Pogrebnyak Pavel is a Russian striker, currently playing for the Dynamo Moscow. He has a number of significant achievements, some of which were not yet available to any domestic football player.
The beginning of a professional career
Pasha was born in Moscow on 08/08/1983. It was here that he, along with his brothers, learned to play football. According to many experts in football, Pavel Pogrebnyak and his family are professionals. Both of his brothers play in the Premier League:
- Cyril - “Tom;
- Nikolay - “Torpedo”.
At the age of six, his father brought him to the Spartak children’s school. After 12 years, upon reaching his 18th birthday, he first entered the field as part of the club's reserve team.
Having established himself as a striker, a year later he gets into the main team. Over the next 2 seasons he spends 23 games on the field and scores 8 goals in them. He spends 2003 in the Kaliningrad Baltika, where after spending 40 matches on the field he scores 15 goals.
After a successful season in the Baltic club Pogrebnyak Pavel returns to Moscow. Here he again cannot reveal his potential: out of 16 matches he differs only 2 times. In the same season it is rented at Khimki. And again, good luck: 12 games and 6 goals scored. It turns out that in every second exit to the field it is different.
Pogrebnyak Pavel, a football player, was able to fully reveal his potential in 2005. It was after a successful season spent in Tomsk Tomi that he received the first invitation to the Russian team.
Debuted in the match against the Latvian team. At 80 minutes, he entered the field, replacing Diniyar Bilyaletdinov. After 9 minutes, at the very end of the game, Pavel scored a goal, which became the only and victorious.
In the city on the Neva
Good statistics of the last season allowed the young guy to attract the attention of many coaches. One of them was a Dutch specialist who was in charge of the St. Petersburg Zenit at that time. Thus, Paul falls into the composition of white-blue-blue.
It is this period that is for him the most stellar:
- 2007 - champion of Russia;
- 2008 - winner of the Russian Super Cup ;
- 2007-08 - Winner of the UEFA Cup and Super Cup of the European continent.
For this season Pavel Pogrebnyak is recognized as the top scorer of the tournament.
But at the same time with victories, this time brought him major disappointment. Having put a lot of effort to ensure that the team got to the 2008 European Championship, the player is injured and misses the tournament. An unfortunate circumstance occurred in a friendly match against Serbia. The Russian team, which took third place in the championship of the Old World, achieved a result without his participation.
Conquest of Europe
In the summer of 2009, the club management parted with the striker. A three-year contract was signed with the German Stuttgart. 08.08.2009, Pavel first put on his team uniform in a game against Wolfsburg, who was then the country's champion. A few days later, 08/15. Pogrebnyak scores his first goal against Freiburg. In total, during the term of the contract, he spends 68 matches on the field and scores 15 goals.
Since the beginning of 2012, Paul has been playing in the English Fulham. The club acquires it on a rental basis. For 5 months of staying in a team, the striker enters the field only 12 times, but differs in six goals.
After completing the contract with Stuttgart, Pavel Pogrebnyak concludes a contract with a little-known club from Misty Albion with the name Reading. In it, he spends 3 years, until August 2015 - the date when the attacker returns to his homeland and signs a contract with the leadership of the Moscow Dynamo. In this club, he will continue to perform at the moment.
The personal life of a football player
He knew his lawful wife from school. With the gradual growth of their friendship flowed into something more, and a student named Masha Shatalova appeared a guy named Pasha. Now Pavel Pogrebnyak and his wife have two children.
Before the wedding, the young met for as long as 8 years. Only after Maria decided to come to him in Europe, and this did not work out, the couple had to legitimize their relationship. This was done spontaneously. Pavel flew to Russia for the match, on the evening of the same day they went to the registry office and signed. Solemn events had to be held after some time.
History is full of numerous obstacles that they were able to confront. Take at least Paul’s move to Siberia. Despite the fact that Masha’s parents were against her going after him, the girl did it. She drops out of school and leaves for her beloved in Tomsk. There, knowing full well that all relatives and friends cannot be delivered here, they get married, planning to organize a gorgeous wedding for them a little later.
Harsh reality
Although the contract with Dynamo was concluded for 3 years, the club management may wonder about transferring rights to a football player or renting it out to another club. This is due to the black bar in the game statistics of the striker. For 18 games held, he was able to distinguish himself only once. It happened back in September 2015, a goal against the goal of his former club Spartak. But this could not bring victory in blue and white, they lost in their field with a score of 2: 3.