Biography
Sports biography, which is called, "in large" began with Andrei Lunev in 2010. During this time, Doros football player to a responsible post at the gate of one of the best Russian football clubs - St. Petersburg "Zenit", and then won the honor to play in the national team.Childhood and youth
Andrei was born in November 1991 in the capital of Russia. The guy's childhood was ordinary, with the difference only that he was engaged in a sports school, where she was furious in futsal. Friend's father helped to train the team "Dina", which included in the elite of world mini-football. Later with the comrades, Lunev began to attend classes in the football school of Youth Torpedo.
As the later admitted Andrei in an interview, in 10 years he got a choice - futsal or big. He stopped at the last, but worried that he would not have time to grow. He instilled confidence that the parents at Lunev had high, and over time the problem was resolved. Now the growth and weight of the Zenit goalkeeper is 189 cm and 80 kg, respectively.
After 3 years, the teenager was included in the duplicating composition of Torpedo. But after a year, the club was excluded from the RFPL, and Doubles dissolved. In 2009, Torpedo returned the status of a professional team, began to play in the second league. At this time, Lunev, according to his own words, "Clausing a star" when he began to receive a solid salary for the young football player. The money was quickly ended, and Andrei made a lesson for himself:
"There was no more such and will not be."And then the goalkeeper was practically left without a team, he stopped putting on matches and more often simply retired. So, in the 2011/2012 season, Lunev spoke for the Moscow region "Istra", a year later stood at the Kaluga gate. I thought about the "Volga" from Nizhny Novgorod, but led injury. The player returned to Torpedo, and the head coach is not something that does not declare it, even the form of sports does not give out and advises to independently search for another place.
Goalkeeper had to be engaged with a duplicate composition in what brought from the house. Parallel Andrei appealed to the Disciplinary Committee, "knocked out" the status of a free agent and in the middle of the season went to the amateur league.
Football
It is difficult to submit, but in 2015 Andrei intended to leave professional sports, and the fault of that financial problems. Finally leaving Torpedo, the goalkeeper signed a contract with Saturn. For the club from Ramensky Lunev played only six months, spent 4 matches and was sitting without salary all this time. The football player had a family, many loans, began to displays banks and collectors. It was not necessary to starve, of course, the parents helped, but he lived heavily, Andrei said.And then the option of changing the club on the "Ufa" or "Tom", the intuition suggested Andrei to accept the offer of the team of Igor Kolyvanov. No football player was afraid and the fact that sporting commentators were inadvertently spoken, in Ufa, Lunev risked to be at the position of the fourth goalkeeper, which did not give guarantees to often go to the field.
For the team, the goalkeeper defended 16 matches at the goal in the youth championship. Soon switched to the main composition in which he spent 10 matches. But the promising Andrei did not count for a long time, until in September 2016 "Ufa" did not finish the game with Krasnodar, and then did not go to zero in meetings with titled Anji, Lokomotiv and Spartak. Around the goalkeeper "Gorozhaba" such a noise that coach Viktor Goncharenko forbade Luneva to give interviews, so that the ward did not lose concentration.
Viktor Mikhailovich Andrei considers the best of the coaches, at least of those with whom it happened to play. With it, "Ufa" had an atmosphere, no one was offended by anyone. Goncharenko If I trampled a player with a workout, then only in case of non-fulfillment of installations. According to Lunev, the mentor could calm down and set up for success, even injury, in his opinion, "go out of the head", when a football player thinks about outsiders.
At the end of 2016, Andrei signed a contract with St. Petersburg "Zenit" for 4.5 years. The deal between Ufa and the "blue-white-blue-blue-blue" called successful: the compensation amount for the goalkeeper was € 3.5 million. At the press conference, the player said that it was hard to leave the native team hard, but when fate grants a chance to go to the host Club of the country, sin not to take advantage.
Almost simultaneously with the departure of the goalkeeper in Ufa, the top of the manual was changed. The steering wheel stood the five-time champion of Russia Sergey Semak, who left everything in the same "Zenith", the post of assistant Luciano Spalletti and the temporary duties of the head coach.
In the 2016/2017 season, together with Zenit, Andrei Lunuel won the Bronze Medal of the Championship of Russia. At the end of the season, the name of the goalkeeper appeared in the list of advanced composition of the national team. However, in the second game, the goalkeeper was injured for the national team and at the end of the match was hospitalized.
Statistics lovers were calculated that for 2 years spent on the banks of the Neva, the footballer played 55 matches, of which at 28 survived. In the playoffs of the Europa League 2017/2018 against the German "RB Leipzig" pulled the penalty Timo Werner. The following season in the game with the Czech "Slavia", he gave one of the brightest shows - I endured 11 shots on the goal defended by it. The enemy won on episodes, and not to see "Zenit" 3 points if the Dalner Kuzyaev and Alexander Kokorin did not come to the field.
In Eurocup, Zenitovtsy passed to the 1/8 finals, and season 2018/2019 completed the winners of the country championship. The goalkeeper became the third record holder of the club in terms of the number of minutes spent on the field (2610), giving way to the former colleagues Andrei Arshavin and Mikhail Biryukov. The own contribution of Lunes was critically:
"In terms of your game, I am not very pleased, I was counting on completely different. 27 missed balls in 28 championship matches for Zenit levels. The championship is great, but let it just be a good psychological background for preparing for the new season. "Zenit's goalkeeper fell into the advanced national team stated to participate in FIFA-2018 World Cup. But Andrei tournament spent on the bench, perhaps the coaching staff decided not to risk the player, shortly before the competition received a concussion in a friendly meeting with the Spaniards.
Nevertheless, he witnessed the incredible success of the national team and believes that the emotions and fan love donated with Mundalam and fan love must be preserved. The team, starting with the players and ending with the cooks, made a whole whole, with full self-dedication, "the hand of the coach made his contribution," because it was this national team that issued the best results in history.
Lunev himself allocated a penalty spotted by Igor Akinfeyev in a match with Spain and the goal of Mario Fernandez to Croatia's gate.
Personal life
Andrei's wife, Diana Andrei met on vacation in Egypt, even when I played for Torpedo. Young people have long rewritten in social networks, we went to visit each other: Goalkeeper lived in Moscow, Diana - in Ufa. In the next, already sharing in Dominican, the football player made a favorite girl's proposal, but this moment from the personal life of the spouses turned into a family secret and do not share with anyone.
The couple got married in 2016. In "Instagram" Lunev was placed only a modest collage from wedding photographs. After the World Cup - 2018, when the pages of colleagues recruited millions of subscribers, the goalkeeper removed the personal account.
"I" instagram "do not do especially. On the Internet, just watch some funny videos or communicate with old friends. And for which you need an "instagram", I do not really understand. It's just a waste of time that you can spend with more benefits than lying on the sofa and finally flipping someone's photos. "According to Andrei, all the qualities he was sought in his wife in his second half: business, beauty, mind. Diana - therapist, studying in the residency in the specialty "Functional diagnostics".
Diana her husband conquered, according to her, the feat that he flew from Moscow for every weekend. In addition, Andrei created all the conditions around it to feel calm and confident. The girl was the only one who spoke against the crossing of Andrei to St. Petersburg, especially since Lunev could choose between Zenit and Krasnodar. Diana wanted to live where warmer, but the place where to settle in the northern capital, the spouses were chosen together.
The secular life of the lunis family does not attract. When Andrei signed a contract with Zenit, he understood that he was awaiting a surge of attention, and it was a little afraid of this, I just wanted to work quietly. Shooting for fashionable magazines believes a waste of time, the main thing is to be the right team and the club, and the fact that he now plays in such teams does not mean participation in public events. Football for the goalkeeper "Zenith" is still in the first place, and he hopes that Diana in this is solidar with him.
In October 2019, the lovers became parents, the firstborn - son of Denis appeared on the world. The team congratulated goalkeeper with this event, wishing the new father and mother forces and health in the upbringing of the heir.
Andrei at the leisure loves to play virtual hockey or tennis, sick for Roger Federer. She dreams of visiting the USA, because "there is cool, there is NHL, NBA." Among the colleagues, Lunev believes the sample of Sergey Ryzhikov's colleague. The children did not get the pair until the goalkeeper said that the firstborn son would like, and even better, in order to be born twins - immediately a boy and a girl.
Andrei Lunuel now
For the qualifying matches of Euro-2020, Stanislav Cherchesov caused four goalkeepers at once: "Rostovets" was joined by Svunin and Guillerme, Sergey Pesyakov joined Luner. So the head coach provided in case of injury so that I did not have to look for a replacement in an avral order. However, in early July, 2021 it turned out that due to the unsigned contract Lunev in the national team for Euro-2020 was not.In the spring of 2021, Zenit goalkeeper Mikhail Kerzhakov received a serious injury, because of which rehabilitation was followed and a forced care. His place in the team took Andrei, becoming the main goalkeeper "Blue-White-Blue". However, even then, sports analysts were skeptical to this news, because Lunev's contract with the club was calculated until the summer of 2021.
The goalkeeper received a challenge to the Russian national team to participate in the World Cup 2022. The first match in the framework of the qualifying stage against Malta brought the Russians victory. Good luck wondered and at a meeting with Slovenia, but turned away from athletes on March 30: Slovakia broke out forward.
After the end of the contract with the "Zenit" no extension followed. In July 2021, it became known that the goalkeeper goes to Bayer, the contract was designed for 2 years.
Awards and achievements
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia
As part of Zenit
- Russian champion in football
- Bronze medalist of the Russian Football Championship