Football player Shalimov Biography
Born: February 2. See the biography and career of the football player Igor Shalimov was born in Moscow, he began to study football at 7 years at the Almaz school, where he was brought by his elder brother Pavel. At the summer, Igor ended up at the Moscow Spartak football school. They say that Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov himself called him the hope of Soviet football. True, in the first two years he spent only a few matches, and he did not receive the gold medal of the year.
Starting next year, Igor became an indisputable player in the main composition, and he played, as in an oak, in an attack. But soon the coach realized that this was not his, and began to let Shalimov out in a position “under the attacker”. To do this, Beskov had to move the legend of Spartak Fedor Cherenkov to the right flank. A little later, Igor Shalimov became one of the team leaders, who, under the leadership of Oleg Romantsev, won the USSR championship of the year, and in the Champions Cup rally reached the semifinals, removing Napogo Maradona and Madrid Real Madrid.
Shalimova can safely be called an ideal attacking midfielder. The vision of the field, the ability to give an accurate pass, the non -standard of thinking and moves, a stroke - all this was in the arsenal of a football player. Under his leadership, Foja was experiencing the best period in the history of the club. Seman and Igor Shalimov helped. As a native of the country of a socialist camp, he perfectly understood the difficulties of adapting the Soviet football player in a completely different society and without knowledge of the language.
However, in the language of football, Shalimov spoke perfectly. In the Italian championship, he demonstrated excellent football, conducted the game of the new team and scored 9 goals. According to the results of the Shalimov season, he was recognized as the best legionnaire of series “A”. In order to evaluate this achievement, you need to know that the best football players of the world played in Italy.
And the “Inter” turned out to be more than $ 9 million for Shalimov, and more than $ 9 million, huge money at that time. There were fears that Shalimov would not get a place at the base on the field then could not be at the same time more than 3 legionnaires, but they were in vain. Igor issued another magnificent season. He himself scored 9 goals, and the most of his 20 goals spent the best scorer of Inter from the programs of our midfielder.
Largely, thanks to this pair, Inter became the silver medalist of the Italian championship but before the next season, Nerazzurri acquired two Dutch - Dennis Bergkamp and Vim Yonka. The latter was purchased more likely to adapt Bergkamp, on which a serious bet was made. Either Bergkamp demanded the constantly finding Yonka on the field, or this was originally spelled out in their contracts by different sources call these two versions, one thing remains indisputable - Shalimov became a victim of not quite conscientious competition.
The place of Ruben Sosa was basically not subject to doubt, but he could leave Yonka, all other things being equal on a bench. Despite the rare appearance in the composition, Igor Shalimov sometimes showed excellent football. You can recall his double on the gate of “Lechch” in the championship match or a magnificent game in both semifinal matches of the UEFA Cup against “Caglia”.
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