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Childhood

Like most world football stars, his passion for this sport began in childhood, in backyard battles. Roman's football career began in Cherkessk at the Pobeda children's and youth sports school under the guidance of the honored coach Khasan Kurochinov, where his father took him. Pavlyuchenko played for this team for 7 years. Later he transferred to Stavropol to the Olympic reserve school SDYUSHOR, played for the team of the Stavropol youth club “Dynamo”. The young forward often attracted the attention of selectors from the major leagues - CSKA, Shinnik and Volgograd Rotor.

FC Rotor

At first, the lack of experience and team play affected him, and he practically did not play in the first team. But Roman studied hard and of the three seasons spent at Rotor, the last one was the most successful. At the same time, Roman began playing for the Russian national team in the youth team.

Spartak Moscow

2007, in a match against Kuban, was marked by Pavlyuchenko’s first hat-trick in his career. He shared the title of “Best Scorer of the Russian Championship” in 2007 with Roman Adamov, scoring 14 goals. 5 goals in the 2007 UEFA Cup and the second hat-trick in his career against Hacken. In 2008, Pavlyuchenko scored 6 goals in 14 matches. In total, in the Russian championships, playing for Spartak Moscow, he played 141 matches and scored 69 goals.

Tottenham

Roman Pavlyuchenko on video

In the 2009/2010 season, Pavlyuchenko remained on the bench for most of the matches. For this reason, agent Oleg Artyomov began negotiations with the administration about the sale of the football player. An important aspect was the price, it had to suit the British. Many clubs became interested in Pavlyuchenko - Italian Roma and Milan, English Liverpool, Portuguese Sporting, etc. Among the Russian clubs were Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg. Moscow Spartak was also interested in Pavlyuchenko’s return. Pavlyuchenko himself was very worried that the Tottenham coach did not let him into the main squad and did not give him the opportunity to leave the team.

In February 2010, Pavlyuchenko, after a long break, scored 2 goals in a Premier League match with Wigan. After three games in the main team, Pavlyuchenko abandoned his complaints against the coach, played three more productive games and refused to move to Liverpool. But with the appearance of Emmanuel Adebayor in the major league for the English club, Roman no longer played, playing in the second team in the FA Cup.

Moscow Lokomotiv

Roman Pavlyuchenko in the Russian national team

Life on the football field

European Championship 2008, Pavlyuchenko, who did not participate in the main team in the qualifying round, played only 5 games and scored 2 goals in the match with England. Before the European Championship final, the scorer was in bad shape and attacked little. Pavlyuchenko explained this by emotional depression. Guus Hiddink blamed Pavlyuchenko's physical fitness problems. The coach often accused the player of laziness. The famous nickname “Sleeping Giant” personifies these qualities of Pavlyuchenko. Pavel Pogrebnyak became the national team's starting line-up, but was seriously injured in a match with the Serbian team. And Pavlyuchenko joined the main team of the Russian team.

Three goals in the final of the European Championship - against Spain (1:4), Sweden (2:0) and the Netherlands (3:1) made Pavlyuchenko a popular favorite. Based on the results of the meeting with Greece, he received the title “Best Player of the Match” and entered the symbolic team of the best players of the 2008 European Championship. By the start of the qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup, he was one of the best players in the national team. In 7 matches played he scored 5 goals. But the Russian team, having lost to the Slovenian team at the World Cup, did not qualify once again.

In the qualifying games, Roman almost does not play in the starting lineup. In the match with Armenia on June 4, 2011, he scored a hat-trick. The Russian national team qualified for Euro 2012, Roman Pavlyuchenko was announced in the starting lineup.

Personal life of Roman Pavlyuchenko

They recently became parents, are raising their daughter Christina and are planning more children. The family tradition of going to church before the game, lighting a candle for a victory, is observed by all family members and Roman’s parents and his own family.

One of the brightest athletes of our time, who has given fans a lot of emotions over the course of a decade, is Roman Pavlyuchenko. His professional football career has been filled with both ups and downs. He started by playing in little-known clubs, and then conquered Russian and English stadiums. The “sleeping giant” still revolves around the world of football, but does not forget about his family.

short biography

Roman Pavlyuchenko was born on December 15, 1981 in the village of Mostovskoy, which is located in the Krasnodar Territory. As soon as the boy was born, the family decided to move to Karachay-Cherkessia. Roman spent his childhood in the city of Ust-Dzhegut.

