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ARSHAVIN FOR "KAIRAT" - LIKE ROBERTO CARLOS FOR "ANZHI"
- What does Arshavin’s arrival mean for Kazakhstan?
The same as Roberto Carlos for Russia. The man was in good clubs, won titles, but now came to the country with more low level football. It is unlikely, of course, that Andrei will play as in best years. But the skill is there, and main question- will he want to show it often?
- Any doubts?
I saw the game between Kairat and Karaganda Shakhtar. In total, Kairat's skill is higher than that of the opponent. But we ended in a draw - 0:0. At the same time, it was striking that if Arshavin receives the ball and if he has a desire to sharpen the game, his superiority in class is very noticeable.
Why doesn’t the desire to escalate regularly arise in a football player who has an annual contract, as they say, for a million dollars?
The question is motivation. It’s difficult to transform yourself from the Emirates Stadium to a school stadium with artificial turf in Uralsk.
The Kazakh deputy was indignant at Andrey’s salary - a million dollars a year. The club issued a refutation. What is Arshavin's contract really?
I have not seen the contract and cannot speak about the amount. But, probably, if the deputy knows exactly the amount, it makes sense to be indignant.
CAN THEY PAY ARSHAVIN A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR? CAN
- “Anji” took Roberto Carlos as a club showcase. Are Kairat really counting on Andrey as a leader who will make a difference on the field?
Perhaps they are also thinking about the image component. One of the club’s leaders is now launching a fast food restaurant project in the country.
Perhaps he will become the face of some kind of advertising campaign. Why not? In addition, inviting not only Arshavin, but also Tymoshchuk is like an investment in future transfers. After all, when negotiating with newcomers, you can now say: “Arshavin and Tymoshchuk played with us, everything is fine, come to us.”
- Can a club from Kazakhstan, in principle, spend a million dollars a year on a football player’s salary?
- But the tenge fell, where do such salaries come from?
The tenge has fallen, yes, but at the same time two clubs, Kairat and Astana, have the opportunity to pay good money. We understand the level of Andrey’s financial aspirations - it’s probably logical to talk about a million a year. And I also heard that we're talking about about the same amount.
- What does Arshavin look like? physically? I heard that Andrey arrived there as a chubby little guy.
When you miss most preseason, you won’t reach your level right away. Plus for a football player who has a complex body structure and is predisposed to extra pounds, it takes some time to get in shape.
- What impression does Arshavin make in games for Kairat?
I can judge from the drawn match with Shakhtar. Arshavin was not the driving force of the team, but those balls that come to him, he tries to play a little better in intelligence than many others on the field. What I mean is a pass to the third, a sharp scoop into the penalty area. Sometimes they don’t understand him, sometimes defenders figure out the moves, but Arshavin tries to aggravate things. The intelligence remains, but if a person of even this level begins to play on foot, the opponent can easily change gears. And I have only one question about Andrey’s prospects in the Kazakhstan Championship - will he be able to find motivation for himself?
- What options could there be with such a salary?
Finance is also a motivation. But it is difficult to play only for money. Arshavin will have a difficult trip ahead; he will have to take to the field in the summer at 40 degrees, when the match is specially scheduled not for nine in the evening, but for two in the afternoon. Will Andrey want to show his maximum in these conditions?
MANY RUSSIANS THINK THAT IN KAZAKHSTAN THEY STILL PLAY WITH A BALL WITH LACES
- What is Alma-Ata for Arshavin - paparazzi, hard press? What is your attitude towards Andrey?
Almaty is still not Italy or England, where football players are hunted. Everything is much calmer. But he is recognizable; in everyday life you need to take care of yourself, like any media person. If the story of London repeats itself, where Andrei was filmed at the entrance to some bar, I am more than sure that the recording will appear online, and the person who made it will become famous.
- What should he under no circumstances be allowed to do in Kazakhstan?
Many football players who come from Russia to play in Kazakhstan have a common mistake. The guys think that there is still a laced ball, and most teams run in sneakers. If you have such an attitude, nothing will work out. The football players here may not be of a high level, but everyone will try, hit their legs, so that they can later boast - I shod Arshavin himself! In addition, the low quality of the fields eliminates the difference in class.
- What is the level of the Kazakhstan championship compared to Russia?
My assessment is a couple, maximum, three teams of the local championship - this is either the bottom of our Premier League, or the first teams of the FNL.
