A few months before the World Cup in Russia, Artyom Dzyuba’s position was not the most enviable. Fans and experts spoke negatively about him. However, it turned out that after the 2018 World Cup the forward became the people's favorite. Dzyuba was able to convince Stanislav Cherchesov to return him to the national team and forget about all the unpleasant stories that happened to him over the past year. After the end of the World Cup, several foreign football clubs became interested in Artyom.
Forward of the Russian national team Artyom Dzyuba became a real discovery of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. During the World Cup, Dzyuba managed to send 3 goals into the opponents’ goal and make two assists in five matches of the tournament.
According to the latest data, several football clubs from abroad are interested in the Russian striker. The Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua offered Artyom a contract and announced a salary of €6 million annually. A team from China is ready to pay the Zenit club €20 million for a football player. The Celestial team already has such famous players as Colombian Freddy Guarin and Nigerian Obafemi Martins.
Artyom Dzyuba allegedly refused such a tempting offer. Although, football experts believe that the forward’s agents should accept the offer from the Celestial club.
Also, the English club Cardiff City is interested in the 196-centimeter athlete, who showed his best side at the 2018 World Cup. They estimated the value of Artyom Dzyuba at €7 million.
The Russian national team striker is interested in the offer of the British club and may try his hand at the English Premier League.
How Artyom Dzyuba became the main hero of the 2018 World Cup
In just a few months, Artyom Dzyuba turned from an outcast into a people's favorite. He became the first ringleader in the national team, gave a military honor on the football field, shed a tear on live television, supported the players, sincerely assured the fans of the team’s success and gave himself completely to the game on the field.
Even before the start of the World Cup, Artyom Dzyuba quarreled with journalist Vasily Utkin, who said that the Zenit club was paying the forward so that Artyom would not play there. That is why Zenit sent Dzyuba to the Tula club Arsenal.
However, Dzyuba went to another club not for this reason. He really wanted to get into the Russian national team and compete at the World Cup as part of the team. At Arsenal, he showed an excellent game and proved that he would be useful to the Russian national team, despite the fact that his salary at this club was significantly lower than at the previous one.
A few days before the start of the World Cup, when the media criticized the Russian team, Artyom Dzyuba gave an interview to journalists in which he asked not to bury the team in advance, discard negative statements and support the players. The forward also added that it is a great honor for him to play on the team.
In the fights with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Artyom Dzyuba scored a goal each against the opponents. The national team coach Cherchesov appreciated these events.
In the match with the Spaniards at the playoff stage, Dziuba converted a penalty. And when Smolov came out instead of Dzyuba, requests appeared on social networks to return him.
In the quarter-finals, when Russia played against Croatia, Dzyuba motivated his team, making speeches before penalties and extra time. One of these moments was broadcast and after the fight received thousands of views on the Internet, becoming a universal hit.
Artem Dzyuba is a Russian football player, center forward for Zenit St. Petersburg and the Russian national team, captain of the national team. Two-time winner of the Russian Cup, two-time winner of the Russian Super Cup, Russian champion of the 2018/2019 season. Master of Sport.
Participation in the 2018 World Cup was a turning point in Dzyuba’s sports career. The forward proved himself to be a brilliant player and charismatic leader. In September 2018, Artem was recognized as man of the year by GQ magazine.
Childhood and youth
Artem Sergeevich Dzyuba, future forward of the Russian national football team, was born in Moscow on August 22, 1988. Zodiac sign: Virgo. Artem's family was not connected with sports. Sergey Vladimirovich, father, Ukrainian by nationality, from the Poltava region.
All goals of Artem Dzyuba in the RPL season 2018/19After the 2018 World Cup, foreign clubs became interested in the talented and charismatic footballer, including the English Cardiff City, the Chinese Shanghai Shenhua, the French Bordeaux and the Turkish Galatasaray. But now Artem continues to play for Zenit St. Petersburg; he returned to the team after a loan spell at Arsenal.
As part of the League of Nations, Dzyuba was chosen as captain of the Russian national team during the absence of the injured Igor Akinfeev, as well as after his departure in the fall of 2018.
Personal life
The football player is married. His wife's name is . Artem met his future wife in Nizhny Novgorod. At the time we met, Christina was a 4th year student at one of the universities in Novgorod. A month after they met, the couple legalized their relationship. In 2013, their son Nikita was born.
