He pulled out a boy from his other club, mini-football "VIZ-Sinara". Ivanov and his "football son" continue to communicate: Shatov always receives words of support and remembers where he came from, does not forget his worldly and sports roots. Not so long ago, Shatov spent 15 million rubles on the construction of a stadium in his native region. Grigory Viktorovich is considered an extremely controversial figure, but he needs to be thanked very much for "digging up" and bringing to people a small nugget from Nizhny Tagil.
One of the main secret admirers of Shatov's talent at that moment was who followed Oleg's performance in the Urals. I remember how on the plane to Albania, where I was taken to the match together with the youth team, Shatov let me know in an interview that Leonid Viktorovich personally was in contact with him. However, he will meet with the coach much later, already in the national team. As a result of a rather scandalous story (although Oleg himself had nothing to do with it, because he simply followed the decisions of Ivanov, whom he completely trusted), Shatov intercepted from CSKA. The young player enjoyed the special favor and attention of grandfather Gus, regularly received practice and demonstrated performance, despite the fantastic composition of Anji's midfield and attack: strong then, ... By the way, the future super scorer Smolov was also in that company - and unlike Shatov, he received very little time.
The unexpected collapse of "Anji" brought Shatov to. There, following Slutsky and Hiddink, he was noted in every possible way. In an interview, the Portuguese called Oleg the most talented player in Russia. Together with, (when he was not treated) and Shatov became part of the impressive and well-coordinated Zenit attack group. Of course, in terms of names and ambitions, the team was obliged to achieve more. But on the best of days, these guys were unstoppable.
In parallel, Shatov became an indispensable figure in - first under Capello, then under Slutsky. In the qualifying campaigns and final tournaments of the last two championships - world and European - Oleg almost always played: in 2014 he ousted from the start, in 2016 - the best assistant of the league and. Not everyone liked these decisions of the coaches. Nevertheless, both Don Fabio and Leonid Viktorovich, who were completely different both stylistically and mentally, preferred Shatov. It cannot be said that the decisive matches were a success for the midfielder. On the other hand, in general, the entire Russian team was a pitiful sight both at the 2014 World Cup and at Euro 2016.
Oleg SHATOV (pictured with Ural President Grigory IVANOV) visiting the Wies-Sinara MFC, where he began his career. Photo MFC "Sinara"
TEAM-2018: WITH OLEG OR WITHOUT ?!
Shatov's crisis came in 2017 - by far the worst in his career and, it seems, the only one when Oleg was no longer singled out from the crowd and appreciated. By and large, he faced such troubles for the first time and so far has not been able to overcome them. In such stories, it is important to show character - and Shatov himself must first of all look at himself from the side if he really wants to regain his usual status of the "golden boy" and become stronger.
Nevertheless, the recession coincided with bad times for the entire “Zenith”. A weak spring led to the fact that Shatov did not get into the national team for. Before the publication of the composition, I called him personally: to argue the decision and make it clear that in the future he was counting on Oleg. Such an act of a coach is not politeness and not empty words. In the same way, Cherchesov talked to another uncoupled, . And he kept his word: as soon as Alexander began to rock on the football fields, and not in clubs and Instagram, he immediately returned to the national team.
So the summer call means: in -2018 they are counting on Shatov. We do not have a team where you can scatter creative players. Yes, now the problem in finding a group of creators does not look so acute due to the progress of several football players of the generation following Shatov - Smolov - Kokorin - Dzagoev. However, at least no one is immune from injuries (alas, the national team loses leaders every year due to injuries, and, for example, Dzagoev gets sick very often), and Oleg will certainly not be superfluous - and in the state of 2014 - 2016, being quite versatile, he will be able to qualify for the main team.
But if nothing changes in the Zenit situation, Russia will probably lose Shatov at the World Cup. And if everything drags on, it can lose forever.
June 2016. Bad Ragaz. Oleg SHATOV and head coach of the Russian national team Leonid Slutsky during preparations for Euro 2016. Photo by Alexander FEDOROV, "SE"
SO WHAT HAPPENED?
The situation, unfortunately, is banal and simple. Player Oleg Shatov is not needed by the coach. It would be wrong to blame the Italian for this: he is responsible for the result and selects the players to achieve the goals.