Roma was an ordinary child as a child. He and his friends played football in the yard after school. The boy's father, Anatoly Andreevich, noticed his son's craving for the game, and when the boy was nine years old, he sent him to the Pobeda children’s and youth sports school. The coach, Khasan Kurochinov, was asked by his father to coach Roma. Pavlyuchenko Jr. trained and played on the sports school team for the next seven years.

At the age of sixteen, Roman received an invitation to enter the local Olympic reserve school. The guy studied at the institution and performed as part of the Stavropol club Dynamo. After the young man left the school, dramatic changes took place in the team: the coaches disbanded the main team, and decided to fill the vacated positions with newcomers. So, Roman became a player of the “base”.

Club career

A promising forward with the last name Pavlyuchenko, in the very first games, attracted the attention of scouts who were looking for young and talented football players. Among the agents were representatives of famous Russian clubs: CSKA, Shinnik and Spartak (Moscow). However, in the end, the most convincing offer was made by the Rotor club from Volgograd. In 2000, Roman signed a long-term contract with the team.

Volgograd club "Rotor"

The family did not let Roman go to his fate and decided to go to the new city with him. Moreover, my father, Anatoly Andreevich, was offered to take the vacant position as a club bus driver.

Initially, Roma did not stand out for its ideal game and large number of goals - the lack of experience and playing skills in the team was visible. The head coach was aimed primarily at the success of the team as a whole, and not each individual player, so in the first season Pavlyuchenko was almost invisible on the field. But the guy did not want to give up easily and devoted all his free time to training. Roman's third year on the team was successful. He played a great season and received an invitation to the Russian youth team.

Game in Spartak

In 2002, Moscow Spartak offered Roman a contract on very favorable terms. The agreement also assumed that Pavlyuchenko would finish the 2001–2002 season at Rotor. The guy agreed and in mid-autumn 2002 he moved to the capital’s club for 700 thousand euros. Pavlyuchenko replaced forward Vladimir Beschastnykh, who moved to Fenerbahce.

It so happened that in the 2002–2003 season Roman remained as the team’s only striker. Therefore, the guy received a lot of playing time on the field, and with every minute his game became more and more confident. The season for the young football player was more than successful, he scored sixteen goals: ten - in the Russian championship, three - in the Russian Cup, two - in the Premier League Cup and one - in the UEFA Cup. He also received a team achievement - the Russian Cup. He took third place in the top scorers, right after Kerzhakov and Bulykin.

The following season, Pavlyuchenko scored ten goals, ending up among the team's best goal scorers. In 2005, the striker hit the goal eleven times and helped Spartak take second place in the Russian Championship.

In the same 2005, the coaches of the Russian national team noted the forward’s effective play. He was invited to the team for the qualifying games, after which he took his place in the national team.

The following year, Pavlyuchenko successfully played at the Russian Championship: he scored eighteen goals and received the title of “Best Scorer” - for the first time in the history of Spartak. Also a great success was his debut in the Champions League and the first goal in the game against Slovan.

In 2007, Pavlyuchenko scored the first hat-trick in his professional career, in a match against Kuban. In the same season, Roman took first place in the ranking of “Best Scorers of the Russian Championship” together with Roman Adamov from the capital club “Moscow”. Both forwards scored fourteen goals. In the 2007 UEFA Cup, Pavlyuchenko scored five goals and also scored a second hat-trick in the match against Häcken.

In 2008, Roman scored six times in fourteen games. Statistics show that in all Russian championships, as part of Spartak, he played in one hundred and forty-one matches and scored sixty-nine goals.

“English” career turn

On the final date of the transfer window - August 30, 2008, Roman signed a contract with the London club Tottenham Hotspur, the transfer fee was fourteen million pounds sterling. Pavlyuchenko himself was supposed to play for four years, plus another year if certain conditions were met. The footballer's salary also increased significantly and amounted to two million euros per year.

During the transition, Roman had the opportunity to choose his jersey number. The Russian striker was not at a loss and chose “nine”.

Of course, even before moving to the English club, Pavlyuchenko thought for a long time about what difficulties awaited him in the new country. Only after a personal meeting with the head coach, Juande Ramos, Roman agreed to join the ranks of the Spurs.

The first appearance on the field for the new team took place during the game with Aston Villa, in the fourth round of the English championship. This match turned out to be unsuccessful for Pavlyuchenko, and for Tottenham as a whole - a loss by one goal. It was clear that the Russian was confused on the field and could not keep up with his faster teammates and opponents. However, the head coach did not write off the newcomer, and in the match against Newcastle (in the League Cup), Roman scored the first goal, as a result of which the team won.

Later, the athlete admitted that he did not like his first matches in England. He also complained about the radically different training system. Much emphasis was placed on muscle development, so the plan included a lot of heavy strength training. It took a long time for Roman to recover from such stress.

