Timur Zhamaletdinov was born in Moscow, and his love for sports manifested itself in him from early childhood.
“According to the stories of my parents, I was one of the most active boys in the kindergarten,” Timur recalled in an interview for the official club program. - I liked to play football, they say, I often took the ball away from others and tried to juggle it, then hit it against the wall, and my peers constantly complained about broken knees. This could not go on forever, and the teacher turned to her parents with a proposal to send me to the football section. We went to Lokomotiv, because other children's and youth schools have not yet enrolled children born in 1997. That's how my football journey began."
Timur immediately chose the position of an attacker, because he liked to score goals, and the coaches took a closer look and decided to leave him in it. For seven years, Zhamaletdinov regularly distinguished himself for children's teams, but then his mentor changed at his year, and Timur, in his own words, no longer felt the same trust. In such a difficult situation, it was decided to change schools, and Zhama, as his comrades call him, chose the PFC CSKA Youth Sports School.
“The fact that they took me was largely facilitated by the situation associated with the lack of forwards in the army school. The team born in 1997 at that time was coached by Denis Vladimirovich Pervushin. He organically fit me into the game of his team. Then Pervushin was replaced by Maxim Eduardovich Bokov. He, too, gave me great, almost limitless trust. This situation made me play better and better, because I felt that I could not let my coach down. In the summer of 2014, I was invited to the youth team of PFC CSKA.
In the double, Timur continued his scoring exploits, rather quickly became one of those players who leads partners behind him, so the invitation received in the 2016/17 season to work in training with the main team did not come as a surprise to anyone.
In the fall of 2016, Zhamaletdinov made his debut in PFC CSKA in the cup match with Yenisei, and on April 9, 2017, he played the first match in the national championship with Krasnodar (1: 1).
The 2017/18 season turned out to be a turning point for Timur in terms of playing growth. Two winning goals in the toughest autumn away matches against Amkar and Benfica moved him from the category of promising players to the category of players that our team coaches can count on here and now.
“If you don’t give all your best, nothing will happen,” another statement of our young player eloquently says that his head, as they say, is in place. - Football is a team game, and you can't let your comrades down. Even when one person does not plow, does not work, everyone suffers. You have to give your all, work hard in training, don't mess around, then you'll get a chance to play. This idea was laid in me by all my coaches, and it was they who, in many ways, made me a football player, for which I thank them very much.”
Curious fact
Timur Zhamaletdinov is the first Russian striker to score for the army team in the Champions League since 1993. It should be clarified here that Sergei Semak is in almost all statistical registers as a midfielder, so Oleg Sergeev will rightly be considered the author of the previous such ball. He hit the gates of the Belgian Brugge on April 7, 1993, long before the moment when Timur was born.
We bring to your attention a fragment of material about the player of the army youth team Timur Zhamaletdinov from the official program for the match between PFC CSKA and Zenit.
... In football - from kindergarten
Moscow is my hometown where I grew up and learned the basics of football. Despite this, I am a Dagestani, as my parents are from this republic. Mom Nuria Rafekovna was born in Makhachkala, and dad Zaur Alimpashaevich was born in Khasavyurt. According to my parents, as a child I was one of the most active boys in the kindergarten. My memories are football. I liked this game more than others. It's hard to say why. They say that he often took the ball away from others and tried to juggle it, then hit it against the wall, and his peers constantly complained about broken knees. This could not go on forever, and the teacher turned to her parents with a proposal to send me to the football section. At the family council, it was decided that this was the best option. After that, the parents began to look for a club. From the kindergarten, an offer was received to try their hand at Lokomotiv, because other children's and youth schools have not yet enrolled children born in 1997. This is how my football journey began...
railway worker
At the very beginning, I had to watch. It is known that it is difficult for coaches to see something in six-year-old boys. But I passed the selection and immediately chose the position of the striker. Is there anything more important in the most popular ball game in the world than goals scored? Salekhov Ravil Saitovich became my first football mentor. He turned out to be the person who guided me, gave both gaming and life advice. Ravil Saitovich throughout the seven years that I spent at Lokomotiv under his leadership, repeated every day that I would grow into a great master. But in 2010, due to health problems, Salekhov left the club, another coach came to us. The new mentor began to build a team "for himself." He did not care about the previous merits of the guys. Those who were from the first set sat down in the reserve. Things were a little better for me, but I also began to feel a lack of playing practice. At some point, there was a desire to finish with football. Then I contacted Salekhov, and he advised me to go to PFC CSKA.
