Cherevchenko Igor: big footballer of a small country

The history of football knows not so many people from sunny Tajikistan, which is not surprising. This state can be safely attributed to those countries, which in modern sport is called "dwarfs", and passing on its territory the national championship is hardly covered by foreign media. However, there are bright personalities in the football history of Tajikistan.

Born in USSR

Cherevchenko Igor Gennadievich - a native of Dushanbe. His father, also known in the past as a football player, almost all his career played for the same club - the local "Pamir". By the standards of modern football is a very rare.

The most popular Igor Cherevchenko bought, speaking for the Moscow "Locomotive". Also in his record eight matches for the national team of Tajikistan.

The way to big football

Beginning Cherevchenko Jr., like his father, in the army club "Pamir", based in Dushanbe. It is noteworthy that the first steps of the football player were conducted under the guidance of the same coaches who brought up for the big sport Gennady Cherevchenko. "Pamir" - one of the leaders of Tajik football, so at the age of eighteen years Igor Cherevchenko became the champion of his country.

Then he acted as a midfielder, and he owns a kind of record - seven goals scored in one match. It is a question of a duel Pamir - Ravshan, which ended with a sad 10-0 score for the latter. In itself, the achievement though not too remarkable (after all to ship a full basket to a semi-amateur collective is not too honorable), but quite rare

Then followed the season in Obninsk "Industry", in which Cherevchenko Igor spent 36 matches and four times signed at the gate of opponents. Alas, but today in the Obninsk only the older generation will remember the existence of that team. In 2005 the club was disbanded.

Loko

In Moscow "Lokomotiv" Cherevchenko was led by none other than the legend of the Soviet and Russian (already as a coach) football Yuri Pavlovich Semin. As already mentioned above, the championship of Tajikistan did not cause any interest among football gourmets, however, employees of breeding services of clubs from the more prestigious Russian championship here often enough could be met in the stands during matches. Calculation is simple - find a football nugget and buy it for relatively little money. So from time to time it happened, including outside of Tajikistan.

Five years spent in the "railroad", - undoubtedly, the brightest period of his career, which can remember Igor Cherevchenko. The photo of the football player is still kept in the club museum "Lokotimotiva" among other legends involved in the golden period of the Moscow team. By the way, Semin felt that the footballer will bring more benefit in defense, so in time his ward was retrained into stoppers.

In total for the capital team Cherevchenko Igor spent more than 120 matches, five times he managed to upset the goalkeepers of rivals. As part of the "railroad" defender four times became the owner of the national cup, twice won silver and once - bronze medals of the Russian Premier League, reached the team before the semi-final of the Cup Winners Cup - tournament, held in those years under the auspices of UEFA.

Completion of career

Being at the peak of his career, Cherevchenko accepted the offer of another capital club and in 2002 moved to Moscow's Torpedo. As it turned out later, the decision was not the most successful, because soon enough "torpedovtsy" disappear from the football map of Russia. However, by that time the career of the football player will end. At the age of 28, after another serious injury, Cherevchenko Igor decided to end his professional career as a football player.

New stage

However, from the big sport Cherevchenko Jr. did not quit, and since 2008 his new story began in his native "Locomotive" - coaching. Until the end of the 2015-2016 season, he was part of the coaching staff of the "railroad", winning with the red-green national Cup. The last few months Igor Gennadievich temporarily moved away from football affairs and tries to spend more time with his family, but I want to believe that this will again be a short pause, and he will have many more bright sports events ahead of him.