Artem Dzyuba

BIO

Artem Dzyuba was born on August 22, 1988 in a poor family in Moscow. Father Sergei Dzyuba worked as a policeman, and mother Svetlana Dziuba was a saleswoman in a store. Artyom lived with his parents in a communal apartment in the Chistye Prudy area.

Despite the fact that Dzyuba's father was fond of football in his youth and even participated in regional tournaments, he did not want to send his son to this sport. Therefore, when 7-year-old Artem got the idea to become a football player, he had to persuade his parents to send him to the kid's football club.

Dzyuba found himself at Spartak at the age of 8: during the casting, Artem so impressed the coach of the academy Alexander Yartsev (son of the Spartak legend Georgy Yartsev) that he immediately accepted him into the team. Against the background of his peers, Dziuba stood out favorably due to his physical data and ability to work with the ball.

However, at school, Artem was also in sight. Dziuba often got into trouble and, according to his recollections, was a "champion" in pranks. Together with friends, he disrupted lessons, knocked on classroom doors and ran away, and once participated in a game in the final of which a tennis ball flew into the head of the head teacher.

In the main Spartak team, Artem Dziuba made his debut on July 21, 2006. The 17-year-old striker entered the last 19 minutes of the RPL match with Saturn, but could not distinguish himself with effective actions. Dzyuba scored his first goal for Spartak on February 26, 2007. In the match of the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup with Sibir (1:3), Artem replaced Roman Pavlyuchenko and soon brought his team forward. After the game, he admitted that he dedicated his debut goal to his first coach, who was found murdered in his own apartment a week before the game.

Unfortunately, the striker's career in his native club did not work out. In 2009, Dziuba got into the famous scandal involving Vladimir Bystrov's wallet: the midfielder discovered that money had been stolen from him and blamed Artem for this. Spartak sided with Bystrov and sent Dziuba on loan to Tom.

In Tomsk, Artem showed himself great, so on his return he got into the starting lineup of Spartak. However, Dzyuba's happiness did not last long. Under the new coach of the club, Unai Emery, Artem began to score much less often and ended up in a deep reserve. And soon he completely quarreled with the Spaniard.

Under the next coach of Spartak, Valeria Karpin, Dziuba did not play either. As a result, Artem was loaned to Rostov, where he scored 19 goals in 31 matches and became the owner of the Russian Cup.

When Dzyuba once again returned to Spartak, the club began to actively try to extend the agreement with him. Spartak offered Artem a new contract three times, but the striker refused and Dziuba's parting with Spartak turned out to be scandalous. Six months before the expiration of the contract, Artem was removed to the double team, so he was forced to go on loan for playing practice. As a result, the 2014/2015 season Dziuba finished in Rostov.

Dziuba officially moved to Zenit on July 1, 2015. The Petersburg club signed a 5-year contract with Artem, and Dzyuba's salary was 3.3 million euros per year. For Zenit in the RPL, the striker made his debut on July 19 in a match against Dynamo Moscow, and a week later, in a game with Ural, he scored his first goal in the new club.

At first, in St. Petersburg, things were going well for Dziuba: he regularly played and scored. However, in 2018, under head coach Roberto Mancini, Artem began to sit on the bench more and more often. As a result, Dzyuba went on loan to Arsenal for playing practice. There he spent the second half of the 2017/2018 season and scored 6 goals in 10 matches.

The rent went to Artem's benefit. Returning to Zenit, Dzyuba got stronger and began to enchant: he won the Russian Championship three times, the Cup twice and the Russian Super Cup three times. He also twice became the top scorer and the best assistant at the end of the RPL season.

ACHIVEMENTS

Russian Cup Winner (2014)

Champion of Russia (2019, 2020, 2021)

Russian Cup Winner (2016, 2020)

Winner of the Russian Super Cup (2015, 2016, 2020)

The best scorer of the championship of Russia (2020)

The best assistant of the championship of Russia (2019, 2020)

Member of the Grigory Fedotov Club (2016)

Member of the Club of 100 Russian scorers (2016)

The best football player of 2018 according to the RFU

The best player of the season of the Russian Football Championship (2020)

Member of the Igor Netto Club (2021)

Biography

Father Sergey Vladimirovich Dzyuba - a native of the city of Lubny, Poltava region of Ukraine, worked as a policeman [11], played football in regional tournaments as an attacker, then as a goalkeeper. Mother, Svetlana Alexandrovna, was born in Tsivilsk, Chuvashia, worked as a saleswoman in a grocery store in Moscow, near the Shchelkovskaya metro station [12], then became a deputy director there. They met in the same store. Dzyuba's family was not rich: initially they lived in a communal apartment in Potapovsky Lane and only then bought an apartment in the Novokosino district [11]. In addition to Artyom, the family had a daughter, Olga, in 1992.

