Biography
Vasily Berezutsky is a Russian football player who completed the player's sports career. Now he is engaged in coaching activities.Childhood and youth
Moscow is a city that gave Russia the talented twin brothers Vasily and Alexey Berezutsky. In childhood, using external similarity, they often tried to deceive teachers, going to the blackboard one for the other. Those did not always see the difference than and caused laughter in the class. Although if you look at, then even the photo shows the difference.
The guys graduated from the Moscow School No. 475. The sports biography of Vasily began in the "Change" football school when they were 8 years old, which they got through the Father. Vladimir Ivanovich Lopandin turned out to be the first coach. The choice of school is unrestrained - from the printers to it closest.
Classes at school were held in parallel with studies in high school. So it lasted 3 years, while the brothers did not bother. For several months, the children did not touch the ball at all, and Vasily even wanted to switch to basketball, the benefit of the growth allowed. But not only boredom caused the abandonment of classes. "Change" came out of the highest league, prospects were disappeared. Everything was decided by an unexpected call to Vladimir Kobzev from Trepedovsky school who invited the twins to continue to play football under his start. The family supported the sports aspirations of the brothers.
Football
Vasily realized that football was his profession, after the first fee of $ 50, for him it was a lot of money. And before that, still learning, the brothers remained after training and watched from the stands for large football.After the end of the football school, Berezutsky signed a contract with the Torpedo-Zil Club. He played 2 years. After time, Boris Ignatiev, the siblings reached $ 300, and then the twins felt at millionaires. As part of Zila, he spent 29 meetings, after which the talented football player was invited to Moscow CSKA, where Alexey Berezutsky had already performed.
At first, the brothers had to get used to male football. It was no longer youthful games - other speeds, played tougher, every movement required a greater return, did not always manage to keep track of the ball.
2000 divided them according to different teams - Alexey was in Chernomorets, and Vasily continued to play for Torpedo-Zil. A year later, he became a member of CSKA.
After the transition to the army teams athlete's sports career began to develop dynamically. Berezutsky's debut on the field took place on June 17, 2002, where in the match against the "wings of the Soviets" CSKA won a confident victory with a score of 2: 0. A year later, the footballer became part of the main team of the team. In the same period, his debut in the national team took place.
In that season, Vasily managed to win the Gold Medal. He played for CSKA 26 times. Berezutsky's brothers and Sergey Ignashevich managed to create reliable protection in the Russian championship, which eventually went into the form of the club and the national team. In those years, the army team coached Valery Gazzaev.
It was he, noting the success of a young football player, decided to invite him to the decisive match with the team from Switzerland.
If in 2004, Vasily was mainly on the substitution, then in 2005 he demonstrated a bright game and a chain grip: he created truly impassable defense. In the championship of Russia, Berezutsky won up most of the matches from beginning to end, without leaving the field.
In the national team of the European Championship, the football player hit in 2008. In the semifinals, he went on replacing Denis Kolodyna, playing in the central defense. The national team then lost with a score of 0: 3, having deprived himself by trips to the final.
He scored his first goal for the national team in the match against Macedonia in the qualifying stage of the European Championship - 2008. In total, Vasily spent 79 matches for the Russian national team, scoring 4 goals.
In CSKA, Vasily managed to become the main defender of the club. At the 2014 World Cup, the football player received the captain's dressing.
In June 2016, Berezutsky saved Russia from defeat, scoring at the 91st minute of the first match of the group tournament of the European Championship of England. But there is a football player and negative moments in the sports career. In the same year, the defender of the Russian national team in a friendly match with Costa Rica scored a goal into his gate. Episode with AvtoGol Vasily has changed more than once in an interview, admitted that he played overly actively.
In the summer of 2018, the Berezutsky brothers voiced their decision on the completion of the sports career. According to Vasily and Alexey, the players did not want to be like their colleagues who missed the moment to care from sports.
Career coaching
In November 2018, the brothers received an offer from the Netherlands from the coaching staff of FC Vithessa, who led the former CSKA trainer Leonid Slutsky. A year after the 5th consecutive team defeat in the National Championship, Slutsk resigned, and Berezutsky left with him.
In January 2020, Vasily, together with his brother, passed a qualifying exam at the Academy of coaching skills of the Russian Football Union and received coaching licenses Pro. Berezutsky returned to the Army Club, but already at the post of coaches and deputy general director of CSKA Roman Babayev for sports issues.
Personal life
In the personal life of Vasily happy. In October 2009, he married, and in April 2010, Olga's spouse gave him the heir to him. The long-awaited son was named Vladimir in honor of the football player's father.Olga Berezutskaya Summer athlete, her parents are professional basketball players. As a child, attended the section of rhythmic gymnastics, then engaged in synchronous swimming, became the champion of Russia. After completing the career in sports, the girl databases, got into the show-ballet "Todes", from where he went to the ballet Street Jazz, became the finalist MTV show "The Star of the Dance Plan". I managed to work with the music group "Vintage", where he participated as the director of the dances and their performer.
Olga Vasily met through common acquaintances in 2008. At the time of the first meeting, she did not know about all the regals of a witty high guy (the growth of Berezutsky - 190 cm, the weight is 87 kg), but at the sympathy for each other it did not affect. Young people quickly found a common language.
Being a spouse famous athlete, Olga did not miss a single home match of the club and often along with a little son attended her husband's workout. The girl did not become a housewife in the full sense of the word. She develops its project - choreographic show Dance Emotion.
At the end of October 2016, Olga met the spouse with a second child - she gave birth to daughter Anastasia. In the first place in the life of the football player, his family always stood - wife and children. He is paying all his free time.
Berezutsky brothers are co-owners of the Premier Football Group holding, which is engaged in the implementation of football equipment. Also athletes opened the Global Sports OpportUnities Fund fund for investment in sports technological projects.
Vasily has an account in "Instagram", where he lays out photos from matches, training and from a personal archive. Berezutsky responded to the sentence with Navalny, laying out a post with a quotation from the novel "1984" George Orwell: "If you need an image of the future, imagine your boots, the human face - forever."
Vasily Berezutsky now
April 14, 2021, Vasily left PFC CSKA. The athlete himself decided to leave red-blue, stating in an interview that he wants to develop further.
The goalkeeper of the army team Igor Akinfeev on his page in "Instagram" expressed the hope that Berezutsky will soon return to the club. But Vasily has already received an offer from Viktor Goncharenko to continue his career in Krasnodar as an assistant to the head coach.
Awards and achievements
- 2001/02, in 2004/05, in 2005/06, in 2007/08, in 2008/09, in 2010/11 - the winner of the Russian Cup
- 2003, 2005, 2006 - Champion of Russia
- 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009 - Winner of the Super Cup of Russia
- 2004, 2008, 2010 - Silver medalist of the Russian Championship
- 2004/05 - Winner of the UEFA Cup
- 2005-2010 and 2012 - hit the list 33 of the best players of the Russian Championship
- 2006 - awarded the Order of Friendship
- 2007 - Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship
- 2008 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship
- 2014 - Command Captain at World Cup