Soldier
Viewing in the camp of the army club turned out to be somewhat similar to the one that I went through as a child in Lokomotiv. The same two weeks, the same conversations with the coaches, the same tedious days waiting for the final answer. The fact that I was taken to the PFC CSKA Youth Sports School was largely facilitated by the situation associated with the lack of forwards in the army school. The team born in 1997 at that time was coached by Denis Vladimirovich Pervushin. He organically fit me into the game of his team. A year ago, Pervushin was replaced by Bokov. A characteristic feature of Maxim Eduardovich was his attention to discipline. Using examples from his own career, he explained to us why you need to be a real professional. I note that he, like Pervushin, showed me great, almost unlimited trust. This situation made me play better and better, because I felt that I could not let my coach down. In the summer of 2014, I was invited to the youth team of PFC CSKA…
In mid-May, adidas BASEMOSCOW sports and creative space opened on Pushkinskaya Embankment in Gorky Park. It was here that we met the pupil of CSKA Timur Zhamaletdinov, who came to test the new boots and support the guys who are participating in the Tango tournament.
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Timur Zhamaletdinov
Age: 20 years old
Position: Forward
Club: CSKA
Citizenship: Russian
Height: 181 cm Weight: 73 kg
- How did you get into football?
- At the age of 6, my parents took me. I liked the game, and I decided to devote my life to it. At first I was sent to Lokomotiv, but after 7 years I moved to CSKA, where I am still.
- What are the parents doing?
- Mom is a teacher kindergarten. My father has a small business with grocery stores.
– Are you still studying?
- Yes, in the HAND ( Russian University of Cooperation. - Approx. "Championship"), at the Faculty of Finance. Now I have time for everything, although I used to have problems with my studies.
- When?
- After the 9th grade, I rarely went to school. I spent all my time playing games and training. And there were exams and tests. I had to agree: I explained that I was not skipping work, but doing a serious job.
“We usually played for soda”
- You are a Muscovite. From what area?
- Mytishchi.
Have you already become a star there?
– Some people recognize because they saw it on TV and read it on the Internet. I don't have a car yet. I go to training on the subway. Recently, at the exit from the Medvedkovo station, a man asked me to take a picture and wished me good luck. It was nice.
- In Mytishchi on a football box, do you smash everyone?
I don't play now, but it happened before. Looked good compared to the rest smiling). They usually played for soda.
- If you were divided into two teams, did the captains take you first?
“Sometimes it was the first, and sometimes it was the last. Back then it didn't stand out so much. He added when he got into the double of CSKA.
- Thanks to whom did you get into the base of the army?
– Thanks to coach Alexander Sergeevich Grishin. This is his merit.
- I heard that CSKA wanted to let you go, but Grishin insisted on the opposite.
It happened, although I don't know the details. It seems that they planned to rent me out, but Grishin gave me time. I am very grateful to him. He explains to everyone that we need to add, that we have not achieved anything yet, hitting the double.
- A key moment in your career?
– Winter gathering at the beginning of this year. Thanks to him, he was entrenched in the main team. It turned out a step into big football. In the double, it was already necessary to give way to the young. Now guys who have just turned 18 are coming, and I am already 20. It is important for me to step up to the level of professionals in CSKA. Still, my native club, where I have been since childhood. Passed both school and double.
- How did you find out that you were going to the training camp?
- The first part of the season is over. I was told that I can go to the training camp with both a double and a base. Closer to the new year, I found out: Viktor Mikhailovich Goncharenko is coming to CSKA, who wants to look at me. At the training camp, I tried new exercises for me. It is clear that the main team has a different speed of thinking. When you have the ball, you need to think one step ahead - when to play a pass, when to go yourself. And in terms of tactics: how to play in attack, where to open up, at what moment to ask for the ball.
You've been playing striker all your life. Goncharenko put you at the training camp as a left back. Thought it was a joke?