The following season, Pavlyuchenko began to remain more and more in the reserve. Roman did not like this development of events and his agent, Oleg Artyomov, began to talk with the administration about the possibility of the Russian moving to another club. A very important point for Spurs representatives was the cost of a potential transfer. At the same time, the following clubs showed interest in the athlete:

• Italian Roma and Milan.
• English Liverpool.
• Portuguese Sporting.
• Russian Lokomotiv (Moscow), Zenit (St. Petersburg) and Spartak (Moscow).

The striker himself was very worried that the Tottenham head coach did not include him in the main squad and did not allow him to leave for another club. Roman remained in such uncertainty until February 2010. The head coach decided to give the Russian a chance to show himself again in the game against Wigan in the English Premier League. Pavlyuchenko scored two goals in that match and over the next three games he was a consistent starter. At that moment, Roman decided not to express his dissatisfaction with the coach and played three more successful matches. At the same time, Pavlyuchenko refused a transfer to Liverpool.

However, a little later the team acquired a stronger and more productive forward - Emanuel Adebayor. Since then, Roman began to play only in the second team.

Return to Russia

At the beginning of February 2012, Pavlyuchenko flew to his homeland and signed an agreement to transfer to the capital's Lokomotiv. The contract was for three and a half years. It was clear that during his performances for Loko, Roman was “at ease.” He felt good on the field and showed excellent form overall.

After the expiration of the contract, the athlete changed football clubs every season. Roman Pavlyuchenko played:

• For Kuban in 2015-2016.
• For Ural in 2016-2017.
• For Ararat in 2017.
• In 2018, for the amateur league team - “Znamya” from Noginsk.

In 2019, Roman Pavlyuchenko again received an invitation to play for Ararat Moscow. The striker is still on the team to this day, delighting fans with his play. Of course, a football player’s career is fleeting and the years take their toll, which is often visible on the field.

Playing in the national team

Roman began his career in the national team when Valery Gazzaev was at the helm. The first official game in which Pavlyuchenko took part was Russia against Israel in 2003. In total, the striker played in forty-five matches for the national team, six of which he completed without substitution. The scorer has twenty goals against opponents. Including seven doubles and five goals from the penalty spot.

Roman scored his first goal against the Luxembourg national team at the 2006 World Cup. At the qualifying stage of the 2008 European Championship, Pavlyuchenko’s name was not on the “core” list. Then he played in only five games and scored two goals against England.

During Euro 2008, Pavlyuchenko was not in the best shape. The striker himself said that he felt emotionally depressed. The head coach, Guus Hiddink, found the problem in the athlete’s physical training. He often reproached Roman for laziness. And not without reason, because the attacker was nicknamed the Sleeping Giant. This nickname perfectly personified Pavlyuchenko’s nature. As a result, Pavel Pogrebnyak received a place in the lineup at the European tournament, but due to an unfortunate set of circumstances in the match against Serbia, the forward was injured, and Roman took his place.

As it turned out, Pavlyuchenko did not want to present himself as a “second-rate” player. He pulled himself together and scored three goals in the most important matches against Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands. In the confrontation with Greece, the footballer was named “Best Man of the Match”. After great games in the national team, Roman gained a huge fan base.

By the start of the qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup, Pavlyuchenko was on the list of the best players on the national team. In seven games, Roman scored five times, but this did not help the team reach the group stage of the championship.

At Euro 2012, Pavlyuchenko was given a place in the starting lineup thanks to a brilliant game against Armenia, where he scored a hat-trick. Thus, sometimes giving up his place to Alexander Kerzhakov and Pavel Pogrebnyak, Roman delighted the fans with his brilliant play. In 2013, Pavlyuchenko announced his retirement from the national team.

Personal life

The famous football player met his only wife, Larisa, while studying at school. The future spouses sat at the same desk for three years. Roman himself said that during his school years he did not suffer from a lack of attention from girls.

Initially, Pavlyuchenko was in love with Larisa’s twin sister, Svetlana, but their relationship did not develop due to the fact that the girl spent almost all her free time studying (she later married another famous football player, Sergei Serdyukov, who studied at the same school ).

After failures with Svetlana, the young athlete began dating Larisa. Perhaps today there would not be such a wonderful couple if the girl herself had not invited Pavlyuchenko to get married when they turned eighteen. In 2001, the young people got married.

It's safe to say that Larisa is a strong-willed woman. Roman himself said in an interview that he completely trusts his wife to make important decisions concerning their family. Officially, Larisa Pavlyuchenko is a housewife, but in reality she is a businesswoman. She skillfully handles family capital, investing in luxury real estate.

Larisa tries to attend all her beloved husband’s matches. However, on August 24, 2006, the woman missed the most important game of Spartak against Slovan for a good reason - she was in the maternity hospital. At the end of the match, Roman learned about the birth of his daughter . Today the football player has three children:

• The eldest daughter is Christina.
• Middle - Mila (born January 3, 2014).
• The youngest is Eva (born on August 17, 2018).

The athlete has several tattoos on his body in which he mentions his family. The latest news says that Roman has a very busy life, but he never forgets to spend time with his loved ones.

From November 2002 to August 2008 he played for the Spartak football club (Moscow). From August 2008 to February 2012 he played for the English Tottenham Hotspur. This transfer made him one of the most expensive Russian football players sold abroad in the history of Russian football (the amount of compensation received by Spartak was no less than 17 million euros). Now he plays for FC Lokomotiv (Moscow).

Family: wife Larisa Pavlyuchenko, daughter Kristina Pavlyuchenko.

Career

Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko was born on December 15, 1981 in the village of Mostovskoy; parents Anatoly Andreevich and Lyubov Vladimirovna Pavlyuchenko; The family also had a daughter and Roman’s older sister, Oksana. A few days after the birth of their son, the family moved to Karachay-Cherkessia, to the city of Ust-Dzheguta. In 1990, Roman’s father took his son to the honored coach of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Hasan Kurochinov, the head of the republican children’s and youth sports school “Pobeda”. Anatoly Pavlyuchenko told Kurochinov: “Do what you want with him, but make him a football player.” Pavlyuchenko spent 7 years on this team, playing with players who were two years older than him.

"Dynamo" Stavropol

When Pavlyuchenko was in the 9th grade, after the Pobeda game in Stavropol he was noticed by the leaders of the local Olympic reserve school. There he studied, while simultaneously playing for the youth team of the Stavropol club Dynamo. Under the guidance of coaches Vladimir Tokarev and Vladimir Kitin, Roman grew professionally, although he did not stand out among the other Dynamo players, and in 1998, together with the team, he became the champion of Russia in his age group. In 1999, Fyodor Gagloev, head coach of the Dynamo main team, invited Pavlyuchenko to the first pre-season training camp. As part of the main team, Pavlyuchenko made his debut in the 2nd round match of the first division of the Russian Championship with the Torpedo-ZIL club, where he came on as a substitute after the break, but did not save his team from defeat with a score of 0:1. In the 10th round match, Pavlyuchenko made two assists, the goals from which brought Dynamo a victory over Lokomotiv from Chita 2:1. In total, he spent only a season for the club, playing 31 matches and scoring 1 goal, in an away match with the Lokomotiv club from St. Petersburg. The club itself also performed unsuccessfully, taking penultimate place in the first division and relegated to the second division. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko entered the symbolic team of the best juniors of the first division according to the Sport-Express newspaper.

"Rotor" Volgograd

In 2000, Pavlyuchenko, having concluded a long-term contract, moved to Rotor Volgograd, with whom he signed a preliminary agreement in the summer of 1999, despite the fact that Dynamo several times refused the transfer to the team president, Rochus Schoch. His family moved to Volgograd with him; his father got a job as a driver at the club. Pavlyuchenko had offers from Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Kyiv, but preferred Rotor, and the people of Kiev even offered Rotor to buy out Pavlyuchenko’s transfer.

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“I also received a call from Dynamo Kyiv. But somehow all this was not serious. The people of Kiev offered me, a 16-year-old boy, to come to their location and prove my worth on the spot. “Rotor” acted more actively. Let’s say, in addition to the fact that I was invited to the team, my father was also hired - he became a club bus driver.”

In the first game for the club, against Uralan, Pavlyuchenko received a red card for hitting an opponent in the face, who hit Roman in the legs. On July 8, in a match with Rostselmash, Pavlyuchenko opened his scoring account for the club, scoring a total of 5 goals in 16 games during the season. The club took 11th place in the Russian Championship that year. The following season, Pavlyuchenko again scored 5 goals, and Rotor finished 10th. In 2002, Pavlyuchenko played 21 matches in the championship and scored 4 times.

World Cup 2006

He took part in 3 qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup, scoring his first goal for the national team in the match against Luxembourg. The game ended with a score of 5:1. As a result, the Russian team took third place in the group and did not qualify for the World Cup.

