Pavel Pogrebnyak

Pavel Pogrebnyak at Euro 2012

Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak (Russian Павел Викторович Погребняк, English transcription Pavel Pogrebnyak, . Born November 8, 1983 in Moscow ) is a Russian football player. The striker is under contract at FC Reading and belongs to the extended squad of the Russian national team. Pogrebnyak plays as a classical shock striker.

Career

Association

Pogrebnyak began his career at Spartak Moscow, after his debut in the Premjer - League 2002 he was loaned out for the season 2003 to the second division Baltika Kaliningrad, in his first full professional season, he was one of 15 hits for the top 10 of the second Russian league. In 2004, he came in the first half of the season regularly for Spartak in the Premjer League to use, but was borrowed in the summer for the rest of the season back in the second league, this time to FK Khimki. He was also sorted out of the 2005 squad Spartak, but this time to a first division - Schinnik Yaroslavl - borrowed his performance there was quite modest with only four gates; as Pogrebnyak after this season at Spartak no regular place waved, he left the club in the dispute to go to Tom Tomsk.

At Tom Tomsk he managed to breakthrough; with 13 goals, he was the third-best scorer in the Russian league and also appointed in the summer after the 2006 World Cup in the National team squad.

For the 2007 season, he moved to Zenit St. Petersburg, where he trained with Andrei Arshavin a successful strike partnership, the zenith to the first title shot with a total of 21 hits since 1984, each with a goal of both Zenit striker won in 2008 then the Russian Supercup.

Pogrebnyak became internationally known through his many goals in the UEFA Cup of the season 2007/ 08 - get him as the Munich Toni ten goals in the competition - especially in the first two knockout rounds, he drew attention to himself: against Villarreal he scored in return the game each only goal for Zenit, against Olympique Marseille he was again the dominant player of the game back in St. Petersburg and scored both goals in the 2-0 victory and allowed Zenit so the quarter-finals. He could win at the end of the 2007/08 season with Zenit in the final against Rangers in the UEFA Cup.

August 1, 2009 Pogrebnyak moved for about 4.5 million euros to VfB Stuttgart. He signed a contract at VfB until June 2012. His first Bundesliga he scored 15 August 2009 in a 4-2 home win against SC Freiburg. His first hat-trick for VfB scored the Russians on Matchday 4 of the 2010/11 season in the 7-0 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. On 11 January 2012, the VfB Stuttgart announced that the expiring contract is not renewed on 30 June 2012.

January 31, 2012 Pavel Pogrebnyak moving to Fulham. Making its debut in the Premier League on 11 February 2012 Pogrebnyak headed the opening goal Fulham's 2-1 home win over Stoke City. After he was successful in front of goal again in his second league match in England 's 1-0 away win against Queens Park Rangers, Pogrebnyak came after a hat-trick in his third game for Fulham against Wolverhampton Wanderers on March 4, 2012 ahead on five goals this season in the Premier League, and was celebrated by the Fulham supporters already as "The Pog ".

For the 2012/13 season he moved within the League for Reading FC.

National

Pogrebnyak succeeded in his first race for the Russian team in August 2006, the winning goal for a 1-0 win over Latvia, but in 2007 came only in one of eight official matches is used, the blamabelen 1:2 against Israel. Although he was not prepared for the first two warm-up matches in 2008 despite the absence of the two parental striker Arshavin ( lock) and Zyryanov ( injury) and there also are two to three identical Centre Forward in the extended squad of Russian selection, Pogrebnyak was in the Russian squad for the EURO 2008 called, but was injured shortly before the start of the competition in a preseason game so hard that it turned out for the tournament and was replaced by Oleg Ivanov in the squad.

Successes as a player

  • UEFA Cup 2008
  • Champion of Russia 2007

Private

Pavel Pogrebnyak two younger brothers, is married and has two children.

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