Aleksandr Kerzhakov
Alexander Kerschakow (2010)
Alexander Anatoljevich Kerschakow (Russian Александр Анатольевич Кержаков / Aleksandr Anatol'evič Keržakov; FIFA spelling aloud engl transcription. Aleksandr Kerzhakov; born November 27, 1982 in Kingissepp, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian football player.
Career
Association
The striker played in the Russian Premier League Zenit St. Petersburg until he in the Spanish Primera División during the winter break of the 2006/07 season for FC Sevilla moved. Kerschakow was 2004 top scorer in the Russian league in Premjer years. For this reason he was called in Russia Alexander the Great. In Seville Kerschakow wore the jersey with the number 9 back
With Seville he won on 16 May 2007 against Espanyol in the UEFA Cup on June 23, 2007 compared Getafe Copa del Rey and on August 21 Supercopa de España against Real Madrid
During the winter break of the season 2007/ 08 he returned to the Russian Premjer League for FK Dynamo Moscow. He moved back to Zenit St Petersburg in early 2010.
National
He participated with the Russian national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea and in the UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal, but was not nominated for the UEFA Euro 2008 as Most dangerous goal scorer Russian players of coach Guus Hiddink.
Private life
Alexander Kerschakow is divorced. He has from his first marriage, a daughter named Daria who was born on 7 September 2005.
In 2010 Kerschakow began studying industrial engineering.
During the Russian presidential election in 2012 Kerschakow belonged to the " trusted persons" of Vladimir Putin.
Achievements
- UEFA Cup: 2007
- Champion of Russia: 2010
- Russian Cup: 2010
- Premjer League Cup: 2003
- Copa del Rey: 2007
- Spanish Super Cup: 2007
- Scorer in the Russian league Premjer: 2004
- Footballer of the Year in Russia: 2010