Igor Ledyakhov is a famous Soviet and Russian football player. He played as a midfielder. He became famous for playing for Moscow Spartak and playing in the Spanish top division. In 1990, he received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR - one of the last in history.
At the dawn of a career
Igor Ledyakhov was born in Sochi on May 22, 1968. He began his professional football career at Torpedo from Taganrog in 1986, when he was just 18 years old. The team at that time played in the second league of the championship of the USSR. In his debut season, Ledyakhov appeared on the field 7 times.
Since 1988 stands for Rostov SKA. Here he becomes a full-fledged player of the main team - for two seasons he spends 64 matches on the field, in which he scores 1 goal.
Then in his career was a short-lived and unsuccessful voyage to Dnepropetrovsk. In the local Dnipro, Igor Ledyakhov did not find his place on the field after spending only 5 games. The last season of the Soviet championship plays for the Volgograd “Rotor”. Together with the team wins the championship in the First League. Ledyakhov spent 34 of 42 matches on the field, in which he scored twice. Volgograd win 24 victories and from the next season secure their place in the highest echelon of national football.
Debut in Spartak
Starting next season, Igor Ledyakhov is also moving to the Premier League, but not to Rotor, but to Moscow Spartak. Head coach Oleg Romantsev is building a combat-ready team, ready to defeat any opponent, and Ledyakhova is in her place.
Here he not only assists well, but also shows his scorer qualities. For 3 seasons in the “red-white” scores 21 goals. In 1992, he became the champion of Russia, was among the 33 best players in the tournament. And shares the title of the best midfielder with teammates - Valery Karpin, Andrey Pyatnitsky and Dmitry Popov. And also recognized as the best footballer of the year according to the version of Sport-Express.
In the next two seasons, he gets two more Russian titles, once again falls into the ranking of the best players of the tournament. Having won almost everything that was possible at home, he decides to try to continue his career in the West.
Foreign voyage
Igor Anatolyevich Ledyakhov, in the course of 1994, moved to the Spanish championship - to the Gijon Sporting. The team acts in the elite, but there are not enough stars from the sky. In the debut season for the Russians, “Sporting” takes 18th place in the top division and goes to play transitional matches for the right to remain in the elite of Spanish football. The club withstands the struggle for survival, but next year the story repeats itself. Thanks to several victories at the finish line, the team is gaining 46 points, this result allows it to protect itself from further struggle for survival.
In 1998, Sporting still crashes. Just two wins in 38 matches doomed the team to a downgrade. The team is gaining 13 points, which is 32 less than that of Tenerife, which has kept a residence permit in the elite.
Despite the demotion, Igor Ledyakhov does not leave the team. A football player in it appears until 2002. True, returning to the top division never succeeds. In his last year for “Sporting” Ledyakhov takes 6th place. In total, he spent 209 matches in the team, in which he scored 41 goals.
Further career
Speaking in Spain, Igor Ledyakhov, whose goals have amazed many football experts of the world, spends a year on loan in an exotic Japanese championship.
He plays in the Yokagama Marinos team in 2008. The result exceeds all expectations - 23 games and 15 goals. After that, the midfielder returns to Spain.
“Sporting” leaves only in 2002, moving to another team of Segunda (the first Spanish division) “Eibar”. Here he holds 19 matches in which he differs once. The team finishes the season in 17th place, and Ledyakhov decides to hang his boots on a nail. He ends his career at 35 years old.
After returning to Russia, after a few years he decides to try his hand at the coaching field: first, as the head of the team in “Rostov”, then as an assistant to the head coach in the youth team of “Spartak”. In 2008, for a little less than a month, he was the head coach of the main team of the red-white team, after which he again transferred to the category of assistants.
In 2009, he gets the opportunity to lead a serious team for a long time. It becomes the Yaroslavl "Shinnik." A year later, the contract was terminated by agreement of the parties, the team at that time played in the First Division. The last place of work of Ledyakhov was the coaching staff of the Grozny “Terek”.