Nika Konstantinowitsch Pilijew

Nika Piliev
Personnel
Surname	Nika Konstantinowitsch Pilijew
birthday	March 21, 1991
place of birth	Tbilisi ,  Georgian SSR
size	176 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Sochi
2003-2009	Moscow locomotive
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009	Moscow locomotive	1 (0)
2009-2013	CSKA Moscow	4 (0)
2010	→  Amkar Perm  (loan)	5 (0)
2012	→  ŠK Slovan Bratislava  (loan)	4 (1)
2013	→  Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan  (loan)	10 (0)
2013	FC Dila Gori	7 (0)
2014	FC Bananz Yerevan	7 (0)
2015	FC Ulisses Yerevan	11 (0)
2015–	Torpedo Armavir
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Russia U-17
	Russia U-18
	Russia U-19
	Russia U-20
1 Only league games are given. As of July 7, 2015

Nika Konstantinowitsch Pilijew ( Russian: Ника Константинович Пилиев ; born March 21, 1991 in Tbilisi , Soviet Union ) is a Russian football player in the position of midfielder , whose traditional position is that of the left attacking midfielder. However, Piliyev can also be used in all other midfield positions.

Club career

Career start at Lok Moscow

Born in 1991 in what is now the capital of Georgia in what was then the Soviet Union, Piliyev moved with his family from Sochi at the age of five (according to other sources seven) , where he initially trained in football with his father. After about a year he took him to a youth coach, who trained him for two years as an offensive player, mostly as a striker , but also as an attacking midfielder. In the following years, Piliyev was trained by two other youth trainers and finally came to the Russian capital Moscow in 2003 , where he completed a two-week trial training session at Lokomotiv Moscow . As a result, the young offensive talent was finally accepted by the club at the affiliated boarding school. From there he went through all youth leagues, in which he celebrated some successes. After training in the club's youth department from 2003, the young talent was accepted into the team's professional squad in the 2009 season .

There he finally made his professional debut on May 16, 2009, when he was substituted on in the league game against Terek Grozny in the 86th minute of play for Alan Maratowitsch Gatagow, who was about the same age ; the game ended in a 4-0 home win for Moscow. He was also active in 15 league games of the Russian Youth Championship that year, in which he scored three goals. As it got closer and closer to the end of the season, Piliyev would have had the opportunity to extend his expiring contract, which he did not do and even refused to sign another professional contract with Lok Moscow shortly before the deadline. Instead, he then moved within Moscow to PFK CSKA Moscow, which is also active in the country's top division . In the local rivals it was mainly intended for the professional team, where it was eventually used in the offensive midfield positions.

With CSKA Moscow in the Champions League

ZSKA quickly recognized the talent of the young offensive player and used him in the team's first Champions League group game , the 1: 3 away defeat against VfL Wolfsburg , as a substitute for Georgi Mikhailovich Shchennikov, who was about the same age . Due to the passable performance, his first league appearance for CSKA was not long in coming, because just five days after his Champions League debut, Piliyev was used from the start in a 3-0 home win over local rivals FK Dynamo Moscow and from 78 .Minute replaced by the former Austria legionnaire and long-time ZSKA kicker Elvir Rahimić . By the end of the season, when CSKA Moscow was in fifth place and was thus allowed to participate in the fourth qualifying round for the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League , Piliyev had three more league appearances. He was also used in both group games against Manchester United (0: 1 and 3: 3). The team then made it to the quarter-finals of the competition , where it was eliminated from the current tournament against the eventual CL winner Inter Milan with a total score of 0: 2. For the young Russian national player, however, it was no longer enough for another Champions League appearance.

In November he finally contracted an injury to his intervertebral discs , which made him fail until February 2010. Piliew then sat on the bench in a number of competitive games of his team in the 2010 game year , but was not used in any of the games, after which he was loaned to Amkar Perm within the league in early August 2010 . Immediately after signing the loan agreement, his first competitive game for the club from what was once Europe's most easterly metropolis followed. He was substituted on in the 0-1 away defeat against Anzhi Makhachkala in the 67th minute of the game for the Croatian youth international Josip Knežević . By the end of the season, where Amkar Perm barely managed to stay in the league with a slightly better goal difference, Piliyev was used in four other championship games and sat on the bench in five other league games without use. He also made three goalless appearances in the 2010 Russian Youth Championship.

National team career

Piliyev gained his first international experience in 2008 when he took part in the elite round of qualifying for the U-17 European Football Championship with the Russian U-17 national team , but did not make it to the European Championship finals in Turkey . After several missions in the U-17 national team and as captain of the Russian U-18 national team, he was finally called up to the U-19 squad of Russia, where he was supported by Nikolai Nikolayevich Sawitschew , the twin brother of the former German legionnaire Yuri Nikolayevich Sawitschew , was trained. Before that, in 2009 he won the annual Valentin A. Granatkin memorial tournament, a tournament in which only international U-17 teams and now only U-18 national teams take part. At the tournament, he was also elected top scorer of the competition with four goals. After numerous appearances in the U-19 national team, which also took part in the elite round of qualifying for the U-19 European Football Championship in 2010 , but did not make it to the European Championship finals in France , the team was called up in Russia's junior selection , for which he was also already in action.

successes

• 1 × winner of the Valentin A. Granatkin memorial tournament : 2009
• 1 × top scorer of the Valentin A. Granatkin commemorative tournament : 2009 (4 goals)

Web links

• Nika Pilijew on the website of the Russian Football Association (Russian)
• Interview with Nika Pilijew on totalfootball.ru (Russian)
• Nika Pilijew in the soccerway.com database
• Nika Pilijew in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nika Konstantinowitsch Pilijew on the sports.ru website (Russian), accessed on December 30, 2010
2. ↑ Слуцкий: Гонсалес готов тренироваться в общей группе ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian), Retrieved December 30, 2010 
3. ↑ Пилиев отдан в аренду ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian), Retrieved December 30, 2010 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Valentin A. Granatkin Memorial - International Youth Tournament 2009 at rsssf.com (English), accessed on December 30, 2010