Football player Igor Semshov: sports career and family. Is it true that Igor Semshov completed his career?

This well-known football player took part in almost all important world-class tournaments. The fans Igor Semshov crashed into the memory due to the ability to think outside the box on the field and give himself to the game all 90 minutes. He is a member of the famous club Grigory Fedotov, scoring in the opponent's gate about 112 goals. His fame attracted him from childhood.

Start

Ex-midfielder of the Russian national team Igor Semshov - born in Moscow, he was born on April 6, 1978. Already from a young age his father, an ardent fan of the Torpedo team, instilled in him a love for football. The son simply admired the workshop game of "road-building" - Sergei Agashkov and the Savichev brothers.

Igor Semshov started his football career at the CSKA Moscow school. His mentor was Evgeny Dulyk. Gradually, he turned into a maneuverable midfielder, able to beat several rivals at once, and this despite the fact that fate did not reward him with high growth and athletic build.

In 1995, he already played for a double army.

Metropolitan "Torpedo"

However, the career in CSKA in the beginning striker began to develop not as Igor wanted. He often sat in responsible matches on the bench, the coach did not give him full disclosure of his potential. As a result, after a while (in 1998), Igor Semshov decides to continue to play football for another club - favorite "Torpedo" (Moscow). Honor of "highway" in the fields of the country he will defend for the next seven years, becoming an experienced and masterful player. Partly thanks to him, torpedo players will win the third place in the Russian Premier League in 2000.

Team Games

Soon Semshova notes the head coach of the Russian national team Oleg Romantsev and writes it in the main team for the 2002 World Cup.

On the football field he got the position of the extreme midfielder, although he did not actively show himself then. It would seem, the second time Igor gets to the national team, maybe it's not fated, but no: he continues to defend the honor of the country in the prestigious football champions. Paradoxical is the fact that in his native "Torpedo" Igor Semshov, whose photo after hitting the national team often flashed in the press, fulfills the mission of the striker, and in the main part the head coach sees him exclusively as a midfielder. The mentor Guus Hidding gave him the role of "opornika", and the Dutchman did not lose. Semshov masterfully coped with his task.

In general, the world and European football championships in 2002 and 2004 became stellar for the torpedo forward. Sports glory comes to him, the fans are positive about him. The trainer of the "Autobahn" gives him the captain's armband FC "Torpedo". On the field he is the central link: he gives accurate passes to his partners, and he himself often scores goals in the decisive matches.

Leaving Torpedo

In 2006, the club "road" is experiencing a financial crisis, and its leadership decides to terminate contracts with leading players.

Igor Semshov became not an exception. However, without a job, the player did not have to sit for a long time: the famous coach Yuri Semyon suggested that he become a player in the capital's Dynamo. Semshov, without hesitation, agrees. However, the first season in the new team for Igor was mixed: not everything worked out as desired. And in general the game of the whole team of that period was not brilliant: it occupied the last places in the standings. However, the "Dynamo" things went up the hill after the post of head coach of the club Semin was replaced by Andrei Kobelev. He was able to make Semshov one of the key players on the football field. Igor's activity and skills are again noticed by the main coach of the Russian team. Guus Hiddink again takes the Dynamo in the main team, whose players won bronze medals at the 2008 European Championships.

Leaving Dynamo

Over time, the forward decides to leave the Dynamo and sent to play for the St. Petersburg Zenit.

However, the then-mentor of blue and white Dick Advocaat was not in a hurry to release a new player on the field.

Immediately spread rumors that the Dutchman did not find a common language with Semshov. Soon the new head of FC Dynamo Yuri Isaev said that he would like to see Igor again in the ranks of his charges, offering a player as much as 30 million euros. After some time Semshov had to terminate the contract and with this club: the leadership was changed, and, as they say, a new broom swings in a new way. Igor became less likely to go on the field after the Romanian coach Dan Petrescu became the mentor of Dynamo . He used on the football field his exclusive tactics of the game, which was slightly different from the classical Dynamo, which provided for a scheme with two forwards. As a result, in the new arrangement on the field for Semshov no place was found, and he signed a contract with the "Wings of the Soviets." This was the last club for which the football player.

What is the forward doing now?

Some fans are still asking about where Igor Semshov is playing? This year, he publicly announced that he was leaving the football field for good. For experts, the message that Igor Semshov completed his career was a real surprise.

Football player, in turn, giving interviews, repeatedly stressed that his established career as a football player, he is completely satisfied. Hypothetically, he did not rule out the possibility of playing professional football for another couple of years, but the injury to his leg earlier proved to be a serious obstacle to this.

"I do not want to give my best, but I can not physically squeeze myself out of myself," the football player said.

A family

Igor Semshov and his wife Larisa live happily ever after. Their first meeting turned into the first love. Igor Semshov's wife met her half on the first school call when she went to first grade. For ten years they could not do without each other, and after receiving the certificate for several years left ... But then they again unexpectedly met and realized that they can not be separated. In the marriage they had two children: daughter Victoria and son Victor. Igor does not worship the soul in his offspring. Today he devotes maximum time to his family.

He enjoys visiting football matches, watching the news in this sport, going to the gym to stay in "sports" form.

The prospect of becoming a coach

Sharks sharks often ask the striker about whether he sees himself as a mentor of some football club. Igor responds that he is not yet ready for this mission, since it assumes a huge responsibility.

For information: Semshov was awarded bronze medals three times in the Russian championship, speaking for such famous clubs as "Torpedo", "Dinamo", "Zenith". In the national team he appeared on the field 57 times and scored 3 goals. In 2008 he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports.