season as the club's main goalkeeper. He played 12 matches in a season with zero, which is a record in his career at this time. The 2016/2017 season became a champion for Rebrov, he played 28 matches.
In the 2017/18 season, he took part in 9 matches and conceded 14 goals in them. In (1: 3), in which he conceded three goals and in the return match gave way to Selikhov, but Spartak failed to reach the 1/8 following the results of these matches (1: 3, 1: 2). At the end of the season, Selikhov suffered a severe injury to the Achilles tendon and Rebrov played 3 matches in the main squad. 2019/20 began as a reserve goalkeeper along with Alexander Selikhov, losing the competition to Maksimenko.
Artem Rebrov is a footballer whose name is known to all fans of this game. Many are interested in his biography, achievements, plans for the future. It is about this person that the article will be discussed.
Artem Rebrov: biography
Artem Gennadievich Rebrov was born in 1984 in Moscow. Today he is a member of the football team, goalkeeper and captain of Spartak.
In 2002 he graduated from high school. During his studies, he began to play football. A decisive role in making this decision was played by Artyom's father, Gennady Rebrov, who actively worked with his son to involve him in sports. I always took him with me to football matches, discussed the results with him, carefully analyzed the mistakes made by the players during the game.
The football player's career began in 1997. He began to play in the Dynamo junior team.
Game in "Saturn"
In 2002 he was invited to "Saturn", but due to the fact that he was not given a deferment from military service, Artem decided to enter a university. In the same year he entered MGUPP and in 2007 graduated with the qualification "doctor-veterinarian".
Rebrov has problems with cruciate ligaments of the knees, he decides to leave football. But after a 3-month course of treatment begins to play in “Saturn” as a backup goalkeeper.
In 2007, Artyom was rented by the Kursk Avangard, in 2008 he transferred to Tom with the same rights. In early autumn 2008, as part of the team of this team, he played against CSKA.
In mid-spring 2009 Artem Rebrov returned to Saturn. With the team took part in the game against Perm "Amkar" during the 1st round of the championship Football league... During the re-match for Saturn, in late spring 2010, he receives a red card for breaking the rules of the game outside the penalty area.
Transfer to the "Spartak" team
At the beginning of 2011, of his own free will, Artem Rebrov moved to Shinnik, where his effective game of the team's goalkeeper attracted the attention of the Spartak management, and at the end of summer 2011 he received an invitation to join the Spartak team. In its composition, he performs under the 32nd game number.
In the same year, Artem played in the "Spartak" against the "Volga" from Nizhny Novgorod. In 2011/2012, he takes part in 8 matches for his team.
In October 2012, during a game against the Benfica team from Lisbon, Artem sustains a shoulder injury that forces him to stop playing. In March 2013, cruciate ligament disease of the knee worsened. He was undergoing treatment for 4 months.
In September 2013, Artem started training. His first appearance on the field as part of the team after an illness was in a game against Zenit from the city of St. Petersburg. Artem Rebrov showed very good results. “Spartak” was pleased with it. According to the final results of this game, the team leader said that representatives of the football community expressed hope that a new football star, the star of Rebrov, was being born.
V football season 2014/2015 Artem plays the main goalkeeper of the team, where he especially distinguished himself during the match against the Rubin team from Kazan. He played with the same success in subsequent matches. His reward for a good game was an invitation to the team of the Russian football team.
In 2014, he extended his contract with the Spartak team until 2018.
Married. Wife - Catherine, 2 sons - Plato (5 years old) and Artem (1 year old). I met my wife via the Internet in 2008.
Game performance
Artyom showed excellent qualities of the goalkeeper during the game in the "Shinnik" team. Based on the results of the games in Shinnik, he was invited to Spartak Moscow.
The debut in the new team was not very successful. During the game with Volga Nizhny Novgorod, Artem conceded 6 goals, 5 of which were scored during the post-game penalties.
He began to play much more confidently during the Russian Football Championship 2011/2012. Good game the reserve goalkeeper, together with his firmness in acute situations, made him the protagonist of the final of the Russian Championship in the eyes of the fans. He won the love and respect of the fans.
For a productive game, Artyom was invited to the Russian national team in October 2012. However, he was not included in the application for the game with the US team. He was re-invited to the Russian national football team at the end of the summer of 2014. As part of it, Artem took part in a friendly game against the Azerbaijani team and in the qualifying match for the 2016 European Championship with the Liechtenstein team.
He successfully started the 2015/2016 football season. Thanks to his wonderful game, the games with the teams “Krasnodar”, “Rubin”, “Krylia Sovetov” were played “to zero”, which earned the player the praise of the team's management.
Achievements
Artem Rebrov is a goalkeeper, as they say, from God. In total, during his football career, he played 63 matches for the League championship. Of these, in 23 matches, not a single goal was conceded.
In the matches for the Russian Cup, 6 matches were played, of which 2 were played with a zero result. 2 matches were played for the Eurocup championship, there are no games with a zero result.
In total, 71 matches were played, 25 of them with zero result, 73 goals conceded.
For effective, beautiful play as the goalkeeper of the Spartak team in the 2011/2012 football season, Rebrov became the silver medalist of the Russian championship.
