Biography
For the most valuable player of the Football National League, Anton Zinkovsky has been fighting a dozen teams from the Russian Premier League and Higher Division of Europe. And at the beginning of the sporting it seemed that the footballer had no future - the boy was refused by major academies, and in the youth age he was delayed in reservists.Childhood and youth
Anton Alekseevich Zinkovsky was born on April 14, 1996 in the city of Novorossiysk. Football player has two older brothers - Alexey and Sergey.
All childhood, the boy spent with the ball, played in basketball, and in 7 he went to the Black Sea Football Academy. Zinkovsky even managed to work out dancing (the father seemed to be able to help the physical condies of the Son), but in the Anton section turned out to be the only guy among the top ten girls and frankly missed, lasting only 3 weeks.
By the age of 12, it became noticeable that the schoolboy converts the level of the Novorossiysk Club, and together with his father they went to see. In Krasnodar and the Moscow CSKA, the boy was rejected, and in Spartacus, they stated that the guys of small growth below 170 cm would not even look (the football player then had a nickname Squach). The young athlete could only get to school "Chertanovo".
Football
The first club of the Premier League, who focused on the young football player, became "Kuban", where Zinkovsky went immediately after the release from school. At the same time, at the end of 2013, the coach Dmitry Khomukha called an athlete for performances in 4 friendly matches for the Russian national team under 17, where Anton was noted by the nude of Moldova.In early 2016, Zinkovsky spent 3 matches at the Commonwealth Cup for the team until 21 years, headed by Nikolai Pisarev. But neither in Krasnodar, nor in the "Zenith", where "Chertanovo" gave midfielder at the end of 2016 in half a year, climbing above the level of reservists athlete failed.
At the same time, in Moscow, after recreation on the basis of the Center for Sports and Education, the Chertanovo, Zinkovsky's professional club was still considered the most valuable asset of the team. In 2017/2018, Muscovites won in their subgroup of the championship of the PFL and reached the FNL, and Zinkovsky became the Best League of League with 18 scored goals in 26 matches. The following year, the footballer became the author of 11 goals in 22 games for "Chertanovo".
The football player even went to watch to the Portuguese "Guimaraes", but the trip was unsuccessful - there was not a single Russian-speaking person in the club, but Anton did not have English. Ten days, the young man spent in silence and silence, trying to occasionally express something through the Google translator. The chance to practice with the first team Russian did not receive, eventually went home.
The third attempt to break into the sport of the highest level, Winger took at the beginning of 2019, having left Samara, where he signed a contract for 3 years. According to the experts of the TRANSFERMARKT website, the transition of Anton to the "Wings of Soviets" for € 900 thousand became the most expensive transfer in the history of the capital club. Of course, the salary of a football player who received only 100 thousand rubles in "Chertanovo"
The new step in the athletic biography of the midfielder became extremely successful. The first match in Premier Liga Zinkovsky played aged 22, March 2, 2019, and on April 12, he noted the first head of Rubin. The last 2 months of the season Anton played in the starting lineup of the Samara Club. In the 2019/2020 season, the midfielder held 27 games where he did not score, but gave 8 assists, taking a 3rd place in the RPL for the indicator.
Personal life
While the football player's girl Camilla Beketova (was born on May 30, 1998) was dragged at the Faculty of Architecture and Design in the KubSU, the couple had the opportunity to meet only in the offseason. But now the lovers have become over time for each other, and the photo from personal life is overwhelmed by their instagram accounts. Even their dog Bugussik has its own profile.
Anton's family still lives in Novorossiysk. The most important fan of a young football player is grandmother. As long as his grandfather was alive, the pensioner was not interested in football, but on the contrary, Zhuril for the "Spartak" matches constantly included on TV.
And when Zinkovsky played in "Chertanovo", the grandmother began to use the Internet specially. She learned to find broadcasts in the computer and watch dozens of games, study the tournament tables and lists of scorer, for confidence rewriting layouts on paper leaves.
Anton Zinkovsky now
"Wings" flew out of the RPL, and the media proceeded rumors about the possible continuation of Career Zinkovsky in another club. Among the potential directions of the transition of the midfielder were called the French "Lille", Belgian "Gent" and Moscow "Spartak", where the ever-mincer of Anton Alexander Sobolev went before earlier. But the Samara Club put up a high price football player: € 8 million at the estimated cost of the player at € 2.5 million.
It was said as a practically accomplished fact that a 24-year-old footballer agreed on the conditions with the St. Petersburg "Zenit" and the transition would cost € 1.6 million, but the pandemic of coronavirus infection intervened.
The second wave of transfer rumors with the name Zinkovsky began in the fall of 2020. Athlete watali in Khimki, Krasnodar, Arsenal, "Sochi" and "Dynamo", and referring to the option of redemption in the amount of 50 million rubles., Supposedly provided for by the footballer's contract. This information was refuted by the Sports Director of the Wings, Gennady Golubin.
During the disassembly, the most expensive FNL player continued to demonstrate the class in the second Russian division, noting in an interview that he did not follow his rumors about himself. And in football Zinkovsky played quite successful, scoring in every third duel.
In January 2021, the "Championship" edition reported that Winger is close to the transition to the Dutch "vitess", and the reserve option was considered Khimki near Moscow. Nevertheless, the coaching headquarters and the football player reached the agreement, and the Anton season finished in Samara.
Achievements
- 2017/18 - winner of the championship of PFL C "Chertanovo"
- 2017/18 - the best scorer of the championship of PFL C "Chertanovo"