- What is “Kairat” - by popularity, by the number of fans, by presence in the media?
This is Spartak. A national team that is recognizable from Soviet times. The most popular team.
- How many goals does Andrei have to score so that Kairat does not consider his transfer a mistake?
If the team wins the championship and Andrei plays regularly, the manager will consider the season successful. If they finish lower than first, they will only win the Cup...
- Only?
Yes, the team won the Cup, they won the Super Cup at the beginning of this season. The club needs a championship, which is already very difficult to achieve due to a bad start.
- Another ex-Zenit player, 37-year-old Anatoly Timoshchuk, plays on the team. How has he proven himself?
This transition exploded in the media market last year. But the transfer was an event only for those who did not closely follow the Ukrainian’s career in last years. Knowledgeable people understand that now Tymoshchuk looks a little different than before. Yes, he gives a lot to young people through his advice. In some places it can not only suggest, but also show. But what I see in Lately, leads me to the following conclusion: modern football requires that, when receiving the ball in the central midfielder's area, the player looks more forward, trying to develop the attack, and not only make passes across or back.
- Coach Alexander Borodyuk called Arshavin to Kairat. Why didn't he succeed?
Perhaps I couldn't a short time understand the mentality of football players. The country is eastern, the way of thinking is different from ours, you need to be a strong diplomat. Surely I expected to see players of a higher level. In addition, the coach needs to constantly be in good shape, this is a very significant factor. Perhaps Alexander Genrikhovich did not have time to achieve optimal coaching conditions in a short time.
AFTER EIGHT ROUND OF THE KAZAKHSTAN CHAMPIONSHIP, ARSHAVIN’S TEAM IS IN 7TH PLACE
"Kairat"after an unsuccessful start in the championship, he parted ways with the team’s head coach, Russian Alexander Borodyuk. The team was led by a Georgian specialistKakhaber Tskhadadze. After 8 rounds, Arshavin’s team takes 7th place. 12 clubs participate in the championship. Of the seven matches, Andrei played in six, three of which he played completely. Andrey scored the only goal against Aktobe in the 7th round, when his team won a big victory with a score of 3:0.
Childhood
Andrei Arshavin's hometown is St. Petersburg. Here he was born on May 29, 1981 into the family of Sergei and Tatyana Arshavin, and here he took his first steps in professional football and became a world-famous player.
Andrei's parents, simple working people, shared communal apartment near the Smolenka River with two other families. The boy's father was fond of football in his youth, but never became a professional. He often took his son to matches of his amateur team, from which Andrei was absolutely delighted. At the same time, the head of the family did not push his son towards a football career; he chose football himself. As a child, he was not interested in other toys except the ball. He could spend hours hitting plywood walls with it, causing a lot of inconvenience to his neighbors, and watched with interest all the matches of his beloved Barcelona.
At the age of 7, Andrei Arshavin was sent to the Zenit football academy (then it was called the Smena school). His first coaches were Viktor Vinogradov and Sergei Gordeev. By that time, this sport occupied an important part of his life, so the boy stoically endured long haul to the game base, which took him an hour each way.
Returning home late in the evening, tired but happy, he found the strength to play yard football with his friends, although homework sometimes there was no time left.
One day, the son’s independence almost turned into a tragedy for the Arshavin family. Not far from the academy, he was hit by a car. Fortunately, future star Zenit escaped with bruises and scratches.
In addition to football, Andrei played checkers well. He learned this in the section at the House of Pioneers. The teachers predicted a great future for him, but the boy chose football.
Education
After graduating from school, the football player entered the Faculty of Chemical Technology of St. Petersburg state university technology and design, popularly called “Rag”. A year later, he transferred to the Faculty of Technology and Fashion Design, which he graduated in 2007, already a decorated football player, with a specialty in clothing production engineer.He also chose “sports” as the topic of his diploma – in his work he highlighted the subtleties production process sportswear. Unlike many athletes, he did not take advantage of the available advantages - he diligently sat at the sewing machine in practice, attended lectures, and passed state tests on a general basis.
Club career. Zenith
Andrei Arshavin began playing for the “adult” team “Smena” at the age of 16. In 1999, he joined the Zenit-2 farm club. In 2000, the promising football player was included in the main team. Arshavin's debut at Zenit took place on August 2, 2000, as part of the Intertoto Cup, during an away match with Bradford City. The young man replaced Andrei Koblev after half an hour of play, appearing on the field for the first time in the starting lineup. The match ended with a score of 3:0 in favor of Zenit.