In fact, the Italian began to express his attitude at the very first press conferences. Although at first, after all, Shatov even played with Mancini at the base. And, by the way, he was productive - in the first matches of the season he gave several assists. The situation worsened by mid-autumn and again piling up on the decline in the results of “Zenith” – however, here I would not draw a parallel.
For clarity, here is a table of performances by Oleg and Zenit. Obviously, with Shatov, who gains confidence, the blue-white-blues performed better than without him, but there can be a million reasons and coincidences: the strength of rivals, a good or bad moment of the season, and so on.
According to my information, the relationship between Mancini and Shatov passed the point of no return at the end of last year. At the same time, the club had a different attitude towards Oleg, which thinks about a long-term strategy, and not just about the "here and now", like any coach doomed to be fired due to a lack of current success. We must pay tribute to the president of “Zenith”: until the last he acted as a peacemaker – he regularly communicated with both the coach and the midfielder. The participation and influence of Fursenko influenced the fact that Shatov took part and had a good match with and. And then there was a strange exit in the game from the position of full-back, a reverse substitution and a harsh comment by Mancini as an answer to the player and the club - whether he needs the player Shatov.
Not being included in the list of participants in the gathering in the UAE did not surprise the player. According to our information, about a week before departure for the training camp, Shatov received a call from the deputy sports director and said that if Mancini decides not to take him to the training camp, Zenit is ready to consider loan options. With two conditions - it cannot be and, competitors in the fight for gold.
There were several teams wishing to get Oleg. Among them was, by the way, Lokomotiv on the initiative, but for the above reason, this option was basically impossible. “Zenith” as a result has so far received one official offer - from. According to my information, correspondence took place between the two clubs (as I understand it, an unspoken sports director spoke from Zenit Oreste Cinquini).
That it was about free rent until the end of the year and the right to buy in the summer for 5 million euros. “Zenith” in response offered a difficult scheme involving Shatov, Smolov and Dzyuba. From it it turned out in fact that the lease for six months would cost the “bulls” 2 million euros, and the amount of the ransom would increase by several million. When the question was raised about the reasonableness of such conditions, the answer was received from Zenit that they had changed their minds about renting. Mysteriously...
The reasons for this turn in the negotiations are unknown to me. Versions on the sidelines are different. Maybe this is a response to the fact that Smolov and Krasnodar were reasonably unpleasantly surprised by the offer of Zenit to take the top scorer and RFPL player of recent years on loan - as if Fedor needs a probationary period. Or the fact is that Krasnodar is too close in the table (1 point behind), and by giving the player to the bulls, you risk burying yourself in the fight for gold and three places in the Champions League - it’s better to keep out of harm’s way in Zenit-2, even losing salary costs of 1.5 million for six months. Or have other circumstances changed?
I will refrain from my own opinion on this matter - and I would like to emphasize two points. Firstly, Shatov himself, according to some reports, when moving to Krasnodar, agreed to a salary cut - from 3 million euros a year to 2. To understand, no one gets 3 from the bulls, and about 2.5 million from the main star Smolov. If rent becomes paid, then every Shatov match goes gold. We take 2 million and a salary for six months, 1 million - and divide by 10 matches that the Bulls have left in the Premier League. This is 300,000 euros for one game. It is sky-high and can hardly be accepted by a person with a business mindset. It turns out that “Zenith” deliberately put forward impossible conditions?
And secondly, some lyrics. Fans are accustomed to criticizing the players for the fact that they receive unreasonable money and are ready to sell football for them. Shatov is a rare example when a person does something that inspires respect. He refuses money in favor of football, in favor of playing practice, in favor of the 2018 World Cup, in favor of his own prospects. Although I don’t want to make a great martyr out of Oleg either. There is common sense in the act and also a business component. If you go down today and revive your career, then tomorrow you will return to the previous level of earnings (or even higher). And after sitting in non-existence, you run the risk of eventually remaining nobody and without any offers at all. The most striking example is that for years running in circles in Krasnodar in order to save a salary.
June 2017. Oleg SHATOV (right) and Artem DZYUBA at Zenit's training session at the Austrian training camp. Photo Vyacheslav Evdokimov, FC Zenit
SLAVA AND 6%
As I said, Shatov, who yesterday took part in the training of the outsider of the FNL, was ready for the current turn of events. De jure, he learned about the non-inclusion to the training camp from the team chat, where a list of those flying to the UAE was posted. Neither he nor Dziuba saw his last name there either - that's all the information.
The player allegedly found out the reasons for sending to the second team. Here, again, I am not ready to engage in moralizing: was it necessary to first acquaint Oleg with the claims and why Mancini did not personally (for example, by telephone) communicate with any of the unhooked. Well, he didn’t and didn’t, it doesn’t change the essence of the matter globally, from a conversation, Specific and Zenit-2 would not have turned into the Emirates and Zenit-1.
Shatov's 6% drop in pass accuracy has become a meme in football circles in recent days. In addition, Oleg was presented with a number of other claims:
- "beneficial to Zenit, was one of the leaders of the team, did a lot of work - but something went wrong";
- "The indicator of quality and quantity of created scoring chances has almost halved. Perhaps this is due to the loss of functional qualities";
- "became less risky, less likely to give sharp passes";
- "it seems that the accuracy of passes should have increased, but in fact the marriage only increased, although the average passing accuracy for the team remained at the same level - 82.5%".
Further, Malafeev sums up: “Shatov needs to work harder to meet the high requirements of the head coach and match the level of the main team. We will determine for him an individual program according to which he will gain condition. We look forward to his return to the main team. We believe that he will still benefit Zenit.
A day later in a large analytical material sports. en Shatov was presented with a number of statistical claims - and it was noted that perhaps for the first time in Russian football, the cause of dissatisfaction with a player was expressed in numbers.
This is true, but there is cunning in such an approach. The figures that the analytical department prepares are indeed much easier to explain certain things to business people who are used to focusing on rates, quotes, percentages, and growth or decline charts. But still, in football, unlike the resource industry, much is understood intuitively, and numbers are too easy to juggle. Personally, in the case of Shatov, I was surprised that this kind of discussion was raised by Malafeev, himself a former football player. If you read a recent interview with Business Online, you will see that the coach operates with other concepts, describing the problems and the quality of the game of each of the players. In particular, Berdyev mentions such factors as giftedness, training, as well as moral, psychological and family aspects for almost every player - in his opinion, they should also be taken into account, because sometimes they are much more important than purely game indicators. I'll take the liberty of saying that in the situation with Shatov, that same "coach's love" (or dislike), the decline of which cannot be measured in percentage terms, also plays an important, if not a key role.
Nevertheless, if the task was to defend Shatov, exclusively armed with numbers, this can be done with a competent presentation. See. If we look at Shatov in the context of the entire team (we take into account the players of the midfield and attack lines) and its results, we will see (data Instat ):
1. leads among all the midfielders and forwards of "Zenith" in the average number of passes per game (51), and in accuracy (79%) it surpasses (65%), (76%), goes next to (81%, an average of 41 passes) and is significantly inferior only (85%, 50 passes).
2. Shatov is the clear leader of Zenit in terms of key (exacerbating) passes, an average of 4.3 per game (none of the other players have an average of 3, the closest pursuer is Rigoni with 2.8).
3. In terms of the quality of sharpening passes (47%), Shatov is in the same numbers as Kuzyaev (48%) and (47%), only they were taken to the training camp, but he was not.
4. Shatov is the second in the team in terms of the number (6) and the quality of strokes (62%) on average per game.
5. Shatov is ahead of other Zenit midfielders and attackers in the "expected goals" category in terms of "passes leading to a goal" ( KP 90 - 1.74) and "passes resulting in a hit" (A90 - 0.44).
Football geeks could go on battling numbers forever, but I'd like to ask a different kind of question.
1. What is the role of the coach in a player's numbers? Is the degradation of the game, if it really exists, directly dependent on the work of the coach, if the player shone for two seasons and suddenly took and reduced the accuracy of passes by 6%? Is the intensity of training that is offered to athletes taken into account? Is the division into "main" and "reserve" taken into account?
2. Do the chemistry of the team and partners affect the accuracy of passes, the number and quality of scoring chances created, and other indicators? Do the Zenith players understand Shatov and does he understand them? The attack group has changed significantly, and more importantly, not a single person, including the head coach, will be able to say after six months what combination of players is now the main one for Zenit. This applies to both names and positions.
3. How legitimate is it to use dry statistics in cases where a player plays in a position that is not his own, for example, a midfielder as a right-back? Or the mental readiness of the player to reduce playing time, be used as a reservist, and so on?
