Boris Rotenberg is a football player with Russian-Finnish citizenship born in 1986. Currently stands for the football club "Rostov". He is also a player in the Finnish national team.
Sports career
In 1990, the Rotenberg family moved to their place of permanent residence in Finland. Since 1994, Boris begins to play football for the Ponnistus children's team. Later he transferred to the capital “HIK”, where he performed from 2000 to 2002. One season stands for “Jokerit”, after which he falls into a team called “Clubs-04”, where he plays for 2005.
He is called up to the youth team of Finland, where he holds 12 matches. Despite the fact that the family returned to their homeland in 1998, Boris returned to St. Petersburg only in 2006 and entered St. Petersburg State University. I was watching in the Zenit-2 team, but could not play for it, since at that time there was a ban on foreign players in the Second Division.
Signs an agreement with the double of St. Petersburg “Zenith”, for which he holds 46 games. Next Rotenberg is a football player of the Yaroslavl “Shinnik”, where he is on loan. But for the club he played only one incomplete match. But for the youth team spent 10 matches. The next place the football haven is a lease agreement with Saturn near Moscow. In the youth squad, as well as in the previous club, holds ten matches.
Next season, he is playing for another club from the Moscow Region - Khimki. In total, he holds 17 matches for the team, taking into account all the competitions. Then for a year he goes on lease to Maccabi from Tel Aviv, but after a few months he returns to Russian football, to Alania.
In the winter of 2011 he appears in the Moscow Dynamo. A year later, he was sent on a regular lease to the Kuban. Without playing a single match there, he leaves for the Olympiacos in Cyprus. After spending 13 games for him, he returns to Dynamo. In the summer of 2015, he transferred to Rostov, where he became the silver medalist of the Russian championship.
International career
In addition to playing for various clubs and the youth team of Finland, Boris began to be called up to the adult team. It happened in 2015. But Rotenberg is a football player who still has the opportunity to play for the Russian team.
A family
Rotenberg football is a relative of Rotenberg businessmen. This fact is known to all and is a controversial topic for discussion. It is known that Boris’s father made a lot of efforts in terms of promoting his son in big football. This was especially exaggerated in the press during his game for the Dynamo Moscow club. After all, the father and his older brother were the owners of this team. Therefore, there were a lot of jokes in the press on this subject, which the football player himself tried to ignore. He said that, on the contrary, it was a motivation for him to grow and improve his game.
Despite the media’s bias towards him, statistics from Rotenberg’s recent club games indicate that he is far from the worst on the field.
In family life, Boris is a caring father of Leah's three-year-old daughter and son. As you can see, not only the successful Rotenberg football player. Photo of the family, however, he does not put on public display. Much is known about his career, but at least about his personal life.
Everyone knows Rotenberg (soccer player), his wife always remains in the shadows. All that was possible to learn was that Boris met his future wife during his studies at St. Petersburg University. According to his confession, it cost him great strength to gain the favor of the girl. This is all that the athlete allowed the media to find out about himself, because he does not like to advertise his personal life, he does not consider it the property of the press.
Interesting facts about the player
- If you count the number of clubs in your career, and there are fourteen, you can safely say that Boris’s career is rich and fun. As you can see, he represented teams not only from Russia, but also from Cyprus and Israel.
- Contrary to popular belief about the near-by footballers, Boris refutes this statement. He knows five languages. In addition, Rotenberg graduated from St. Petersburg State University, faculty of management.
- Boris Rotenberg is called the only athlete of our championship who does not play for money. Given the attitude to this game in the country, the title is quite flattering.
- The footballer has dual citizenship. He is currently playing for the Finnish national team. Under certain circumstances, he may play for the Russian team. This is not the first such case in football, but there are few of them.
- Few people know, but at a young age Rotenberg went to see Chelsea, where he managed to practice with Lampard and Smertin. As he admitted, it had a great influence on him.
Hobbies of a football player
According to the footballer himself, there is nothing unusual in his hobbies: he likes to go to the movies, sit with his wife in a restaurant. Boris also loves to listen to music, and he can be called a music lover, because he loves music of different directions. If desired, he himself can play the piano.
But most of all he likes to spend time with his family, because they are the most expensive thing for him.