Thus began Andrei Arshavin’s rise to fame. The footballer scored his first goal on April 14, 2001, during an away match with FC Fakel. The Blue-White-Blues scored the first goal, then conceded a goal, but in the final minute of the first half, Arshavin received a spectacular pass from Alexander Kerzhakov, entered the penalty area, fired into the far corner and led the team to victory. For the next 5 years, Arshavin played in the “golden link” with Kerzhakov, until the latter left Zenit and moved to FC Sevilla.
Goals by Andrei Arshavin (2001-2004)
On November 1, 2003, in a match with Saturn near Moscow, Andrei Arshavin scored his first hat-trick, hitting the enemy goal in the 3rd, 37th and 45th minutes. Arshavin was a fairly versatile player: he played as a right midfielder, an attacking midfielder, and then began to feel confident in the role of a second striker. It is interesting that in 2002 the player was invited to Spartak Moscow, but upon learning that coach Oleg Romantsev saw him exclusively in the position of right midfielder, Arshavin refused further negotiations.
At the Russian Football Championship, Arshavin distinguished himself by scoring 10 goals in total, which led Zenit to victory for the first time since 1984.
In 2008, the club won the UEFA Cup, meeting the Scottish team Rangers in the final. The match ended with a score of 2:0. At the end of the Cup, Arshavin received the title of best assistant. The St. Petersburg team also won the European Super Cup, after defeating Manchester United by one point.
For Arshavin, 2008 was also notable for his nomination for the Ballon d'Or - he was in the top ten best players (sixth place, 64 points), but the award went to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 446 points.
Arshavin's brilliant play this season attracted the attention of foreign clubs to him: Newcastle, Tottenham, Barcelona, whose 15 million offer (in euros) was rejected by Zenit management. The club did not want to part with the player for less than 22 million euros. In the end, Zenit's transfer policy outraged Arshavin himself, and he stated that the 2007/2008 season was his last season"Zenith".
As part of the Zenit team (2000–2009), Andrei Arshavin played 310 official matches, scoring a total of 71 goals. He helped the team win gold, silver and bronze medals at the Russian Championship. He scored his last goal for Zenit on October 18, 2008 in a match against Spartak. Nalchik."
Arsenal FC
At the beginning of February 2009, the media reported on the contract that Arshavin signed with FC Arsenal until 2012. According to available open sources information, the transaction amount was $24 million. In the new team, Andrei chose a T-shirt with number 23.
On February 21, 2009, Andrei Arshavin made his debut for Arsenal in a home match against Sunderland, which ended 0-0.
A month later, Arshavin scored his first goal for Arsenal - in the 65th minute of the English Premier League match with Blackburn. And in the first half he was injured after a collision with Oyer. During the break, he received eight stitches, but the player still came out in the second half.
In April 2009, the athlete scored 4 goals at once in an away match of the English Premier League against Liverpool and made his first “poker”. The match ended in a 4:4 draw.
Arshavin's first poker (Liverpool - Arsenal)
On May 2, Arsenal's semi-reserve team competed with Portsmouth - three days later the team was supposed to take to the field in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Arshavin did not take part there, since he played for Zenit in the Champions League and could not play with Manchester United.
In the match with Portsmouth, Andrei came out as team captain. The result was a victory with a score of 3:0. A few days later, the football player was recognized as the best player of April in the English Premier League. He became the second Russian legionnaire to win this award (before him, Andrei Kanchelskis distinguished himself in 1996).
In May 2009, information appeared that Andrei intended to seek an increase in salary. Allegedly, when signing the contract, he did not take into account all the features of English legislation, in particular, the increase in taxes to 50 percent. But later the footballer said that the difficulties were not related to taxes, and he resolved the problems in the near future. As a result, Arshavin broke the contract with his agent.
In August 2009, he scored the first goal in the Champions League - Andrei Arshavin hit the Celtic goal twice. At the same time, the game with Manchester United took place in the fourth round of the English Championship. The result of the meeting is 1:2. In the 82nd minute Andrey was replaced. Later it turned out that he played with an injury and could not be on the field for the entire 90 minutes.