"Spartak Moscow

In November 2002, Pavlyuchenko moved to Moscow Spartak, which paid 700 thousand euros for the forward’s transfer. As part of the “red-white” club, he replaced Vladimir Beschastnykh, who left for Fenerbahce. On March 15, he made his debut for Spartak in a match with Torpedo-Metallurg. In his second game he scored the first goal for Spartak, hitting the goal of Alania. In total, he scored 10 goals during the season, becoming the top scorer of the team that took 10th place. That same year he won the Russian Cup, in the final of which he played 87 minutes. He also played in the UEFA Cup, where he scored 1 goal. In 2004, Pavlyuchenko was again Spartak's top scorer, scoring 10 goals. In 2005, Pavlyuchenko took second place with the club in the national championship, in which he scored 11 times. In 2006, Pavlyuchenko became the top scorer of the Russian Championship with 18 goals, becoming the first Spartak player to win this title. That same year, he scored his first goal in the Champions League against Slovan, and then scored twice more against Inter and Sporting Lisbon. On August 19, 2007, Pavlyuchenko scored the first hat-trick in his career, hitting the Kuban goal three times. In total, he scored 14 goals in the 2007 championship, becoming the top scorer of the championship together with Roman Adamov. That same year he scored 5 goals in the UEFA Cup, including a hat-trick against Hacken. In 14 matches in 2008, Pavlyuchenko scored 6 goals. In total, he scored 69 goals in 141 matches for Spartak.

In the qualifying tournament for the 2008 European Championship, Pavlyuchenko was initially not included in the squad. He played only 5 games with the team, in which he scored 2 goals. Pavlyuchenko scored both of these goals against the England national team, coming on as a substitute in the second half, in the 58th minute of the match. At the same time, Roman became the third player of the national team who made a “double” in matches for the Russian national team, after coming off the bench.

Before the final games of the European Championship, Roman performed inexpressively: he scored little in the Russian Championship, and then he was even transferred to the Spartak reserve and spent several training sessions with the red-white team. Pavlyuchenko himself said that he did not feel very well, especially emotionally. Guus Hiddink noted problems with Pavlyuchenko’s physical fitness. Pavel Pogrebnyak was considered a player in the starting lineup of the national team, but in a friendly match with the Serbian national team he was seriously injured and was unable to take part in the final part of the European Championship. This allowed Pavlyuchenko to become a player in the main team of the Russian team.

In the final part of the European Championship, Pavlyuchenko scored 3 goals: against Spain (1:4), Sweden (2:0) and the Netherlands (3:1). He was also recognized as the best player of the match against Greece. At the end of the tournament, Roman entered the symbolic team of the 23 best players of the 2008 European Championship.

"Tottenham"

On August 30, 2008, Pavlyuchenko moved to the Tottenham Hotspur club, signing a 4+1 contract with a salary of 2 million euros per year. The transfer amount was 14 million pounds, which made Roman’s transfer the most expensive transfer of a football player at that time who left the Russian championship for a foreign club. In the new club, Pavlyuchenko chose game number 9. The decisive factor for Roman to move to Tottenham was personal communication with the team’s head coach, Juande Ramos, who called the forward.

He made his debut with Tottenham on September 16 in the match of the 4th round of the English Championship with the Aston Villa club, where he spent 90 minutes, and his team lost 1:2. At the same time, some sports journalists noted that Roman played this match unsuccessfully, often falling short due to his speed characteristics. Roman himself did not like the first matches for the club; he was also surprised by the training system that was used in England, especially in terms of physical activity. On September 25, in the League Cup match with Newcastle, Pavlyuchenko scored his first goal for Tottenham; his club won 2:1.

While playing for Tottenham, Pavlyuchenko received an injury, due to which he missed the Russian national team’s games with Germany and Finland. On November 13, 2008, in a League Cup match against Liverpool, Pavlyuchenko scored the first double in his foreign career, which allowed his club to win 4:2. Then there was a match with Blackburn Rovers in the English Championship, where Roman’s only goal brought victory to the Spurs. On January 2, 2009, Roman played for the first time in the FA Cup, where Spurs met with Wigan Athletic, in this match Pavlyuchenko scored two goals: one from the penalty spot, the other from outside the penalty area; Spurs eventually won 3:1.

In the 2009/2010 season, Pavlyuchenko did not take the field for most of the matches, remaining on the bench, which did not suit the Russian forward. After this, the player’s agent Oleg Artyomov spoke with the team’s head coach, Harry Redknapp, and the team president, Daniel Levy, receiving consent to sell the player if the price suits the club. Pavlyuchenko was interested in Russian clubs Lokomotiv (Moscow), Zenit (St. Petersburg), Italian Roma and Milan, German Hertha, English teams Birmingham City, West Ham United, Liverpool, Spanish Valencia, Portuguese Sporting, Turkish Galatasaray, Moscow Spartak also wanted to return Pavlyuchenko. Pavlyuchenko himself said that he has the feeling that Tottenham head coach Harry Redknapp is mocking him, not letting him into the squad and not giving him the opportunity to leave the team.

