Aleksei Ionov: interesting facts career statistics and performances

Aleksei Ionov - a native of Leningrad region, the metropolitan football CSKA and Russian national team.

The first steps in the sport

To engage in school football Alexei Ionov began at age five. His first mentor was Vladimir Molchanov. The youth team of "Zenith" was playing on Ionov midfielder position, it is in this role he made his debut in the adult football.

The fans will remember how in Petrograd memorable for the 2007-2008 season in the blue-white t-shirt in European Cup campaign, scored twice Alexei Ionov. Statistics of matches of the group round of qualification and show that in the games, which involved a young midfielder, its efficiency was one of the highest on the team.

All comes with experience

The following goals for the "Zenith" in the framework of the European Cup Alexei Ionov had been in the Champions League, having featured in a goal in the match against "Hajduk" and the Belgian "Anderlecht". Russians scored in these matches were crucial, allowing the St. Petersburg group managed to collect an additional six points. The paradox, but in the matches of the Russian Premier League, his first Ionov scored only at the end of the match, opened the gate "Amkar". And the midfielder "Zenith" is owned by a very interesting record. Also in 2011, he signed at the gate, "Rostov", and this goal was the fastest in the history of Russian championships. To mark the effective action, Alexei Ionov took only 12 seconds.

Incident and transfer to the "Kuban"

At the end of 2011 had a place to be a hard-hitting episode, the protagonist of which was Alexei Ionov. Footballer allowed himself to sit behind the wheel of the car in a drunken state, and being stopped by traffic police, entered into a verbal argument with police officers. Official reaction to the "Zenith" is not long in coming. Ions received substantial fines in the amount of two million rubles and was suspended from training with the first team "blue-white-blue."

in the situation quickly took advantage of the "Kuban". Krasnodar club at the initiative of head coach Dan Petrescu bought the contract of midfielder, giving to another chance to prove himself in the big football. Transfer took place in January 2012, and after only two months Alexei Ionov scored a goal in the gates of his former team. Footballer behaved no better, ran to the ultras, "Zenith" and weighed them an ironic bow.

The transition to the "Kuban" definitely played into the hands of the midfielder. First, he helped the team to get on the end of the season in European competition. Secondly, football was again in good standing. Disgraced act was in the past, and once again began to hunt Ionov clubs from the top of the standings.

Back to Moscow

At the end of the season 2012-2013 Alexey signed a three year contract with Makhachkala "Anji", which got new sponsors and invited a team of stars, one after another. However, starting to play a few games of the season, Ionov realized that the game is for the Dagestani club - not what he could have dreamed of, even if a lot of money. In the late summer of that year, the football player has accepted the invitation of the Moscow "Dynamo". The important role played in this transition the new coach of the "blue and white", Dan Petrescu, whom the midfielder found a common language in the "Kuban". Total for the Moscow team Aleksey Ionov spent 76 matches. Its most successful period in the "Dynamo" can be called the season of 2014-2015, when the footballer was able to thirteen times distinguish goals in a goal in all competitions.

In the summer of 2016 the press reported that among the players who are in the off-season can change the club, appears and Alexei Ionov. CSKA will offer players a one-year lease with a further right of redemption of his contract, and the parties shook hands on it. The red and blue T-shirt army midfielder spent fourteen matches, scoring strokes are not yet observed.

In the national

Since 2006 Ionov played for different age teams of Russia. Total for the youth and duplicate team spent fifteen matches in which scored just six goals and earned the removal of the match with the Belarusian team.

Since 2011, the midfielder became the cause and the national team (11 matches held).

In 2014 Ionov was among 23 players who are Fabio Capello has included in the application for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Russian squad in the group stage in accordance with the lot fell to play with strong teams of Belgium and South Korea, as well as the outsider of the tournament - the national team of Algeria.

The two starting fights the Russian team played a draw with the Koreans and lost the leader of the group - the Belgian national team. However, even in such hands wards Capello to return to the playoffs it was enough to beat the African team. After the goal Kokorin at the beginning of the game all to that and went, but the Algerians we found the strength to fight back and sent the Russian team home. Ions on the tournament has been assigned the role of the reserve, and in none of the three matches of his team on the field, he did not appear. the level of football, which demonstrates the midfielder this season, he can count on getting into an extended list of applications for the 2018 World Cup, which Russia will be the hostess of the tournament.