In November, in a home match as part of the fourth round of the Champions League group stages, Arsenal played with AZ. Andrey made three assists, which brought the team victory - 4:1.
Arshavin scored his tenth goal in the English Premier League in the 66th minute of the away match with Wolverhampton. I already had 21 games under my belt. And in a match with Stoke City in December, Arshavin scored his 100th goal top level and got into the 100 Club.
Andrei Arshavin started the 10-11 season as a strong starting player, but in the middle he was assigned to the bench. In total, he scored 6 goals and made 11 assists. In the eighth Champions League of the season, in the first game against Barcelona, the footballer scored a goal after coming on as a substitute. But he didn’t advance to the next round and lost 3:4 on aggregate.
In 2011, Andrei ceased to be a player in the main squad, came on as a substitute towards the end of the game and received mostly low marks.
In January 2012, the athlete again came on as a substitute in a game against Manchester United, but failed to contribute; moreover, it was after his mistake that his team scored the winning goal. Arshavin was recognized as the worst player of the match. After this, fans began to say that the football player wanted to return to Russia.
Drunk Arshavin caused a scandal in a London club
After such an embarrassment, Andrei entered the field only once with the main Arsenal squad, in a match against Sunderland. The footballer came on as a substitute in the 89th minute and made an assist for Thierry Henry when the score was 1:1. This brought victory to the team. Next, Arshavin came out with the Gunners' reserve squad against Norwich City. Arsenal won with a score of 5:0, the footballer earned a penalty and scored a double.
In February 2012, a couple of minutes before the transfer window to Russia closed, Arshavin was sent to Zenit until the end of the 11-12 season. The transfer was officially confirmed by the player himself and the team. At the same time, it was reported that the blue-white-blues would pay Arsenal a million euros.
After the 2012 European Championship, information appeared in the press that Zenit no longer wanted to buy out Arshavin’s contract from Arsenal and that the English club, on the contrary, wanted to get rid of the player. At the same time, the head of the English Football Premier League urged fans not to listen to the press, saying that Arshavin is at the peak of his form.
Return to Zenit
In June 2013, Arshavin returned to Zenit again, signing a two-year contract with the club. The first appearance on the field took place in the Russian Super Cup match against CSKA. The game ended with a score of 0:3 not in favor of Zenit, and Arshavin went to the bench at the beginning of the 2nd period.
2 weeks later, he scored a goal against Kuban after a pass from Kerzhakov. Until the winter, he regularly took to the field, scoring a total of 4 goals. After the resignation of Luciano Spalletti, he did not find mutual language with the new coach Andre Villas-Boas and did not appear in the main team of Zenit until September 13, 2014, the match of the 7th round against Dynamo, in which he scored a goal and was chosen as the best player of the match according to the results of a TV audience vote.
Arshavin returned to Zenit. First training
On June 30, 2015, Arshavin’s contract with Zenit expired and was not renewed by the club’s management. Two weeks later, Arshavin joined the Kuban squad, but after six months he terminated the contract by mutual decision.
Arshavin in the Russian national team
At the age of 20, Arshavin first qualified for the Russian national team, for a friendly match against the Belarusian team on May 17, 2002, which took place in preparation for the 2002 World Cup. Arshavin appeared on the list of candidates, but was not included in the final application. Then, in two years, he played only two matches for the national team, in one of which he opened the scoring. In 2003, the athlete played 5 matches and scored one goal in the Russian youth team.
The fourth match for the national team followed in preparation for the European Championship in 2004. He was not included in the tournament application. After Euro 2004, the striker began to be constantly called up to the team, and he established himself in the first team. Over the next two years, Arshavin became top scorer national team, and in 2006-2007 received the right to wear the captain's armband.
At Euro 2008, Andrei Arshavin wore number 10. He was unable to play in the first two matches due to disqualification. He first took to the field in a match against Sweden. Russia with a score of 2:0, and Arshavin was named the best player of the match.
Arshavin performed no less brilliantly against the Dutch team in the quarterfinals. He took part in all three goals that the Russian team scored. He scored the third goal himself. For the second game in a row, Andrei was recognized as the best. Enthusiastic reviews from foreign journalists and football experts followed, and clubs, including his beloved Barcelona, dreamed of getting the footballer on their roster.
