Yuri Walentinowitsch Schirkow

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Yuri Schirkow
Yuri Zhirkov Zenit.jpg
Yuri Schirkow (2018)
Personnel
Surname Yuri Walentinowitsch Schirkow
birthday 20th August 1983
place of birth Tambov ,  Soviet Union
size 178 cm
position Link Defense
Left Midfield
Juniors
Years station
Spartak Tambov
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2003 Spartak Tambov 74 (26)
2004-2009 CSKA Moscow 139 (15)
2009-2011 Chelsea FC 29 0(1)
2011-2013 Anzhi Makhachkala 46 0(3)
2013-2015 FK Dynamo Moscow 54 0(3)
2016– Zenit St. Petersburg 76 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004– Russia 92 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 14, 2020

2 As of November 16, 2019

Juri Walentinowitsch Schirkow ( Russian Юрий Валентинович Жирков ; English Yuri Zhirkov ; scientific transl. Jurij Valentinovič Žirkov ; born August 20, 1983 in Tambow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian football player who plays on the left wing as well as on the offensive can be used on the full-back position.

Career

society

He began his career in his hometown with Spartak Tambov . In 2004, Yuri Schirkow signed a contract with the capital club CSKA Moscow . With CSKA he was successful both nationally and internationally: He was Russian champion and cup winner several times and also won the UEFA Cup . In October 2008 he was one of 30 players nominated by France Football for the 2008 Ballon d'Or .

In 2009 he moved to Chelsea , where he was not particularly seeded, but rather sat on the bench.

On August 6, 2011, the Russian first division Anzhi Makhachkala announced the commitment of Shirkov. Due to his quick steps and good technical skills, Zhirkov is also referred to as the “ Ronaldinho ” of Russia in the media .

In mid-August 2013, Schirkow joined Igor Denissow and Alexander Kokorin at FK Dynamo Moscow . In his debut for Dynamo he was substituted on and scored a goal straight away. The rest of the season he made a brace and a total of four assists. The team qualified at the end of the season for the Europa League , where they made it to the round of 16 and were eliminated there against SSC Napoli . In the league, Schirkow's team ended up in fourth place without a goal by himself. In the 2015/16 season , Schirkow only played in the first half of the season for Dynamo.

In January 2016, Schirkow moved to Zenit St. Petersburg , where he was in the starting line-up in the first game. He also won the Russian Cup with Zenit. In the following season, Zenit played in the Europa League , where the team was even first in the group, but was eliminated in the second round. In the league Schirkow finally made a goal again. In the following season he was again in the Europa League with his team . Also this year they took first place in the group. In the last sixteen it was over against Leipzig . In the 2018/19 season he suffered a long Achilles heel injury and was out for a long time. The following season should go much better again. He scored two goals in 17 games up to the corona pandemic and played with Zenit in the Champions League .

National team

At the European Football Championship in 2008 he was a member of the Russian national team and was a member of the 23-player UEFA All-Star team. Since 2004 Schirkow completed 90 international matches and scored two goals. From then on he was at almost all major tournaments. In addition, Schirkow holds the curious record of 60 games without a goal as the only field player in the Russian national team.

successes

Private

Schirkow has three siblings, two brothers and a sister. Schirkow has been married to the former Miss Russia Inna Karetnikova since February 1, 2008 . The couple has two children, a son (* 2008) and a daughter (* 2010). In December 2008 Schirkow graduated from the Tambower State University .

In January 2005, Schirkow survived a serious car accident in his hometown of Tambov .

During the Russian presidential election campaign in 2012 , Shirkov was one of Vladimir Putin's “confidants” .

Web links

Commons : Juri Schirkow  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Ehrmann: Russia's Ronaldinho. Portrait of the wing runabout Yuri Zhirkov . 11freunde.de, October 9, 2009
  2. ↑ Zhirkov is with Anji! ( Memento of August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), message on the Anzhi Makhachkala website from August 6, 2011 (accessed on August 6, 2011)
  3. ↑ Ashley Gray: Chelsea set to snap up Russian Ronaldinho as CSKA Moscow offload Yuri Zhirkov in £ 18.6m deal . Daily Mail, May 29, 2009
  4. ↑ Prominent reinforcements for Kuranyi & Co
  5. ↑ transfermarkt.de : Zhirkov on Zenit St. Petersburg , January 26, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2020
  6. ↑ uefa.com: UEFA EURO 2016 - History - UEFA.com . In: UEFA.com . May 16, 2016 ( uefa.com [accessed August 23, 2018]).
  7. ↑ AD : 'Domme' Miss Rusland geeft titel terug - AD.nl from April 24, 2013
  8. ↑ Доверенные лица ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schirkow, Yuri Walentinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Жирков, Юрий Валентинович (Russian); Zhirkov, Yuri (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Tambov , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union