Nika Piliyev
Nika Konstantinovich Pilijew (Russian Ника Константинович Пилиев; * March 21, 1991 in Tbilisi, Soviet Union ) is a Russian football player at the position of a midfielder, whose former position is the left midfielder. However Pilijew can be used on all of the other center panel positions. He currently plays on loan at Russian first division side Amkar Perm, his real master club is the capital club CSKA Moscow, the first team is also active in the same league.
Club career
Career start at Lok.Moscow
Born in 1991 in today's capital of Georgia in the former Soviet Union Pilijew moved at the age of five (according to other sources, seven ) years with his family from Sochi, where it was initially trained with his father in football. After about a year of this brought him to a youth coach who for two years as an offensive player, mostly as a striker, but also as an attacking midfielder, trained him. In the years that Pilijew was trained by another two youth coach and finally came in 2003 in the Russian capital Moscow, where he completed an approximately two-week trial at Lokomotiv Moscow. Subsequently, the young offensive talent was finally taken to the boarding school connected by the association. From there, he went through all the youth leagues, where he celebrated a number of successes in part. After he was trained as early as 2003 in the junior section of the club, followed in the 2009 recording of the young talent in the professional squad the team.
There he was finally on 16 May 2009, his professional debut when he came on as a substitute in the league game against Terek Grozny in the 86th minute for the roughly the same Alan Maratowitsch Gatagow; the game ended in a 4-0 home victory of Moscow. Furthermore, it was this year in 15 league games of the Russian youth championship active, in which he scored three goals. As it came closer and closer to the end of the season, Pilijew would have had the opportunity to extend his expiring contract, which he did not do, however, and shortly before the deadline even refused to sign a professional contract with another Lok Moscow. Instead, he then moved to within of Moscow also active in the top division of the country PFK CSKA Moscow. When local rivals he was mainly intended for the professional team, where he was eventually used on the attacking midfield positions.
With CSKA Moscow in the Champions League
With CSKA was recognized quickly the talent of the young offensive actor and put him already at the first Champions League group game of the team, the 1-3 away defeat against VfL Wolfsburg, as a substitute for the same age in about Georgi Mikhailovich Schtschennikow. Due to the decent performance even his first league appearance for CSKA did not wait long in coming, as only five days after his Champions League debut Pilijew was used in the 3-0 home win over local rivals FK Dynamo Moscow from the beginning and from the 78. minute replaced by former Austria - Legionnaire and longtime CSKA kicker Elvir Rahimić. By the end of the season, at the CSKA Moscow ranked in fifth place, and thus at the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2010/11 was allowed to participate, followed Pilijew for another three league bets. In addition, he has also been used yet in two group games against Manchester United ( 0:1 and 3:3 ). Following the team managed to reach the quarter -finals of the competition where it was eliminated, however, against the later CL- winners Inter Milan with a total score of 0:2 from the current tournament. For the Russian junior national team, however not longer ranged for another Champions League use.
In November, he finally retired to a violation of the intervertebral discs, which made him failed to February 2010. Then Piliew sat in the game of 2010 in a number of official matches of his team on the bench, but was not used in any of the games, after which he was awarded in early August 2010 within the league to Amkar Perm. There followed immediately after the signing of the loan contract, his first competitive match for the club from the use of the former eastern metropolis of Europe. He appeared as a substitute in the 0-1 away defeat against Anzhi Makhachkala after 67 minutes of play for the Croatian youth international Josip Knežević. By the end of the season, where Amkar Perm only just with a slightly better goal difference made the league, Pilijew came in four other championship games for use and sat in five league games without using on the bench. He also brought it to three scoreless appearances in the Russian Youth Championship in 2010.
National team career
First international experience gained Pilijew among others in 2008, when he took part with the Russian U-17 national team at the elite round of qualifying for the U-17 European Football Championships 2008 but did not make the collection for the European Championship finals in Turkey. After a few missions in the U-17 National Team and as Captain of the Russian U-18 national team finally followed by a convocation in the U-19 squad of Russia, where he, among other things, by Nikolai Nikolayevich Sawitschew, the twin brother of former Germany Legionnaire Yuri Nikolayevich Sawitschew was trained. Previously, he still won in the year 2009, the annual end - Valentin A. Granatkin Memorial Tournament, a tournament in which only international U-17 and today only participate more U-18 national teams. At the tournament, he was elected with four goals and top scorer of the competition. After numerous operations in the U-19 national team, having participated among others in the elite round of qualifying for the U-19 Football Championship in 2010, it remains just did not make the team for the European Championship finals in France, followed by a convocation in the junior selection of Russia, for which he was already in use as well.