Alexander Ryazantsev was born on September 5, 1986 in the city of Moscow. From an early age, the boy fell in love with football. He is a pupil of the Torpedo children's sports school. He made his debut in the main team of Moscow on October 16, 2004 in the match of the 26th round of the Premier League against Moscow Lokomotiv.
In early 2006 he joined Rubin as a free agent. Debuted for new club March 19, in the match against Rostov (2: 1). During the 2006 season, he played 15 matches, 8 of them in the first team. The first goal for Rubin was scored in 2007 in the 11th minute of the match against his former team - FC Moskva. At the end of the season, he scored 6 goals in 19 matches, including one in the Intertoto Cup for Vienna's "Rapid".
In the 2007/08 offseason, the club's management decided to renew the team, as a result of which a large number of players were sold, but Ryazantsev remained in the team. At the end of the season, he played 22 matches. In October 2009, he opened the scoring in the Champions League away match against Barcelona, scoring a goal from outside the penalty area into the upper right corner in the 2nd minute. In this match, Rubin won with a score of 2: 1. Ryazantsev signed a new contract with Rubin for a period of four years on December 31, 2009.
The match with Rostov in the 14th round of the 2011/12 Russian championship became for Ryazantsev the hundredth played for Rubin in the Premier League. He played it as team captain, scored the winning goal and was substituted in second half stoppage time. The match ended with the score 3: 1 in favor of Rubin.
In the starting round against Kuban Razantsev received a red card. In July 2013, the FTC RFU disqualified the player for rough play in three meetings. In September 2013, Ryazantsev, through the RFU, demanded to pay him his salary, thereby banning the registration of new players during one registration period was imposed on Rubin. Ryazantsev, on September 18, notified the club's management of his decision to leave Rubin after the end of the contract. In the home meeting against Tom, he received a controversial red card in the 33rd minute, violating the conditions of the RFU probation period. Subsequently, he was disqualified for one match for a last resort foul in the match with Tomyu and for one match not missed after suspension of suspension for sending off in the 1st round match with Kuban.
He became a player of the Zenit club on January 17, 2014, having signed a contract until 2018. He made his debut on March 9 in the match against Tom, having played in starting lineup 74 minutes. The first goal for the team was scored on November 8 of the same year against Terek. Scored a goal against Sevilla in the quarter finals of the Europa League (1: 2). Despite a good debut in the team, Ryazantsev rarely made it to the main team, so in February 2016 he agreed to play in Ural on loan until the end of the 2015/16 season. In the summer of 2017 he moved on loan to Amkar, for which he scored three goals in 19 matches.
In the national team
Alexander Ryazantsev was on the list of candidates for the national team on November 3, 2010, but was not included in the final application. On May 30, 2011 he was called up to the national team. He made his debut on June 7, 2011 in a friendly match with the Cameroon national team (0: 0) - entered the field in the starting lineup and was replaced at the 55th minute.
He played his second match for the national team on September 6, 2013 against the Luxembourg national team (4: 1). In the last minutes he gave an assist to Alexander Samedov.
Alexander Ryazantsev is a Russian midfielder best known for playing for the Rubin Kazan team. Currently, he defends the colors of the St. Petersburg Zenit and the Russian national team.
Dossier
Alexander Alexandrovich Ryazantsev was born in 1986 in Moscow (USSR). Russian citizen. The playing position is an attacking midfielder. Winner of the national championship in 2008, 2009, 2015. Winner of the Cup (2012) and Super Cup (2010, 2012, 2015) of Russia. Height - 175 cm, weight - 74 kg. Married.
Performance statistics
Throughout his playing career, Alexander Ryazantsev (photo above) played in three teams. All of them took part exclusively in the Russian championships. In the period from 2003 to the present, he played 253 matches at the highest football level, scoring 30 goals.
- 2003-05 - FC "Moscow";
- 2006-13 - Rubin (Kazan);
- 2014-present - Zenit St. Petersburg.
Alexander Ryazantsev has been involved in the Russian national team since 2006. In 2006-2008, he defended the honor of the youth team, for which he had eight matches. For the main team of the country, Alexander made his debut in a meeting with the national team of Cameroon on June 7, 2011. He played his first official match in the group qualifier for the 2014 World Cup against Luxembourg on September 6, 2013. He turned out to be the last for Alexander Ryazantsev. The footballer took part in three more friendly matches, bringing the number of appearances for the Russian national team to five.