On February 21, 2010, Pavlyuchenko scored for the first time after a long break in a Premier League match for Tottenham; in the same game against Wigan, Roman scored the second goal. In the next match, against Bolton in the 1/8 of the FA Cup, he scored a double again. In the third game in a row, against Everton, Pavlyuchenko scored a goal. Roman said that he felt trust from Redknapp. On March 13, Pavlyuchenko scored two goals against Blackburn Rovers. In the next game, on March 20, he suffered a hamstring injury, which forced him to come off the bench in the FA Cup quarter-final match. But this did not stop him from scoring the match-winning goal.

On August 31, 2010, on the final day of the summer transfer window, Liverpool wanted to sign Pavlyuchenko, but he refused the offer.

On September 29, in the Champions League match against the Dutch Twente, he scored two goals from the penalty spot; Tottenham won this game with a score of 4:1. On November 2, in a group stage match of the Champions League, he scored a goal against Inter Milan. On December 12, he opened the scoring in the match against Chelsea; the match ended in a 1:1 draw. On February 22, Roman scored a goal against Blackpool; this goal did not affect the outcome of the meeting, and in the end Tottenham lost 1:3. On May 22, in the last round, Roman scored two goals against Birmingham.

At the beginning of the next season, Tottenham hired Emmanuel Adebayor, which led to rumors that Roman could leave the team and move to Espanyol. However, he remained on the team. Roman started the League Cup match with Stoke City from the first minutes, and in the penalty shoot-out, which resulted in his team losing with a score of 7:6, he missed his shot. After that, Pavlyuchenko completely stopped appearing in the Premier League, playing only in the Europa League, where Tottenham played as the second team, and, despite everything, he scored two goals. On December 18, 2011, the striker managed to score for the first time in the championship, in a match against Sunderland, setting the final score at 1:0.

World Cup 2010

By the qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup, Roman became one of the leaders of the team. Played 7 out of 10 qualifying games and scored 5 goals. However, the Russian team again did not make it to the World Cup, losing to the Slovenian national team in the play-offs.

Lokomotiv Moscow

Euro 2012

In the qualifying games, Roman did not always make it into the starting lineup, competing with Kerzhakov, who had gained form, and Pogrebyanok, who was playing in the starting lineup. On June 4, 2011, he scored a hat-trick in the match against Armenia (Russia won 3:1). In the match with the Andorran national team, Roman scored his 4th goal in the qualifying round. Also in this match he, together with the national team, qualified for the Euro.

Personal life

He met his future wife Larisa at the age of 12, when he went to study in the sixth grade of secondary school No. 6 in the village of Mostovskoy. Roman and Larisa were seated at the same desk. So they sat together until the end of the ninth grade, after which Roman moved to the Stavropol Sports School for Youth and Children. But the young people did not stop communicating, and in November 2001 they got married. On August 24, 2006, immediately after the game with Slovan, Larisa gave birth to Roman’s daughter Kristina.

Together with Roman, Sergei Serdyukov also studied at the Sports School. The wives of Roman and Sergei - Larisa and Svetlana - are twins.

Roman Pavlyuchenko is one of the best forwards in the recent football history of Russia.

Pavlyuchenko Roman Anatolievich

• Country Russia.
• Position – forward.
• Born: December 15, 1981.
• Height: 188 cm.
• Weight: 84 kg.

Biography and career of a football player

Roman Pavlyuchenko was born in the regional center of Mostovskaya, Krasnodar Territory, and his childhood was spent in the city of Ust-Dzheguta in Karachay-Cherkessia, where Roman’s family moved shortly after his birth.

There, Roman began playing football at the Pobeda children's and youth school, and starting from the 9th grade, he ended up in Stavropol, at the Olympic reserve school.

"Dynamo" Stavropol

Here he came to the attention of the local Dynamo coaching staff, and soon found himself in the youth team. In 1999, Pavlyuchenko was included in the application of the team that at that time played in the PFL (since 2010 - FNL), the second most important Russian division.

The season for Roman turned out to be ambiguous - on the one hand, he, a 17-year-old boy, was constantly in the starting lineup, on the other, in 31 matches Pavlyuchenko scored only one goal, and Dynamo, taking penultimate place, dropped to the second league.

