At the ended Euro 2012 tournament, few players of the Russian national team received positive feedback about their play. Two or three exceptions include comments on the speech of the young Ossetian Alan Dzagoev. It is possible that his play in this tournament will become the reason for inviting a football player to some top club with a world name - information about such an interest is already available in the domestic and foreign press.
Alan Dzagoev, number ten, plays for the Moscow club CSKA as an attacking midfielder. The player is 22 years old, and he did not play for other clubs of the highest or first league of domestic football. For CSKA, since 2008, Alan played in 102 matches and scored 26 goals. The head coach of this team, Valery Gazzayev, who became legendary, trusted Dzagoev, even at the age of 18 placing him in the main team. After the first appearance in the “base”, they began to talk about the young footballer as a future star, since in this game he made assists twice and scored once himself. In the 2008 season, he was recognized as the best young footballer in Russia, and a year later, by the authoritative football publication World Soccer, Dzagoev was included in the top ten best young footballers of the planet.
During these 4 years as part of CSKA, Alan won the Russian Cup three times, twice won the silver medals of the championship and once - bronze, and also won the Super Cup. For the youth national team of Russia from 2006 to 2008, the footballer played six games and scored four goals, and in October 2008 he made his debut for the main national team of the country. At the European Championship that ended unsuccessfully for the Russian team, Dzagoev played in each of the three matches. It was he who opened the scoring for the Russian national team in this tournament, scoring the first goal against the Czech national team. The third goal in this meeting is also on the account of the midfielder, as well as the only goal of the Russians in the next game against the Polish national team. Despite the fact that Alan played only three games in this tournament, he was among the top scorers.
An unsuccessful game of the national team will certainly cause a number of players to leave it. However, the right to play for the first team of the country of Alan Dzagoev does not raise doubts either among experts or among fans more prone to harsh judgments.
