Dikan Andrey Aleksandrovich - Ukrainian football player, currently stands for the Krasnodar football club. In addition to the Ukrainian footballer, he also has Russian citizenship.
Biography and career
July 16, 1977 is the date Andrei Dikan was born. The biography of the athlete begins with Ukrainian Kharkov. In this city, he began to play football, speaking for the University of Physical Education. The initial team was Avangard-Industry, for which the guy began to speak in 1995. Once the goalkeeper appeared in the match as a field soccer player and managed to take a double. In a team from the city of Rovenki, the footballer played until 1998. Dikan Andrey spent most of the time on the bench.
In 1999, the player received an offer from SKA-Energia and soon made the transition. In Khabarovsk, the football player finally found stability and began to appear in almost every game. In 2001, he received an offer from the capital Lokomotiv, but chose to stay in SKA. In the same period, Dikan Andrey received citizenship of the Russian Federation.
In 2004, the goalkeeper received an offer from the Krasnodar “Kuban” and made the transition. Together with the team, Andrey played in the first division of the country and steadily appeared on the field. In one of the seasons, he played very poorly and missed a large number of goals. Subsequently, he said that at that time he had a temporary deterioration in his health. At that moment in the “Kuban” Vladimir Gabulov got into the goal and sent Andrei to the bench.
In 2008, the goalkeeper returned to his homeland and continued his career for Tavria. The goalkeeper played the season for the club from Simferopol. After the contract, Dikan Andrey decided not to renew it.
Dikan decided to continue his career in Russia, having received an offer from Terek from Grozny. The goalkeeper spent only a season for the club, but at the same time the management trusted Andrei, and he went out in almost every match.
"Spartak Moscow)
In the summer of 2010, there were rumors about Andrei moving to the capital's team. Then “Spartak” was looking for an experienced goalkeeper and first wanted to buy from “Rubin” Sergei Ryzhikov, but the teams have not reached an agreement. Dikan at that time was already young, but he could only play in clubs from the outback of Russia and in Ukraine. And the fans of the team really did not know about the goalkeeper. Just that Dikan often went out in matches as a field player.
For the passage of Dikan, “Spartak” had to give the Grozny club Soslan Dzhanaev. Dikan played his first game against Saturn. Soon, Andrei entered the Champions League match and helped his team win the match with Marseille. In this match, Spartak did not miss a single goal for the first time in ten years. Subsequently, Dikan said that in “Spartak” he spent the best years of his career. For many years, Andrei was an indispensable goalkeeper of the Moscow team, only occasionally falling out of the cage.
In "Spartak" Dikan spent until the summer of 2014 and as a free agent made the transition to "Krasnodar". Now the goalkeeper steadily enters the field, but he is already 38 years old!
Ukraine national team
For the first time, Dikan was invited to the Ukrainian national team in 2010, when he turned 32 years old. The first time the goalkeeper entered the field in a friendly game against Norway and defended the match to zero. Andrei missed the European Championship in 2012 due to a serious injury received the day before.
Injury
In March 2012, in a game with Zenit, Dikan was seriously injured. The goalkeeper ran into Alexander Kerzhakov and was forced to ask for a replacement. Later it was found out that Andrey received serious injuries of the facial skeleton. The forward of “Zenith” said later that he had no malicious intent, and simply did not manage to avoid a collision.
Andrey Dikan is a goalkeeper who was able to shine already at a fairly mature age. However, the player has become a fan favorite and still continues to delight them.