Igor Simutenkov is a well-known Russian football player, who started his career back in Soviet times. I played at the position of the striker. He has the title of Master of Sports of the USSR.
In big football
AT the main line-up of the team first appeared on the field on September 25, 1990 against the Pamir team from Dushanbe. With "Dynamo" in that season, Igor V. Simutenkov finished in 6th place.
The next year the tournament was reformatted already inRussian championship. Simutenkov has already become a player of the main line-up. In 1992 he won with a "blue and white" bronze medals. Two seasons in the "Dynamo" became super-productive: 41 goals in 85 meetings.
Such a vivid game could not go unnoticed for European football scouts. So Igor Simutenkov went to conquer the Italian championship.
Career in Europe
In 1996, Regina returned to the elite.Igor Simutenkov made a significant contribution to the overall success. He played 33 matches in which he scored 8 goals. However, for a long time to remain in the series "A" the club failed, in the first year he again went to the lower division.
Only in 1998, Simutenkov was able to move to the"Bologna", in which he began to play in conjunction with another Russian - Igor Kolyvanov. However, soon got injured and completely himself in this club did not disclose.
The following year, the player moved to anotherchampionship. Igor Simutenkov, whose biography was now connected with Spain, began to play for Tenerife. True, in the second division. According to the results of 2001 the team came out in an example. However, Simutenkov, after spending in the top Spanish division only 9 matches, left to play in the US. In total for "Tenerife" has spent 55 matches, in which scored 4 goals.
In the United States, Igor was in favor of Kansas City Wizards.For three seasons, the team regularly went to the playoffs of the Premier League of the US Championship, but could not win the medals. In 49 matches in America, Simutenkov scored 12 goals.
Return to Russia
In 2006, already 33-year-old Simutenkov moved tothe Voronezh "Dynamo". The team at that time played in the amateur league. Igor spent his last season here - played 17 matches, in which he scored 4 goals. A few years later the team was disbanded, its place was taken by "Torch".
As part of the national teams Simutenkov managedplay for the Olympic team of the USSR, having played two matches for it. In the Russian national team Igor performed from 1994 to 1998, while playing for the Italian "Regina". For the national team scored 9 goals, appearing on the field only 20 times.
Participated in the European Championship in England in 1996, when the Russians could not leave the group, losing to the Italians, Germans and Czechs.
On the coaching bridge
Already in 2007, he rose at the helm of the Moscow"Torpedo-RG" (in the future became FC "Moscow"). With the team spent the season in the zone "West" of the second division. In 30 matches Simutenkov scored 10 wins and led the team to the 9th line in the final standings. At the end of the season he was invited to lead the Russian youth team.
In 2010, he became an assistant to Luciano Spalletti in St. Petersburg's Zenit. From 2014 to 2015 was part of the coaching staff of the Russian national team at Fabio Capello.
For today is the main traineryouth structure of the St. Petersburg "Zenith", acting in the championship of duplicate teams. In 2016 he took with the team only 10th place. The youth squad of Zenit managed to win only 12 games out of 30, showing uncompromising football, only 6 draws and a good game in the defense (36 goals conceded, this is the 5th result in the league).