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Artem Dzyuba and his wife Kristina
The tall, stately football player (Artem's height is 196 cm, weight - 91 kg) was always noticed by girls. In March 2015, the football player’s personal life became the object of increased attention. A sensational video appeared in the Russian media in which the football player met with a certain mysterious blonde. Representatives of the press recognized the blonde, who was sitting in the car with the athlete, as a popular TV presenter
Artem Dzyuba was born in Moscow in 1988. His parents were far from sports in the professional sense. His father worked in law enforcement, his mother in trade, first as a salesperson, and then as a deputy store manager. How could an ordinary boy become the most expensive scorer of the Russian national team?
The future footballer's passion for sports began at the age of 6. The boys spent all fine days in the yard kicking the ball, dreaming of football glory, during periods when matches were shown on TV. Street training was not in vain, and Dzyuba ended up in the Moscow football section, and then in the Spartak football academy. Dzyuba was 8 years old then.
The future professional football player played all the main moments of his career at FC Spartak Moscow, starting with the youth team, then the youth team, and finally, in 2005, he became a member of the team’s reserve team. A year later, the athlete’s play was noticed and transferred to the main team, where he made his debut in 2006 against the Yekaterinburg Urals as part of the Russian Cup. For about a year I had to work as “number two”, coming on as a substitute and playing out small fragments of matches, but my zeal and constantly growing skill moved me to a place in the team’s starting lineup.
2007 becomes a landmark year for the forward; in 27 championship games he scores 6 goals and receives the title of “Best Scorer”. With this title comes honor and respect among colleagues, management, and also shows even greater interest in the life of a football player among fans.
Competent work and constant professional development affected the interests of someone from the team, and possibly the club’s management. There was a scandal.
In 2009, when Spartak was at a competition in Austria, one of the participants in the event lost money. The amount was not specified, but insider sources reported to the media at the time that it was impressive, even for non-poor football players. It is not clear how this happened, but the money allegedly missing from Vladimir Bystrov turned out to be among Dzyuba’s personal belongings.
The situation developed very quickly and here it is worth paying tribute to the endurance of Artyom, who steadfastly endured all the accusations and never tired of repeating that he had become a victim of a scam aimed at expelling him. The owners of Spartak did not dare to fire the best scorer in Russia and transferred him to Tom, where Artem played the 2009-2010 season. Here he showed his best side, very quickly becoming the main forward and scoring 10 goals per season.
Apparently, the one who sent him into exile did not expect such results and returned the prodigal son back. Subsequently, the version that a transfer to another club was supposed to break him and force him to voluntarily break his contract, but when the severity of the situation forced him to play better than before, the organizers of the provocation had to play back.
At the end of the season, the player returns to his home team and plays out the next two football years with dignity. Dzyuba scored one of the goals in a remarkable game against Basel (3:2). 2012 becomes significant because it brings him the captain’s armband and in his debut match in this rank, the club defeats Zenit. At the same time, Spartak entered the Champions League. However, the increase in activity gave way to a noticeable decline in the quality of the game and in relations with management. The result is a transfer to Rostov on loan. Here Artem played again and scored in several key moments, thanks to which he received the title of “top scorer”. As part of “Rostov” the player won his first major trophy – the Russian Cup.
In the 2014-2015 off-season, the contract with the Spartak club expired. Management offered to extend it under the same conditions. Naturally, Artem refused and declared his readiness to consider adequate proposals from other clubs. And so they followed. The first media report was the assumption that the player would sign a contract with Lokomotiv, but a counter-offer from Zenit (St. Petersburg) with a fee of 3.3 million euros turned out to be more attractive and an agreement was concluded. According to the footballer, one of the reasons for accepting the offer was the club’s mission - “win every match, no matter what”. This motivation played a decisive role.
The combined life of Artem Dzyuba
The footballer has been part of the second national team of the Russian Federation since 2011, where he came from the youth team. By the end of the year, he moved to the main team and took the field against the US team, where his partner Roman Shirokov converted the penalty earned by Dzyuba.
2015 brought a new title to the player who scored the decisive goal against the Swedes and 4 goals against Liechtenstein. Now, in addition to being recognized as the best scorer, he became the second in the history of the Russian national team to score more than 3 goals in one game.
In 2016, another scandal occurred, which could lead to another “business trip” to clubs from the middle of the list. In the match against Krasnodar, the Russian team's scorer managed to seal the opponents' goal in the 86th minute. However, the triumph did not happen, as the opponents managed to hit the Zenit goal twice in stoppage time. Dzyuba lost his temper and made an obscene gesture towards his partner Yuri Lodygin (goalkeeper).
The media immediately promoted the story and stated that after the final whistle there was a fight between the partners due to accusations of defeat. Subsequently, neither the club's management nor the players themselves confirmed the information.
