Aleksei Berezutski

Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutski (Алексей Владимирович Березуцкий; born 20 June 1982) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a centre-back.

Aleksei Berezutski
Berezutski with CSKA Moscow in October 2015
Personal information
Full name Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutski
Date of birth (1982-06-20) 20 June 1982
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 Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Torpedo Moscow 2 (0)
2001 → Chernomorets Novorossiysk (loan) 14 (1)
2001–2018 CSKA Moscow 341 (8)
Total 357 (9)
National team
2001–2003 Russia U-21 7 (0)
2003–2016 Russia 58 (0)
Teams managed
2019 Vitesse (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Berezutski.

Career

Club

He began his professional career in 1999 at the age of 17 at Torpedo Moscow, graduating from the club's famed academy. 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 2009, 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.[2]

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.[3]

International

Berezutski is a Russia national football team regular, making 32 appearances since 2003.[4] 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.

He was confirmed for the finalized UEFA Euro 2012 squad on 25 May 2012.[5]

On 7 March 2018, he officially retired from international football.[6]

Coaching career

On 3 January 2019, Aleksei and his twin brother Vasili joined Dutch club Vitesse as assistant coaches to Leonid Slutsky, who trained them with CSKA and national team.[7]

Personal life

Aleksei started to play football in sport school Smena in Moscow, before moving to Torpedo's academy. He is married and has a daughter named Alyona. His identical twin brother, Vasili, is also a professional footballer, coming through the Torpedo academy alongside his brother, who he played with at CSKA too.

Career statistics

Club
As of 14 May 2018
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Torpedo-ZIL 2000 2000—20
Total20000020
Chernomorets 2001 14100—141
Total1410000141
CSKA Moscow 2002 1601020190
2003 3003010340
2004 27020100390
2005 27280151503
2006 2908080450
2007 2604080380
2008 2423052324
2009 1603090280
2010 2311080321
2011–12 40050100550
2012–13 505000100
2013–14 1304050220
2014–15 701020100
2015–16 2114090341
2016–17 1812050251
2017–18 19100100291
Total341854098250210
Career total357954098251811

Honours

Club

CSKA

International
Russia

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

References
  1. Березуцкий Алексей Владимирович (in Russian). Sportbox.ru. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  2. "CSKA Moscow pair given doping ban". BBC News. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. "Братья Березуцкие завершили профессиональную карьеру" (in Russian). PFC CSKA Moscow. 21 July 2018.
  4. Arnhold, Matthias. "Russia – Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  5. "Advocaat announced the finalized Euro Squad" (in Russian). 25 May 2012.
  6. БРАТЬЯ БЕРЕЗУЦКИЕ ЗАВЕРШИЛИ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport-Express. 7 March 2018.
  7. "VITESSE MET 25 SPELERS NAAR PORTUGAL" [VITESSE WITH 25 PLAYERS TO PORTUGAL] (in Dutch). Vitesse. 2 January 2019.
Preceded by
Andrei Arshavin		 Russia national football team captain
2008		 Succeeded by
Sergei Semak
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