Dmitri Alenichev

Dmitri Alenichev

300px Alenichev managing an Arsenal game in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Dmitri Anatolievich Alenichev
Date of birth	(1972-10-20) 20 October 1972
Place of birth	Melioratorov, Pskov Oblast, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Spartak Moscow (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989	SKIF-Express Velikie Luki	?	(?)
1990–1991	Mashinostroitel Pskov	38	(7)
1991–1993	Lokomotiv Moscow	69	(6)
1994–1998	Spartak Moscow	122	(18)
1998–2000	Roma	28	(2)
1999–2000	→ Perugia (loan)	15	(0)
2000–2004	Porto	84	(12)
2004–2006	Spartak Moscow	21	(3)
International career
1996–2005	Russia	55	(6)
Managerial career
2010–2012	Russia U18
2011–2015	Arsenal Tula
2015–	Spartak Moscow
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dmitri Anatolyevich Alenichev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Аленичев; born 20 October 1972, Melioratorov, Pskov Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Russian professional association football coach and a former player and politician. Currently, he is managing Spartak Moscow.

Biography

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Alenichev in 2008

Despite being a Spartak Moscow fan, Alenichev debuted 1991 for Moscow rivals Lokomotiv, where he played four years before moving to Spartak, where in five years he won three Russian leagues and two cups, and was also elected Russian player of the year in 1997. He won a transfer to Serie A side AS Roma, played 21 matches in the first season, but after only seven matches played, he moved to AC Perugia in December 1999. His stint in Italy overall proved to be unsuccessful and he was eventually considered to be one of Italian football's biggest foreign flops.

In 2000 he was bought by FC Porto, where he made a good first impression (scored the tying against Sporting in the Portuguese Super Cup), and made a good first season where Porto captured the Portuguese cup 2–0 against CS Marítimo, Alenichev scoring the second goal. In the following season, Alenichev suffered some animosity from new Porto coach Octávio Machado (the same happened with compatriot Sergei Ovchinnikov) and spent most of the first half of the season sidelined, under the shadow of Deco. As soon as Octávio was fired and replaced with José Mourinho, Alenichev's luck changed. Although he still didn't play in the starting eleven, he was usually the first player to jump from the bench, especially when Mourinho passed from a 4–3–3 to a 4–4–2 formation. A starting player in the UEFA Cup final and mid-game substitute in the Champions League final, Alenichev scored on both: against Celtic he scored the second goal, following a pass from Deco, and against AS Monaco he closed the scoreline with a powerful volley shot following a deflected through cross from Derlei. This made him one of only three players to score goals in two consecutive Cup Finals of different European competitions, the others being Ronald Koeman and Ronaldo.

During Euro 2004, where he played all three matches Russia played, he announced his desire to return to Spartak Moscow, and in appreciation for the services done for the club, the FC Porto board made no objections to the transfer.

On 8 April 2006 Sport-Express published Alenichev's interview containing severe criticism of Aleksandrs Starkovs, Spartak's head coach at the time. Following that, Alenichev was fined, dismissed from the first team, transfer listed 14 April and on 10 September his contract was finally terminated by mutual agreement. This became the end of Alenichev's football career.

Alenichev then joined the United Russia party. On 14 June 2007 he was voted the representative of the Omsk Oblast in the Federation Council of Russia. He represented it until 2010, when he accepted the position of the head coach with the Russian national under-18 team.

In 2009 he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup. In June 2015 Alenichev became the manager of FC Spartak Moscow, where he had played previously.

His older brother Andrei Alenichev also played football professionally.

Honours

Spartak Moscow

• Russian Premier League: 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
• Russian Cup: 1993–94, 1997–98

Porto

• Portuguese Liga: 2002–03, 2003–04
• Portuguese Cup: 2000–01, 2002–03
• Portuguese Super Cup: 2001, 2004
• UEFA Champions League: 2003–04
• UEFA Cup: 2002–03

Country

Russia

• Legends Cup: 2009

Career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Soviet Union			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
1991	Lokomotiv Moscow	Top League	16	0
Russia			League		Russian Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
1992	Lokomotiv Moscow	Premier League	24	2
1993			29	4
1994	Spartak Moscow	Premier League	17	3
1995			27	4
1996			32	7
1997			33	2
1998			13	2
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		League Cup		Europe		Total
1998–99	Roma	Serie A	21	1
1999–00			7	1
1999–00	Perugia	Serie A	15	0
2000–01			0	0
Portugal			League		Taça de Portugal		Taça da Liga		Europe		Total
2000–01	Porto	Portuguese Liga	28	3
2001–02			20	3
2002–03			18	4
2003–04			17	2
Russia			League		Russian Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
2004	Spartak Moscow	Premier League	13	3
2005			8	0
Total	Soviet Union		16	0
	Russia		196	27
	Italy		43	2
	Portugal		83	12
Career total			338	41

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	11 February 1996	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Valletta	Malta	2–0	3–1	Friendly
2.	11 October 1997	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow	Bulgaria	1–0	4–2	1998 World Cup qualifier
3.				4–0
4.	31 March 1999	Republican Spartak Stadium, Vladikavkaz	Andorra	6–1	6–1	Euro 2000 qualifier
5.	6 June 2001	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1–0	2–1	2002 World Cup qualifier
6.	14 November 2001	Skonto Stadium, Riga	Latvia	2–0	3–1	Friendly

External links

• Dmitri Alenichev celebrates goal with Porto