Euro 2012 will be the fourteenth international championship among European teams. It is held once every four years. This time the competition will take place on the territory of Ukraine and Poland.
The exact composition of the players participating in the Russian team that will go to Euro 2012 has long been determined. The choice of the head coach of the Russian national team fell on Andrey Arshavin - he will lead the game of the Russian team on the field. The first Euro game matches will be held on June 8, and all residents of Russia hope that the best forward player of Russian football will bring home the coveted award.
The current captain of the Russian national team was born in 1981 in St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad. The football player spent his childhood in the St. Petersburg school №18. In addition to football, young Arshavin had another passion - the game of checkers. In both sports, Andrey easily overcame all difficulties on the way to sports heights, but when a difficult choice arose, he preferred a leather ball. His drafts coach was extremely dissatisfied with this - he was predicted to have good prospects in this game, but Andrey could not be persuaded.
Still - after all, Arshavin has been playing football since the age of seven. At the football school he was noticed and invited to play in the Zenit reserve team. 2000 was the year of Andrey's debut in big football - she started playing for the main team of St. Petersburg Zenit.
The footballer was invited to the capital "Spartak", but the transition did not work due to disagreements with the team's coach Oleg Romantsev. 2008 was fruitful for Andrey with many awards - he received the UEFA Cup, European Super Cup and the same award at the Russian level. Until 2009 he played for Zenit, then he reached a new level of his career, moving to the English football club Arsenal.
But soon fate will again push him against Zenit - Arsenal will conclude an agreement with the St. Petersburg team on the lease of Arshavin for a period of one year. Andrei is so loved in his homeland in Russia that the village under construction in the suburbs of St. Petersburg will be named in his honor.
