Tikhonovetsky, Alexander Viktorovich

Club

He started playing football in the youth sports school of Nakhodka, in the same city he began his professional career in 1997 at the local club “ Ocean ”, for which he played 73 matches and scored 7 goals. He spent the 2000 season in the Vladivostok Luch , having played 21 matches and scoring 9 goals against the opponents. In 2001 he moved to CSKA , but could not gain a foothold in it, played the only game on March 17 against Wings of the Soviets (0: 3), replacing Ulugbek Bakaev during the break. In the same year he returned to Luch. In 2002, he moved to the Novorossiysk Chernomorets , in which he played 47 matches in 2 seasons, scored 4 goals and helped the club reach the Premier League .

In 2004, he returned to Luch-Energia again, for which he played for the next 4 years, during this period he played 86 matches, scored 21 goals and entered the Premier League with the club in 2005. In 2006, he was disqualified for eight months for marijuana use. On May 3, 2008, in the match against Lokomotiv Moscow (2: 2), he scored the 100th goal of Ray of Energy in the Premier League.

In June 2008 he moved to Kuban , with which he signed a two-year contract on July 1 ^[3] , and made his debut on July 8, replacing in the second half of the match against Volga , in the same match he scored his first a goal for Kuban, and at the end of the season he became a silver medalist of the First Division as part of the team for the second time in his career. On April 26, 2009, in the Kuban match against Moscow Lokomotiv , he set a new Premier League record for the least amount of time spent on the field in the championship match due to direct removal. Tikhonovetsky came on as a substitute in the 58th minute of the match and already in the 60th minute he received a red card for responding to a provocation and kicked the defender of Lokomotiv Rodolfo , who had already hit Alexander in the stomach after the fall. As a result, Tikhonovetsky spent only 2 minutes on the field, and before that this record was 4 minutes and belonged to Gennady Nizhegorodov ^[4] . In 2009, he lost his place at the base, played in only 5 Premier League matches and, not wanting to sit on the bench, decided to pursue a career in another club, during his vacation he visited the Lucha Energiya match, after which it was reported that Alexander intends to continue his career on a leasehold basis in August precisely in Vladivostok ^[5] . In total, he spent 21 matches in the Kuban championship and championship, in which he scored 8 goals, 1 match in the Russian Cup and 4 matches in the tournament of the youth squad of the Premier League. The club went towards the player and granted him the status of a free agent , after which he returned to Vladivostok ^[6] , where he signed a contract with Luch-Energia, which was announced on the team’s website on July 29 ^[7] , and left the team at the end of the season.

On February 27, 2010, it was reported that Alexander signed a one-year contract with the Nizhny Novgorod club ^[8] , played 22 games for him in the season, in which he scored 13 goals, in the league and had 1 more meeting, in which he also scored a goal, held in the cup . On August 19, it was announced that Tikhonovetsky signed a contract for the end of the season (with the possibility of extension) with Vladikavkaz Alania ^[9] on loan ^[10] . On October 9, by mutual agreement, the contract between Tikhonovetsky and Alania was terminated ^[11] .

On December 21, 2010, he returned to Luch-Energia, signing a contract for 2.5 years ^[12] . Alexander himself was very positive about the return to his native club ^[13] . On April 7, 2011, in the second round match of the FNL Championship 2011/12 against the Saransk Mordovia (1: 1), Alexander was seriously injured. The result of a collision with defender Pavel Stepanets at Tikhonovetsky was an open fracture ^{[14] of} his right leg. I was able to fully recover from the injury only in winter. According to the results of the 2012/13 season, in the East zone of the Second Division, Alexander became the top scorer, scoring 14 goals, and was also recognized as the best player in the championship ^[15] . In December 2013 he left the team ^[16] , and in February 2014 he announced his retirement ^[17] .

Coaching

In the summer of 2014, he received the coaching category “B” and on August 26 entered the coaching staff of “Ray-Energy” ^[18] . In February 2018, he became the head of the youth line-up of Luch-Energiya ^[19] . A year later, he was appointed head coach of the Nakhodka “Ocean ” ^[20] . In September 2019, he won the Primorsky Territory Football Championship and the Primorsky Territory Football Cup with Ocean .

Team

Luch-Energia

• First Division Winner: 2005
• Winner of the East Zone of the Second Division : 2012/13

"Chernomorets"

• First Division Silver Medalist: 2002
• Premier League Cup Finalist: 2003

Kuban

• First Division Silver Medalist: 2008

Alania

• Finalist of the Cup of Russia : 2010/11

Personal

• Top scorer of the East zone of the Second Division: 2012/13 (14 goals)

Nephew of the famous Far Eastern football player, former player of the Moscow Lokomotiv Oleg Garin . He took the name of his wife, after his uncle, in his autobiography Oleg Garin, expressed the opinion that Alexander owes only his last name to his entry into Ocean, Luch and CSKA ^[21] . Married to Oles - the niece of another football player Roman Tikhonovetsky . Has a son Artyom and daughter Victoria.

July 8, 2008 Alexander Tikhonovetsky gained popularity among readers of the Championship.ru website. It all started with humorous comments on an article on the site ^[22] , the cause of which, first of all, was too pathetic with regard to Alexander, according to users, the title of the article, despite the fact that the player himself since disqualification for eight months for using marijuana in 2006 year causes for this reason thematic interest in a certain part of people.

The next wave of popularity of Tikhonovetsky went the next day, July 9, the reason for this was the title of an article posted on that day on the same site about the last round in the First Division : “Tikhonovetsky began to score for Kuban” ^[23] , which, due to one of the vernacular the meaning of the word “score” was actually ambiguous and could be taken as a hint at the story of the 2006 disqualification and its reasons.

By the evening of July 9, the initially negative reaction of the leadership of the website Chempionat.ru to joking comments in the articles was replaced due to the sharp increase in the number of visitors to the resource thanks to them, turning into a desire to use the situation for their own purposes to draw attention to the site ^[24] . Nevertheless, closer to midnight of the same day, the project manager Dmitry Sergeyev issued a warning to users: for an unmotivated mention of the name "Tikhonovetsky" in other news from 00:00 on July 10, everyone who was guilty was threatened with account blocking on the resource page ^[25] .

Soon, based on the events that brought the player fame on the RuNet , a song appeared about Alexander Tikhonovetsky performed by the duet Dentist and Fisun ^[26] . Alexander himself expressed gratitude to the authors and performers of the song about himself ^[27] .

(adjusted as of December 6, 2013) ^[29]