At the age of 8, Dziuba came to the Spartak Academy, where he was invited after watching Alexander Yartsev, the son of Georgy Yartsev [14]. In 2005, he moved to the adult team of Spartak and began to play for the backup team on the recommendation of Evgeny Sidorov. With his successes in the reserves, he earned the right to train with the main team.

Club career

"Spartak Moscow)

He made his debut for Spartak in 2006 in the Russian Cup match against Ural, and in the Russian Championship he made his debut in the 12th round, in a match with Ramensky Saturn (1: 1) - he entered the field in the 71st minute , replacing Nikita Bazhenov. For the first time in the main part of the "red-white" Dziuba appeared in the return match of the Russian Cup against Ural. In the 2006 season, he played 8 matches for the main team, without scoring goals.

Season 2007

In 2007, Dzyuba began to play steadily in the first team, played 27 matches in all tournaments and scored 5 goals. He scored his first goal on April 15 in the 5th round in a game with Tom. With the team he became the silver medalist of the championship. He scored the only goal in the championship against Tom (1: 1) and saved Spartak from defeat.

He made his debut in the UEFA Cup on November 29 in a match with Sparta (0:0), was replaced in the 78th minute. He scored his first goal in European competition on December 19 in a match with Toulouse in the 61st minute from the penalty spot.

He took part in the 2007 European Youth Championship and scored 2 goals in his debut match against the German national team, which did not save the Russians from defeat in that match; the team performed unsuccessfully at that tournament, failing to advance from the group.

Season 2008

Artyom started the season again as a substitute. In the championship, he played 16 games, but did not play any of them completely. On August 23, Dziuba scored his only goal in the championship against Dynamo Moscow, which allowed Spartak to avoid defeat.

In the only cup match of this year, held on August 6 against Dynamo Bryansk, Artyom scored two goals and thereby led Spartak to the 1/8 finals, where Dynamo Moscow became his rival.

In the final match of the UEFA Cup group stage against Tottenham, Artyom scored two goals, but the British managed to equalize the score, and Spartak could not continue the fight for the trophy.

Rent in "Tom"

Artyom started 2009 in Spartak Moscow, but played only the first round for him, playing 8 matches and scoring two goals against Saturn near Moscow and Tom Tomsk.

In the same season, 23,000 rubles were stolen from Dzyuba's teammate, Vladimir Bystrov, at a training camp in Austria. Vladimir himself found this amount in Artyom's pockets. Later, Dzyuba said that he had been framed, and called Bystrov "product number 23" [15] [16]. In this conflict, Spartak sided with Bystrov, as a result of which Dziuba was loaned to Tomsk[17].

Dziuba played the second round for Tom. On October 3, in a match against the same Saturn near Moscow, Artyom scored a double. On November 29, he scored a goal against the Samara Wings. In total, in the 2009 season, Artyom played 18 matches and scored 5 goals.

In 2010, he again moved on loan to Tom, where, along with Sergei Kornilenko, he became the main forward of the team. He performed quite well, scoring 10 goals in a season. At the end of the season, he returned to Spartak [18].

Season 2011/2012

Dzyuba as part of Spartak

The next two seasons were successful for the player. The debut game of the season for Dzyuba was the Europa League match against the Swiss Basel, in which Spartak won a strong-willed victory with a score of 3: 2, one of the goals was scored by Artem [19]. In the return game with Basel, Artyom did not convert many chances, but still in this game he scored an assist for Aiden McGeady, who snatched a draw in the match (1: 1), and on the sum of two games Spartak won with a score of 4 :3 and reached the 1/8 finals of the Europa League[20].

On March 3, in the 1/8 finals of the Cup of Russia against Novosibirsk Sibir, after the transfer of Emin Makhmudov, Artyom opened the scoring with his goals in the 2011 cup matches, Spartak won in this game with a score of 2: 0 and reached the 1/4 finals[ 21].

On April 14, in the return match of the 1/4 finals of the Europa League against Porto, Dzyuba scored a goal and made an assist, but this did not help Spartak - he lost 2:5 and did not go to the 1/2 finals [22].

