Oleg Ivanov

Ivanov in the jersey of Samara ( 2010)

Oleg Aleksandrovich Ivanov (Russian Олег Александрович Иванов; * August 4, 1986 in Moscow ) is a Russian football player. The midfielder is since 2012 at Terek Grozny under contract and was called into the squad for the first time the Russian national team for the Euro 2008.

Ivanov was taken shortly after his eighth birthday of the football school of Lok Moscow, but switched after two years to the school of city rivals Spartak. After leaving school he was taken 16 -year-old Spartak Moscow under contract, Ivanov came in the first year regular in the second team of the Moscow used and celebrated in 2004 then still a minor his debut in professional football, as he of February 24 in the final minute UEFA Cup match against RCD Mallorca came on, a short time later he made his first game in the Premjer league, but he came in 2004 before it, to gain experience in total only three times in the European Cup and twice in the Russian league used to then second-rate club FK Khimki Moscow suburb moved where he could quickly establish itself as a regular player.

After one season, he moved to league rivals FC Kuban Krasnodar, where he became one of the best players in the league and played a major role in the rise at the end of the season. In a vote among the players on the best player of the season 2006, the second Russian league Ivanov received the second most votes. After a year as a regular player in the Kuban Premjer league he joined for the 2008 season Krylia Sovetov Samara to.

As a teenager, played Ivanov 2005 four times for the youth team of Russia, but it was very surprising when he, without having previously also only been in the squad, was appointed to the preliminary squad for Russia's Euro 2008. For the final squad he was originally not considered, after an injury Pawel Pogrebnjaks but re-nominated for this one.