Footballer Alan Gatagov: move to Kazakhstan and glorify your name to the whole world

There are players who, although they did not achieve great heights in their profession, but for a long time remained in the hearts of the fans, and their names are still heard. Among Russian modern players, one can cite Alan Gatagov as an example. Still quite a young midfielder who spoke earlier for Lokomotiv and Dinamo, has already left the Russian Premier League and now plays in Kazakhstan. But Alan Gatagov does not forget about himself: in March of last year the name of the football player appeared on the same list with such star players as Paul Pogba (Juventus), Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli) and Xabi Alonso (Bayern) . How did this happen and what did Gatagov celebrate in his career? About this below.

The beginning of Alan Gatagov's career

Gatagov Alan - footballer, born January 23, 1991 in Vladikavkaz. Alan started playing football in his hometown at the age of three. When Gatagov was six, he got into the football school of the Vladikavkaz "Alania". And in 12 he was taken to Moscow's Lokomotiv, when Alan's family moved to the capital.

At the Lokomotiv school Gatagov was auditioned at various positions, from the central defender to the striker, but over the years he was formed precisely as an attacking midfielder. In 2008, the football player is attracted to training with the base and offers a professional contract.

Gatagov's debut for the first team "Loco" took place on May 16, 2009 in a match against Grozny's "Terek". August 9, the player scores his first goal. Also, Alan gets the first challenge to the Russian youth team.

At the end of the 2010 season, Gatagov manages to occupy a strong place in the basis of the "Locomotive". At the end of the year, the midfielder takes the second place in the voting for the title of the best young player.

Leaving Lokomotiv and further career

The club prolongs the contract with Gatagov in early 2011, but this summer the player is sold to the Moscow "Dynamo". In the same year, changes occur in the personal life of the newly-fledged midfielder "white and blue": it's a gift that Alan Gatagov, twenty, received from his wife. Olga's wife gave birth to his son.

In "Dynamo" at Gatagov did not work out (for the club he really did not play), and a year later he was rented "Tom". Then follows the rental in Makhachkala "Anji" and "Maccabi" from Petah Tikva (Israel). In January 2015 Gatagov finally leaves the "blue and white". Footballer signed an agreement with the Kazakhstan club "Irtysh" (Pavlodar). Gatagov played for him in 18 games, after which he moved to another Kazakh club - "Taraz". Now there are rumors that Alan Gatagov is leaving Taraz.

What Gatagov remembered

Perhaps the most memorable episode involving Gatagov in the Russian Championship was, unfortunately, not one of his goals, but a slip. This happened when Alan was still playing for Lokomotiv, in a match against Siberia. The Moscow team punched a free kick, with which the goalkeeper of "Siberia" coped, but the ball beat straight ahead, and the first on the finishing was the notorious striker of "Locomotive" Dmitry Sychev. Sychev's blow fell directly into the goalkeeper, but the attack did not end there: the ball jumped to Alan Gatagov. Midfielder was literally a couple of meters from the absolutely empty gate, and yet Gatagov somehow managed to break above. That match ended in a draw 1: 1.

We must pay tribute to Gatagov: this fantastic blunder did not break him. Shortly thereafter, he scored an important goal for the French national team for the Russian youth. That goal, according to rumors, even attracted to the football player interest of some European clubs.

He scored Gatagov not often, but almost always beautiful. You can recall his goal Nalchik "Spartacus", scored in the fall "through yourself." With the technique, Alan always was all right, and some of his feints are still in the compilation on YouTube.

The famous goal for Irtysh

A separate mansion in the career of Alan Gatagov stands his goal for the Pavlodar "Irtysh". This was Gatagov's first (and last) goal for the new team, and he was scored in his debut match.

In the spring of 2015, in the first round of the Championship of Kazakhstan "Irtysh" hosted "Ordabas". His goal scored a football player after filing from the flank to the corner of the penalty "Ordabasy". Alan Gatagov contrived to hit in the fall with a heel. As the midfielder himself later said: "in the style of Ibrahimovic." This goal brought "Irtysh" a draw 1: 1.

Goal Gatagova was included in the list of sixteen most beautiful goals of the week according to the British newspaper The Guardian. Together with the Russian midfielder, the list includes Paul Pogba, Gonzalo Higuain, Xabi Alonso and Diego Forlan.

It remains only to wish good luck to Alan Gatagov and hope for his return to the Championship of Russia. Footballer is still young, and therefore who knows, maybe in the future he will be able to make his debut for the first national team of the country.