On April 24, 2011, he scored the winning goal against Spartak-Nalchik. He scored a double on May 21, 2011 in the game with Krasnodar. As a result, the match ended with the victory of "Spartak" (4:0). On August 21, he saved his team from defeat by scoring a return goal in the 53rd minute against Spartak Nalchik [23].

On April 28, 2012, he scored a goal at the 43rd minute against CSKA, but Spartak lost with a score of 1:2. On May 6, he first entered the field with a captain's armband in an away match with Zenit, in that match Spartak won 3: 2. On May 13, he scored one of the goals against Lokomotiv and helped Spartak get into the Champions League, another goal was scored by Marek Suchy.

Season 2012/2013

Spartak began the next season under the guidance of Spanish coach Unai Emery. Despite the fact that Dziuba received a lot of playing time, he managed to score the first goal of the season only on September 29, hitting the Amkar gate. Soon after a successful start, the results of the "red-whites" began to deteriorate, and Dzyuba stopped getting into the starting lineup of the team, giving way to Emmanuel Emenika.

On November 25, 2012, after a major defeat from Dynamo (1:5), Dziuba called head coach Emery a “coach”, on the same day the Spaniard was fired, and Valery Karpin again took the place of the team’s head coach. Under Karpin, Dziuba managed to return to the starting lineup, but the striker failed to improve his performance, until the end of the season he distinguished himself only once in the match with Zenit.

Rent in Rostov

After a hat-trick against Tom

Due to the fact that Valery Karpin decided to play according to the 4-3-3 scheme in the new season, Dziuba would have been destined for the role of a substitute in this arrangement, and on July 1, 2013, the player moved on loan to the Rostov football club [25]. On July 15, 2013, in his debut match for a new club against Terek, Dzyuba scored two goals and helped his team win[26]. On July 27, in a duel against Tom, Artyom scored a hat-trick and topped the list of top scorers in the championship[27]. In total, in the first 5 matches for Rostov in the Russian championship, he scored 7 goals. Then the striker's performance decreased and, according to the results of the first round (15 matches), he had 10 goals on his account. On November 8, in the first match of the second round, Dzyuba scored against Ural twice on the road and regained sole leadership in the list of scorers of the season with 12 goals. And at the end of the season, Dzyuba with 17 goals became the second scorer of the championship, losing the lead to the Ivorian striker of CSKA Seyd Doumbia. Also with Rostov, Dzyuba won his first trophy, winning the Russian Cup at the end of the season.

Season 2014/2015

After a successful season in Rostov, Dziuba returned to Spartak again and in the first match of the championship he scored two goals in the match with Rubin [28]. In the second round in the derby against Dynamo, Artyom again scored two goals and helped his team win a strong-willed victory[29]. On August 23, in the guest match of the fifth round with Ufa, Artyom made the third “double” in four matches, as a result, Spartak won with a score of 1: 2[30]. However, after a bright start, Dzyuba's performance subsided and he managed to score the next goal only in November, as part of the fourteenth round, hitting the Mordovia gate. In October 2014, information appeared in the media that Dziuba had rejected Spartak's offer to extend the contract[31], expiring in June 2015. In November, the president of Spartak, Leonid Fedun, said that Artyom had already rejected three offers for a new contract, and that there would be no new offers for Dziuba[32][33]. In this regard, information appeared about the possible transfer of the striker to Moscow Lokomotiv, but Leonid Fedun and Lokomotiv president Olga Smorodskaya did not confirm this information[34][35]. At the end of January 2015, information appeared that a contract for 5 years with a salary of 3.3 million euros per year was offered to Dziuba by Zenit [36].

Zenit (St. Petersburg)

Dziuba in the "Zenith"

On February 6, 2015, it was announced that Dziuba had signed a contract with Zenit St. Petersburg. According to its terms, the player had to join the team from July 1, 2015, and Dzyuba's salary was 3.3 million euros per year[37]. Prior to Dzyuba's transfer from Spartak to Zenit, the player was transferred to a reserve[38], and Tula Arsenal[39] became interested in his services on loan, provided that the player receives all or part of the salary in Spartak [40] or Zenit will pay Dzyuba's loan to Arsenal[41]. However, Spartak decided not to let the player go for game practice at Arsenal[42]. Zenit also wanted to take Dzyuba on a free loan, but at the same time fully take over the payment of the player's salary[43]. This offer and another - for a lease for more than half a million euros - were rejected. On the last day of the winter transfer window, Spartak again loaned Dzyuba to Rostov with compensation of about a million euros[44] and without the opportunity to take part in the Rostov game against Spartak[45].

On July 19, in a match against Dynamo Moscow, Artyom made his debut for a new team in the championship[46]. In this fight, he earned a penalty, which Hulk converted. A week later, in a match against Ural, Dzyuba scored his first goal for Zenit [47]. On August 1, in a duel against Terek Grozny, Artyom suffered a broken nose in a collision with Adilson[48].

On September 26, he hit the gates of Spartak, equalizing the score after the transfer of Oleg Shatov and bringing Zenit a draw (2: 2). Playing for Zenit in the Champions League 2015/16, set a recor

d for the number of go

als,

World Cup 2018

On June 3, 2018, he was included in the final application of the national team for the World Cup in Russia. On June 14, in the opening match of the championship, in which Russia played with the Saudi Arabia national team, he entered the field in the 70th minute, replacing Fedor Smolov, and scored a goal a minute later[68]. The head coach of the Russian national team congratulated the striker with a peculiar gesture, performing a military salute. Later, the striker himself began to celebrate the goals he scored in a similar way. When asked why he celebrates goals, demonstrating a military salute, Dziuba replied:

There is no hidden meaning, I just salute, because I play for my country. I serve Russia!

On June 19, Dziuba scored one of the goals in the victory match against Egypt (3:1).

On July 1, in the 1/8 finals, having converted a penalty at the end of the first half, he became the author of an important goal against the Spanish national team, which allowed the national team to bring the match to a penalty shoot-out and reach the 1/4 finals[70]. According to the results of the tournament, Dziuba and Denis Cheryshev entered the symbolic team of 11 players who made a breakthrough in the game at the 2018 World Cup, according to ESPN. At this World Cup, he scored 3 goals and gave 2 assists.

After the World Cup

In September 2018, he was chosen as the team captain during the absence of Igor Akinfeev from the national team for the game with Turkey in the League of Nations[72]. In this match, the Russian team won with a score of 2: 1, and Dzyuba scored the winning goal. After Akinfeev announced his retirement from the national team, Dziuba continued to be the captain.

On June 8, 2019, in Saransk, in the Euro 2020 qualifying match, he made the second poker as part of the Russian national team, hitting the gates of San Marino four times (9:0). On October 10, 2019, at Luzhniki, he scored a double against Scotland in the second half (4:0). The first of these two goals was the 22nd for Dzyuba in the Russian national team, Artyom surpassed Roman Pavlyuchenko in this indicator, only Alexander Kerzhakov (30) and Vladimir Beschastnykh (26) scored more for Russia. September 3, 2020, scoring two goals against the Serbian national team in the 2020/21 Nations League match, caught up with Beschastnykh in goals for the national team

At the 2020 European Championship, Dziuba scored his only goal from a penalty kick in the group stage match against Denmark, which the Russians lost 1:4. Despite the fact that Dziuba became the leader of the group stage in terms of the number of riding martial arts won (), after the Russian team was eliminated from further competitions, he, like many other players, was sharply criticized by players, coaches and fans for a failed game [75]. Also, for the entire tournament, Artyom Dzyuba was offside seven times.[76] After the defeat from Denmark, he apologized for the failed game in an interview with the Match TV channel, but spoke extremely harshly to the fans who criticized the national team, stating literally the following : "And those who dreamed about it, enjoy. You can curse us, bonfire - you will probably be right"

In September 2021, Dziuba refused to play for the Russian national team in the October matches of the 2022 World Cup qualifying tournament. He explained this by saying that he had not yet gained the desired shape and did not want to take someone's place[

Personal life

Wife Christina, the wedding took place in 2012. Sons Nikita (born April 24, 2013)[80], Maxim (born February 25, 2016)], Alexander (born May 15, 2021)

In 2015, he was seen in the company of TV presenter Maria Orzul. Dziuba said of this episode: “It was a big lesson for me. It's probably good that it happened. Otherwise, look at everything. Revisited values. I realized that I could lose, that I shouldn’t even think about it. I was very ashamed in front of my wife. And don't care about anything else. The whole world is not so important. The main thing is that this person hears me. And she heard me. We managed to save everything.”[86]

In November 2020, a wide resonance (including in the media of different countries) received the fact that an intimate video was published on the Internet with the participation of Dziuba, where he masturbated on camera, which led to his non-call for the next three matches of the Russian national team[

Biography

Father Sergey Vladimirovich Dzyuba - a native of the city of Lubny, Poltava region of Ukraine, worked as a policeman [11], played football in regional tournaments as an attacker, then as a goalkeeper. Mother, Svetlana Alexandrovna, was born in Tsivilsk, Chuvashia, worked as a saleswoman in a grocery store in Moscow, near the Shchelkovskaya metro station [12], then became a deputy director there. They met in the same store. Dzyuba's family was not rich: initially they lived in a communal apartment in Potapovsky Lane and only then bought an apartment in the Novokosino district [11]. In addition to Artyom, the family had a daughter, Olga, in 1992.

