Twin brothers Aleksey and Vasily Berezutsky are active footballers of the Moscow club CSKA and the national team of Russia.
Dossier
Alexey and Vasily Berezutsky were born on June 20, 1982 in Moscow (USSR). Citizens of Russia. The playing position on the football field is central defenders. They have the title of Honored Masters of Sports of Russia. Winners of the 2006 UEFA Cup, bronze medalists of the 2008 European Championships.
Game career of Alexei Berezutsky
Alexey Berezutsky is a pupil of the sports and youth football school of the Olympic reserve "Change". He began his playing career at the Torpedo-ZIL club in 1999. Having played 2 matches for the capital's team, Alexey moved to the Chernomorets club (Novorossiysk). Here he spent 14 matches and scored one goal scored.
Since 2001, the footballer has been defending the colors of the CSKA Moscow team. The debut match for the army club Alex played May 8, 2002. It was a match in the championship of Russia against the Moscow team “Torpedo”. To date, the capital club Alexei Berezutsky has played 297 matches, in which he scored 5 goals. He is a five-time champion, seven-time Cup winner, six-time winner of the Russian Super Cup, and owner of the UEFA Cup.
For the national team of Russia, the football player began to play since 2003. He played his first duel for the country's main team on February 12 in a friendly match against the Cyprus national team. In 2008, Alexei was honored to lead the Russian team to a friendly match against the Romanian team as team captain. It was a duel in preparation for the national team for Euro 2008. The meeting itself ended in a crushing defeat of the Russian team with a score of 0: 3. Perhaps, due to the result of the match in the final of the 2008 European Championships, Alexey was not seen on the fields of Austria and Switzerland. And although he spent all the matches of the Russian national team on the bench, he received the bronze medal of the European Championship.
At the next European Championship, held in Poland and Ukraine, Alexei Berezutsky took part as the main defender of the team. And despite the fact that the very participation of the Russian team ended in failure (the team could not overcome the group stage), Alexey participated in all three matches. He played his last match on November 14, 2015. It was a friendly match with the Portuguese national team. In total, during the period of performances, Alexei Berezutsky put on a shirt of the Russian national team 55 times.
Alexey’s personal life was the best. He is a married man. Has a spouse Jamila and two children.
Game career of Vasily Berezutsky
Like his brother Alexei, Vasily Berezutsky is a graduate of the Smena football school. He also began his career as a player in the Torpedo ZIL club, for which he played 28 fights. Since 2002, Vasily is a permanent player of the Moscow team CSKA. As part of the Russian football grandee, he first entered the football field on July 17 at the 46th minute of the meeting against Samara's “Wings of the Soviets”. For 13 seasons spent in the “CSKA” Vasily has become the leader of the team, its captain, the best and main defender of the club and the Russian team. As part of the army, he played 314 matches, scoring 7 goals. Like his brother Alexei, Vasily is involved in all of the above team awards. We mention only the personal gaming achievements of the brothers. The Berezutsky brothers are gentlemen of the Order of Friendship (2006), members of the Igor Netto Club , and multiple representatives of the annual list of “33 best players of the Russian championship”.
As part of the national team of Russia, Vasily took part in 92 matches. During the period of performances, he participated in major international tournaments, including performances at the World Cup (2014) and the European Championship (2008). At the last world forum, he was the captain of the team. Vasily played his last match for the Russian national team in the qualifying match for the 2016 European Championship against the Liechtenstein team on September 8, 2015.
Like his brother, Vasily Berezutsky is a diligent family man. He married in 2009 a girl Olga. The next year, the couple gave birth to a son, who was given the name Vladimir.
Portrait of the Berezutsky brothers
The Berezutsky brothers (photo above) are conflicting figures. Possessing unquestioned authority, stability and reliability, their game is not without some shortcomings. Having vast experience playing both as part of CSKA and the national team, they can make a couple of mistakes in almost every game, which often have an impact on the final result of a match. It is difficult to hide their gaps in starting and distance speed. This also applies to the adoption of the only right decisions in positional play in defense, where pivoting, position selection, and perfect heading are required.
The Berezutsky brothers compensate for these shortcomings with high dedication, physical readiness, a tight game with an attacking opponent, an advance game (at the time the ball was received by the opposing team player), mutual understanding and interaction with defense colleagues, and self-confidence.
In general, the brothers have been playing for so long that it seems as if they are playing forever. Others even ask themselves: how old are the Berezutsky brothers? In fact, they are only a little over 33 years old. At least another 2-3 years, fans will be able to follow the performances of the players.
In conclusion, we note that sometimes you can hear absurd allegations that the Berezutsky brothers in the amount of more than two appear in the composition of CSKA. Such information may be considered false. And in the future, to the question of how many brothers the Berezutsky plays in Russian football, there is only one affirmative answer - two. Their names are Alex and Vasily.
By the way, this rumor went back to the time when the Berezutsky brothers studied at school, and the teachers themselves could not distinguish between them. The guys successfully used their similarity for homework. Later it helped in the use of car rights, as well as in obtaining wages.