However, the young footballer was noticed, and Roman received offers from several clubs, among which were Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Kiev.

"Rotor"

2000-2003

As a result, Pavlyuchenko ended up in Volgograd, where the local Rotor had already begun its fall from the heights of Russian football, but had not yet lost its status as a “thunderstorm of authorities.” By the way, the club took a comprehensive approach to the issue of inviting a football player - in addition to the contract with Roman himself, his father, Anatoly Andreevich, also received a job at Rotor (club bus driver).

Pavlyuchenko's debut for Rotor was, to put it mildly, unsuccessful - in his first match, Roman earned a red card for hitting an opponent. In the first season, the forward alternated playing in the first team with appearances for the backup team, and starting in 2001, he took a strong place in the first team.

In just three years, Pavlyuchenko played 67 matches for Rotor, in which he scored 15 goals.

"Spartacus"

2003-2008

At the end of 2002, the 21-year-old forward moved to Moscow, signing a contract with Spartak. Fans of the “red-whites” were initially skeptical about this transfer - Roman’s performance left much to be desired, and in Spartak he was supposed to replace Vladimir Beschastnykh himself, the best scorer of the Russian national team at that time.

However, all this skepticism was in vain - already in the first season, Pavlyuchenko scored 16 goals in 35 official matches. In total, he played 189 matches for Spartak, in which he hit the opponents’ goal 89 times. And in terms of the number of goals scored for the “red-white” in the Russian championships, Pavlyuchenko is second only to.

Twice - in 2006 and 2007, Pavlyuchenko became the top scorer of the Russian Championship. In the latter case, his goals almost brought the team the championship title, but an offensive misfire in the penultimate round match with Saturn left Spartak without the long-awaited championship.

Tottenham Hotspur

2008-2012

Afterwards, Roman Pavlyuchenko signed a four-year contract with London Tottenham.

Coach Juande Ramos, who invited Pavlyuchenko, was soon fired from the club, and Harry Redknapp, who took his place, did not really like the Russian forward. After all, Pavlyuchenko’s statistics were very good - 42 goals in 112 matches, most of which Pavlyuchenko started on the bench, often appearing on the field for 3-5 minutes.

At the same time, Tottenham management refused all Pavlyuchenko’s requests to sell him to another club, although several Premier League teams, including Liverpool, were interested in the forward. And only when there were several months left before the expiration of the contract, Tottenham entered into negotiations with Lokomotiv.

Lokomotiv Moscow

2012-2015

So Pavlyuchenko returned to Russia. But he was far from being the same forward - three and a half years of sitting on the bench had taken their toll. Of course, at the age of 29, Roman could well have reached his previous level, but his character traits affected him; it was not for nothing that he called Pavlyuchenko a “sleeping giant.”

Unfortunately, it was not possible to wake him up - 16 goals in three and a half seasons is clearly not the result that Lokomotiv expected when they shelled out 14 million euros for the forward.

End of football career

After that, Roman Pavlyuchenko played for a year in the Russian Premier League clubs - Kuban and Ufa, and in May 2017 signed a contract with Moscow Ararat (sounds great, right?), which plays in the Center zone of the Russian third division. However, this contract was terminated already in November.

Roman Pavlyuchenko spent the 2017-2018 season in the RFPL club Ural, for which he scored 4 goals. Now the future of Roman Pavlyuchenko is in question, and perhaps the day is not far when he will announce the end of his playing career.

Russian team

2003-2012

Roman Pavlyuchenko made his debut in the Russian national team in August 2003. I won’t say that he was always the undisputed number one; he often gave way to Pavel Pogrebnyak and Dmitry Sychev.

But there were moments when Roman Pavlyuchenko became not just the main football forward in Russia, but almost a national hero. I am, of course, talking primarily about the match against England, played on October 17, 2007. A ticket to the European Championship was at stake, and any loss of points actually deprived us of the chance to continue the fight. Roman Pavlyuchenko then came on as a substitute when the score was 0:1 and scored two goals, turning the tide of an unsuccessful game for us.

Then there was the final part of Euro 2008, where Roman Pavlyuchenko might not have gone, but in the end he replaced the injured Pavel Pogrebnyak. His three goals, including in victorious matches with the Swedes and the Dutch, helped the Russian team achieve the best result in its history.

After the unsuccessful 2012 European Championship for the national team, Roman Pavlyuchenko was called up only once for a friendly match, and then finished playing for the national team.

In total, Pavlyuchenko played 50 matches for the national team, in which he scored 21 goals (third best).