At the age of 8, Dziuba came to the Spartak Academy, where he was invited after watching Alexander Yartsev, the son of Georgy Yartsev [14]. In 2005, he moved to the adult team of Spartak and began to play for the backup team on the recommendation of Evgeny Sidorov. With his successes in the reserves, he earned the right to train with the main team.

Club career

"Spartak Moscow)

He made his debut for Spartak in 2006 in the Russian Cup match against Ural, and in the Russian Championship he made his debut in the 12th round, in a match with Ramensky Saturn (1: 1) - he entered the field in the 71st minute , replacing Nikita Bazhenov. For the first time in the main part of the "red-white" Dziuba appeared in the return match of the Russian Cup against Ural. In the 2006 season, he played 8 matches for the main team, without scoring goals.

Season 2007

In 2007, Dzyuba began to play steadily in the first team, played 27 matches in all tournaments and scored 5 goals. He scored his first goal on April 15 in the 5th round in a game with Tom. With the team he became the silver medalist of the championship. He scored the only goal in the championship against Tom (1: 1) and saved Spartak from defeat.

He made his debut in the UEFA Cup on November 29 in a match with Sparta (0:0), was replaced in the 78th minute. He scored his first goal in European competition on December 19 in a match with Toulouse in the 61st minute from the penalty spot.

He took part in the 2007 European Youth Championship and scored 2 goals in his debut match against the German national team, which did not save the Russians from defeat in that match; the team performed unsuccessfully at that tournament, failing to advance from the group.

Season 2008

Artyom started the season again as a substitute. In the championship, he played 16 games, but did not play any of them completely. On August 23, Dziuba scored his only goal in the championship against Dynamo Moscow, which allowed Spartak to avoid defeat.

In the only cup match of this year, held on August 6 against Dynamo Bryansk, Artyom scored two goals and thereby led Spartak to the 1/8 finals, where Dynamo Moscow became his rival.

In the final match of the UEFA Cup group stage against Tottenham, Artyom scored two goals, but the British managed to equalize the score, and Spartak could not continue the fight for the trophy.

Rent in "Tom"

Artyom started 2009 in Spartak Moscow, but played only the first round for him, playing 8 matches and scoring two goals against Saturn near Moscow and Tom Tomsk.

In the same season, 23,000 rubles were stolen from Dzyuba's teammate, Vladimir Bystrov, at a training camp in Austria. Vladimir himself found this amount in Artyom's pockets. Later, Dzyuba said that he had been framed, and called Bystrov "product number 23" [15] [16]. In this conflict, Spartak sided with Bystrov, as a result of which Dziuba was loaned to Tomsk[17].

Dziuba played the second round for Tom. On October 3, in a match against the same Saturn near Moscow, Artyom scored a double. On November 29, he scored a goal against the Samara Wings. In total, in the 2009 season, Artyom played 18 matches and scored 5 goals.

In 2010, he again moved on loan to Tom, where, along with Sergei Kornilenko, he became the main forward of the team. He performed quite well, scoring 10 goals in a season. At the end of the season, he returned to Spartak [18].

Season 2011/2012

Dzyuba as part of Spartak

The next two seasons were successful for the player. The debut game of the season for Dzyuba was the Europa League match against the Swiss Basel, in which Spartak won a strong-willed victory with a score of 3: 2, one of the goals was scored by Artem [19]. In the return game with Basel, Artyom did not convert many chances, but still in this game he scored an assist for Aiden McGeady, who snatched a draw in the match (1: 1), and on the sum of two games Spartak won with a score of 4 :3 and reached the 1/8 finals of the Europa League[20].

On March 3, in the 1/8 finals of the Cup of Russia against Novosibirsk Sibir, after the transfer of Emin Makhmudov, Artyom opened the scoring with his goals in the 2011 cup matches, Spartak won in this game with a score of 2: 0 and reached the 1/4 finals[ 21].

