Budun Khachabekovich Budunov is a Russian professional ex-football player who played in the position of striker from 1994 to 2007. Currently - Deputy Head of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.
During his career, he played in such clubs as Avtomobilist (K), Argo (double of the Anji club), Anji, Lokomotiv Time, Moscow, Tom and Terek. The growth of a football player is 187 centimeters. In August 2001, in a game of wrestling, he ran into CSKA goalkeeper Sergei Perkhun. The episode became tragic because it led to the death of a young goalkeeper. B. Budunov escaped with a brain injury and soon returned to big football.
Biography
Budun Budunov was born on December 4, 1975 in the city of Kizilyurt, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. By nationality - Avar. From an early age he began to play football - he visited the local section in his city. At the same time he was engaged in martial arts - wrestling, judo.
In his youth, he also played basketball professionally. At the age of nineteen Budunov came to big football. His first professional club was Argo from the city of Kaspiysk, who played in the third division of Russia. The athlete spent 14 matches here in the 1994/95 standby season, marking two goals.
Career at Anji, rent at other clubs
In 1995, the player joined the Makhachkala “Anji” from the second division of Russia. For the first three seasons, the striker played in the second team, which was called Anji-2. In total, he spent 68 official matches here and was marked by 67 goals.
In each season he was recognized as the top scorer of the team and league. In 1998, it was rented by the Lokomotiv-Time club (now called Lokomotiv-KMV), where it played the second half of the 1997/98 season. He took part in 16 matches in the T-shirt of the “railwaymen” and became the author of four goals.
Return to Anji
After the end of the agreement with the Lokomotiv-Time team, Budun Budunov returned to the Makhachkala “Anji”, where he began to regularly perform at the base. In 2000, together with the team, he achieved a promotion in the class — reaching the top division of Russia. In total, he played 156 matches for yellow-green and scored 37 goals.
Football players Budunov Budun and Sergey Perkhun: the tragic consequences of the collision
In the match against “CSKA” on August 18, 2001 Budunov faced the goalkeeper of the “army” Sergey Perkhun in the game fight for the ball. As a result of the collision at high speed, the players received serious head injuries. Budun Budunov - concussion (the official diagnosis is a brain injury), as a result of which he was sent to the infirmary for the rest of the season. But Sergei Perkhun received more serious damage. The story goes like this.
When leaving his own penalty area, to intercept the ball, Sergei Perkhun hit his head with the “eagles” striker from Makhachkala Budun Budunov. Football players fell on the grass and did not get up until the arrival of medical personnel. Perkhun could not rise on his own, so he was carried away from the field on a stretcher. Budunov managed to get up and go out of the field with doctors.
The goalkeeper of the “army men” was taken to the under-tribune room, where they provided first aid - sutured the head wound and made several stimulating injections. The initial state of Sergei Perkhun did not cause much concern. As it turned out later, this was the effect of the “bright gap” (ie, a temporary improvement in the patient’s condition), which manifests itself as a result of traumatic brain injury. The football player was sent by ambulance to the airport. However, after 7 minutes, Sergey’s condition worsened significantly, and heart failure soon occurred. In the hospital ward, this was repeated two more times.
Cause of death
On August 19, after a systematic examination by specialists, the goalkeeper of the “army” Sergey Perun was transferred to the Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery named after Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko. For a week, doctors monitored the condition of an athlete who was in a coma. All possible treatment methods were undertaken, but this did not produce results. On August 28, at half past five in the morning, Sergey Perkhun died from frontal cerebral edema. He was only 23 years old.
The funeral took place on August 30 in Dnepropetrovsk at the Zaporizhzhya cemetery. The burial ceremony was attended by over ten thousand people. Many fans and fans of the CSKA club came to say goodbye to Sergei Perkhun. Moreover, even fans of the Moscow Spartak were present here. In subsequent matches of the Russian Championship, CSKA fans put up a huge T-shirt on the rostrum with the number and name of the football player.
Further career B. Budunova
In the period from 2004 to 2005, Budunov played as part of the FC Moscow club. He regularly played here in the main squad, a total of 33 official matches and scored 6 goals.
In 2005, the striker signed a contract with the Tom club. He took part in five matches and scored one goal. Budun Budunov entered the field quite rarely, because a head injury did not give rest for a long time. Nevertheless, the player managed to fully recover and continue to play on a professional level.
In March 2006, Budunov was given to Grozny's Terek (now the club is called Akhmat) on a rental basis. In the T-shirt of the “wolves” he spent 19 matches in the second division of Russia, where he became the author of three goals.
The forward spent his last season as part of Anji, where 12 more matches were held, scoring 2 goals. In January 2008, he completed his playing career. In the same year, Budunov took the post of Deputy Minister for Physical Culture and Sports of Dagestan, and then became president of the football association of the republic.
Currently, Budun Khachabekovich Budunov is the deputy head of the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan.