Alexander Pavlovich Gleb: biography. How Alexander Gleb ruined his Barcelona career: the beginning of the end

Alexander Gleb is a Belarusian football player who currently plays for the Russian Krylya Sovetov. He will be 36 years old this year, so he is definitely in the twilight of his career. Alexander Gleb plays as a playmaker, but if necessary, he can also move to both flanks of the attack.

Carier start

Alexander Gleb was born on May 1, 1981 in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. It was there that he began playing football from an early age - at the age of six he ended up at the football academy of Dynamo Minsk. There he spent his entire childhood, as well as his teenage years, playing for youth teams of various age categories, until in 1999, when he turned 18, he faced a choice of his future. As a result, Alexander Gleb signed a professional contract not with Dynamo, but with BATE Borisov. In his first season, he entered the field 13 times and scored his first professional goal, and also celebrated victory in the first tournament, because his club won the Belarusian Championship. He began his second season at BATE as a first-team player and managed to play 12 matches and score three more goals in the first half of the year, when clubs from abroad paid attention to him. The talented young Belarusian received lucrative offers, and in the summer of 2000 he signed a contract with Stuttgart, which paid 150 thousand euros for him.

Moving to Germany

Alexander Gleb is a football player who turned out to be the most influential in his period, and it all started, naturally, in Stuttgart. Alexander needed his first season at the club to adapt to an unfamiliar environment. He appeared on the field only nine times, but even then it became clear that he was a player with huge potential. And already in 2001, this potential began to unfold - over the next four years, Gleb was not just a first-team player, but one of Stuttgart’s key players. Over four years, he appeared on the field 166 times, scoring 19 goals. He was the conductor of the Swabian attacks and, naturally, became a real star. Therefore, it was obvious that he would not spend his entire career at Stuttgart: already in the summer of 2005, the German club received an offer that it could not refuse. The English Arsenal paid 15 million euros for the Belarusian.

Transfer to Arsenal

Alexander Gleb, whose biography includes both ups and downs, was on the rise at that time. At Arsenal, he quickly won a place in the starting lineup and in his first season played 39 matches, in which he scored three goals. In total, he spent three years at the London club - during this time he appeared on the field 129 times, scoring ten goals. By the age of 27, he had reached the peak of his career, and this bore fruit - in the summer of 2008, one of the strongest clubs in the world, Barcelona, approached Arsenal. Naturally, Alexander Gleb, whose statistics in the current and previous clubs were impressive, could not refuse. He didn't know then that he was making the biggest mistake of his career.

Barcelona: the beginning of the end

Gleb moved to Barcelona, where a new coach, Pep Guardiola, had just been appointed. During the first season, Alexander periodically appeared on the field, making a total of 36 matches, but did not bring much benefit to the club - he simply could not adapt so quickly, and Guardiola demanded results here and now. As a result, Gleb was sent on loan to Stuttgart, then to Birmingham, and then to Wolfsburg - but all this did not bring him closer to the core of the Catalan club. When he returned from Wolfsburg, his contract was coming to an end - and the club management did not consider it necessary to renew it. Thus ended the glorious era of one of the best Belarusian football players in history.

After Barcelona

30-year-old Gleb was no longer the star that all European clubs expected. He signed a contract with Krylia Sovetov, where he spent a season before returning to his home club BATE. There he played for another year and a half, and then moved to Turkey, where he spent a year at Konyaspor. Then he signed a contract with Genclerbirligi and for two years periodically played for the Turkish club and for BATE. And in the winter of 2017, when his next contract with BATE expired, he moved to Krylya Sovetov, with whom he entered into an agreement for six months.

Performances for the national team

Gleb was first called up to the Belarus national team in October 2010, but played his first match only a year later. In total, during his career he played 78 matches for the national team, scoring 7 goals and providing 12 assists. Despite his age, he is still a member of the national team: he played his last match in November 2016.

Belarusian football player, midfielder, Alexander Pavlovich Gleb was born in 1981 in the capital of the country - Minsk. This player has repeatedly received the title of the best football player in Belarus and is a legendary athlete, an international master of sports. He is the only representative of his state who performed in each of the three most powerful championships of the European continent - German, English and Spanish.

Childhood and first football steps

Alexander has been fond of sports since childhood, but his father helped him choose football, who brought the six-year-old boy to the location of the football section of the Minsk Dynamo. The young football player studied at the Dynamo football school for several years, after which he decided to continue training at BATE, a club located in the city of Borisov. When Alexander was seventeen years old, he signed a professional contract with the Borisov team; in 1999, he entered the big football field for the first time and even won the Belarusian championship.

The beginning of a professional journey

The midfielder’s admirable actions on the field could not escape the gaze of foreign observers, and the very next year the player was invited to the German Stuttgart, where he went with the assistance of manager Shpilevsky. His younger brother Vyacheslav also moved there with him - the club bought the contracts of both players for 150 thousand euros. It was in the German team that the footballer grew to the top level.

Alexander Gleb, who did not immediately make it into the main team, continued to show diligence in training sparring, which Stuttgart head coach Magath could not help but notice, who eventually entrusted him with a place in the team. Alexander honestly worked out his five-year contract. Having played more than 170 official matches for the team, the player scored more than three dozen goals, earning fame as the best passer of the German championship.

Further club career

At the end of the contract with the German club, Alexander decided to apply his professional skills to one of the top clubs in the English Premier League - London Arsenal, which paid Stuttgart 15 million euros for the player’s transfer. Alexander's debut with the Gunners in 2005 was marred by injury, and there were even rumors about his imminent return to Germany, but the following season the player managed to gain a foothold in the team, began to demonstrate excellent play and soon became one of the team leaders. Club partners have repeatedly noted Gleb’s confident actions and his versatility, which allowed him to play as both a playmaker and a winger. As part of the London club, Alexander Gleb almost managed to win the international cup, reaching the Champions League final with the team. The footballer played almost 90 matches for Arsenal, in which he scored seven goals.

Dissatisfied with the lack of trophies, Gleb, despite admonitions, in 2008 moved to the Catalan Barcelona, with whom he hoped to fulfill his dream. But as it turned out, this decision was the beginning of the end of the player’s club career. The injury, the coaches' lack of confidence in the player's strength, Alexander's reluctance to learn the language - all this negatively affected the player's ability to gain a foothold in the Catalans. As a result, the player played 18 official matches on the field in a Barcelona T-shirt, and even won the Champions League Cup with the team, and then the loan began. The player visited Wolfsburg and Birmingham City twice, after which the player and the club came to an early termination of the contract.

In 2012, Krylya Sovetov became a team that Alexander Gleb joined. The footballer played for the Samara team for six months, after which he returned to his native BATE. The player signed a contract with his first club for one year, after which he extended it for another period. At the beginning of 2014, the Belarusian midfielder signed a contract with the Turkish team Konyaspor, but due to contradictions with the coach, he soon stopped playing on the field. To date, the contract has been signed by the Turkish Genclerbirligi and Alexander Gleb, where the player plays as an attacking midfielder.

National team career

In 2000, the BATE player was noticed by the coach of the Belarus youth team and invited the young talent to the team, where Gleb participated in the final part of the 2004 European Championship. For the young team, Alexander scored 5 goals in 24 matches.

Since 2001, the football player has been playing for the adult national team, and for some time was the captain of the national team. Between 2002 and 2008, Alexander was recognized as the best football player in the republic six times. He is also the first among Belarusian footballers to play in the final of the main UEFA tournament.

137 (13) 2000-2001 → Stuttgart II 18 (4) 2005-2008 Arsenal (London) 89 (7) 2008-2011 Barcelona 19 (0) 2009-2010 → 27 (0) 2010-2011 → Birmingham City 19 (1) 2011 → Wolfsburg 4 (1) 2012 Wings of Soviets 8 (0) 2012-2013 BATE 29 (3) 2014 Konyaspor 30 (2) 2015 Genclerbirligi 15 (2) 2015 BATE 4 (0) 2016 Genclerbirligi 12 (0) 2016-present V. BATE 3 (0) National team** 2000-2004 Belarus (up to 21) 24 (5) 2001-present V. Belarus 75 (6)

* The number of games and goals for a professional club is calculated only for the various national championship leagues, corrected as of September 16, 2016.

** Number of games and goals for the national team in official matches, adjusted according to status
as of January 15, 2020.

Alexander Pavlovich Gleb(belor. Alexander Paulavich Gleb; May 1, 1981, Minsk, Belarusian SSR, USSR) - Belarusian football player, midfielder of the Belarusian club BATE (Borisov) and the Belarusian national team.

Club career

Dynamo (Minsk)

Started playing football at the age of 6 years. Pupil of the football school SDYUSHOR "Dynamo" (Minsk). The first coach is Vladimir Ivanovich Sinyakevich. In addition to this sport, he tried himself in athletics and diving, but did not achieve serious results in these sports. His father, Pavel Grigorievich, supported his son’s endeavors in football and helped him; It was on the instructions of his father that Gleb began playing football at the Dynamo Minsk school.

BATE

At the age of 17, he signed a contract with BATE Borisov, and the following year the team won the Belarusian Championship.

"Stuttgart"

Having attracted the attention of scouts, Alexander and his younger brother Vyacheslav went to Germany in 2000 to play for “” in the Bundesliga. Their contracts were bought by Stuttgart for 150,000 euros. Alexander made his Bundesliga debut on September 5, 2000 in an away match against Kaiserslautern, coming on as a substitute 20 minutes before the end of the match. In his first season for Stuttgart, Gleb appeared on the field in only 6 matches, and already in the next season he became one of the team’s key players.

On January 31, 2012, he terminated his contract with Barcelona (valid until June 30, 2012) early by mutual consent.

"Stuttgart"

On July 30, it became known that Gleb went on a one-year loan to Stuttgart, for whom he had previously played. At the same time, Alexander admitted that he regrets leaving Arsenal, but nothing can be done about it. He spent the 2009/2010 season in Stuttgart. In the Bundesliga, without scoring a single goal and only hitting the target twice, Gleb returns to Barcelona.

Birmingham City

On August 31, 2010, he transferred to Birmingham City on loan.

Wolfsburg

On the night of August 30-31, 2011, he moved to Wolfsburg on loan.

On February 17, 2012, he officially transferred to Krylia Sovetov Samara. The debut took place in the match with Amkar (1:2) - Gleb started from the first minutes. Alexander played 8 matches as part of the Samara club

Return to BATE

On July 26, 2012, he signed a contract with the BATE club, for which he had already played, valid until August 30. On August 31, he extended the contract until the end of 2012. Participant of the 2012/13 Champions League with BATE. On January 16, 2013, he entered into a new contract with BATE until December 31, 2013. In November 2013, the football player announced that he would not renew his contract with the Belarusian club. The BFF was included in the list of the 22 best football players of the 2013 Belarusian Championship.

"Konyaspor"

On January 5, 2014, the midfielder signed a contract with the Konyaspor club for a period of six months with a possible extension for another year by mutual agreement of the parties, which happened on May 29. By the end of 2014, due to a conflict with the team coach, Gleb stopped being included in the squad for the championship and Turkish Cup matches and terminated his contract with the club.

"Genchlerbirligi"

On February 2, 2015, the football player signed a six-month contract with another Turkish club, Genclerbirligi.

Second return to BATE

On August 7, 2015, midfielder Alexander Gleb returned to BATE again, signing a contract until the end of the 2015/16 season.

Return to “Genclerbirligi”

On January 8, 2016, Gleb again signed a six-month contract with the Turkish Genclerbirligi (Ankara).

Awards and achievements

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1983 Gotsmanov | 1984 Aleinikov | 1985 Gotsmanov | 1986 Aleinikov | 1987 Gotsmanov | 1988 Aleinikov | 1989 Gotsmanov | 1990 Metlitsky | 1991 Kurbyko | 1992 Zygmantovich | 1993 Gerasimets | 1994 Zygmantovich | 1995 Belkevich | 1996 Makovsky | 1997 Lavrik | 1998 Khatskevich | 1999 Gurenko | 2000 That strange thought that from among those thousands of people alive, healthy, young and old, who looked at his hat with cheerful surprise, there were probably twenty thousand doomed to injury and death (perhaps the same ones he saw) , - Pierre was amazed.
They might die tomorrow, why do they think about anything other than death? And suddenly, through some secret connection of thoughts, he vividly imagined the descent from Mozhaisk Mountain, carts with the wounded, the ringing of bells, the slanting rays of the sun and the song of the cavalrymen.
“Cavalrymen go to battle and meet the wounded, and do not think for a minute about what awaits them, but walk past and wink at the wounded. And out of all these, twenty thousand are doomed to death, and they are surprised at my hat! Strange!" - thought Pierre, heading further to Tatarinova.
At the landowner's house, on the left side of the road, there were carriages, vans, crowds of orderlies and sentries. The brightest one stood here. But at the time Pierre arrived, he was not there, and almost no one from the staff was there. Everyone was at the prayer service. Pierre drove forward to Gorki.
Having driven up the mountain and into a small street in the village, Pierre saw for the first time militia men with crosses on their hats and in white shirts, who were loudly talking and laughing, animated and sweaty, working something to the right of the road, on a huge mound overgrown with grass. .
Some of them were digging a mountain with shovels, others were transporting earth on planks in wheelbarrows, and others stood doing nothing.
Two officers stood on the mound, ordering them. Seeing these men, obviously still amused by their new, military situation, Pierre again remembered the wounded soldiers in Mozhaisk, and it became clear to him what the soldier wanted to express when he said that they wanted to attack the whole people. The sight of these bearded men working on the battlefield with their strange clumsy boots, with their sweaty necks and some of their shirts unbuttoned at the slanting collar, from under which the tanned bones of the collarbones were visible, affected Pierre more than anything else he had seen and heard so far. about the solemnity and significance of the present moment.

Pierre got out of the carriage and, past the working militia, ascended the mound from which, as the doctor told him, the battlefield could be seen.
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning. The sun stood somewhat to the left and behind Pierre and brightly illuminated through the clean, rare air the huge panorama that opened up before him like an amphitheater across the rising terrain.
Up and to the left along this amphitheater, cutting it, wound the great Smolensk road, passing through a village with a white church, which lay five hundred steps in front of the mound and below it (this was Borodino). The road crossed under the village across a bridge and, through ups and downs, wound higher and higher to the village of Valuev, visible six miles away (Napoleon was now standing there). Beyond Valuev, the road disappeared into a yellowing forest on the horizon. In this birch and spruce forest, to the right of the direction of the road, the distant cross and bell tower of the Kolotsk Monastery glittered in the sun. All along this blue distance, to the right and left of the forest and the road, in different places one could see smoking fires and indefinite masses of our and enemy’s troops. To the right, along the flow of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers, the area was gorged and mountainous. Between their gorges the villages of Bezzubovo and Zakharyino could be seen in the distance. To the left, the terrain was more level, there were fields with grain, and one smoking, burnt village could be seen - Semenovskaya.
Everything that Pierre saw to the right and to the left was so vague that neither the left nor the right side of the field completely satisfied his idea. Everywhere there was not the battle that he expected to see, but fields, clearings, troops, forests, smoke from fires, villages, mounds, streams; and no matter how much Pierre tried, he could not find a position in this lively area and could not even distinguish your troops from the enemy.
“We need to ask someone who knows,” he thought and turned to the officer, who was looking with curiosity at his huge non-military figure.
“Let me ask,” Pierre turned to the officer, “what village is ahead?”
- Burdino or what? - said the officer, turning to his comrade with a question.
“Borodino,” the other answered, correcting him.
The officer, apparently pleased with the opportunity to talk, moved towards Pierre.
- Are ours there? asked Pierre.
“Yes, and the French are further away,” said the officer. - There they are, visible.
- Where? Where? asked Pierre.
- You can see it with the naked eye. Yes, here you go! “The officer pointed to the smoke visible to the left across the river, and his face showed that stern and serious expression that Pierre had seen on many faces he met.
- Oh, it's the French! And there?.. - Pierre pointed to the left at the mound, near which troops could be seen.
- These are ours.
- Oh, ours! And there?.. - Pierre pointed to another distant mound with a large tree, near a village visible in the gorge, where fires were also smoking and something was black.
“It’s him again,” said the officer. (This was the Shevardinsky redoubt.) - Yesterday it was ours, and now it’s his.
– So what is our position?
- Position? - said the officer with a smile of pleasure. “I can tell you this clearly, because I built almost all of our fortifications.” You see, our center is in Borodino, right here. “He pointed to a village with a white church in front. - There is a crossing over Kolocha. Here, you see, where the rows of mown hay still lie in the low place, here is the bridge. This is our center. Our right flank is here (he pointed sharply to the right, far into the gorge), there is the Moscow River, and there we built three very strong redoubts. Left flank... - and then the officer stopped. - You see, it’s difficult to explain to you... Yesterday our left flank was right there, in Shevardin, you see, where the oak is; and now we have carried the left wing back, now there, there - see the village and the smoke? “This is Semenovskoye, right here,” he pointed to the Raevsky mound. “But it’s unlikely there will be a battle here.” That he transferred troops here is a deception; he will probably go around to the right of Moscow. Well, no matter where it is, many will be missing tomorrow! - said the officer.
The old non-commissioned officer, who approached the officer during his story, silently awaited the end of his superior’s speech; but at this point he, obviously dissatisfied with the officer’s words, interrupted him.
“You have to go for the tours,” he said sternly.
The officer seemed embarrassed, as if he realized that he could think about how many people would be missing tomorrow, but he shouldn’t talk about it.
“Well, yes, send the third company again,” the officer said hastily.
- Who are you, not a doctor?
“No, I am,” answered Pierre. And Pierre went downhill again past the militia.
- Oh, damned ones! - said the officer following him, holding his nose and running past the workers.
“There they are!.. They’re carrying, they’re coming... There they are... they’re coming in now...” suddenly voices were heard, and officers, soldiers and militiamen ran forward along the road.
A church procession rose from under the mountain from Borodino. Ahead of everyone, infantry marched orderly along the dusty road with their shakos removed and guns lowered downwards. Church singing could be heard behind the infantry.
Overtaking Pierre, soldiers and militiamen ran without hats towards the marchers.
- They are carrying Mother! Intercessor!.. Iverskaya!..
“Mother of Smolensk,” corrected another.
The militia - both those who were in the village and those who worked at the battery - threw down their shovels and ran towards the church procession. Behind the battalion, walking along a dusty road, were priests in robes, one old man in a hood with a clergyman and a chanter. Behind them, soldiers and officers carried a large icon with a black face in the setting. It was an icon taken from Smolensk and from that time carried with the army. Behind the icon, around it, in front of it, from all sides, crowds of military men walked, ran and bowed to the ground with their heads naked.
Having ascended the mountain, the icon stopped; The people holding the icon on the towels changed, the sextons lit the censer again, and the prayer service began. The hot rays of the sun beat vertically from above; a weak, fresh breeze played with the hair of open heads and the ribbons with which the icon was decorated; singing was heard softly in the open air. A huge crowd of officers, soldiers, and militiamen with their heads open surrounded the icon. Behind the priest and sexton, in a cleared area, stood the officials. One bald general with George around his neck stood right behind the priest and, without crossing himself (obviously, he was a man), patiently waited for the end of the prayer service, which he considered necessary to listen to, probably to arouse the patriotism of the Russian people. Another general stood in a militant pose and shook his hand in front of his chest, looking around him. Among this circle of officials, Pierre, standing in the crowd of men, recognized some acquaintances; but he did not look at them: all his attention was absorbed by the serious expression of faces in this crowd of soldiers and soldiers, monotonously greedily looking at the icon. As soon as the tired sextons (singing the twentieth prayer service) began to lazily and habitually sing: “Save your servants from troubles, Mother of God,” and the priest and deacon picked up: “As we all resort to you for God’s sake, as for an indestructible wall and intercession,” - to everyone the same expression of consciousness of the solemnity of the coming moment, which he saw under the mountain in Mozhaisk and in fits and starts on many, many faces he met that morning, flared up on their faces again; and more often heads were lowered, hair was shaken, and sighs and the blows of crosses on chests were heard.
The crowd surrounding the icon suddenly opened up and pressed Pierre. Someone, probably a very important person, judging by the haste with which they shunned him, approached the icon.
It was Kutuzov, driving around the position. He, returning to Tatarinova, approached the prayer service. Pierre immediately recognized Kutuzov by his special figure, different from everyone else.
In a long frock coat on a huge thick body, with a stooped back, an open white head and a leaky white eye on his swollen face, Kutuzov entered the circle with his diving, swaying gait and stopped behind the priest. He crossed himself with the usual gesture, reached his hand to the ground and, sighing heavily, lowered his gray head. Behind Kutuzov was Bennigsen and his retinue. Despite the presence of the commander-in-chief, who attracted the attention of all the highest ranks, the militia and soldiers continued to pray without looking at him.
When the prayer service ended, Kutuzov went up to the icon, fell heavily on his knees, bowing to the ground, and tried for a long time and could not get up from heaviness and weakness. His gray head twitched with effort. Finally, he stood up and, with a childishly naive stretching of his lips, kissed the icon and bowed again, touching the ground with his hand. The generals followed his example; then the officers, and behind them, crushing each other, trampling, puffing and pushing, with excited faces, soldiers and militia climbed.

Swaying from the crush that gripped him, Pierre looked around him.
- Count, Pyotr Kirilych! How are you here? - said someone's voice. Pierre looked around.
Boris Drubetskoy, cleaning his knees with his hand, which he had soiled (probably also kissing the icon), approached Pierre with a smile. Boris was dressed elegantly, with a touch of camp militancy. He was wearing a long frock coat and a whip over his shoulder, just like Kutuzov.
Meanwhile, Kutuzov approached the village and sat down in the shade of the nearest house on a bench, which one Cossack ran and quickly covered with a rug. A huge brilliant retinue surrounded the commander-in-chief.
The icon moved on, followed by the crowd. Pierre stopped about thirty paces from Kutuzov, talking to Boris.
Pierre explained his intention to participate in the battle and inspect the position.
“Here’s how to do it,” said Boris. – Je vous ferai les honneurs du camp. [I will treat you to the camp.] You will best see everything from where Count Bennigsen will be. I'm with him. I'll report to him. And if you want to go around the position, then come with us: we are now going to the left flank. And then we’ll come back, and you’re welcome to spend the night with me, and we’ll form a party. You know Dmitry Sergeich, right? He’s standing here,” he pointed to the third house in Gorki.
“But I would like to see the right flank; they say he is very strong,” said Pierre. – I would like to drive from the Moscow River and the entire position.
- Well, you can do that later, but the main one is the left flank...
- Yes Yes. Can you tell me where Prince Bolkonsky’s regiment is? asked Pierre.
- Andrey Nikolaevich? We'll pass by, I'll take you to him.
- What about the left flank? asked Pierre.

Alexander Gleb was born on May 1, 1981 in the USSR. He is one of the best Belarusian football players, possessing a huge number of honorary titles and awards.

Alexander Gleb was born in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. He started playing football at the age of 6. In addition to this sport, he tried himself in athletics and diving, but his efforts in this area did not bring any special results. Sasha’s father, Pavel Grigorievich, supported his son’s endeavors in football, he tried in every possible way to help him in this difficult sport. It should be noted that it was precisely through the instructions of his father that the boy got into this sport.

Alexander Gleb trained at the Dynamo sports club. His first mentor was the famous coach Sinyakevich. After several months of intense training, Sasha began to demonstrate

excellent skills, and many began to predict an excellent football career for him. The boy confidently controlled the ball and already took a leadership position on the football field.

When the young football player turned 15, he was accepted into the national junior team of Belarus. He switched to experienced coach Alexander Bashmakov. It was at this stage of his development that Sasha showed his leadership qualities, becoming one of the best football players in his country.

The next club after Dynamo was BATE. There his mentor was Yuri Puntusu. Thanks to the efforts of this talented man, Alexander Gleb became a world-class football player, receiving the title of champion of Belarus.

In 2000, Alexander Gleb moved to the Stuttgart football club. Over the course of several years of playing in this club, he became one of the professional

best players in Europe. Sasha took part in the most prestigious championships and became the owner of numerous prestigious titles.

In 2005, the Belarusian football player moved to the English Arsenal. A month later, he already received the title of the team's best player. He won the hearts of millions of Britons, who accepted the foreign athlete as a long-familiar national player.

At the moment, Alexander Gleb is one of the main players of Arsenal. But, despite this, he never refuses to take part in games for the Belarus national team. He was always proud of his homeland, and will defend its interests even without fabulous fees and titles. Alexander is a true patriot of his country and will do everything to ensure that Belarusian football is not in last place in the world.

Alexander Pavlovich Gleb- Belarusian football player.

Biography

Born on May 1, 1981 in Minsk. He started playing football at the age of 6 at the Dynamo Minsk Sports School. His first coach was Vladimir Sinyakevich. Also, as a child, he was involved in athletics and diving.

BATE

At the age of 17, he signed a contract with the BATE club from the city of Borisov, with which he became the champion of Belarus in 1999. In July 2012, he returned to BATE again, concluding a contract first until the end of August, and then until the end of the year. He played as part of the club in the Champions League. In January 2013, he signed a one-year contract with BATE, and then announced that he would not renew it. During this season he was included in the list of the 22 best football players of the Belarusian championship according to the BFF. In August 2015 he returned to BATE.

Career

In 2000, together with his brother Vyacheslav, he went to Germany to play for FC Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. In September 2000, Alexander played his first league match in a game against Kaiserslautern. He came on as a substitute with 20 minutes remaining in the match. In his first season for FC he played 6 matches, and in 2001 he became a key player. In the 2002-2003 season, he became second in the Bundesliga with the team and qualified for the Champions League, where he won the game against Manchester United and became the team's playmaker. The following season, the team's coach left the team and went to Bayern, and the team took only 5th place in the league. Alexander became the best assistant in the Bundesliga in the 2004-2005 season. In July 2005 he began playing for London Arsenal. The contract was concluded for 4 years, and its amount was 15 million euros. In August 2005, Alexander played his first match for the team, replacing Cesc Fabregas in a match against Newcastle. Later he was injured in the Belarusian national team and left the team for several months, which led to his departure from the Arsenal main team. In December he returned to action and spent a full hour in a game against Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League. In January 2006, he finally joined the main team and scored his first goal for the club in a match against Middlesbrough. In the 2005-2006 season he played 40 matches and scored 3 goals. In the 2006-2007 season, in the first match against Dinamo Zagreb, he made 2 assists that led to goals, as a result, Arsenal defeated Dinamo with a score of 3:0. During the season he played 48 games, of which he was in the starting lineup in 40 and scored 3 goals. In the 2007-2008 season, he proved himself to be a versatile player, playing in the positions of midfielder, central defender and forward. In July 2008 he began playing for Barcelona. Immediately after the transition, he was injured and was out of action for a month. In his first season for Barcelona, he rarely appeared on the field, sometimes replacing the main players. In March 2009, it was only the fifth time that he appeared in the main team in a game in the Spanish Championship. As Alexander himself claimed, the coach did not like him, although only Messi was ahead of him in terms of his level of play. In July 2009, Gleb was supposed to be exchanged for Eto'o, but Gleb refused to move to International. In January 2012, he terminated his contract with Barcelona, which, with a successful combination of circumstances, was supposed to be valid until the end of June. In July 2009, he returned to Stuttgart for a year, without scoring a single goal during the season and hitting the target twice. He returned to Barcelona again after the season. In August 2010 he was loaned to Birmingham City. In August 2011, he was loaned to Wolfsburg. In February 2012, he began playing for Samara Krylya Sovetov. The first match was against Amkar, where Gleb played for the main team. In January 2014, he began playing for the Turkish Konyaspor, then in May he extended his contract for a year, but by the end of 2014 he terminated it due to the fact that he was no longer included in the squad for the championship and Turkish Cup matches. In February 2015, he began playing for the Turkish Genclerbirligi. In January 2016 he returned to Genclerbirligi.

Awards

As a member of the Belarusian national team, he became the national champion in 199, 2012, 2013 and 2015. In 2002 he received the Intertoto Cup, became the champion of Spain and the winner of the Spanish Cup in the 2008-2009 season, and in the same season won the UEFA Champions League. In 2011 he received the Football League Cup. In the individual championship he became the best football player in Belarus in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He became the first Belarusian football player to play in the final match of the UEFA Champions League and win the UEFA Champions League. In August 2005 he became the best player of the month in Aresnal. In 2004, he won the BelSwissBank trophy named after Alexander Prokopenko in the nomination For football talent and dedication in playing for Belarus.

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