Biography
Commentator Konstantin Genic does not know about all the difficulties of the life of football players. Before the start of the journalistic career, a man was a professional athlete. However, Konstantin does not regret Konstantin's leaving - Genic is sure that, becoming a commentator, pulled out a happy ticket. A sports journalist is also close to football, but it has enough time for family and friends whose photos often flashed in "Instagram" commentator.Childhood and youth
Konstantin was born on January 3, 1978 in Irkutsk, but soon after the birth of the boy, the family moved to Moscow. By the way, the future commentator does not hide what Jewish roots have, despite the fact that Russian is officially by nationality.
The first attempts to make a boy's parents of the boy from the son of a football player at a fairly early age. The child was set up to the School "Dynamo", where at one of the first training sections, Genic was injured. The boy broke his leg in two places. Fractures were so serious that some time after the bones were embarrassed, Kostya continued to chrome - the length of the damaged leg was different from healthy.
It would seem that on this football from the biography of Genica should have fallen forever, but at 9 years old a boy, yielding to a friend's persuasion, goes to a look at Sports School "Spartak", which was not quite successful. Kostya scored on his own gate back in the first minutes of the game. Despite the similar incident, the coach remarked the boy's talent and invited the Genic to the team.
Career
Konstantin first entered the field in the status of a professional player at 17 years. At this point, the growth of the footballer reached 1.79 m, and the weight is 77 kg. The young man did not make his way into the main staff of Spartak and played on the position of the attacking midfielder in the third league of Spartak Dubl.
Realizing that a footballer's career stalled, the young man goes to Torgmash. Konstantin spent half a year in the new club and, according to his own words, passed the team from the city of Lyubertsy a good school of life. Then followed the season in which Genic played for the Moscow team "Monolith", after which Konstantin was invited to the season to the club "Ventspils" from Latvia.
The following 2.5 years Konstantin spent as part of Khimki, where she showed rich potential. In the battle with Fabus, the midfielder scored 4 goals in the door of the opponent. The match ended with a score of 4: 3 in favor of "Khimki". In parallel with the work in the Moscow Region team, Genic passed a view in Saturn, but the head coach of the club decided that he was not ready to take a new player, and suggested Konstantin to stay in Khimki.
No less interest, the footballer caused Torpedo. This time, the leaders of clubs could not agree. "Khimki" requested the summit for the genius, which Torpedo was not ready to pay. But the head coach of the team recommended a talented player to the leadership of "Kuban".
Alexander Ivirin - the head coach of the Kuban Club - agreed to take a football player even without viewing. In addition to Genic, a few more newcomers came to the team, which could not play. Kuban losing the match for the match. As a result, the club management took off their position and canceled all signed contracts.
2001 Konstantin held in Pskov-2000, which soon traded to the Israeli "Maccabi Ahi". By 2002, Career Geniche stabilized - the football player signed a contract with "Amkar". During the next friendly match, Genic gets a serious trauma of the leg. It took several operations for recovery, and after a long treatment it became clear that the man would no longer play football.
Once without a loved one, a former athlete could not have a lesson for a long time. Konstantin even passed interviews for the post of sales manager in the car dealership and seriously intended to become a taxi driver. Everything has changed a meeting with Vasily Utkin, who organized friends.
Genica took the trainee on the TV channel "NTV-Plotus" and first did not even pay salary. In the fall of 2006, Constantine was officially enrolled in the state. In 2011, the first commentator was interested in the leadership of the Channel One. After listening and personal interview with Nikolai Malyshev (director of sports broadcasting), the Genius was proposed to accompany the match Russia - Northern Ireland.
In July 2015, Konstantin shared with fans news: a man, together with George Cherdansev, voices the computer game FIFA-2016. According to the commentator, gamers will definitely hear branded phrases of sports journalists. In November of the same year, Konstantin goes to the TV channel "Match TV". In parallel with the main work of Genic, there is a blog in which it is divided by forecasts for the upcoming matches and analyzes the past games.
Personal life
Wife commentator name Irina. Konstantin often mentions in an interview about his family. For example, at the presentation of the reward "Best Commentator 2014", a man admitted that in the same room (the award was held in the "Royal Hall of the Hippodrome") his wedding took place and it was from this scene a former footballer recognized his wife in love.
In December 2013, Konstantin and Irina were born a daughter, which, happy parents called Anna, and later the younger girl Masha appeared. According to the genius, the wife and daughters often watch the transfer and football matches that a commentator works. At the same time, Irina is indifferent to the sport, and the girls just like to hear and see the dad on the television screen.
Konstantin Genic now
In January, the commentator shared with fans of joyful news: on the TV channel "Match TV" resumed the broadcast of the Games of La League. 4 confrontations of Seville Derby were expected, but Genica set comment on Italian matches. This alignment was upset by a man, because the commentator specializes in Spain (the favorite team of the man "Barcelona").
In February, rumors appeared that Konstantin leaves the TV channel due to a salary reduction, but soon after the first publications on this topic, the genius personally denied the information, calling the news by nonsense.
As part of the 2018 World Cup Championship, Konstantin in a pair with a colleague Denis Kazansky commented on the game Uruguay-Russia. In the match Russia-Spain, another commentator joined the duet - Nobel Arustamyan.
July began for Constantine with conflict. Footballer Alexander Kokorin said that Genic and Shnyakin did not play football professionally, and their sports career is a funny story. Konstantin did not remain in debt and stated in Twitter that the Kokorina game on the field is also unlikely to be called football.
Awards
- 2014 - Best Commentator according to Soviet Sports
- 2014 - Best Commentator TV channel "NTV-Plus" according to viewers
- 2015 - Best Commentator TV channel "NTV-Plus" according to the audience
- 2017 - Best Commentator of Russia named after V.N. Maslachenko