Pryadkin Sergey G.: Biography

Sergei Pryadkin - Russian football functionary, head of the Russian Football Premier League. He is also a member of the European football community. Occupies leading positions in UEFA.

A native of Astrakhan

Sergei Pryadkin was born in Astrakhan in August 1961. He received his higher education in Orel in the military command school named after Kalinin, which was subordinated to the State Security Service - the KGB.

After received a second higher education already in the capital. Pryadkin graduated from the State Institute of Physical Culture. It was the second education that became the main one in his life.

From the KGB to football

After receiving the first higher education, Pryadkin entered the service of the state security bodies. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he worked in the KGB, and after 1991, he joined the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information.

At various posts in the organs of state security Pryadkin Sergei Gennadievich worked until 1994. Then he moved to the sports society Dynamo, which at that time was looking for how to implement itself in the new economic and political realities.

The first significant project in sports, in particular in football, for Pryadkin was the organization GiRRus. The sports functionary implemented this project in the small German town of Charlottenburg, located near the German capital - Berlin. The main activity of this agency was the accompaniment of football players, primarily Russian, who concluded contracts with foreign clubs. Together with Pryadkin, one of the co-founders of this football project was the Soviet football player and coach Konstantin Sarsania, who later became a successful sports agent.

At the head of the Premier League

To work in the Russian Premier League Pryadkin Sergei Gennadievich came in 2001 - the year of its founding. For several years, he held various positions, until in 2007 he became the head of the organization, having replaced Mikhail Vorontsov in that post.

Also, Pryadkin actively worked in the structures of the Russian Football Union. In 2005, he became an adviser to the president of this organization. On the first day of his work as president, Vitaly Mutko appointed him as his adviser .

And during the year, from November 2006 to November 2007, he even acted as the general director of the union. However, during the first 6 months is temporary.

In sports circles, he is clearly associated with the "Mutko man." It was with the arrival of this functionary in the big sport that Pryadkin's career began to develop actively. First of all, this was felt by the Russian Football Premier League.

Former leaders of the league

It is worth noting that before the Premier League led more significant figures in Russian sports than Pryadkin. So, the first president was the current Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko. He was replaced by the former president of the Moscow "Locomotive" Valery Filatov, then the honorary post was occupied by the president of CSKA Eugene Giner, and even later - ex-general director of Moscow "Spartak" and "Dinamo" Yuri Zavarzin.

From 2001 to 2007, the Russian Football Premier League experienced five leaders. From November 2007 to the present day she is solely headed by Sergei Pryadkin. Almost 10 years already.

Conflict with Levchenko

Football functionary Prjadkin is well-known not only as a sports official, but also as a person, famous in the pages of the yellow press. Especially in 2011.

It all started after the former Russian midfielder Vladimir Levchenko, who played for the capital's Torpedo and Lokomotiv, Rostov Rostselmash, Yaroslavl Shinnik, Perm Amkar, Vladikavkaz Spartak and Grozny Terek, headed the Trade Union Football players and coaches of Russia.

One of the first events initiated by Levchenko was a check against Sergei Pryadkin, whose biography at that time was closely related to the Premier League.

The union members were embarrassed that Pryadkin is simultaneously the president of the Premier League, the head of the commission for agency activities of the RFU, and also runs a company whose list of services includes agent activities. Also, the facts of the work of the agent in football of his younger brother, Pryadkin, Andrei, were checked.

In particular, the purity of transactions concluded on transfers of Slovenian football player Branko Ilic, who spoke for a short time for the football club "Moscow" and the capital "Lokomotiv", was questioned. And also one more "railwayman" Magomed Ozdoev.

Conflict Resolution

The commission for ethics of the Russian Football Union was looking for a conflict of interest in Pryadkin's work. However, the data provided was not confirmed. No violations were found by members of the commission.

True, ex-football player Evgeny Levchenko did not calm down on this. As it turned out later, his personal interest took place. According to Levchenko, in 2009, with his transfer to the Ramenskoye "Saturn", Pryadkin, along with his brother Andrei, illegally "laundered" about 400 thousand US dollars. In this, in particular, accused himself Pryadkin Sergei Gennadievich. The Premier League also received criticism from the player.

The result was Levchenko's appeal to the sports arbitration court in Lausanne, Switzerland, whose decision is still unknown.

At the same time, Pryadkin continues to hold the post of president of the Russian Football Premier League and to remain one of the main functionaries in modern Russian sports. The conflict with Levchenko did not significantly affect his career. Pryadkin still remains an authoritative expert in Russian sports.