Andrey Arshavin (Russia – Netherlands, Euro 2008). Slicing
In the semi-final, which was the last match of the championship for the Russian team, the player was invisible. Some said that Andrei himself did not show his qualities, others said that the reason lay in good level Spanish defenders and their attention, some said, middle line got hooked and couldn’t provide Arshavin with goals.
At the end of the championship, Russia took third place, and Andrei Arshavin was included in the symbolic Euro 2008 team as the best player in Russia.
At Euro 2012, the footballer did not perform so well. After Russia's defeat to the Greek national team in the final match of the group stage and elimination from the tournament, Arshavin caused outrage among fans with one careless statement:
The fact that we did not meet your expectations is not our problem. It's your problems. We lost because we didn't score, but the Greeks scored. These conversations will still not change the result
The footballer was reminded of many things, including his drunken adventures in a London club and his “dull look, uninterested in winning.” However, Arshavin, with his three assists, was recognized as the best passer of the tournament.
After Fabio Capello became the head coach of the national team, Arshavin stopped receiving calls to the national team, thereby total matches played for the national team amounted to 74.
In November 2015, Arshavin joined the roster of players of the Kazakh football club“Kairat” at number 28. He was offered a contract until the end of 2017. The footballer did not rule out the possibility that after the expiration of the contract he would end his career. In 2017, “Kairat” with Arshavin won the Kazakhstan Cup.
Personal life of Andrei Arshavin
In 2003, Andrei Arshavin met his future common-law wife, Yulia Baranovskaya (born 1985). They lived in civil marriage 9 years. The beloved gave Andrey three children: sons Artem (December 7, 2005) and Arseny (August 14, 2012), as well as daughter Yana (April 3, 2008).
In 2012, when Yulia was five months pregnant, Andrei left the family. For a long time the mother hid the truth from the children, claiming that their father had gone to training camp. But it was not possible to deceive them for long. One day, the eldest son asked Yulia before she left: “Mom, are you sure you’ll come back? So dad went to play football and never came back...”
The reason for the footballer’s departure from Yulia turned out to be journalist and model Alisa Kazmina (born 1982). She managed to do what her predecessor could not do for 9 years - bring Andrei Arshavin down the aisle. On September 1, 2016, they exchanged rings, after which Alice posted a photo on her Instagram with the caption: “Now I happy wife waiting for the baby!
Their common daughter Yesenia was born on February 11, 2017. For Alisa Kazmina, who transformed into Alisa Arshavina after the wedding, this child became the third. She already had a daughter and a son from her first marriage to businessman Alexei Kazmin.
Arshavin’s contract with Kairat will not be renewed, the footballer’s wife said
However, the quarrel between the spouses quickly ended, but a new disaster struck. At the beginning of 2018, three criminal cases were opened against Alice at once. First, there was a row on the plane: a woman tried to change her baby’s diaper during takeoff, when passengers are not allowed to get out of their seats, and when asked by the crew to sit down, she began making threats in the name of an “FSB officer.” As a result, Kazmina was removed from the flight.
Then there was an incident with the Kazakh model Olga Semenova. A video has leaked online showing a girl hugging Andrei Arshavin, and legal spouse the football player began to send models of threats - again on behalf of the FSB officer. Semenova promised not to leave this unattended and filed an application with the prosecutor's office. Arshavin was outraged by the accusations against his wife. He said Alice was slandered because she "couldn't break the law."
I am ready to make every effort in the legal and legal field, but I believe that the case is falsified and should be terminated, since I consider it a provocation. This, of course, does not justify my behavior in the restaurant video.
“If Alisa does go to prison, then I’ll immediately stop playing in Kairat,” the footballer added, asking not to deprive him of his favorite thing in his life.Andrey Arshavin now
Alisa escaped criminal proceedings, but in November 2018, Arshavin announced his retirement in an interview for the Kairat YouTube channel. On November 11, the club was supposed to meet FC Shakhtar - this is the last match of the team with participation Russian football player, whose contract expires after him.Andrey Arshavin about leaving Kairat
“Of course, I won’t move anywhere,” Andrey shared, adding that he would like to train with the Kairat mini-football team. In total, Arshavin played more than a hundred games in the Kazakh club, scored 30 goals and made 37 assists.
How Andrei Arshavin has been playing in Kazakhstan for the last two months, and why the Russian national team needs him again.
Andrei Arshavin's first match in Kazakhstan was terribly depressing. A stadium in the courtyard of someone's house with one single stand, surrounded by a fence, behind which the crowd is sitting on heating pipes watching the game, a lousy artificial turf that looks like a carpet, and a muddy game against one of the championship outsiders, which ended in a 2:1 defeat from -because the penalty earned by Arshavin on last minutes, decided to beat not the one who was supposed to, but the one who was drawn to heroic deeds. All this is filmed with one single camera, broadcasting an atmospheric grayish picture with the quality of twenty years ago. It is not at all surprising that immediately after the final whistle he runs off the field to the locker room, silently refusing photographs and autographs.
Arshavin leaves the field, and Alexander Borodyuk, who spent only 4 matches as the head coach of Kairat, runs away from Kazakhstan a few days later, setting up Arshavin and leaving him alone with the championship.
Championship
The championship of Kazakhstan is the FNL. Perhaps at one of the maximum difficulty levels, but FNL. And this, by the way, is a compliment. Not because our first division is the best league in the world, but because until recently Titov, Beschastnykh, Tikhonov, Sychev and other Russian stars left the Russian championship for something at the level of the second league.
“But they played in a group... Galatasaray, Atletico, Benfica, four draws...,” some will say. Congratulations to the FNL clubs in this case, among them there may be teams at the level of the Champions League group. “Astana” among the sixteen is simply an indicator that in Europe everyone has learned to play football. It took Kazakhstan 14 years to prove this since the transition from the Asian Football Confederation to UEFA.
And really, what kind of Asia is this? Kazakhstan is quite a European championship of the third or fourth order. Just the thing for saving your career. And our guys have nothing to get used to. There are many cities in Kazakhstan where there are no Russian-speaking population more than half, but simply the Russian population. And this is probably the only country where the same match is commented on in two languages. And not on different channels, but on the same one - twenty minutes in Russian, twenty minutes in Kazakh. There was even a couple of commentators who simultaneously broadcast in two languages.
The league is growing, although apart from “Kairat”, which has a confident 10 thousand people, the average attendance in the country is 2-5 thousand people. Now the top teams of Kazakhstan would be about ten in our championship, and the rest would confidently flounder in the league below.
And not everyone goes to Kazakhstan just to fill their pockets with money.
Money
Not all, but most. Just last year, guys like Danilo Neko, who was relegated with Alania, Danilo Sirino, who flashed in Kuban, or Marcos Pizzelli, who was an average player in Krasnodar, were sitting on salaries of about a million and were considered top foreign players. But it is Arshavin’s arrival that reveals the problems. Especially after a not so bright start.
“Arshavin was given more than a million dollars, think about it, more than a million a year. There are legionnaires with salaries of 30 thousand dollars a month. Do we need this kind of football? – asks a question from a member of the Kazakh parliament. Rhetorical, but “Kairat” still answers – it’s needed.
Although he writes menacingly in response that neither Arshavin nor anyone else in the club earns that much, and “come look at our infrastructure, and don’t just talk about children’s football.” They are probably lying about the salary, because in Russia even Pavel Pogrebnyak got himself a contract for 1.5 million euros, let alone Arshavin, Almaty and her team.
Team
“Kairat” is a top club. It’s a national team, and even though the people are different, the problems are almost the same as in Russia - they haven’t won the champion title since 2004. Cup, Super Cup, silver, bronze - they all took it, but there was no championship title. A stunning, newly built base, plans for a new stadium, high-profile transfers - everything is there, but others have gold medals.
And again we return to the league level. For their sacred purpose, they recruit Lukas Tesak from Tula Arsenal, pre-retirement Tymoshchuk from Zenit, and Gerard Gou, who flashed with one goal in Krasnodar. And all this allows them to count on gold.
After Borodyuk's escape, the team is led by former coach Georgian national team Kakhaber Tskhadadze. It would seem that in his old age, a player like Arshavin would not want to deal with a demanding and expressive coach, but so far it turns out that the option with “Kairat” is almost ideal, because they build the game around him, revive him after injuries and sitting on the bench. And it works out well. And he proves it.
Proof
When moving to the Kazakhstan championship, the option to assert oneself looks obviously losing. If he doesn’t play, everyone will put all the pressure on him. It starts playing - “this is Kazakhstan.”
And he went through both stages - he didn’t play, and then he broke up.
In winter, at Kuban's pre-season training camp, Arshavin scored twice and celebrated in his signature way - raising his finger to his mouth. Shutting us all down. It’s hard to remember when this happened in last time– since his first return to Zenit in 2012, he either showed his heart, then hit himself in the stomach, or noted that he was even more bored. This in a match with the worthless Chinese at the training camp could only mean one thing - Shava is going to tear up. The club changed, but the sign was understood correctly. Shava goes all out.
The first 4 matches for Kairat were lackluster - without goals or assists. A renaissance of jokes about chips, expectations and other nonsense. Even on Russian state channels they are again discussing the collapse of the former captain of the Russian national team, his money, dragging in his “abandoned” wife and inventing other sins. Arshavin is killed and buried.
But the next 40 days after the funeral, he returns to his best years - in 7 matches, 4 goals and 3 assists.
And everything is diverse - right, left, center. He is a maestro.
From the right he closes in the forward position.
He also runs away from the post with his left hand.
Sneaks up and closes the long-range goal on the corner.
Runs in and once again with the left in the penalty area.
He contributed one of his assists to the goal of the year in world football. The British Mirror enthusiastically writes about the assist from the “full-time McDonald’s eater/part-time footballer” and Gael Tawamba’s goal, predicting him to be a candidate for the Puskás Prize. Even if he doesn’t win, he will definitely participate.
Still cracking down on defense.
“Why did you pass to Gou at the end and not score yourself? I think he had a better position. He, of course, wouldn’t give it up in my position, but I’m a different type of player,” says Arshavin after the last match.
And besides this, there are also earned penalties, pre-assists and just a cool game that is a thrill to watch.
Farewell party
In Kazakhstan, Arshavin is getting old. I arrived at 34 – I’m already 35. “According to current feelings, maximum two years. I can play in the FNL until I’m 50. But what is all this for?” he said a year ago. All the best players in Russia play to the last and finish late - Karpin at 36, Mostovoy at 36, Kanchelskis at 36. If Arshavin ends his career in next year, then you can open “Club 36”.
Yes, his transition to Kazakhstan is like a farewell party, but it is just beginning, and people are flocking to loud music.
In official language, the club notes that with Arshavin, “attendance at matches involving Kairat has increased throughout the country.” Thousands of photographs and autographs – probably larger star never happened in the championship. Even bringing him onto the field is an honor and a war. So, at the match against Aktobe, he was given the son of the captain of the Kazakhstan national team, and at the game before that, just before entering the field, one of the workers changed the boy. You remember, but Shava is not Ibra - he went with the exchanged one.
If Arshavin had been called up to the Russian national team for Euro 2016, it would have been a severe blow to his pride. It would show the level of our team and the players who went to France, and some should take it as a personal insult. And you know, it was worth calling him. Arshavin is still the best player in Russia according to my version and one of the best according to a more adequate one. And he certainly better than dead 35-year-old Shirokov and many living ones (what is the top ten Shatov?), after all, he can still “decide the game with one pass.”
He is one of the few players who can spend six months without football, go out and show himself as a great player, which he does after the 4th season. He then served four months at Arsenal and played 120 minutes against Reading in the legendary 7:5 match, so that after the fans asked: “Did they take Arshavin on the bus, or is he still rushing around the field?”, then after five months he was forced to play as a forward for Villas-Boas against Dynamo Moscow and score, and now he has been suffering for half a season in Kuban with injuries and is showing his worth in Kairat. Arshavin with broken legs can be thrown into the opponent's penalty area, and you can still build a game through him.
“They tried to play football, but it’s better not to do that against us. “Sit on the defensive and wait for your chance,” he says after Kairat gutted yet another opponent, going on a streak of 10 wins in 11 matches, reaching the cup semi-finals and taking 3rd place in the championship, ahead of only Astana and "Irtysh" from Pavlodar.
Do you want to avoid embarrassment at the Euro? Better call Shava.
He drags with physics and drags with spirit.
But no, Russia will fight against England, Slovakia and Wales - Arshavin against Ordabasy, Aktobe and Astana. Russia will scatter back to the clubs after the group - “Kairat” with Arshavin will go through “Slavia” with a bad draw, and “HB Torshavn” with a good draw in the Europa League.
Eurocups, the fight for the championship, the cup.
He will definitely rock again.
It's his party after all.