On April 14, in the return match of the 1/4 finals of the Europa League against Porto, Dzyuba scored a goal and made an assist, but this did not help Spartak - he lost 2:5 and did not go to the 1/2 finals [22].

On April 24, 2011, he scored the winning goal against Spartak-Nalchik. He scored a double on May 21, 2011 in the game with Krasnodar. As a result, the match ended with the victory of "Spartak" (4:0). On August 21, he saved his team from defeat by scoring a return goal in the 53rd minute against Spartak Nalchik [23].

On April 28, 2012, he scored a goal at the 43rd minute against CSKA, but Spartak lost with a score of 1:2. On May 6, he first entered the field with a captain's armband in an away match with Zenit, in that match Spartak won 3: 2. On May 13, he scored one of the goals against Lokomotiv and helped Spartak get into the Champions League, another goal was scored by Marek Suchy.

Season 2012/2013

Spartak began the next season under the guidance of Spanish coach Unai Emery. Despite the fact that Dziuba received a lot of playing time, he managed to score the first goal of the season only on September 29, hitting the Amkar gate. Soon after a successful start, the results of the "red-whites" began to deteriorate, and Dzyuba stopped getting into the starting lineup of the team, giving way to Emmanuel Emenika.

On November 25, 2012, after a major defeat from Dynamo (1:5), Dziuba called head coach Emery a “coach”, on the same day the Spaniard was fired, and Valery Karpin again took the place of the team’s head coach. Under Karpin, Dziuba managed to return to the starting lineup, but the striker failed to improve his performance, until the end of the season he distinguished himself only once in the match with Zenit.

Rent in Rostov

After a hat-trick against Tom

Due to the fact that Valery Karpin decided to play according to the 4-3-3 scheme in the new season, Dziuba would have been destined for the role of a substitute in this arrangement, and on July 1, 2013, the player moved on loan to the Rostov football club [25]. On July 15, 2013, in his debut match for a new club against Terek, Dzyuba scored two goals and helped his team win[26]. On July 27, in a duel against Tom, Artyom scored a hat-trick and topped the list of top scorers in the championship[27]. In total, in the first 5 matches for Rostov in the Russian championship, he scored 7 goals. Then the striker's performance decreased and, according to the results of the first round (15 matches), he had 10 goals on his account. On November 8, in the first match of the second round, Dzyuba scored against Ural twice on the road and regained sole leadership in the list of scorers of the season with 12 goals. And at the end of the season, Dzyuba with 17 goals became the second scorer of the championship, losing the lead to the Ivorian striker of CSKA Seyd Doumbia. Also with Rostov, Dzyuba won his first trophy, winning the Russian Cup at the end of the season.

Season 2014/2015

After a successful season in Rostov, Dziuba returned to Spartak again and in the first match of the championship he scored two goals in the match with Rubin [28]. In the second round in the derby against Dynamo, Artyom again scored two goals and helped his team win a strong-willed victory[29]. On August 23, in the guest match of the fifth round with Ufa, Artyom made the third “double” in four matches, as a result, Spartak won with a score of 1: 2[30]. However, after a bright start, Dzyuba's performance subsided and he managed to score the next goal only in November, as part of the fourteenth round, hitting the Mordovia gate. In October 2014, information appeared in the media that Dziuba had rejected Spartak's offer to extend the contract[31], expiring in June 2015. In November, the president of Spartak, Leonid Fedun, said that Artyom had already rejected three offers for a new contract, and that there would be no new offers for Dziuba[32][33]. In this regard, information appeared about the possible transfer of the striker to Moscow Lokomotiv, but Leonid Fedun and Lokomotiv president Olga Smorodskaya did not confirm this information[34][35]. At the end of January 2015, information appeared that a contract for 5 years with a salary of 3.3 million euros per year was offered to Dziuba by Zenit [36].

Zenit (St. Petersburg)

Dziuba in the "Zenith"

On February 6, 2015, it was announced that Dziuba had signed a contract with Zenit St. Petersburg. According to its terms, the player had to join the team from July 1, 2015, and Dzyuba's salary was 3.3 million euros per year[37]. Prior to Dzyuba's transfer from Spartak to Zenit, the player was transferred to a reserve[38], and Tula Arsenal[39] became interested in his services on loan, provided that the player receives all or part of the salary in Spartak [40] or Zenit will pay Dzyuba's loan to Arsenal[41]. However, Spartak decided not to let the player go for game practice at Arsenal[42]. Zenit also wanted to take Dzyuba on a free loan, but at the same time fully take over the payment of the player's salary[43]. This offer and another - for a lease for more than half a million euros - were rejected. On the last day of the winter transfer window, Spartak again loaned Dzyuba to Rostov with compensation of about a million euros[44] and without the opportunity to take part in the Rostov game against Spartak[45].