Stages of a football career
Alexander Ryazantsev is a pupil of the sports school for children and youth of the Olympic reserve of the capital "Torpedo". He started his football career in the youth team "Torpedo-Metallurg". The young promising player was invited to the CSKA club, where he played for three years. Although this can hardly be called performances, since during this period the footballer played only two official games for the army team.
In 2006, Alexander, as a free agent, transferred to the Rubin club, where he played his debut match on March 19 in a meeting with the Rostov team. In the 2006 season, he took part in eighteen matches, including two European Cup matches. Starting next year, Ryazantsev has become the main and irreplaceable central midfielder of Rubin, the team's engine, a player who has shown his leadership and striking qualities.
In the 2007 season, he played 24 meetings, scored 6 goals. Ironically, he scored his first goal in the Russian championship just at the gates of his previous club, FC Moskva. In the same year, Alexander scored the first European Cup goal. He had a duel with the Viennese "Rapid".
But the 2007 season itself was a failure for the Kazan club. The team took 10th place at the end of the championship. As a result, Rubin's management is carrying out a serious rotation in the club. As a result of the selection work, such footballers as Savo Milosevic and Rebrov joined the team. All of them had extensive experience of performing at the highest level.
The starting segment of the championship showed that Rubin set their sights on fulfilling the highest tournament goals. The team managed to win in seven rounds of the championship and firmly gain a foothold in the first place. And after Kazan easily and naturally beat reigning champion Russia - St. Petersburg "Zenith" (4: 1), it became obvious that this club can no longer be stopped. In the 27th round, Rubin officially secured the championship, and Alexander Ryazantsev became a football player who was fully involved in the team's winning the first gold medals of the Russian championship. He played 22 matches in that championship.
Ryazantsev scored his most memorable career goal in 2009. It was an away match of the Champions League tournament against Spanish Barcelona. Already in the second minute of the meeting, Alexander struck the gate of the Catalans with the strongest aimed long-range strike. And although the Spaniards won back (the score was leveled by Zlatan Ibrahimovic), Rubin managed to score the winning goal in the 73rd minute of the match. Thanks to this victory, the Kazan club managed to group tournament take 3rd place and break into the Europa League.
According to the results of the Russian championship in 2009, Rubin became the champion for the second time, ahead of the closest pursuer, which turned out to be Moscow Spartak, by 8 points, and Ryazantsev himself received the first personal recognition. He was included in the list of "33 best footballers of the National Championship".
In 2011, he plays his 100th match for the Kazan club. For the duel with "Rostov" Alexander takes the team as the captain. And yet, the time of his stay at Rubin is already numbered. In 2013, he notifies the club management that he intends to leave the team at the end of the contract.
Since January 17, 2014 Alexander Ryazantsev is a footballer of the Zenit club. He signed an agreement with him until 2018. He played his debut match as part of the new team on March 9, 2014 against the Tom club. Alexander scored his only goal in the Russian championship for Zenit against the Terek team on November 8, eight months after the start of his performances. And although in the 2014/2015 season he becomes the champion of Russia for the third time, by and large his career at Zenit did not work out. Here Alexander is not in the first roles. For three seasons of performances, he played 43 matches (2 goals scored).
Personal life
In 2015, the footballer tied himself Now he is a married man. The marriage took place during the player's off-season vacation. On some Internet sites, information appeared that Alexander Ryazantsev, a football player whose wedding took place in St. Petersburg, left with his wife Catherine on a honeymoon either to Italy or to Greece.
Pupil of the sports school "Torpedo". He made his debut in the main team of Moscow on October 16, 2004 in the match of the 26th round of the Premier League against Moscow Lokomotiv. In early 2006 he joined Rubin as a free agent. He made his debut for the new club on March 19, in the match against Rostov. The fight ended with the victory of the Kazan team with a score of 2: 1. During the 2006 season, he played 15 matches, 8 of them in the first team. The first goal for Rubin was scored in 2007 in the 11th minute of the match against the former team - FC Moskva. At the end of the season, in 19 matches, Alexander scored 6 goals: FC Moskva, Krylyam Sovetov, Kuban, Dynamo, Lokomotiv and Vienna Rapid in the Intertoto Cup. In the 2007-08 offseason, the club's management decided to renew the team, as a result of which a large number of players were sold, but Alexander remained in the team. The 2008 season for Alexander and his team began extremely successfully - at the start of the championship, there were 7 victories in a row. At the end of the season, Alexander played 22 matches on the field. On October 20, 2009, he opened the scoring in the legendary Champions League match Barcelona - Rubin, scoring a phenomenal goal from outside the penalty area into the upper right corner on the 2nd minute of the meeting. In this match, Rubin defeated the then-strongest club in the world with a score of 2-1.
