Filimonov football player biography

His father, Vladimir Filimonov, was a professional football player, played in a midfield, later cooked players. The son immediately chose a goalkeeper's career. His childhood and youthful years took place in Chisinau, in the Soviet Republic of Moldova. The family lived there for 16 years, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Filimonov played for the Chisinau Nistr then.

There I grew up as a football player, there all my football education was laid, without this there would be no sporting success, ”said Filimonov Jr. himself.

In the year, he graduated from the Burevetnik football school in Yoshkar-Ola and began his career as a football player. He took the first steps in professional football with the Cheboksary team "Steel", which played in the second lower league of the USSR. Having played the season, Filimonov returned to Yoshkar-Ola again, where he played in the local “friendship”, a team from the same league.

Acting as a goalkeeper, he scored the first and so far the only goal in his career. The next club, which was played by Filimonov, was the Voronezh “torch”, which was listed in the newly formed major league of Russia. The Torimla coach was well acquainted with Vladimir Filimonov, and when they were looking for a goalkeeper in Voronezh, he recommended his son.

Alexander Filimonov played two seasons there in years. But, despite the strong game of the young goalkeeper, the club moved to the first league. And Filimonov, on the contrary, went for a promotion, began to play for the Textbook club from Kamyshin, who has firmly settled in the High League. Having become the main star of the club, he gained fame as one of the most promising goalkeepers in the country.

After the contract with the “textiles” in the year, Filimonov moved to Torpedo, and soon to the Moscow Spartak, the flagship of the then Russian football. The main goalkeeper of Spartak was then Ruslan Nigmatullin, but Filimonov soon received the right to play at the base, moving a more experienced colleague. Alexander Filimonov won all his main awards, playing for this club. In the year, our fellow countryman receives an invitation to the national team, played for it for 4 seasons.

In the year in Filimonov’s career, a turning point came, luck turned away from the goalkeeper. The overflowed Luzhniki, a decisive match with the national team of Ukraine, when it was to be determined who will reach the final of the European Championship, and Filimonov, who is curious passing the ball of Andrei Shevchenko for a long time, was remembered for a long time. The Ukrainian football player struck the penalty area, Filimonov left the gate and, trying to catch the ball, backing, dropped him at his goal.

This incident gave rise to a lot of jokes in the near-football environment, and got into the video of the Chaf group Argentina-Yamayka. It was believed that at that moment, after a divorce from his wife Anna Filimonova, the football player was not in a good psychological form, although he himself denies such a version. Since then, the game in Spartak has not been completed, the bold and risky manner of Filimonova began to fail.

In the year, Filimonov signed a contract with the Dynamo Kyiv, having played the season, returned to Russia next year and entered into a contract with the Elistinsky Uralan. Two years later, the club flew to the first division, Filimonov again changed the team. In the year, he was part of the team of Moscow “Torpedo-Metallurg”, reached the final of the Russian Cup.

But they already held the final match without Filimonov, the goalkeeper left the country to play for the Cyprus club Naa Salamin. He returned to Russia in, joining the Krasnodar Kuban team of the first division. The contract that was concluded by the end of the year did not extend the contract. Starting from the year, Filimonov is a participant in the matches of the Cup of Legends - an international tournament, in which famous football players who have recently completed their careers take part.

From the very first Cup that was played in the year, Russia is an unchanged winner. Since the year, Filimonov began to combine two sports, having mastered beach football. Being a playing coach of the Tula Arsenal, he played for Lokomotiv in parallel, becoming the champion of Russia in beach football. As part of the national team in this sport, the World Cup, the Euroleague Cup and the Intercontinental Cup won.

With the same in the position of playing coach Filimonov, he performs in the football club "Dolgoprudny" from the city of the same name, playing in the second division. Despite his famous failure in the year, Alexander Filimonov was recognized as the best football player in the history of this sports in Mari El. This game will become a final match in the game career of the legendary goalkeeper Alexander Filimonov.

At the end of the match, an autograph session is planned. Filimonov, as part of the Moscow Spartak, became the champion of Russia six times. Alexander played 16 matches for the Russian team. He played for the Russian team in beach football and became the world champion, the winner of the Euroleague and the holder of the intercontinental cup. When implementing the project, state support funds allocated as a grant are used in accordance with the order of the President of the Russian Federation from