Kolyvanov, Igor Vladimirovich

Beginning of a gaming career

Igor is a pupil of the Youth Sports School of the Soviet District of Moscow (1976-1982) and EShVSM (1983-1985). He began to learn to play football with Viktor Borisovich Abeev when Igor was 9 years old. He played at the youth championships of Moscow, at the age of 14 he was invited to the youth teams of Moscow and the USSR. Later he spoke under the guidance of coach Igor Alexandrovich Shvykov and his assistant Evgeny Vladimirovich Lapkov. He was in the youth football school when he was in the eighth grade, and later got into the double of the Moscow “ Spartak ”. As part of the FSM team, he won the championship of sports boarding schools ^[3] .

Moscow Dynamo

After winning the boarding championship, Igor spoke on the phone with Mikhail Gershkovich , who said that Eduard Malofeev was gathering players for Dynamo Moscow with a serious prospect of fighting for the championship title. Igor agreed and moved to the club, where there were his friends on the youth team - Igor Dobrovolsky, Sergey Kiryakov, Andrey Kobelev. As a member of the youth team , Igor was also involved in the main team of the country, for which he played the first match on August 23, 1989 against the Polish team , leaving in the second half. As part of the youth team, led by Vladimir Radionov , Igor in 1990 became the European champion and top scorer of the tournament, scoring 9 goals in 7 meetings. However, due to an injury during a training session in the arena, Igor missed the World Cup in Italy ^[3] .

In 1991, Igor became the top scorer of the USSR Championship with 18 goals ^[3] - on October 5, 1991 he scored 5 goals in a game against Dnipro (total score of the game 6: 2), which made him a co-owner of the record for the number of goals scored in one game in the championships of the USSR. He also won the prize of the best football player of the year in the USSR according to the results of a survey of the weekly Soccer . Even then, representatives of foreign teams began to show interest in him - on May 23, 1991, in a match for the USSR national team against Argentina at the Old Trafford stadium, Kolyvanov scored a goal, equalizing the score (final result 1: 1), after which Alex Ferguson invited the player to go to “ Manchester United ”, but the negotiations between the leadership of “Dynamo” and “Manchester United” did not lead to anything ^[4] . Nevertheless, Kolyvanov’s game allowed him to go to the Italian club “ Foggia ” ^[3] .

Foggia

In Foggia, Kolyvanov made his debut in the 1991/1992 season as an attacking midfielder. The Italians paid Dynamo $ 2.5 million for Kolyvanov. Igor spent the first season with ex-Spartak player Igor Shalimov , who helped Kolyvanov get comfortable in Italy. Initially, Kolyvanov did not fit into the game, which was set up by club coach Zdenek Zeman , but later became an integral base player. Thanks to a woman who knew Russian very well, Igor learned Italian in a year ^[3] . During the first season, Kolyvanov was diagnosed with a vertebral hernia, which was helped by a specialist in manual therapy from Rimini ^[4] . The next year, almost the entire composition of “Foggia” was sold out, but the team confidently went through the whole season, and Kolyvanov constantly left the main team. In total, he played 5 years at Foggia - spent four seasons in Serie A and another one in Serie B (1995/96), was elected captain of the club.

At the 1992 European Championship, Kolyvanov suffered a serious bruise of his left knee, which is why he did not play in the match against Scotland , in which the CIS team was sensationally defeated 3-0 and missed the exit to the semifinals of the European Championship. Kolyvanov was also one of the players of the Russian national team whose signature was under the “ Letter of Fourteen ” - because of this, he never played at the World Championships, missing the US Championship in 1994. In the same year, Rezo Chokhonelidze, representing Igor’s interests, began negotiations on Kolyvanov’s transfer to Inter Milan. Negotiations were to take place on October 12, 1994, immediately after the match between the football teams of Russia and San Marino , which took place as part of the selection for the European Championship in England . That season, Igor scored three goals in his first four games. Although the Russian team won 4-0, and one of the goals scored just by Kolyvanov in the 64th minute from the free-kick ^[5] , in the last minute of the match Igor, giving a pass, unsuccessfully put his right foot and got a cruciate ligament rupture . Due to this injury, Kolyvanov broke down negotiations with Inter, which he regretted until the end of his career ^[4] . “Foggia”, which lost Igor for almost the entire Italian championship, flew to Serie B following the results of the 1994/1995 season ^[3] .

Igor Kolyvanov returned to duty in April 1995 after an operation in the American clinic in Colorado, where Nikola Berti advised him to go ^[4] . Kolyvanov was a participant in the 1996 European Championships, but was not marked by effective actions, and the Russian team did not overcome the group stage. At the end of the 1995/1996 season, he received a number of offers from several clubs (including from Spain), but chose Bologna, where he knew well her second coach, who had previously worked at Foggia ^[3] .

Bologna

In 1996, a newcomer to Serie A Bologna acquired Kolyvanova for three years with the right to buy out upon expiration. In the first season in the new team, the Russian legionnaire became the top scorer, and scored 20 times in the first two seasons. In the second season, the legendary player Roberto Baggio became a partner of Kolyvanov. According to Kolyvanov, various innocuous and not very jokes were commonplace in the club, the initiator of which was often Baggio - so, according to the unwritten tradition of Italian football, Baggio repeatedly poured coaches with cold water from packages (often in the heat) and beat other players to it ^{[ 3]} . The object of one of the jokes was once an elderly club masseur who mixed up oil and a warming ointment, for which the entire staff tied the unlucky masseur with tape to the table and dipped it in cold water. Kolyvanov said that he gagged the massage therapist ^[4] .