The match with “Rostov” in the 14th round of the 2011/12 Russian championship became for Ryazantsev the hundredth, played for “R ubin” in the Premier League. Alexander played it in the rank of team captain, scored the winning goal and was replaced in stoppage time in the second half. The match ended with the score 3: 1 in favor of Rubin.
In the national team
On November 3, 2010, he was on the list of candidates for the national team, but was not included in the final application. On May 30, 2011 he was called up to the national team.
He made his debut on June 7, 2011 in a friendly against Cameroon. Alexander entered the field in the starting lineup and was substituted in the 55th minute. The match ended in a goalless draw.
Achievements
Team
Champion of Russia: (2)
2008, 2009 (FC Rubin)
Russian Cup finalist: (1)
2008/09 (FC Rubin)
Russian Super Cup Winner: (1)
2010 (FC Rubin)
Personal
In the lists of 33 best football players of the Russian championship (1): 2009 (III)
Ryazantsev, Alexander Alexandrovich. Midfielder.
Pupil of the Moscow sports school "Torpedo-Metallurg". The first coach is Nikolai Viktorovich Vasiliev.
Clubs: Torpedo-Metallurg-D Moscow (2003), Moscow Moscow (2004–2005), Rubin Kazan (2006–2013), Zenit St. Petersburg (2014–2016), Ural Yekaterinburg (2016), Zenit-2 St. Petersburg (2016), Amkar Perm (2017–2018), Khimki Khimki (2018–2019), Torpedo Moscow (2019 –...).
3-time champion of Russia: 2008, 2009, 2014/15.
2-time Russian Cup winner: 2011/12, 2015/16.
3-time Russian Super Cup winner: 2012/13, 2015/16, 2016/17.
For the Russian national team played 5 matches.
« I HAVE NO JEANS AND JUST ONE SPORTS PANTS!»
When Rubin's midfielder Alexander Ryazantsev was injured and dropped out of the Russian football process for several months, it got a little boring. We are looking forward to when Sasha will return to the field - and he promised us on oath that this will happen very soon - and will start scoring goals from thirty meters away. How he scored against Victor Valdez in the Champions League. We present the story of Sasha Ryazantsev to you this week. Suddenly you miss him too.
About trauma
I was injured in the 1/16 finals of the Europa League against Hapoel. In the 35th minute, an unpleasant tackle was made against me. Immediately I felt pain and realized that something was wrong. At first, they thought it was a common bruise. I myself went to the doctor and asked for an X-ray. Bones thrilled me. We did an X-ray, but it showed nothing: there were no changes in the ankle. But when we did another MRI, it turned out that the injury was very serious. The cartilage was broken. But now it has already grown up again. A month ago, I dropped my crutches. I am already running a little. In June I will go with the team to the training camp in Austria, 60 km from Munich. I will do whatever I can. Hopefully I will appear on the field in late summer or early fall. This is exactly. I need to get better for the Champions League.
I don't think this trauma will have any psychological impact. My friends and teammates constantly call me - they support me a lot. So for a long time I was not sad. When I watch football, I think that very soon I will also enter the field.
About the inexpressive game so far« Rubin»
I hope and even am sure that soon Rubin will play very beautiful football. The pitches will be good, we will get in shape at the training camp. That year we finished the first round in second place, but in the end we won the championship. Whoever looks good in rounds ten after it resumes will be the winner. Despite the fact that after these ten rounds, we personally will have matches with the main competitors. They, like us, will start playing in European competitions, so fatigue will accumulate. A lot will depend on who has which bench. Even Zenit can be weakened. With our coach, who is very well versed in tactics, we can beat the St. Petersburg team.
About Kurban Berdyev
In life, Kurban Bekievich is a completely different person than on the TV screen. Sometimes I don't recognize him when I see him giving interviews. I do not know the reasons, maybe this is his chosen strategy of behavior. In fact, you can talk to him on almost any topic. He is very worried about his players. Let's say the player doesn't show a certain level. Then he asks what it is - maybe you walk a lot and sleep a little? True, he never approached me with such questions.
