Aleksei Berezutskiy

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Aleksei Berezutskiy
Personal information
Full name	Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutskiy
Date of birth	June 20, 1982 (1982-06-20) (age 25)
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.90 m
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	CSKA Moscow
Number	6
Youth clubs
	Smena
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999-2000 2001 2001-present	Torpedo-ZIL Chernomorets Novorossiysk CSKA Moscow	2 (0) 14 (1) 158 (3)
National team2
2003-present	Russia	32 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 July 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Aleksei Vladimirovich Berezutskiy (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Березуцкий) (born March 20, 1982 in Moscow) is a Russian football defender. He began his professional career in 1999 at the age of 17 in Torpedo-ZIL. He is now playing for CSKA Moscow. He is a Russia national football team regular. He tends to play as a central defender but he can play as fullback, wingback, defensive midfielder or even as a winger. He is a great defender who can join attacks from the wing.

Aleksei started to play football in sport school Smena in Moscow. He is married and has a daughter named Alyona. His identical twin brother, Vasili, is also a CSKA defender.

Berezutskiy's current contract with CSKA Moscow runs until 2011. Aleksey took a big part in Russia's second goal against England in a vital euro 2008 qualification match which Russia won 2-1. He was on the attack and took a shot from just outside the box which Paul Robinson could only parry away. Pavlyuchenko then quickly ran to it and touched it in to the net.

Aleksei was selected Russia's captain for the 0-3 friendly defeat against Romania, though it was speculated that Hiddink only gave him the captain's armband so he could differentiate between Aleksei and Vasili.

[edit] Honours

• Russian Premier League Winner: 2005
• Russian Premier League Runner-Up: 2004
• Russian Cup Winner: 2004/2005
• Parlament Russian Super Cup Winner: 2004, 2006
• UEFA Cup Winner: 2005
• UEFA Super Cup Runner-Up: 2005

v • d • e Russia squad - UEFA Euro 2008 1 Akinfeev • 2 V. Berezutskiy • 3 Yanbayev • 4 Ignashevich • 5 A. Berezutskiy • 6 Adamov • 7 Torbinsky • 8 Kolodin • 9 Saenko • 10 Arshavin • 11 Semak • 12 Gabulov • 13 Ivanov • 14 Shirokov • 15 Bilyaletdinov • 16 Malafeev • 17 Zyrianov • 18 Zhirkov • 19 Pavlyuchenko • 20 Semshov • 21 Sychev • 22 Anyukov • 23 Bystrov • Coach: Hiddink