On July 19, in a match against Dynamo Moscow, Artyom made his debut for a new team in the championship[46]. In this fight, he earned a penalty, which Hulk converted. A week later, in a match against Ural, Dzyuba scored his first goal for Zenit [47]. On August 1, in a duel against Terek Grozny, Artyom suffered a broken nose in a collision with Adilson[48].

On September 26, he hit the gates of Spartak, equalizing the score after the transfer of Oleg Shatov and bringing Zenit a draw (2: 2). Playing for Zenit in the Champions League 2015/16, set a recor

d for the number of go

als,

World Cup 2018

On June 3, 2018, he was included in the final application of the national team for the World Cup in Russia. On June 14, in the opening match of the championship, in which Russia played with the Saudi Arabia national team, he entered the field in the 70th minute, replacing Fedor Smolov, and scored a goal a minute later[68]. The head coach of the Russian national team congratulated the striker with a peculiar gesture, performing a military salute. Later, the striker himself began to celebrate the goals he scored in a similar way. When asked why he celebrates goals, demonstrating a military salute, Dziuba replied:

There is no hidden meaning, I just salute, because I play for my country. I serve Russia!

On June 19, Dziuba scored one of the goals in the victory match against Egypt (3:1).

On July 1, in the 1/8 finals, having converted a penalty at the end of the first half, he became the author of an important goal against the Spanish national team, which allowed the national team to bring the match to a penalty shoot-out and reach the 1/4 finals[70]. According to the results of the tournament, Dziuba and Denis Cheryshev entered the symbolic team of 11 players who made a breakthrough in the game at the 2018 World Cup, according to ESPN. At this World Cup, he scored 3 goals and gave 2 assists.

After the World Cup

In September 2018, he was chosen as the team captain during the absence of Igor Akinfeev from the national team for the game with Turkey in the League of Nations[72]. In this match, the Russian team won with a score of 2: 1, and Dzyuba scored the winning goal. After Akinfeev announced his retirement from the national team, Dziuba continued to be the captain.

On June 8, 2019, in Saransk, in the Euro 2020 qualifying match, he made the second poker as part of the Russian national team, hitting the gates of San Marino four times (9:0). On October 10, 2019, at Luzhniki, he scored a double against Scotland in the second half (4:0). The first of these two goals was the 22nd for Dzyuba in the Russian national team, Artyom surpassed Roman Pavlyuchenko in this indicator, only Alexander Kerzhakov (30) and Vladimir Beschastnykh (26) scored more for Russia. September 3, 2020, scoring two goals against the Serbian national team in the 2020/21 Nations League match, caught up with Beschastnykh in goals for the national team

At the 2020 European Championship, Dziuba scored his only goal from a penalty kick in the group stage match against Denmark, which the Russians lost 1:4. Despite the fact that Dziuba became the leader of the group stage in terms of the number of riding martial arts won (), after the Russian team was eliminated from further competitions, he, like many other players, was sharply criticized by players, coaches and fans for a failed game [75]. Also, for the entire tournament, Artyom Dzyuba was offside seven times.[76] After the defeat from Denmark, he apologized for the failed game in an interview with the Match TV channel, but spoke extremely harshly to the fans who criticized the national team, stating literally the following : "And those who dreamed about it, enjoy. You can curse us, bonfire - you will probably be right"

In September 2021, Dziuba refused to play for the Russian national team in the October matches of the 2022 World Cup qualifying tournament. He explained this by saying that he had not yet gained the desired shape and did not want to take someone's place[

Personal life

Wife Christina, the wedding took place in 2012. Sons Nikita (born April 24, 2013)[80], Maxim (born February 25, 2016)], Alexander (born May 15, 2021)

In 2015, he was seen in the company of TV presenter Maria Orzul. Dziuba said of this episode: “It was a big lesson for me. It's probably good that it happened. Otherwise, look at everything. Revisited values. I realized that I could lose, that I shouldn’t even think about it. I was very ashamed in front of my wife. And don't care about anything else. The whole world is not so important. The main thing is that this person hears me. And she heard me. We managed to save everything.”[86]

In November 2020, a wide resonance (including in the media of different countries) received the fact that an intimate video was published on the Internet with the participation of Dziuba, where he masturbated on camera, which led to his non-call for the next three matches of the Russian national team[

BIO

Artem Dzyuba was born on August 22, 1988 in a poor family in Moscow. Father Sergei Dzyuba worked as a policeman, and mother Svetlana Dziuba was a saleswoman in a store. Artyom lived with his parents in a communal apartment in the Chistye Prudy area.