In 2015, the footballer was awarded the Lev Yashin Goalkeeper of the Year prize. At the suggestion of Ogonyok magazine, he was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the year.
Plans for the future
Artem works a lot to unite the team, mobilize it to achieve victory over the enemy. The main thing that he was able to achieve after the arrival of a new coach is that the team did not break up, was able to show an effective and efficient game during the last meetings with the enemy.
Artyom's immediate plans are to bring "Spartak" to the best football teams Of the Russian Football Union, to achieve the exit of the Russian national team to the European Championship and take a prize-winning place.
Spartak goalkeeper Artem Rebrov, who lost his place in the first team after an injury, does not put personal interests above the command ones - he said this immediately after the "Gentleman of the Year" award.
The prize given to Rebrov by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper often goes to goalkeepers. Artem is already the fifth winner goalkeeper.
It is very pleasant to accept the award from the hands of Evgeny Lovchev and Anzor Kavazashvili, our great footballers, - said Rebrov. - I understand that this is a significant award, I am glad to receive it.
- Is this the first tuxedo in your life?
Yes. As I understand it, they will leave it to me, they will not take it away. Will help you in your work!
The best mark is a team result. It is difficult to evaluate yourself. Spartak won two trophies. And this award is a nice addition.
- Are there many gentlemen left in modern football?
Of course. They have always been, are and will be. Despite any changes in football and in the world in general.
- Who will you call the main gentleman on the field? Of the current players.
First of all, these are my teammates. There are a lot of guys, I will not list all of them. “Spartak” always behaves decently on the field. And I will also name almost all of my colleagues - goalkeepers.
The last week of the football year turned out to be crazy for “Spartak”: first 0: 7, then 3: 0. Is the glass half full or empty?
The main thing is how you finished. If it were the other way around - first CSKA and then Liverpool - I would say that everything is bad. And so - okay, finished on a positive note. Although we still owe our fans a favor. Next year there will be many opportunities to fill this glass.
- How did you celebrate the victory in the derby?
Everything is quiet. Yes, this is a great holiday for us and for the fans. We are finishing the calendar year well, but there were no feasts. I knew that Monday would be a difficult day for me.
- 0: 7 in Liverpool - is it a shame or an accident?
Neither one nor the other. Shame is a stigma attached to you if you do something mean and nasty in your life. And in football there is always an opportunity to improve in the next match. And the guys took advantage of it.
- For Selikhov, seven goals is probably a strong personal blow. With what words did you support him?
On the contrary, I tried not to focus on this. Said it was a good test and school. And he assured that everything will be fine in the next game.
- In the Europa League, Spartak will meet with Athletic from Bilbao. How do you like this team?
Frankly speaking, while we are thinking more about vacation. About having a good rest. Athletic is a strong contender. We will play in Spain. It's a good thing not in England! In my opinion, everything is fine. Let's rest, get ready.
- In general, how do you feel about the Europa League? Does it evoke emotions similar to the Champions League?
The fans want one thing - that "Spartak" was always at the top. It doesn't matter what kind of tournament it is. So there is no difference. Of course, I wanted to get into the Champions League playoffs, but the Europa League is not a bad option either.
- What did you feel when you were injured in a home match with Liverpool? What did you think about leaving the field?
There was only one desire - that the team did not lose. Otherwise, the trauma would be meaningless. Fortunately, we took glasses.
- Did you have a feeling that this is one of the main matches in terms of passion and emotions?
Not really. There were fights with great intensity.
- Over the year with “Spartak” has happened more than in the last ten years, do you agree?
That's for sure! We didn’t win for a long time, and then immediately the championship, the Super Cup, and generally successful, despite last match, performance in the Champions League.
Circumstances have developed so that before you were number one, and now in the reserve. How do you feel in this role?
Any athlete does not feel comfortable when not playing. But there are personal ambitions, and there is a team. And I am ready to step on my own interests for the sake of a common cause. In any case, there is competition that has not harmed anyone yet. Vacation ahead, then packing up ... Everything is in our hands.
- What is the difference between the current “Spartak” from the one that took the gold? And are there any differences?
From the outside, I think they know better. In general, although we did not start the championship very well, now, on the contrary, we have improved. And they are stronger than when we finished last season. The last five matches showed this - they acted more confidently even against the leaders.
- Who is the opening of the year for you?
Selikhov. He added a lot. And from other clubs, Lunev showed himself great.
- The main joy of the year?
Of course, the championship.
- What disappointed you?
There was nothing like that.
- still able to surprise you personally with something?
I think he will have enough time to showcase his hidden reserves!
- Best match Spartak this year?
There were many good ones. But the first thing that comes to mind is the home defeat of Sevilla.
- What would you like to wish for Spartak fans?
It's good to celebrate the New Year. And so that in 2018 we will delight you even more by raising even more cups above your head.
One match was not enough for Rebrov to repeat the club record
In the 2016/17 Russian Championship, which became gold for the red and white, Artem Rebrov did not allow the red and white rivals to score in 14 meetings. This is the second result in Russian history"Spartacus". Most of all "crackers" in one season on account of only Alexander Filimonov - in 1997, he left the gate locked 15 times. To do this, he needed five more matches - then 18 teams played in the top division. It should be added that in this Premier League draw, Rebrov has three zero matches, while Selikhov has six.
