Footballer Alexei Smertin

Aleksey Smertin is a footballer who played for a number of clubs in the championships of three different countries (Russia, France, England). Player of the Russian national team (1998-2006). Since 2013, he works as an advisor to the president of the Dynamo (Moscow) team.

Dossier

Aleksey Gennadievich Smertin was born on May 1, 1975 in the city of Barnaul (USSR). Russian citizen. Game role - midfielder. Height 177 cm, weight 70 kg. Years of performance in big football - 1992-2008. He is married. Has a wife Larisa and her son. Since 2007 he is an honorary citizen of the city of Barnaul. Former deputy of the Altai Legislative Assembly.

Club career

As a football player, Alexei Smertin competed in the championships of three countries for 10 different clubs. He played 442 games, which scored 46 goals.

• 1992-93 - Dynamo (Barnaul).
• 1994-97 - "Dawn" (Leninsk-Kuznetsky).
• 1997-98 - Uralan (Elista).
• 1999-2000 - Lokomotiv (Moscow).
• 2000-03 - "Bordeaux" (France).
• 2003-04 - Portsmouth (England)
• 2004-05 - Chelsea (England).
• 2005-06 - Charlton Athletic (England).
• 2006 - "Dynamo" (Moscow).
• 2006-08 - Fulham (England).

For the national team of Russia Alexei Smertin performed from 1998 to 2006. He played 55 matches. In 2004-2005 he was the team captain. Participant of the World Championship (2002) and European Championship (2004).

Trophies and achievements

During the period of his football career Aleksei Smertin became the winner of the Russian championship in the team "Uralan" (first division), the winner of the Cup of Russia and the silver medalist in the club "Lokomotiv" (Premier League), he was recognized the best football player of the Russian championship (1999). In foreign clubs he won the Cup of France with the "Bordeaux", was the winner of the championship of England and the owner of the Cup of the English League in the "Chelsea".

Stages of football path

Pupil of Barnaul football Alex Smertin began his career in the teams of the first Russian division. In the Premier League, he made his debut as a member of the Uralan club. A year later, Alexei became a player of the Moscow team "Locomotive". Two seasons, held as part of the railway, is the best period of a footballer's career. Here he wins his first trophies (the Cup of the country and the silver of the championship), plays in European cups, holds matches in the national team.

In the summer of 1999, Russia's national team in the selection for Euro-2000 wins the French team in its field. Alexei's magnificent game does not go unnoticed by French observers.

Since 2000 Smertin Alexei - footballer of the club "Bordeaux". Here he played three seasons (85 games, 8 goals). Unfortunately, the financial situation of the team required the sale of the leading players of the club. In 2003, for three and a half million pounds, Smertin moves to the Chelsea team. Unable to gain a foothold in the main part of the club, he serves as a leased football player for two seasons in the teams "Portsmouth" and "Charlton".

Nevertheless, one full season for Chelsea Alexei Smertin played. It was the championship of 2004/2005, in which the player played 16 times on the football field as part of the London club, including the Champions League matches. Despite the fact that he was involved in the conquest of the "Chelsea" of the championship and the FA Cup, it is hardly possible to call the English period of Aleksey Smertin's career successful.

In 2006, he unexpectedly signs a contract with the Moscow "Dynamo". It seemed that Alexei was returning home to finish his football career in the Russian championship. But after the season in the "Dynamo" it again pulled into the Foggy Albion.

Last three football season Smertin Alexei - footballer of the English club "Fulham". But this return can not be transferred to the player in the asset. After three years of just 21 matches in the Premier League, he announced in August 2008 that he had completed his football career. It so happened that Alexei Smertin, whose biography was first written with bright juicy strokes (Lokomotiv, Bordeaux, Chelsea), finished his career in a modest English club.

Having completed active performances on the football field, Smertin actively engaged in political and social activities. In 2009, he is elected a deputy of the Altai Legislative Assembly, creates a sports children's and youth school in Barnaul, where football is taught for free by hundreds of children, opens a charitable foundation "Young talents"

Interesting facts about biography

In conclusion, let us cite a few interesting little-known facts that took place in the life of Alexei Smertin:

• He is a collector and a good connoisseur of wine. This contributed to the result of a three-year performance in the French club "Bordeaux".
• At one time he was carried away by rock music and how the vocalist spoke to his football team, who did not appreciate his singing talent.
• Alexey has two higher educations: he graduated from the Barnaul State Pedagogical University and the Academy of National Economy and Public Service.
• Acting as a member of Chelsea, he was once recognized as the best football player of the match (the European Cup match against Porto).
• Smertin has a brother Eugene, who spoke in Russian teams: Dynamo (Moscow), Shinnik (Yaroslavl), Torpedo (Moscow).
• He is a participant in the Moscow and international marathon, held in Chicago.
• The first football coach of the player is his own father.
• Alexey, who loves risk and extreme, once made a jump with a parachute.
• He is fond of riding a motorcycle "Harley-Davidson".
• He likes to read books on philosophy and psychology.
• For some time he worked as a football expert and commentator of the matches of the Russian national team at the World Cup in 2010.

An extraordinary footballer, politician, public figure, musician, radio commentator, football expert. And all this is Alexei Smertin, whose family, relatives and friends, recently celebrated his fortieth anniversary.