- If the coach tries me in another position, I'm ready for it. There was no such thing that I choked when I heard about the left-back. It's a test match at the training camp. Any player could have been in my place. Now in training I can play in any position at all.
“Foreigners suggest. I understand them after a while."
- Have you been waiting for a debut at the base for a long time?
- Yes, even under Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky. Didn't get a chance back then new coach believed in me.
- Were you very worried at the first game in the Premier League?
- Certainly. Although he spent only 5-7 minutes on the field. Then he appeared in Ufa for 35 minutes. Appeared with the score 0:0. I went to the left flank of the defense, I was worried at first. I tried to feel the ball, scatter, breathe, and then I loosened up. It looks like the game is on. The coach asked me to play more on the attack. We won with a score of 2:0. After the meeting, I phoned Grishin. He congratulated me on a successful match. He asked me not to slow down.
- After the debut at the base, attention to you has grown?
- On Instagram, they subscribed to me, started liking.
- Which of the CSKA players tells you?
- Veterans Ignashevich, Berezutsky. Well, foreigners - Natcho, Wernbloom. True, after a while I understand them.
- What exactly are they suggesting?
- It happens that I don’t open there. They want to make a transfer to the free zone, but I'm not there. They explain to me how to interact on the field.
- Which of the experienced players "shoves"?
- The same Ignashevich and Berezutsky. Well, foreigners can shout out if they don’t like something. It's normal, everyone goes through it.
– Your teammates are worth millions of euros, unlike you. Do you try to play with them more carefully in training?
“Sometimes you have to play hard. Whether young or veteran, everyone is equal. If necessary, I go to the joints.
how Goncharenko threw water in the locker room. Have you felt in six months that the price of a mistake in the RFPL is much higher than in the youth championship?
- In our double team everyone fights as much as possible. CSKA both there and there became the second. For 2-3 rounds, they missed the championship in the youth league. It was very embarrassing.
- With whom is the main "zarub" in the youth championship?
- Of course, with Spartak. Sometimes we lost, sometimes we won - 3:0. Although in the youth Champions League there were “cuts”. I will remember the match against Tottenham Hotspur forever. We lost the first half - 0:1. In the second half, they broke the match and took the lead with a score of 2:1. Alas, we conceded in the 90th minute - 2:2. Everyone was sure that it would end in a draw, but at the very, very end we scored the winning goal. Emotions ran high. We really needed these three points to advance from the group.
UEFA Youth League. Group E. 2nd round
did not agree with
According to SE, there are no agreements between midfielder Manuel Fernandes and Galatasaray to move to the club from Istanbul after the end of the 2018/19 season, when his contract with the railway workers comes to an end. Earlier, Turkish media reported on this option to continue the career of the 33-year-old Portuguese. Now the midfielder and the Moscow club are discussing the terms of a new contract.
The head coach of the red-greens commented on the “SE” reports about the future of Fernandes: “Let them negotiate, this is not my question. Fernandes is now training with the team.”
not worth the return?
Striker Timur Zhamaletdinov, who moved from CSKA to on loan in the winter, gave an interview to the Polish edition of Przeglad Sportowy, in which he spoke impartially about the former head coach of the army team Leonid Slutsky and partner in the capital club, the top scorer of the Premier League Fedor Chalov.
"I found out that Chalov had a coach who had a good relationship with Slutsky," said the 21-year-old forward. person".
He also said that he would like to remain in the team from Poznan even after the end of the agreement, which is calculated until this summer: “It would be useful for me if I stayed longer at Lech. There is a lot of competition in CSKA, foreigners play .I would like to move to the European top league in a few years, and teams from Western Europe do not pay attention to the Russian championship."
did not stay in Russia
According to Calciomercato.it, defender Micha Mevlja, who signed a contract with Empoli in the winter transfer window, asked the Italians to break it. The transition did not take place due to the fact that the club did not have time to enter the transaction data into the electronic system.
According to SE, the 28-year-old Slovenian has options to continue his career in or, for which he already played from 2016 to 2017. The Donskoy club can be called a favorite in the struggle for a defensive player, since the St. Petersburg team is unlikely to want to strengthen the composition of the army team - their direct competitor in the fight for the championship.
