Biography
Andrei Tikhonova got a difficult football fate. However, failures and lesions did not interfere with the athlete to win the title of legend and the symbol of the famous club of Russia. Modest, hardworking and incredibly charismatic Andrei Valerevich long entered the elite of idols of football fans. By proving the player's talents, now Tikhonov passes the experience of young athletes in the role of the head coach.Childhood and youth
Andrei was born and grew up in the Moscow region, in the city of Kaliningrad (today's Korolev). Near, in Tarasovka, the old training base of the Spartak football club was located. From the young Youth Tikhonov often had together with friends on her territory, watching exercises of famous players.
However, the heart of a small football player then belonged at all "red-white" - he was sick for the Georgian "Dynamo", which pleased fans with brilliant composition and dizzying victories.
At 9 years old, Andrei joined the ranks of the club "Vympel", and the teenager switched to "Labor reserves". Football had to say goodbye to the service time in the army. The young man fell into the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where in the composition of the internal troops guarded the prison. The service left vivid impressions, Tikhonov admitted that a great school of life was held, which helped in the future in building a sports career.
Football
Who knows how a biography has developed, do not be from the future star game on the grass of begging friends and wife. After demobilization, they persuaded to return to football, because Andrei did not think about the fate of the athlete - planned to get a loader. A young man welcomedly accepted in his composition "Vympel", and then the club "Titan".
In 1992, a fateful event occurred. During the battle of "Titan" with Spartak, the head coach of "Red-White" was noticed by the head coach, Oleg Romantsev and personally called under his wing. I did not lose - in the first season, the newcomer as a scorer of the second division struck the gates of opponents 22 goals in 23 matches.
Feats on Tikhonov's account, trouble-free and yard player, enough. The brightest act, for which the team and the leaders were dubbed Andrei hero, happened at the match for the UEFA Cup (1996). During the match "Spartak" with Silkeborg, Ruslan Nigmatulline was removed from the field, and the replacement was left. Then, Andrei rose to protect the gate, at the end of the fight taking a dangerous blow from the penalty. Spartak then won 3: 2 with a score, and two goals scored Tikhonov.
Eight years Andrei Tikhonov played for Spartak. During this time, he managed to change the role of the striker to the left flank midfielder, where the talents were still brighter. Then followed the image of the captain, becoming a real symbol of the famous "Spartak". During operation in the Moscow football club, a man has conquered the title of Russia's title, doubled the Cup of the country twice for the team, shone on the champions League games.
On the threshold of the new millennium, complex times have come for a football player. Tikhonov went to the decline, pursued a series of failures and mistakes, and after the defeat of Spartak, "Realom" in 2000, by decision of Romantsev, Andrei left the ranks of the native team.
Before you put on a red-white T-shirt again, Tikhonov 11 years old pleased the fans of other teams. Application found in the Samara Club "Wings of the Soviets", lit up in Khimki, returned to the "wings" in the double position of the playing coach.
In 2008, it was set off to conquer Kazakhstan fans - in the Astana "Lokomotiv" won a couple of seasons in the company of ancient comrades Sergey Yurana and Friend Titov, coming to the command of the team. And after the scandal associated with the refusal of new owners of the club to pay football players of the former owners, again found himself in Khimki.
In 2011, at the invitation of coach, Valery Karpina, the football player returned to Spartak. The athlete entered the history of the team as the first player who came to the field in 40 years. In September, Tikhonov put a point in the football player's career, playing the farewell match with the "wings of the Soviets", having distinguished himself with an effective heading for Eiden McGydi.
Trainer
The fans were confident that Tikhonov was still early to become Andrei Valerievich - still in the power to obtain victories independently. However, the football player accepted the final decision, putting the coaching form. In two seasons, a man performed by assistant Valery Karpin. But in 2012, the club came under the leadership of the Spaniard of Unai Emery, did not find the place in whose coaching headquarters.
The legend of football was headed by Scholkovskaya "Sparta", combining coaching work with the post of deputy director of the Academy "Spartak". The club, created in Schelkovo, is an ambitious project of the Russia-2 TV channel, which was going to bring the team to the Champions League in a short time.
In the summer of 2012, Sparta made his debut in the new season, having got the Cup of Russia and pass to the second division, but due to the lack of funding, professional status remained a dream. The project was covered, and Andrei Valerevich returned for a short time in Spartak.
The coaching path supplied the work in FC Krasnodar as an assistant Oleg Kononov. Soon Tikhonov decided to go into an independent swimming, taking under the custody of the Krasnoyarsk "Yenisei" footballers. This team under his leadership won the CSKA in the Cup of Russia, took bronze in the championship of the National League, in the duel, for reaching the Premier League, he lost to Arsenal from Tula.
Andrei Tikhonov has spent five years at international competitions. First reached the field as part of the national team of the native country in 1995, fighting with Maltese. Russians brought home victory with a score of 2: 0. A total of 29 world-class player players and one goal, which scored in 1996 in the gate of Luxembourg team. Completed international performances by a victorious match against Moldovan.
Personal life
With the future wife's hope, Andrei Tikhonov was friends before serving in the army. The girl waited for a soldier, and shortly after the demobilization of the young played a wedding.
Two sons were born in marriage - Denis and Misha. Mikhail Tikhonov went in the footsteps of the Father. The novice football player joined the rows of the club "Krasnodar", now plays for the "Wings of the Soviets".
Andrei Tikhonov now
In the summer of 2017, Andrei Valerevich met the Samara football fans, putting on the head of the Wings of the Soviets. The coach stated that he was going to return the team to the ranks of the elite of domestic football. Interviewed:
"In Samara, fans understand and love football. They want to see both the result and a good team game. And we want to play handsome football and seek a good result. "The results of the year, Andrei Tikhonov called the best match with the meeting with Lokomotiv in the framework of the Russian Cup, in which Samarans won. Another sign triumph is the defeat of the Kazan "Rubin". In these fights, the "Wings of the Soviets" proved that the level of the Premier League is worthy, the coach is confident.
In November, Tikhonov decided with Vladimir Fedotov (Orenburg) and Andrei Talalayev ("Tambov") Lavra of the best football specialists in Russia. The fans of the game on the grass, participating in the survey, gave the third place to the coach.
In 2018, the "Wings of the Soviets" continued to fight for a place under the football sun. At the beginning of Spring, fans treated the results of the outbound match in Novosibirsk. Here the team in the 28th round FNL won the Siberia Club.
April started with defeat. "Wings of the Soviets" in the struggle for the semifinal of the Russian Cup lost "Spartak". The game with Muscovites for Tikhonov became the jubilee - with Spartak, the legend of football met at 20 times. By the middle of the month, the Samara team beat Krasnoyarsk "Yenisei" with the only goal.
At the end of the second spring month, the Samara Club held home matches with "torch" and "Kuban", which became the test on the eve of the FIFA 2018 World Cup.
Awards and achievements
- Eight-round champion of Russia
- Two-time winner of the Russian Cup
- 5 Cup Champions Commonwealth
- 1996 - the best football player of Russia
- 1996, 2006 - Football Gentleman of the Year in Russia
- 2011/12 - Russia Silver Championship
- 1995, 2004 - Bronze Championship of Russia
- 2006 - Victory on the first division of Russia
- 2009 - silver at the Kazakhstan Championship