In 2017, Dziuba was appointed captain of the team, who came as GT Mircea Lucescu. Soon after this, Artem’s Instagram was updated with a post that with a heavy heart he decided to move to one of the clubs in China, where the fees are noticeably higher and the level of domestic players is sufficient for victories. Most of the users who commented on this post considered it to be fake, but in fact it turned out to be so.
The end of 2017 was marked by Dzyuba’s 100th match for Zenit and his withdrawal from the team’s main roster. Immediately there was talk that another transfer or lease was coming. The main version was a lease to the CSKA club, but it was not confirmed. Soon, representatives announced the loan of the player to Tula Arsenal. One of the reasons for this castling was the relationship between the top scorer of the Russian national team and Lucescu’s replacement, Roberto Mancini, who took the player out of the starting lineup. There were often statements that the football player had lost his form and was not showing the best results. However, the transition turned out to be useful, since at Arsenal Dzyuba received a place in the starting lineup and began to actively score.
Proof that the transition benefited the player was the result of the Zenit - Arsenal game, in which Dzyuba equalized the score in the 89th minute and tied the game. Celebrating the scored goal, he walked up to the Zenit bench and pointed to the name on the uniform, turning his back to Mancini.
Personal life of Artem Dzyuba
The football player is married, his wife’s name is Christina, and their relationship developed according to the classics of the genre. At the time of writing, their son Nikita was 5 years old.
And this side of the footballer’s life did not pass quietly. Thematic media and portals were excited by reports that Dzyuba was captured in a car with a girl, whom Internet users recognized as TV presenter Maria Orzul. The scandal arose with lightning speed, although the photo of two people in a car does not allow us to talk about adultery. However, in this situation it was present, and mutually.
“For me, that situation turned out to be an important lesson that showed me what I could lose,” he comments on what happened. “My wife and I had a long conversation and I am ashamed of my action, which I will never do again. I am very grateful to Christina for helping to save the family.”
At the end of 2016, Russia's top scorer became a father for the second time. Although he does not like to advertise his personal life and has an extremely negative attitude towards journalists trying to catch the next hot news, in one of his interviews for the official Arsenal website he mentioned that his eldest son is actively involved in football, and the youngest has not yet demonstrated an open desire for anything -or other than mischief.
Top scorer of the Russian national football team 2018
Despite harsh statements against Spartak fans, which caused a flurry of criticism and emotional statements, Dzyuba remains the most expensive player of the Russian national team and from the first days of forming the team for the 2018 World Cup, he was assigned to the core.
The first match and he scored a goal with his head immediately after coming on as a substitute. The second appearance on the field, against Egypt, also did not go without a stroke of the ball in the opponents' goal after the striker hit.
1/8 finals and again Dzyuba is distinguished by a single goal in regular time, after which Akinfeev did the impossible (he saved a penalty with his foot while lying down)!
After the defeat in the game with Croatia, Artem shared his experiences without holding back his tears:
“Although our hearts are broken by the defeat and exit from the competition, we console ourselves with the fact that we showed a decent performance and reminded the whole world that Russian football is still alive.”
Artem Dzyuba's trophy row
The footballer played his entire career in domestic clubs, so he does not have high-profile titles or trophies at the Champions League level, however, it would be wrong not to mention his achievements:
- Year 2006. The very first trophy was the personal prize of sympathy from the fans “Small Golden Boar”. Then Artem played for Spartak;
- 2014 – Russian Cup. Then Dzyuba defended the colors of the Rostov club;
- 2015 and 2016 – Super Cup with Zenit;
- 2016 – Russian Cup with the same composition;
- 2016 – club membership from Grigory Fedotov;
- 2016 – entry into the ranking of the best scorers of the Russian national team;
- 2018 – TOP 7 position in the above-mentioned ranking.
The wife of the Zenit striker is not a public person. Kristina Dzyuba does not give interviews, her name appears only next to the name of her star husband, and even then rarely. Getting to know a football player is reminiscent of the plot of a movie novel, where two men fight for the heart of a lady. The girl gave the famous Russian athlete two heirs and managed to find the strength to forgive the high-profile betrayal.
Childhood and youth
The girl’s early biography is a sealed secret. The press only knows that Christina was born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod. According to some media reports, the maiden name of the football player’s wife is Orlova.
After school, Christina entered one of the universities in her hometown, where she completed her fourth year of studies. Then, with the support of her athlete fiance, she transferred to the capital’s university.
Personal life
Christina met her future husband on New Year's Eve 2012. Then the girl accepted courtship from another football player, Ivan Komissarov, who grew up under the tutelage of Spartak coaches. The intrigue was that the athlete was a close friend of Dzyuba. However, this did not stop Artem, who fell in love at first sight.
At the invitation of the football players, Christina and her friends went to celebrate the New Year in the capital of Russia. The party took place in a rented cottage near Moscow. Dziuba managed to win the heart of the Nizhny Novgorod fragile beauty. He says he won the girl in just three or four days.
It is curious that Christina had no idea that she was dating a promising football player, whose name had already acquired hundreds of fans. The girl is far from the world of sports. Her own father “opened his eyes” when she brought her lover to meet her parents. The news was unexpected, because the provincial student had a prejudiced attitude towards athletes. Christina believed that football players were not smart and were famous for their arrogance. Artem had to dispel the myth, and he succeeded.
After a month of meetings, the couple went to the registry office. Most media outlets claim that the young people got married, but in one of the interviews published online in the fall of 2013, the striker says:
“Now I’m building a house in the Moscow region, a family home. Christina, my Nikita’s mother, and I are not yet scheduled. In two years we will have a wedding somewhere on the islands. So that everything is beautiful. We’ll invite our relatives, our son will grow up and have fun with us.”
The first-born in the family was born in April 2013, Dzyuba was present at the birth. Artem shared his delight on his Instagram page. He stated that he is now a truly happy person.
Kristina and Artem Dzyuba Two years later, the athlete and his wife became the heroes of the main press news. Clouds have gathered over my personal life. In the spring of 2015, the paparazzi caught Artem cheating, and the photos he took immediately went online, causing a scandal.
Dzyuba, who was on loan from Rostov at that time, went to the European Championship qualifying tournament, which took place in Montenegro. But before the flight, he decided to say goodbye to his mistress, who turned out to be a famous TV presenter.
The couple was captured by cameras right in the TV star’s car. The athlete and the blonde, who was also married, hugged and kissed for almost an hour. Later, Maria’s husband filed for divorce, but Artem managed to “atone for his sins.” Christina decided to save the family. That same year, the girl supported her husband at a match in Rostov.
Soon the family moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and on February 26, 2016, the football player had a second son, who was named Maxim.
Kristina and Artem Dzyuba Artem does not like to remember the betrayal, but still answers journalists’ questions related to this topic. He admits that he was very worried only two times in his life: before participating in the “What? Where? When?" (the football players appeared on the program on the initiative of the coach of the Russian national team) and at a time when rumors about an affair with Orzul reached his wife. He laments that he made a mistake and shudders to imagine how this story could have ended:
“I realized that I could have lost the most important thing in life.”
According to their parents, their sons are also growing up as athletes. The eldest Nikita has been in the football section since the cradle, and the youngest Maxim is fond of hockey.
Kristina Dziuba now
Kristina Dziuba rarely appears in the media. The girl’s name once again appeared on the Internet at the beginning of 2018. Then the question was which club the spouse would join. Artyom was called to the main team of FC Ufa - a bright opportunity, football critics say. However, Christina rejected this option, explaining that Bashkiria is too far from St. Petersburg and Moscow. As a result, Dzyuba ended up in Arsenal Tula, which is much closer.
A debate broke out between fans on social networks about the influence of wives on the fate of football players. In an interview, Sergei Gerasimets, a former Zenit player, rushed to defend Artem. He stated that it is normal to suggest a direction for a husband’s career:
“A football player should play where it is more comfortable for him and his family.”
Artem Dzyuba is one of the most talented and, perhaps, the most controversial Russian football player of our time. His name is associated with many scandals, both on the football field and far beyond it. In anticipation Euro 2016 the Zenit striker was one of the greatest hopes of the Russian national team.
Biography of Artem Dzyuba
Artem Sergeevich Dzyuba born on August 22, 1988 in Moscow. His family had absolutely nothing to do with sports, let alone football. The football player’s mother, originally from Chuvashia, first worked as a salesperson in a grocery store near the Shchelkovskaya metro station. After graduating, she was appointed deputy director. And his father, a native of the Poltava region of Ukraine, was a policeman. For several years the family lived in a communal apartment until they acquired their own home. At the age of seven, Dzyuba entered the school of Moscow Spartak at the insistence of Alexandra Yartseva. There he progresses quickly and at the age of 17 becomes a player, first in the reserve team, and then in the main team of the “red-whites”. The striker played his first match for the main team of Spartak in the away match of the 1/16 finals of the 2006/07 Russian Cup against Ural. Dzyuba made his debut in the national championship on July 21, 2006, replacing Nikita Bazhenov during the game with Saturn. At the end of his first season, he was recognized by the club's fans as the best young football player, receiving an award "Small Golden Boar".
Since 2007, the striker has become a permanent player for Spartak. In 27 matches he managed to score 6 goals and was recognized as the top scorer of the season. Together with the “red-whites”, football player Artem Dzyuba became the silver medalist of the Russian championship, but after two good seasons the forward’s performance began to decline and he soon stopped playing for the first team.
Scandal with Bystrov
In 2009, at the Spartak training camp in Austria, a story happened that greatly damaged the football player’s reputation. Red-White midfielder Vladimir Bystrov discovered the loss of 23,000 rubles, which, as it later turned out, he allegedly stole Artem Dzyuba. "Spartacus" in this conflict he took the side of Bystrov, and Dzyuba was sent to "Tom" under a lease agreement. At the same time, it was announced that there was a video recording that confirmed the attacker’s involvement in stealing money from Bystrov. However, no one has seen this recording, and its existence may simply be fiction. Dzyuba himself claims that in this situation he was framed and this version is confirmed by the ex-administrator of Spartak Alexander Khadzhi. According to the striker, someday he will talk about all the details of the situation with Bystrov, but now Dziuba is not ready to talk about it yet.
After moving to Tom, footballer Artem Dzyuba very quickly became one of the leading players. He played for the Tomsk club until the end of the 2010 season and scored 15 goals in 35 matches. After such success, Dzyuba returned to Spartak and in the transition season 2011/12 scored 14 goals, becoming one of the team leaders.
"Player" and "trainer"
But already in the next season, the striker’s performance began to decline again. This is largely due to the low results of the team, which, after finishing second in 2012, with the arrival of Spanish coach Unai Emery, dropped to the middle of the standings. After the defeat from Dynamo in the 17th round of the Russian championship with a score of 1:5, Dzyuba, in front of journalists, calls the coach of the “red and white” "coach". It is worth noting that the author of Spartak’s only goal in this match was Artem Dzyuba, biography which was replenished with the nickname "player". The leadership of the “red-whites” dismisses Emery and heads the team Valery Karpin. Dziuba again becomes a first-team player, but rumors appear about a conflict with the head coach, and after the season the striker goes to Rostov on a loan agreement.
Final departure from Spartak
In Rostov, footballer Artem Dzyuba is having one of the best seasons of his career, scoring 19 goals in 30 matches. He ranks second in the list of scorers in the Russian Championship with 17 goals. Artem Dzyuba, photo which fans begin to accompany with signatures "Jubinho", did not hide the fact that “Rostov” was for him a kind of springboard in his career. Having seen such successes, the management of Spartak again decides to return the forward to the team and offers him a new contract. But the footballer rejects Spartak’s offer, after which the club’s board of directors decides to abandon the idea of extending the contract with the striker. In February 2015, it became known that the player had agreed on a contract with St. Petersburg Zenit and will join a new team after the season. The management of Spartak, having learned about this, transferred footballer Artem Dzyuba to the reserve team and refused to provide him with the opportunity to gain playing practice until the expiration of the contract. The Moscow club received several offers to rent Dziuba, but the “red-whites” refused each of them.
Artem Dzyuba at Zenit
In July 2015, the management of the St. Petersburg club officially introduced the striker as a new Zenit player. Already in the first round of the RFPL season 2015/16, he made his debut for the new team. It is worth noting that in this game the football player was recognized as the best player Artem Dzyuba. "Zenith" became a club in which the striker began to demonstrate his best football, while showing high performance. Dziuba's pairing with the Brazilian Hulk became the best at the end of the season in Russia, recording 32 goals and 22 assists. After leaving Spartak, Dzyuba won a trophy in his first season, winning the Russian Cup with Zenit.
Maria Orzul and Artem Dzyuba
The Zenit striker is married and has two sons. Artem Dzyuba and his wife Christina met at the New Year's 2012 celebration and, according to the footballer himself, began dating almost immediately. Before the qualifying match for the 2016 European Championship against Montenegro, the player was spotted with another girl, who turned out to be TV presenter Maria Orzul. After publishing a video in which Maria Orzul and Artem Dzyuba they spend about an hour together in the car "Infinity", a loud scandal broke out, and the football player’s family almost broke up. However, Christina forgave Artem for his betrayal, and the attacker himself admitted that he had drawn conclusions from this situation. Artem Dzyuba and his wife decided to forget this conflict and turn the page on the unpleasant story.
Recently, a second son was born into the footballer’s family. This happened before the match for the Russian Cup with Kuban, in which the club won, and one of the main characters on the field was Artem Dzyuba. Son became the second child in the footballer’s family and, according to the striker, this significantly strengthened his relationship with his wife after the incident with Orzul. Artem Dzyuba and his wife try to be less visible to the press and very carefully guard the peace of their family.