Kurban Bekievich is very fond of football, he gives himself completely to the cause. This is his secret. It is known that in our country, for example, five rubles are allocated for the construction of roads, but they are built only for a ruble. I think the same is with football. But Berdyev always goes somewhere, says that now a lot is being done for our club. A boarding school for children is being built, the base is superb, the stadium is going to be expanded. He knows how to wait. To raise a good footballer, you need to create all the conditions for him, train purposefully for seven years, and only then, when he turns eighteen, will he enter the field and score a goal against Zenit or Spartak. The only thing is that Kurban Bekievich does not really understand football players, who does not do everything the way he wants.
About teammates
An excellent team has come together in Rubin. Ryzhikov, and Sharonov, and Semak, and Rebrov, who has already completed his career, are all just wonderful people. They have a lot to learn. When I first came to Rubin, there was also a good team there - well, normal. But he became united only since 2008, when Rebrov, Milosevich, Semak, Sharonov came ... Ryzhikov is generally a golden man. He recently had two daughters, twins. My teammates and I often get together and have dinner together. Joint dinners were introduced by our captain. We can discuss some things in an informal setting, most often non-football things - this brings the team together very much.
About why he stayed in « Rubin»
In winter, my contract ended, and I could leave Rubin as a free agent. But he chose to stay. Rubin is the best option for me and for my career. Not for money, but for what I can achieve in this team.
Before the re-signing of the contract, I had one of the lowest salaries in the team, but it didn't jar me very much. In winter, my salary was raised significantly. In general, in Russia, in my opinion, a player's salary does not depend on how well he plays football. Apparently, this is somehow connected with the activities of agents, I don't know for sure. But I think this is not normal.
Of course, the salaries of many Russian players are grossly overstated. Someone gets simply fabulous sums. It seems to me that people would leave to play abroad more willingly, if we did not pay so much money. And so we have football players playing abroad, you can count on the fingers of one hand.
About Kazan
I come to Kazan as if it were home, although I myself am a Muscovite, I was brought up at the Torpedo school. In Kazan, they gave me an apartment, they gave me a car. I live in a very clean and beautiful area - this is important to me, as I like to walk. You can go shopping, walk to a shopping center. But there are still not enough parks, something like the Botanical Garden or the Krylatsky Hills. If only to leave the city. And Kazan is super. And it is located not far from Moscow. Easily accessible by train or plane.
The most important ball of your career
Journalists constantly ask me about Barcelona's goal at Camp Nou, and to be honest, I'm tired of it. Obviously, I scored that goal in the Champions League, and it turned out to be both spectacular and effective. But it is still impossible! Many beautiful goals are scored. But they don't approach their authors and don't say: hey, did you score a goal, for example, Manchester United?
About the prospects of playing for the national team
Playing for the national team is not a dream, it is the result of my work. If I work well, they will be called to the national team. As the saying goes, if you really want to, you can fly into space. By the way, as a child I wanted to be not an astronaut, but a bus driver. I liked it when buses overtook trolleybuses. Thought: wow, cool. We are leading 1: 0.
About family
Our family is absolutely ordinary. She has many children. Mom and Dad used to work two or three jobs, I can't even imagine how hard it was for them. Now, thank God, everything is fine, parents may not work.
Dad, by the way, even worked in football club"Moscow". Breeder. He found very interesting football players, but not one of them was taken to the club. Subsequently, these players turned out to be players of a very high level, they played successfully in the Russian championship, but I probably won't name names. I realized that my dad was hired only because I play there. Then he quit.
Dad is very well versed in football, he sees the players. Five years ago we played the same game with him. He said: let's write down three names from Latin America, let's see who these players will become in three years. He then recorded a very young Aguero, I don't remember the rest, but three out of four are now superstars in Europe. Dad is also my first coach, since childhood he chased me. I went to training, then he took me outside the schoolyard, where he minted the ball. I couldn't do it. And he said: do not come home until you have minted ten times. I left myself, but I stayed. You will mince ten times, and only then will you go home, whether it is dark outside or not.
Now I live alone. Sometimes I visit my parents. Dad makes pancakes, mom, of course, also cooks delicious. So I cook myself or eat at the base. But I always cook breakfast myself. I can cook almost any kind of porridge. And I love coffee. I'll cook it and drink it with pleasure with some bun.