Despite the fact that Dzyuba's father was fond of football in his youth and even participated in regional tournaments, he did not want to send his son to this sport. Therefore, when 7-year-old Artem got the idea to become a football player, he had to persuade his parents to send him to the kid's football club.

Dzyuba found himself at Spartak at the age of 8: during the casting, Artem so impressed the coach of the academy Alexander Yartsev (son of the Spartak legend Georgy Yartsev) that he immediately accepted him into the team. Against the background of his peers, Dziuba stood out favorably due to his physical data and ability to work with the ball.

However, at school, Artem was also in sight. Dziuba often got into trouble and, according to his recollections, was a "champion" in pranks. Together with friends, he disrupted lessons, knocked on classroom doors and ran away, and once participated in a game in the final of which a tennis ball flew into the head of the head teacher.

In the main Spartak team, Artem Dziuba made his debut on July 21, 2006. The 17-year-old striker entered the last 19 minutes of the RPL match with Saturn, but could not distinguish himself with effective actions. Dzyuba scored his first goal for Spartak on February 26, 2007. In the match of the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup with Sibir (1:3), Artem replaced Roman Pavlyuchenko and soon brought his team forward. After the game, he admitted that he dedicated his debut goal to his first coach, who was found murdered in his own apartment a week before the game.

Unfortunately, the striker's career in his native club did not work out. In 2009, Dziuba got into the famous scandal involving Vladimir Bystrov's wallet: the midfielder discovered that money had been stolen from him and blamed Artem for this. Spartak sided with Bystrov and sent Dziuba on loan to Tom.

In Tomsk, Artem showed himself great, so on his return he got into the starting lineup of Spartak. However, Dzyuba's happiness did not last long. Under the new coach of the club, Unai Emery, Artem began to score much less often and ended up in a deep reserve. And soon he completely quarreled with the Spaniard.

Under the next coach of Spartak, Valeria Karpin, Dziuba did not play either. As a result, Artem was loaned to Rostov, where he scored 19 goals in 31 matches and became the owner of the Russian Cup.

When Dzyuba once again returned to Spartak, the club began to actively try to extend the agreement with him. Spartak offered Artem a new contract three times, but the striker refused and Dziuba's parting with Spartak turned out to be scandalous. Six months before the expiration of the contract, Artem was removed to the double team, so he was forced to go on loan for playing practice. As a result, the 2014/2015 season Dziuba finished in Rostov.

Dziuba officially moved to Zenit on July 1, 2015. The Petersburg club signed a 5-year contract with Artem, and Dzyuba's salary was 3.3 million euros per year. For Zenit in the RPL, the striker made his debut on July 19 in a match against Dynamo Moscow, and a week later, in a game with Ural, he scored his first goal in the new club.

At first, in St. Petersburg, things were going well for Dziuba: he regularly played and scored. However, in 2018, under head coach Roberto Mancini, Artem began to sit on the bench more and more often. As a result, Dzyuba went on loan to Arsenal for playing practice. There he spent the second half of the 2017/2018 season and scored 6 goals in 10 matches.

The rent went to Artem's benefit. Returning to Zenit, Dzyuba got stronger and began to enchant: he won the Russian Championship three times, the Cup twice and the Russian Super Cup three times. He also twice became the top scorer and the best assistant at the end of the RPL season.

ACHIVEMENTS

Russian Cup Winner (2014)

Champion of Russia (2019, 2020, 2021)

Russian Cup Winner (2016, 2020)

Winner of the Russian Super Cup (2015, 2016, 2020)

The best scorer of the championship of Russia (2020)

The best assistant of the championship of Russia (2019, 2020)

Member of the Grigory Fedotov Club (2016)

Member of the Club of 100 Russian scorers (2016)

The best football player of 2018 according to the RFU

The best player of the season of the Russian Football Championship (2020)

Member of the Igor Netto Club (2021)