4. And most importantly, in my opinion. Is training at Zenit-2 really filled with magic and capable of restoring confidence to a football player, increasing his passing accuracy by 6%, and improving the quality of chances created? Is this the place where the former strong Shatov will be revived? Doesn't the "2" in the team name alone indicate that this is a real link? And in the links they never set the task of curing and returning to the previous level.
In the autumn of 2017, Oleg SHATOV rarely entered the field as part of Zenit. Photo by Alexander FEDOROV, "SE"
WILL SHATOV GO TO KRASNODAR OR SOMEWHERE ELSE?
This will depend primarily on further decisions. Apparently, the player intends to do without scandals and strictly comply with the requirements of the club. But it cannot be ruled out that a football player of the level of the Russian national team will have to spend the whole spring in Zenit-2. If coach Mancini really doesn’t need footballer Shatov, and even if once again the Italian is persuaded to take this midfielder to the team, it still won’t end in anything good - you won’t be forced to be nice.
This, of course, is for a start about the next six months, which, however, play a special role because of. Mancini's contract is for three seasons. There are no guarantees in football: Zenit can still become a champion by winning 10 or at least 9 matches in the Premier League, or take the Europa League, or get into the Champions League, but it can also be third, as it is now, or even outside the league trio, and then there will be special demand from the head coach.
Therefore, it is a short-term lease to a club of a decent level that looks like the most logical solution for Shatov, and for Zenit, and for the national team, and for all of Russian football, where life, I want to believe, will not end after the 2018 World Cup.
Separately, it must be said about. According to my information, the club was not so eager to get this player (I was told that once upon a time, an avid debater, heatedly debated how good Shatov was a football player), but a number of factors persuaded the management to make an offer to Zenit. This, in particular, is the readiness of a football player to go to the deterioration of personal conditions for the sake of practice, and the opinion that worked with Oleg in the youth team, being Pisarev's closest assistant. In addition, there is great hope that the change of environment, regular practice and the trust of the coach, which Shatov received with, will inspire him again. "Krasnodar" knows how to reveal talents and give the players love - the same Smolov felt this with the "bulls", and a little earlier in the "Ural", and opened up widely and in a new way.
At the same time, Shatov must understand: - this is the second coach in a row with whom he did not work out (there was an almost open conflict with him), and one more misfire, for example, in Krasnodar with Shalimov, could be fatal for the player's prospects.
Recently, he called Shatov's link to Zenit-2 a humiliation, but here one cannot fully agree with him, because the coach's opinion dominates everything. But recently in Russian football, the verb "destroy" is often used - this is when an unnecessary player is deprived of the most important thing, football, and a career begins to die. But personally, I really want the career of Shatov - a smiling positive guy from Siberia and a really talented, outstanding football player - to be saved after all, marinating in fact in duplicate.
Oleg Alexandrovich Shatov. Born on July 29, 1990 in Nizhny Tagil. Russian football player, attacking midfielder of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" and the Russian national team.
He started playing football at the age of 7. Pupil of the mini-football club "VIZ-Sinara". The first coach is Sergey Yuryevich Ovechkin.
Secondary education.
He plays as a left winger, but can play as a central attacking midfielder if necessary. He has high speed, good dribbling and accurate passing.
In 2006, he became a player in the VIZ-Sinara mini-football club.
March 21, 2007 at the age of sixteen was rented by a football club "Ural". There he was a player of the main team, having spent more than 100 games for the team. Participant of the semifinal match of the Russian Football Cup 2007/08. On November 19, 2010, he was chosen as the best player of the team, taking first place in the voting of local media and club fans.
In January 2012, he went to the training camp with CSKA. However, in the same year he signed a four-year contract with "Anji".
On July 26, 2012, in the return match of the Europa League qualifying round against the Hungarian Honved, he scored a goal, which became the first in Anji's European campaign. In the next qualifying match against Vitesse, he opened the scoring in the second half.
On August 19, 2012, in a match against Zenit, he scored his first goal in the Russian Premier League.
On September 16, 2012, in a match against Krasnodar, he scored one of the fastest goals in the championship, scoring already in the 33rd second of the match.
In the guest match of the Russian Championship against Krylya Sovetov, he scored a double - Shatov's first goal in this match became victorious.
On February 25, 2014, in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, he scored a goal against Borussia Dortmund.
Recognized by fans as the best player of Zenit in September 2014.