How to spend your free time
If you went to a club, then you need to recover for about two days. Some may have enough health to walk and play. I am missing. I either walk or play. So I don't go to clubs anymore. The last time I was there, even when the "Opera" did not burn down. I like to spend evenings in a restaurant with friends. Once a week or two, we have dinner as a team. But there is a company with which I communicate more - these are Andryukha Gorbanets, Zhenya Balyaikin, Rafa Muravsky, Alan Kasaev. Andryukha recently had a wedding. Dima Sychev was a DJ, everyone danced. He's a great DJ. He puts on some kind of melody, something like "Flying Gait", but in processing. It all looks pretty funny: a man is sitting with headphones, twirling something.
I don’t even remember the last time I was in the movies. I love theater. No kidding. I like to go to some Irish bar, drink some beer, chat with friends. It happens that I invite my friends home or to football. Sometimes we just get together, there are all sorts of activity games. We play, we laugh, we have a good time. Hangouts in the past.
Temptation can be found anywhere. And in Kazan, and in Ryazan, and in Moscow, even more so. There was a time when there was not much money. And I just wanted to make money. But then they appeared, and everything passed, thank God. But there were temptations. It's probably good that I left Moscow. I don’t know how it would have ended if I had stayed.
About learning languages
Now I have gone a little deeper into the study of foreign languages. I study with a teacher at home. The lesson lasts about two hours. I want to improve my English and study Spanish a little. We spend a lot of time in Spain, and we have a lot of Spanish-speaking players in our team. Therefore, practice will be enough. I just want to finish off English. I don’t know how long it’s been, but I’m still not going to study it.
Of course, I took up languages, because sooner or later I want to leave to play abroad. But I think it's too early, we still have to play in the Russian championship.
About superstition
I'm not a superstitious person. I don’t believe in any signs, and even if a black cat crosses my path, I will purposefully walk along this street, once again convinced that these are just prejudices. When I had not even played in Rubin, there were legends in Kazan that the Kul Sharif mosque was also built to protect the gates of the Kazan club safe and sound. I think this is all nonsense.
Katerina Kirilcheva, Maria TEAM
Russian footballer, midfielder. Player of Kazan "Rubin".
Pupil of the sports school "Torpedo". He made his debut in the main team of Moscow on October 16, 2004 in the match of the 26th round of the Premier League against Moscow Lokomotiv. In early 2006 he joined Rubin as a free agent. He made his debut for the new club on March 19, in the match against Rostov. The fight ended with the victory of the Kazan team with a score of 2: 1. During the 2006 season, he played 15 matches, 8 of them in the first team. The first goal for Rubin was scored in 2007 in the 11th minute of the match against the former team - FC Moskva. At the end of the season, in 19 matches, Alexander scored 6 goals: FC Moskva, Krylyam Sovetov, Kuban, Dynamo, Lokomotiv and Vienna Rapid in the Intertoto Cup. In the 2007-08 offseason, the club's management decided to renew the team, as a result of which a large number of players were sold, but Alexander remained in the team. The 2008 season for Alexander and his team began extremely successfully - at the start of the championship, there were 7 victories in a row. At the end of the season, Alexander played 22 matches on the field. On October 20, 2009, he opened the scoring in the legendary Champions League match Barcelona - Rubin, scoring a phenomenal goal from outside the box in the upper right corner of the
at the 2nd minute of the meeting. In this match, Rubin defeated the then-strongest club in the world with a score of 2-1.
The match with Rostov in the 14th round of the 2011/12 Russian championship was the hundredth for Ryazantsev, played for Rubin in the Premier League. Alexander played it in the rank of team captain, scored the winning goal and was replaced in stoppage time in the second half. The match ended with the score 3: 1 in favor of Rubin.
In the national team
On November 3, 2010, he was on the list of candidates for the national team, but was not included in the final application. On May 30, 2011 he was called up to the national team.
He made his debut on June 7, 2011 in a friendly against Cameroon. Alexander entered the field in the starting lineup and was substituted in the 55th minute. The match ended in a goalless draw.
Achievements
Team
Champion of Russia: (2)
2008, 2009 (FC Rubin)
Russian Cup finalist: (1)
2008/09 (FC Rubin)
Russian Super Cup Winner: (1)
2010 (FC Rubin)
Personal
In the lists of 33 best football players of the Russian championship (1): 2009 (III)