Titles of Roman Pavlyuchenko

Team

1. Two-time winner of the Russian Cup.
2. Silver and bronze medalist of the Russian Championship.
3. Bronze medalist of the European Championship.

Individual

1. Top scorer of the Russian championships in 2006 and 2007.
2. Twice included in the list of 33 best football players in Russia.
3. Twice named player of the month at Tottenham.
4. Member of the symbolic clubs “100 Russian Scorers” and the Grigory Fedotov Club.

Family and personal life of Roman Pavlyuchenko

Roman Pavlyuchenko has known his wife Larisa since he was 12 years old. They studied in the same class, where they sat at the same desk. Unlike many football players, Roman can be called an exemplary family man - his name has never appeared in the press in connection with love affairs and drunken antics.

Roman and Larisa got married when they were 18 years old and are raising two children - daughters - Christina and Mila. By the way, all the tattoos on Roman Pavlyuchenko’s body are somehow related to his family.

• Pavlyuchenko’s transfer from Spartak to Tottenham became the most expensive for a player from the Russian championship.
• Roman Pavlyuchenko is the top scorer of the Russian national team in the finals of the European Championships - 4 goals.
• Roman Pavlyuchenko is the author of the 10,000th goal of the Russian championships. However, this fact is disputed by some statisticians. The question is whether to count goals in matches whose results were overturned and replaced by technical 3:0. There were few of them, but they naturally influence the chronology of goal counting.
• The twin sister of Roman Pavlyuchenko’s wife, Svetlana, is married to Russian football player Sergei Serdyukov.

• Roman Pavlyuchenko has his own business - in 2014 he opened a Georgian restaurant “Satsivi” in Stavropol.
• In 2008, Roman Pavlyuchenko was elected to the Stavropol City Duma on the United Russia list, and in 2012 he was a confidant of Russian Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.
• Roman Pavlyuchenko is jokingly called the brother of Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz - the two celebrities have some resemblance in appearance.
• While playing for Tottenham, Roman Pavlyuchenko acted as a referee at games of the British KVN League.

You can treat Roman Pavlyuchenko as you like, but one thing cannot be denied - this forward could have achieved much more in football. As, indeed, are other Russian players of his generation.

Last November, Roman Pavlyuchenko finally turned into a useless veteran. He terminated his contract with Ararat due to an unauthorized departure on vacation (there were rumors that he did not agree with the management, although Roman himself claims the opposite); big clubs did not invite him. Fans advised Pavlyuchenko to end his career, and there were rumors in the press about his return to Dynamo Stavropol. But the striker chose a completely different vector of development. On August 31, he signed a contract with Noginsk Znamya. He commented on this move as follows: “Moving to Noginsk? Well, what a transition, just friends invited me to play. I’ll just play home matches with them, purely on a friendly basis. I will share my experience with young guys. Friends approached me to play with them on a team. I will play four home matches. It’s better for me, I’ll play football better, I’ll go with more pleasure. Moreover, this is essentially Moscow, so don’t exaggerate.”

What a team

Although Noginsk is considered one of the centers of the birth of Russian football, now the team with an interesting history is buried in amateur football. In 1911, a field was built in Borodsk (as Noginsk was called until 1930) and the first team in the district was created. Since then, she has represented different cities, participated in the USSR championships, escaped bankruptcy and dropped to the lower leagues. In total, during its long history, the Noginsk club was remembered for several things:

In 1936, he reached the semi-finals of the first USSR Cup, where he lost to Dynamo Tbilisi (1:5).

In 1997, he reached the 1/16 of the Russian Cup against Spartak Moscow. And in this match there was a mass brawl, during which Oleg Romantsev wanted to take the team off the field.

In 1998, “Avtomobilist” (the mayor of Noginsk ordered the team to be named this way due to the sponsorship of the automobile transport plant) reached the play-offs for getting into the first division, but failed to pass this line.

Grigory Fedotov, Nikita Bazhenov, Renat Yanbaev began their careers at Znamya.

In the 21st century, the team suffered endlessly due to financial difficulties, lost its license, and moved to different cities. But in the end, “Znamya” settled in amateur football. Now the team plays in Group A of the country's third strongest division. “Znamya” is coached by Mikhail Kobyakov, who has been working with the team since 2009

How is Pavlyuchenko doing?

The striker played in four home matches of Znamya. In these games, he spent 322 minutes on the field, scoring 4 goals (2 of them from the penalty spot). At the same time, Znamya took sixth place in the table, but significantly increased attendance and sales. If previously 500 people went to a team’s game, then under Pavlyuchenko the stadium in Noginsk began to fill up by more than 85%. In addition, in the official group the team sells