Shirokov Roman: the route "Zenith" - "Krasnodar" - "Spartak" - "Krasnodar"

Shirokov Roman is the most controversial figure in our football. On the one hand, R. Shirokov is a true leader of the Russian national football team. It is impossible to imagine the game of our team without its brilliant and timely passes, a wonderful vision of the field and the real spirit of the winner, the injection of which Roman received while playing for St. Petersburg Zenit. On the other hand, R. Shirokov can be called the Russian Paul Gascoigne. With the violent Englishman of our player, he has a common talent and an inability to cope with his own waywardness.

It's no surprise that many football fans who do not follow the transfers and move the players from the team to the team are not too keen to ask: "Where does Roman Shirokov play now?" Before answering this question, it is worth taking a short digression into history and tracing the main Milestones career of the main rebel of Russian football in recent years. So, in the football biography of Roman Shirokov there are three main points: the Petersburg "Zenith", the Moscow "Spartak" and "Krasnodar" from the city with the same name.

"Zenith"

Now Roman Shirokov is a footballer known to the general public. But very few people knew him before Zenit. In 2007, he showed himself very well in the Moscow region "Khimki" and attracted the attention of the club from Northern Palmyra. "Zenith" signed it on a free transfer. It was in "Zenith" Shirokov Roman revealed himself as a football player of the highest class. During the game for Zenit, Shirokov received all his main awards, became captain of the national team, and even talked about him in Europe: Monaco was looking at the player.

What did Shirokov Roman do before 2007? He drifted from one insignificant command to another. At this time football was not the main thing of his life. Prior to "Khimki" and "Zenith" Shirokov basically figured out the relationship with the players and coaches of the teams in which he played.

In "Khimki" he showed himself in all its glory, and in "Zenith" Shirokov settled down and opened completely. True, even there he could not do without scandals. In 2009, he argued with Vyacheslav Malafeev (then the first number at the gate of the team), but the conflict was not too serious and lengthy.

But in 2014, the relationship between Roman Shirokov and Zenit intensified. The story is dark, and to the end it is not clear why Shirokov Roman left Zenit. Someone says that he did not fit the new coach of the club - Andre Vilash-Boasch. Someone argues that the whole thing is in the bad temper of the player and he again quarreled with someone. Probably, all business in money. R. Shirokov simply could not conclude a new contract on favorable terms for himself. Anyway, but in February 2014 he went to "Krasnodar" on loan, until the expiry of the contract with Zenit.

"Krasnodar"

R. Shirokov found peace in Krasnodar, in a football team created by Sergei Galitsky. In the FC Krasnodar Krasnodar Shirokov played almost as well as in the best years in Zenit, helping Krasnodar to break into the European Cup. Bulls (the nickname of the Krasnodar) snatched the same ticket to the Europa League from the pursuers. A very important component was the masterovity game in the center of the field of our main brawler and rebel. Despite the fact that in Krasnodar the player of the Russian team was very much asked to stay, he left for Moscow, namely, in "Spartak".

"Spartacus"

From this period of Roman Shirokov's career and to recall something special there is nothing. When he came to "Spartacus", many fans and specialists placed great hopes on this transfer. People thought that thanks to the arrival of such a cool midfielder, "Spartak" will be able to return to the leading positions in domestic football, but the reality turned out to be less than rosy.

In fact, R. Shirokov recovered very long after the injury, and after he recovered, he played only one memorable match. It was a game against Lokomotiv from Moscow, in which he scored a beautiful ball head. Then he quarreled with the head coach of "Spartacus" and returned to the favorable situation for him, "Krasnodar".

"Krasnodar". The Second Coming of Roman Shirokov

In January 2015, R. Shirokov was again rented by Krasnodar. And again he plays much better in it than in the previous club. Scores a little: only one ball in eight meetings held, but its efficiency on the field is simply staggering. His experience and technique help "Krasnodar" to go on the second line after "Zenith" in the current championship of Russia. While it is not clear where after the end of the season will be R. Shirokov, but there are rumors that "Krasnodar" is ready to redeem his contract with "Spartacus." One way or another, but this is the future business, and now Shirokov in "Krasnodar".