In August 1999, Kolyvanov at the training camp began to experience back pain, and in one of the friendlies he received serious damage when he struck from the turn with his left foot and felt a small click at the bottom of the spine. During the break, Kolyvanov, sitting on a bench, felt a sharp pain in his spine, and later his right half of his body began to go numb. It took an operation that lasted about three hours. Rehabilitation lasted more than six months, and after returning to the team Kolyvanov felt that he had lost speed ^[3] . The head coach of the team Francesco Gvidolin did not see him at the base, and Kolyvanov wanted to go on loan, including to Saudi Arabia ^[6] . However, the rental option did not work out, and Igor stayed in Bologna, where in the 2000/01 season he went out only 1 time to the field (for a substitution in the 90th minute) - in the match of the 31st round against Juventus (1: 4) ^[7] . The pain intensified, and they were especially sharp in the right ankle: Kolyvanov could not even give the ball “cheek”, as the pain reached right up to the ear. For seven months he could not even walk without painkillers. Kolyvanov began paralysis of his right leg. A series of operations in Germany did not help, and in Moscow Kolyvanov was told that there was a great risk of amputation ^[4] .

In the summer of 2001, the contract with Bologna ended, and Igor decided to end his player’s career so as not to risk his health. And only in October 2002 in Italy one of the doctors managed to make the correct diagnosis to the player by making an x-ray at a certain angle. The player was diagnosed with osteoma - a rare type of tumor that occurs in players under 21 years of age. According to Kolyvanov, the tumor was the size of a small picture and could not be detected in any of the previous x-rays. The operation to remove the tumor, which lasted an hour and a half, helped to avoid the worst consequences for him, however, Kolyvanov did not dare to resume his career as he missed too much time ^[4] .

Coach Career

In 2003, Igor Kolyvanov accepted the invitation of the Russian Football Union to head the youth team, which in 2006 led to victory at the European Youth Championship . According to Kolyvanov, after the final meeting, he did not hold back tears. Igor was fired in 2010 when the Russian youth team missed a ticket to the 2011 European Youth Championship, losing Romania away 0-3 and failing to win at home (0-0 draw). One of the catalysts for dismissal was the failure of the youth team at a tournament in French Toulon, when after losing to the Chileans 0-5, the replaced Pavel Mamaev threw the captain's armband ^[4] .

May 21, 2012 was appointed head coach of FC Ufa ^[8] . In the 2012/13 season in the FNL, the team took 6th place. In the 2013/14 season, Ufa took 4th place and in the butt games for reaching the Premier League, Tom won (5: 1, 1: 3). October 21, 2015 left the post.

On June 1, 2017, he signed a two-year contract with the Moscow Torpedo ” ^[9] . In the second year of work, Kolyvanov was able to withdraw the team to the FNL from first place in the “Center” group of the PFL Championship . Nevertheless, on June 3, 2019, he left the team due to the expiration of the contract ^{[10] [11] [12]} .

As a player

  Dynamo (Moscow)

• Silver medalist of the USSR championship : 1986
• USSR Championship bronze medalist: 1990

  Bologna

• Intertoto Cup Winner: 1998

  USSR national team

• European Youth Champion: 1990

Personal

• Top scorer of the 1990 European Youth Championship: 9 goals
• Top scorer of the 1991 USSR Championship : 18 goals
• The best football player of the USSR: 1991
• Co-owner of the record for the number of goals in one match in the USSR Championship: 5 goals ( Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk team October 5, 1991)
• The lists of 33 best football players of the season in the USSR ( 3 ): No. 1 - 1991; No. 2 - 1989, 1990
• Bologna club top scorer 1997 : 11 goals
• Club member Grigory Fedotov : 117 goals.
• He participated in an unofficial match in honor of the 100th anniversary of Russian football on August 8, 1997. Russia - the FIFA team.

As a trainer

  Russian national team (under 17)

• UEFA European Under-17 Champion: 2006

  Torpedo (Moscow)

• PFL Championship Winner: 2018/19 (Center group)
• The best trainer of the Center group of the PFL Championship : 2018/19 (Center group)

June 3, 2019

Father - Vladimir Kolyvanov, classical musician ^[3] . Igor lost his father at the age of 14, who died under mysterious circumstances - the police could not establish whether it was an accident or a murder ^[4] .

Wife - Mona, daughter of an Russified immigrant from Iraq, who graduated from RUDN University and worked in Libya as a urologist, and later returned to Moscow. Daughter Anna was born in November 1989, in 2012 Igor became a grandfather (granddaughter of Eva). In-law - Ivan Krishtopa , a motorbike player for the Metallurg team from Vidnoye and the Russian team, was four times recognized as the best player in Europe. There is twin brother Michael, a breeder at a football school. Favorite hockey club - Moscow “Spartak” ^[4] . He maintained very good relations with Alexander Abdulov and Evgeny Leonov ^{[3] [4]} /

After completing a career, he began to smoke, but soon quit. One of Kolyvanov's hobbies is fishing, which he practiced both in Italy and in Russia ^[3] . He attends classical concerts with his family, prefers to relax in Italy ^[3] . He feels a certain fear of motorcycles, because during his performances in Bologna he was specially shot in one commercial, driving a moped, and almost got into an accident, crashing into the gates ^[4] .

• Profile on the Russian Football Team website
• Profile on legioner.kulichki.com
• Page on footballplayers.ru
• Matches for the national teams on the RSSSF website

Articles, interviews:

• Presentation of the coach of the youth team of Russia . // uefa.com, January 4, 2006