Pavel Pogrebnyak

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Pavel Pogrebnyak
Personal information
Full name	Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak
Date of birth	November 8, 1983 (1983-11-08) (age 25)
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Number	8
Youth career
1989	Spartak Moscow
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002 2003 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007–	Spartak Moscow Baltika Kaliningrad Spartak Moscow Khimki Shinnik Yaroslavl Tom' Tomsk Zenit Saint Petersburg	002 0(0) 040 (15) 016 0(2) 012 0(6) 023 0(4) 026 (13) 055 (21)
National team2
2006–	Russia	014 0(5)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 19:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Pavel Viktorovich Pogrebnyak (Russian: Павел Викторович Погребняк) (born 8 November 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian international footballer. The striker earned his place in the national team while playing for Tom Tomsk. On 28 November 2006, Zenit Saint Petersburg announced a three-year contract with Pogrebnyak.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Zenit Saint Petersburg 2 International career 2.1 International goals 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Club career

Pavel started playing football at the age of six for the Spartak Moscow football school. In 2001, he made his debut for the Spartak reserve team and one year later he was selected for the main squad. Between 2001 and 2003, he scored eight goals in 23 appearances.

In 2003, Pavel played 40 matches and scored 15 goals for Baltika Kaliningrad. The following season, he returned to Spartak Moscow, having appeared 16 times and scoring two goals. The same season he also scored six goals for FC Khimki in 12 appearances. In 2005, Pavel played for Shinnik Yaroslavl and scored four goals in 23 matches. Playing for Tom Tomsk in 2006 was the breakthrough season for Pogrebnyak, as he scored 13 goals in 26 matches and became one of the favorites of the local fans.

[edit] Zenit Saint Petersburg

Pavel also attracted the attention of the Russian national team and was signed in the off season by Zenit Saint Petersburg. In 2007, he and Zenit won first place at the Russian Premier League. In 2008 they won the Russian Super Cup, with Pogrebnyak scoring the second goal at the 2-1 victory.

Along with Luca Toni, Pogrebnyak was joint top scorer in the 2007-08 UEFA Cup, scoring 10 goals and helping Zenit reach the final of the tournament. He could not play in the final due to an accumulation of yellow cards, but the team won the cup anyway.

In the 2008 UEFA Super Cup he scored one of the two goals for Zenit St. Petersburg. Zenit went on to win that game 2-1 against Manchester United.

In 51 official matches for Zenit, Pogrebnyak has scored 28 goals. In the Russian Championship, he has scored 12 goals in 30 matches.

On 28 January 2009, Zenit officials declared that they were on the verge of accepting a bid from Blackburn Rovers which would see the player move to the English side during the January transfer window, but the transfer did not take place.^[1] Pogrebnyak has also received a bid from Bolton Wanderers.^[2] Arsenal were also said to be interested in the player.

[edit] International career

Pogrebnyak debuted for the Russian national team on 16 August 2006 in a friendly match against Latvia, where he scored his first goal with the squad.

He was also initially called for the squad of the Russian national football team for UEFA Euro 2008, but because of a knee injury he picked up in a friendly match versus Serbia, he was replaced by Oleg Ivanov before Russia began the tournament.^[3]

[edit] International goals

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2006-08-16	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Latvia	1 – 0	1 – 0	Friendly match
2	2006-10-11	Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia	Estonia	1 – 0	2 – 0	UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
3	2008-05-23	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Kazakhstan	1 – 0	6 – 0	Friendly match
4	2008-05-28	Wacker Arena, Burghausen, Germany	Serbia	1 – 0	2 – 1	Friendly match
5	2008-09-10	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Wales	2 – 1	2 – 1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

[edit] Personal life

Pogrebnyak has a wife named Maria and they have a son together named Artem.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Premier League profile (Russian)
• Profile at RussiaTeam (Russian)
• Club Profile (English)
• UEFA CUP goal statistics (English)

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Persondata
NAME	Pogrebnyak, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	8 November 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow, Russia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH