The national team of Ukraine successfully qualified for Euro 2016, bypassing the very strong Slovenian national team in qualifying, and playing in the group with the national teams of Belarus, Slovakia, Spain and Liechtenstein. We think everyone will agree that the opponents are very difficult, but the qualification was successful, and the Ukrainian team flew to France. Who was the leader of that team? Of course, in the game plan, Andrei Yarmolenko and Yevgeny Konoplyanka can be considered as such , but still the midfielder of the Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro Rotan Ruslan was the captain on the field most often. It was his playmaking abilities that helped the team to open the massive defenses of rivals.
Rotan Ruslan: biography
The future footballer and captain of the national team of Ukraine and Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro was born in Poltava, in the family of a football player who played for the local Vorskla club. At the time when Ruslan attended the football academy, all the best players went to either Dynamo Kyiv or Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Ruslan was lucky with the second club and so he began his professional career in Dnepropetrovsk. By 2002, the whole Dnepropetrovsk heard a new surname and name, which the announcer announced at the stadium - Rotan Ruslan. After that, the young footballer played 3 seasons for Dnipropetrovsk, which attracted the attention of the metropolitan Dynamo, which in 2005 invited the young footballer to join him.
Rotan Ruslan: injuries are about him
Ruslan’s game did not cause any complaints either from the coaching staff or from the fans. He actually could be compared with the Italian opornik Andrea Pirlo, because his style of play was very similar. The culture of pass and strike was at the highest level and the European future was prophesied to him, but there it was. A series of serious injuries suffered a young footballer at that time. All this time he struggled with injuries, then recovering, then gaining shape. In 2008, having finally lost the confidence of the coach and his place in the squad, Rotan Ruslan decided to return to the city where his career as a professional football player began. This is a new and probably the most successful stage in his career.
Dnepropetrovsk "Dnepr" - home
Rotan’s career in the Dnepropetrovsk club was very successful. When he was in uniform, he was regularly called up to the Ukrainian team, in addition to becoming a captain in a club and a vice captain in a team of Ukraine (after Anatoly Tymoshchuk). The successes of Rotan were also evident, which is only worth his success with the club in the form of the Europa League finals in 2015, where Ruslan himself scored an enchanting goal from a free-kick. His career is full of awards, and even now, at 34 years old, he remains a very high-class football player who is able to help his team with almost any team. I doubt that in recent years a football player of a similar plan has played in Ukraine, and even with such skill. About a player by the name of Rotan Ruslan, you can only say that he is such one and there is no other.
Personal life of Ruslan Rotan
At the moment, Ruslan is already in his second marriage, and his husband is called Christina. From this marriage, he has a daughter, Miroslav. Where is the wife of Rotan Ruslan at the moment, no one can answer, because the girl herself is very modest and appears to people only in the company of her husband and children, which in fact does her honor. The first wife of Ruslan was an athlete, or rather a karateka, from that marriage the footballer has three more children. We can say that Ruslan’s whole life passes under the lenses of television cameras, but somehow he manages to restrain all the most secret in a narrow family circle. Even when Rotan divorced his ex-wife in 2011, there was not a single newspaper headline that was buzzing about it. We can say that Ruslan is a professional not only on the football field, but also in life.