The debut in the Russian youth team took place on November 16, 2010 in a friendly match against the French youth team, held in Le Mans, France. He came on as a substitute in the 76th minute. The match ended with the victory of the Russians with a score of 1:0.
He scored his first goal for the youth team on February 9, 2011 in a match against the youth team of Ukraine.
He made his debut for the Russian national team on February 6, 2013 in a match against the Icelandic team, coming on as a substitute at the 46th minute of the game. In the 66th minute, he hit the gate of Hannes Halldoursson after the transfer of Roman Shirokov.
Oleg Shatov - the first goal for the Russian team
The growth of Oleg Shatov: 173 centimeters.
Oleg Shatov is a young talented football player who today plays for the St. Petersburg club Zenit. He successfully played for the youth national team of the country, and now he defends the Russian national team.Childhood and family of Oleg Shatov
Oleg was born in Nizhny Tagil. The boy began to play football at the age of seven. Sergei Ovechkin became his first coach. Father and mother were at work almost all the time, so playing football allowed the boy to be constantly busy.Shatov studied well, one might say. Until the eighth grade, his grades were only five and four, and after the eighth grade, the novice footballer started his studies.
The beginning of the career of Oleg Shatov. "Ural"
When Shatov was only sixteen years old, he moved to Yekaterinburg, having received an invitation from the president of FC Ural. There, the novice footballer trained every morning with the futsal team, then went to school, and in the evening Oleg was waiting for big football. This went on for about three years. 
At that time, it seemed to the novice footballer that his successes and prospects in futsal were more obvious than in big football. However, when he had to make a choice, he chose big football. So he decided himself, the same was advised to him by his father. Thanks to futsal lessons, the young football player gained maneuverability, confident dribbling skills, the ability to make quick decisions and excellent speed.
In Yekaterinburg, the teenager lived in a separate apartment, where a woman named Svetlana looked after him, raised him, cooked food and sometimes helped with his lessons.
Shatov's professional successes, playing in different clubs
Shatov fell in love with Yekaterinburg, it became practically native to him. Oleg liked the measured life of this city. For the first time in the "bumblebees" T-shirt, Oleg came out in August 2007 in the First Division match. It was a game against Dynamo Bryansk. "Ural" then won with a score of five-zero. Shatov scored his first goal for the team in October of the same year during a game against Anji. In that match, Oleg first appeared on the field in the starting lineup.Goals by Oleg Shatov
For "Ural" Shatov played more than a hundred matches. He entered the field in the first team already constantly from the second half of 2008. In the Russian Cup 2007-2008, the football player participated in the semi-finals. Unfortunately, in that match, the Yekaterinburg team lost to the Amkar team with a score of one-zero. In November 2010, he was awarded the first place according to the results of voting by the club's fans and local media, Oleg was named the best player in the team.
By the end of the first season of 2011-2012, Shatov managed to play in one hundred and twenty-four matches for Ural and score sixteen goals.
Oleg Shatov in Anji
At the beginning of 2012, Oleg was at the training camp together with the capital "CSKA". After some time, information appeared in the press about the probable transfer of the football player to Anji. Indeed, in 2012 it became known that Shatov signed a four-year contract with Anji. 
For the footballer, the 2012-2013 season was very successful. In the qualifying round of the Europa League, he scored the ball against the Hungarian Honvéd in the second leg. In Anji's European campaign, Shatov's goal was the first goal scored by a Russian football player. Already in the next match in the first half, the football player beautifully sent the ball into the Vitesse goal, opening the scoring.
"Football Russians": Oleg Shatov
In August 2012, in a game with Zenit in the national Premier League, Oleg Shatov scored his first goal. He especially distinguished himself in the same year in a match with the Krasnodar team, when the ball flew into the goal already at the thirty-third second of the game. The author of this fastest goal was Shatov.
Oleg Shatov in Zenit
In August 2013, it became known from official sources about Oleg's transfer to Zenit St. Petersburg. Already at the end of August, the footballer entered the field against the capital's Dynamo. This game was the debut for Shatov. 
In the away match of the Russian championship against the Krylya Sovetov team, the football player managed to send the ball into their goal twice. Entering the field in a home match against Spartak, Oleg scored the winning goal. In February 2014, a talented footballer became the author of the ball against Borussia Dortmund. It was the first leg of the one-eighth final of the Champions League.
Shatov's games for the Russian national team
For the first time, Oleg received a call-up to the youth national team under twenty-one in November 2010. In a friendly match with France, the football player made his debut, where he appeared on the field in the seventy-sixth minute, coming on as a substitute. This match took place on the road in the city of Le Mans. The Russian youth team won with a score of one-zero. 
As part of the youth team in 2011, Oleg repeatedly became a participant in the matches of the Commonwealth Champions Cup. As part of this tournament in January 2011, Shatov scored his debut goal for the national team in the forty-ninth minute in the match against Finland. For both teams in this match, Oleg's goal was the only one. By the beginning of 2012, Shatov played for the youth team in eleven matches, and managed to score four goals.
For the first time, Oleg was called up to the national team when he was still playing for Anji. He was included in the final composition of the Russian team for the 2014 World Cup.
Personal life of Oleg Shatov
The football player has an open character, he is sociable, but Oleg never talks about his personal life, this topic is always banned. All that is known is that he is married to a girl named Victoria. Often they appear together at sporting events. 
What profession Victoria has is unknown, but she is definitely not connected with mass culture and television. She devotes a lot of time to Oleg and her career. She is friends with the wife of Igor Smolnikov (Zenith defender), together the ladies launched the Play & Help charity initiative
Oleg Shatov now
In 2016, Oleg Shatov entered the Russian national team at the European Championship in France. He and the rest of the team trained hard under the supervision of coach Leonid Slutsky. 
In June of the same year, it became known that Oleg Shatov had invested 15 million rubles in the construction of a school stadium in his native Nizhny Tagil.
To date, Oleg Shatov is a top-level footballer, as evidenced by his invitation to one of the main favorites in the championship race of recent years in the Russian Premier League - St. Petersburg "Zenith". As a rule, a footballer plays in the position of a winger on the left flank, and can also take a place under the striker.
The first coach of the future player of the St. Petersburg team was Sergey Ovechkin, and the midfielder's strengths have always been considered good speed and high accuracy of passes. He is not deprived of his dribbling skills, which is an undoubted trump card for a player who spends the lion's share of the match on the midfield flank.
Oleg Shatov is a native of Nizhny Tagil. Together with his wife Victoria, the footballer has two sons. In one of the interviews, the player said that he had not yet thought about the professional future of his children, but he did not exclude that they would want to follow in their father's footsteps.
Football youth
Oleg Shatov started playing with the ball from early childhood. By the way, he started in futsal at a club called Sinara, which is based in Yekaterinburg. The young footballer literally reveled in the game, taking part in competitions and watching the fights of his peers. Shatov also made his debut in big football quite early - at the age of seventeen. His first professional club was Ural. In total, Oleg played 127 matches for Yekaterinburg, in which he managed to upset the opponents of the Orange-and-Blacks sixteen times. His greatest achievement in the "Ural" can be called the semi-final of the National Cup in the 2007-2008 season. From personal awards, we highlight the title of the best player in November 2010.
Golden "Anji"
In 2012, Anji Makhachkala experienced an unprecedented flourishing. A lot of money came to the club, and in the face of the team from Dagestan, investors saw powerful opposition to the Moscow teams and the St. Petersburg Zenit. What is worth the invitation to the ranks of the Makhachkala Eagles of such stars as Roberto Carlos, Samuel Etoo, and later the eminent Dutch specialist Guus Hidding and others. However, despite the commitment to star foreigners, Russian footballers were also signed in Anji, of course, from the category of the TOP.
The team alternately appeared Yuri Zhirkov, Vitaly Denisov, Oleg Shatov. The biography of the midfielder was replenished with another club, and the Makhachkala team acquired a potentially strong player who can play all 90 minutes in different positions in attack.
New challenge
Oleg Shatov's Makhachkala voyage was limited to one season. The midfielder made his debut in European competition, and also showed himself from the best side in the national championship. It is not surprising that a year later, a young but talented football player was noticed in St. Petersburg. The football player immediately agreed to the transfer, and the blue-white-blue fans quickly remembered who Oleg Shatov was.
“Zenith” got at its disposal another high-quality attacking player, which allowed the then coach Luciano Spalletti to establish combinational football. By the way, the new Zenit coach Mircea Lucescu has the reputation of a mentor who relies heavily on foreign performers, in particular Brazilian ones. However, in the first six months, Shatov, under the leadership of the Romanian, became an unconditional player in the main team.
Today, the midfielder is a key figure in the St. Petersburg team, and after the departure of the jet Hulk to China, he is also the new engine of the team. In all tournaments, Oleg Shatov played about 90 official matches for the St. Petersburg team, scoring seventeen goals. As part of Zenit, Oleg was recognized several times as the best player and, in addition, became the champion of Russia in football, and also won the National Cup in 2016. The Petrograd winger is considered one of the most talented and promising midfielders in the entire Russian championship, and his transfer fee, according to an authoritative British resource, exceeds 20 million euros.
National team
The football qualities of the player could not go unnoticed at the state level. Until 2013, the midfielder defended the colors of the Russian youth team, for which he managed to play 15 fights. He scored his debut goal at the gates of his peers from Ukraine.
Since 2013, Shatov has been called up to the national team and has already managed to play about three dozen fights for it. In his first match, Oleg appeared on the field only in the second half, but twenty minutes after the appearance on the lawn, Shatov scored a productive kick on the goal of the Icelandic team. It should be noted that the assist at that time was given by Oleg's teammate Roman Shirokov.
By the way, after the disastrous Euro-2016 for Russia, Shatov, unlike some of his colleagues leading a secular lifestyle, decided to have a frank interview with journalists. The midfielder quite soberly assessed the prospects of Russian football players, who, after such a tournament, would hardly have paid attention to big European clubs from the top championships.
Goals by Oleg Shatov
It cannot be said that Shatov often upsets opponents by scoring a goal. On the contrary, the players playing in his position in the European championships, in the column "goals scored" happen to meet even more outstanding results. It is noteworthy that many of the midfielder's goals have their own flavor. For example, while playing for Anji, Shatov scored goals in the European Cup campaign against the Hungarian Honved and the Dutch Vitesse. Already a Zenit player, the midfielder scored important goals against Spartak, Liege Standard and Borussia Dortmund.
Charity
Oleg Shatov remembers well where he comes from and how difficult it was to achieve success in the conditions that he had in childhood. That is why the football player is a patron of children's football in his native Nizhny Tagil. Football grounds were equipped for a lot of money, conditions were created for everyone who wants to take part in the game of millions. And all this is not in the best area of the city. Oleg plans to create similar conditions for playing football in other cities of Russia. Despite his "stardom", Oleg Shatov is an open and friendly person who is not alien to the concepts of generosity and kindness.
Oleg Shatov is a midfielder from the small provincial Nizhny Tagil, who has achieved a successful career in big football with hard work and perseverance. Despite the fame, the athlete still remains a sympathetic, open person with a broad soul and a kind heart.
Childhood and youth
Oleg Shatov was born in the Ural town of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, on July 29, 1990. The boy's parents are non-public people and rarely meet with journalists. According to Oleg's father, no one in the family was particularly interested in football, but since childhood, his son loved to chase the ball with the yard boys. At the age of seven, the boy took his mother by the hand and led him to sign him up for football.
The first coach was the coach of the football school "Rodnichok" Sergei Ovechkin. The mentor recalls that the young athlete became the youngest in the group, but remained hardworking and persistent. There were three training sessions per day for different age groups, and little Shatov stayed for all three. The boy had an agreement with his father. Sports should not interfere with learning. In the morning, Oleg went to classes, then he did his homework, and only in the evening he went to training.
Oleg Shatov in childhood (left) When the boy turned 13, the player was noticed by the president of the Ural football club and the head of the VIZ mini-football club, Grigory Ivanov. The coach personally invited the young football talent to Yekaterinburg. Since there were no development prospects for the football player in his hometown, the parents agreed to the proposal. Shatov Sr. admits that it was exciting to let his son go into an independent life so early, but the son showed independence and responsibility.
The coach took care of the young pupil, rented an apartment and hired a woman who looked after the boy and took care of him. Changed Shatov and school. The footballer's class teacher, a mathematics teacher, shared in an interview that at first Oleg studied very well, the student was even transferred to a specialized polytechnic class. And then football began to take away all the time, it was sorely lacking for school and lessons.
Oleg's classmates recall that they rarely saw a student in class. But the football player was distinguished by purposefulness. Shatov knew what he wanted to achieve in life, and from childhood he connected his biography only with football.
Football
Arriving in Yekaterinburg, little Oleg at first played futsal and on a large football field. When it came time to decide on a sport, the boy chose big football. In 2007, the young man became a player in FC Ural.
A fast, agile football player of short stature - 173 cm and a weight of 73 kg, Oleg took the position of a midfielder and began to play effectively in the very first matches for the honor of the club. Colleagues and coaches noted the features associated with the experience in mini-football - the speed of reaction and the ability to act competently at short distances.
For the Ural "bumblebees" midfielder played 127 matches and scored 16 goals against opponents. Having gone to training camp with CSKA Moscow in January 2012, the midfielder eventually signed a contract with Anji Makhachkala. Oleg's first goal in the Premier League hit Zenit in August 2012.
On August 14, 2013, the midfielder changes the club to Zenit St. Petersburg. The debut on the field for the "white-blue" took place on the field in a match against the capital's "Dynamo". The next couple of seasons were successful for the athlete. In 2014, he was recognized as the best player of matches and months according to the results of voting by the club's fans.
Together with the St. Petersburg club, he became the champion of Russia in the 2014-2015 season. The club won the Russian Cup in the 2015-2016 season, as well as the Russian Super Cup in 2015 and 2016. Also in 2013, he makes his debut for the Russian national team in a friendly match against Iceland, scoring a goal against opponents.
For a successful game on the field, the player receives an appropriate reward. Clubs do not seek to advertise the salaries of players, but, according to some information from sports publications that have analyzed open information, Shatov's annual earnings at Zenit are € 2.5 million.
By the way, in the "Zenith" coach somewhat changed the position of the athlete on the field. As the midfielder admitted, the preferred location for him is the center, however, the mentor of the "blue and white" chose places for Oleg on the flanks.
The best tricks and goals of Oleg ShatovPerhaps this choice was the reason for not the most productive game in the 2016/2017 season. The club's management was dissatisfied with the statistics of Shatov's goals and assists. In the end, the athlete was outside the list of the main players among the players of Zenit-2.
Personal life
Oleg tries not to talk about the details of his personal life, however, like his beautiful wife Victoria. Joint photos, interviews with relatives and friends of the couple allow us to conclude that the lovers began to meet back in Nizhny Tagil. The girl followed her future husband.
Victoria is very modest and charming. The wife gave her beloved two little sons, the youngest of whom was born in 2016. Victoria is engaged in charity and patronage. Together with her friend Ekaterina Smolnikova (the wife of Igor Smolnikov, Shatov's colleagues at Zenit), she organized the Play&Help charity organization. On the page of the organization on Instagram, Oleg often flashes, who supports his wife in her endeavors.
By the way, Oleg himself is also distinguished by the breadth and generosity of his soul. In 2016, with funds donated by the midfielder, in the homeland of a football player for 15 million rubles. a football field for young athletes was built.
But in social networks you will meet a young man infrequently. The athlete's official page on VKontakte is run by fans. The reason for this is Oleg's busy schedule. It also prevents them from visiting their homeland more often, with their parents, who still prefer to stay in Nizhny Tagil. Oleg's father is sympathetic to the rare visits of the star son and notes that they themselves visit the young family.
Oleg Shatov now
At the beginning of 2018, Zenit loaned the midfielder to an opponent, the Krasnodar football club. Oleg, realizing that on the eve of the World Cup he needed game practice, agreed to the transition. Of course, the situation of misunderstanding with coach Mancini, sending him to Zenit-2 did not cause pleasant emotions for the athlete.
According to the contract concluded by the clubs, the midfielder could enter the field against Zenit only if he paid 10 million rubles. for the match. April 7, 2018 Oleg appeared in the "Krasnodar" against the "blue and white". It remains unknown who paid the amount stipulated by the contract. The player himself spoke about the fact that he does not play against Zenit, but for Krasnodar.
As a result, Krasnodar won with a score of 2: 1, Shatov became the author of one of the goals. However, for him the match was incredibly emotionally intense. A goal scored and an injury caused the midfielder to be replaced on the field. Once on the bench, the young man, unable to cope with the storm of emotions, dropped a stingy male tear.
Awards
- 2014/2015 - Champion of Russia
- 2015/16 - Russian Cup Winner
- 2015, 2016 - Winner of the Russian Super Cup
- 2014/2015, 2015/2016 - in the list of 33 best football players of the Russian championship
