Dmitry Ananko - a former Spartak player who returned to the team

Dmitri Ananko - Soviet and Russian footballer of Moscow "Spartak", who acted as a defender. During his career he achieved good results. Ananko is the only sportsman in Russian football history who took part in the conquest of all Spartak trophies after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Biography

Dmitry Ananko, whose biography is full of victories in football fields, was born on September 29, 1973 in Novocherkassk, Rostov Region. The first lessons of the game, which later became his profession, he received in a sports boarding school in the city of Rostov. It was there that Dmitry learned to play on the defender's position. Few people know about this, but as a child he was often sick and injured. Starting to go in for sports number one, Dima did not yet realize that he would achieve such impressive results.

In the youth championship of the USSR Ananko played for the Rostov RO UOR. This allowed us to see in the young man the makings of a good football player. The first professional club in which he spoke was Moscow Spartak, who became the last champion of the Soviet Union.

Dmitry Ananko is one of the few professional footballers who defended the diploma of the Higher School of Trainers, not yet finished his professional football career. At the moment he has 4 higher education. He is one of those athletes who did not use the services of sales agents. In 2002, Dmitry personally discussed the details of his transfer to the Corsican club. As he himself recalls this: about $ 7,000 went to pay for telephone calls.

Sports career

Footballer played seven matches in the USSR championship for Moscow's "Spartak", and after the collapse of the Union remained faithful to the club and continued his career. To date, not everyone knows who Dmitry Ananko is. The footballer played 158 matches in the Russian Premier League. In total for his sporting career he scored one goal, at the gate of "Lokomotiv" from Nizhny Novgorod, it happened in 1996.

Club career:

• 1990-1991 "Spartacus" (Moscow) - played 7 matches (USSR Championship);
• 1992-2002 Spartak (Moscow) - 143 matches;
• 1995 rent in Rostselmash (Rostov on Don) - 12 matches;
• 2002-2003 Ajaccio (France) - 18 matches;
• 2003 "Torpedo-Metallurg" (Moscow) - 3 matches;
• 2004 "Lukoil" (Chelyabinsk) - 11 matches.

Career in the national team has one match. Dmitry Ananko came on as a substitute in the second half, succeeding Karpov. It happened on 28.02.2001 in a friendly game against the Greek national team under the leadership of Oleg Romantsev. The match ended with a score of 3: 3.

Top achievements

Dmitry Ananko was twice in the list of 33 best professional football players in Russia: in 1998 and 2000. For 12 years of playing in Moscow "Spartacus" he became nine times champion of Russia, in 2002 - a bronze medalist.

At the very beginning of his professional activity, Dmitry became the owner of the Cup of the Soviet Union, and in the seasons 1993-1994 and 1997-1998 - the winner of the Cup of Russia.

Coaching activities

Even during his main activity, playing for the Chelyabinsk "Lukoil", Dmitry Vasilievich served as a coach. After he finished playing for the club, he was temporarily absent from football affairs, doing higher education and doing business in real estate.

Seven years later, from 2011 to 2015, he held the position of senior coach of the Tula Arsenal under the leadership of former teammate Spartak Dmitry Alenichev. The achievements of the partners are impressive:

• Season 2012-2013 - "Arsenal" began with a speech in the zone "Center" of the Second Division of Russia, where he confidently took first place.
• Season 2013-2014 - the team took the second place in the Championship of the Football National League.
• 2014-2015 - gunsmiths perform in the Premier League, where Dmitry receives an offer from the leadership of the capital's "Spartacus", and he accepts it.

From the summer of 2015 to the present, Ananko, as before, holds the post of assistant to Alenichev, only not in Arsenal, but in his home for both "red and white" clubs.

Footballer today

At the moment, Dmitry Ananko, whose personal life remains unknown to the press, lives in Moscow. He is the owner of a real estate agency, works as an expert on television, is an assistant coach of Spartak and head coach of the Russian youth team.

To the cinema

Together with other veterans of Russian football (Fedor Cherenkov and Vagiz Khadiyatullin), Dmitry starred in the popular TV series STS "Voronin". In a series with their participation, friends take offense at the protagonist (Constantine), and Ananko shows by his own example how to behave on the show with the presenter in the role of Dmitry Guberniev.