There are football players who, although they did not succeed inhis profession of great heights, but for a long time remained in the hearts of fans, and their names are still heard. Among the Russian modern players can be cited as an example of Alan Gatagov. The still quite young midfielder, who had previously played for Lokomotiv and Dynamo, has already left the Russian Premier League and is now playing in Kazakhstan. But even there, Alan Gatagov does not forget about himself: last March, the football player’s name appeared on the same list with such star players as Paul Pogba (Juventus), Gonzalo Iguain (Napoli) and Xabi Alonso (Bavaria) . How did it happen and what else did Gatagov mention during his career? About this below.
Early career Alan Gatagov
Gatagov Alan - football player, born January 231991 in Vladikavkaz. Alan started playing football in his hometown at the age of three. When Gatagov turned six, he ended up in the football school of Vladikavkaz Alania. And at 12 he was taken to the Moscow Lokomotiv, when Alan's family moved to the capital.
In the school "Lokomotiv" Gatagov tried on differentpositions, from the central defender to the attacker, but over the years it was formed as an attacking midfielder. In 2008, the football player is attracted to training with the base and offer a professional contract.
Дебют Гатагова за первую команду «Локо» состоялся May 16, 2009 in a match against the Terek Grozny. On August 9, the footballer scores his first goal. Alan also receives the first call in the youth team of Russia.
At the end of the 2010 season, Gatagov manages to take a firm place at the heart of Lokomotiv. At the end of the year, the midfielder ranks second in the vote for the title of the best young player.
Departure from Lokomotiv and further career
The club extends the contract with Gatagov in the beginning2011, but in the summer they sell the football player to Dynamo Moscow. In the same year, changes occur in the personal life of the newly minted midfielder “white-blue”: talking about a gift that received from his wife, twenty-year-old Alan Gatagov. Footballer's wife Olga bore him a son.
In Dynamo, Gatagov did not work out (for the club hedidn’t really play), and a year later he was leased to Tom. This is followed by rent in Makhachkala "Anji" and "Maccabi" from Petah Tikva (Israel). In January 2015, Gatagov finally leaves the “white-blue”. The football player has signed an agreement with the Kazakhstani club Irtysh (Pavlodar). For him, Gatagov played in 18 matches, after which he moved to another Kazakhstan club - “Taraz”. It is now rumored that Alan Gatagov leaves Taraz.
What is remembered Gatagov
Perhaps the most memorable episode withGatagov in the Russian Championship was, unfortunately, not one of his goals, but a miss. It happened when Alan was still playing for Lokomotiv, in a match against Siberia. The Moscow team broke through a free kick, which the Siberian goalkeeper managed, but the ball hit the ball straight ahead, and the well-known Lokomotiv forward Dmitri Sychev was the first to finish. Sychev kick came right at the goalkeeper, but the attack did not end there: the ball bounced to Alan Gatagov. The midfielder was literally a couple of meters away from the absolutely empty goal, but nevertheless Gatagov somehow managed to break higher. That match ended in a draw 1: 1.
We must pay tribute to Gatagov:this fantastic miss did not break him. Soon after, he scored an important goal for the French team for the Russian youth team. That goal, according to rumors, even attracted the interest of some European clubs to the footballer.
Gatagov scored not often, but almost alwaysbeautiful. We can recall his goal Nalchik "Spartak", scored in the fall "through itself." Alan had always been fine with the technique, and some of his tricks are still on YouTube.
The famous goal for "Irtysh"
A separate house in the career of Alan Gatagov is his goal for Pavlodar “Irtysh”. It was Gatagov’s first (and last) goal for the new team, and he was scored in his debut match.
In the spring of 2015 in the first round of the ChampionshipKazakhstan "Irtysh" hosted "Ordabas". A football player scored his goal after filing from the flank at the corner of the penalty “Ordabasa”. Alan Gatagov contrived to hit in the fall of the heel. As the midfielder himself later said: “in the style of Ibrahimovic”. This goal brought “Irtysh” a 1: 1 draw.
Gatagov's goal hit the top sixteenBeautiful goals of the week according to the British newspaper The Guardian. Together with the Russian midfielder, Paul Pogba, Gonzalo Higuain, Xabi Alonso and Diego Forlan are on the list.
It remains only to wish good luck to Alan Gatagov andhope for his return to the Championship of Russia. The football player is still young, and therefore who knows, perhaps in the future he will be able to make his debut for the first national team of the country.
