Magomed Ozdoev is a famous Russian football player who plays for Zenit and the Russian national team. Famous domestic and foreign football clubs are increasingly interested in the young promising player. Let's find out everything about football midfielder Magomed Ozdoev.
Childhood
Magomed Ozdoev was born on November 5, 1992 in the city of Grozny. Magomed is Ingush by nationality. When hostilities began on the territory of Chechnya, the boy’s family moved to Ingushetia to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. Magomed's parents started their own business - a small cafe.
The boy had a brother six years older than him. He took his little brother with him everywhere, including to football games. Maga, as the guys called him, gradually joined the senior company of football players. The boy spent his childhood studying at a sports football school.
Magomed Ozdoev
His father, a former Terek player, decided to take him to his children's team, which he coached himself. As Ozdoev himself says (photo), it was his father who prepared him for big football.
Carier start
The path to professional football began in 2007, when Ozdoev began playing for Angusht, after which he moved to the Terek junior team. When the contract with the club ended, the young football player went to Kyiv to try out for Dynamo. The young man himself admits that he really wanted to see a different level of play. Having signed a contract and stayed with the team for six months, Ozdoev was unable to play in Ukraine due to the fact that he was under 18 years old.
Without receiving permission, the footballer moved to the German club Schalke. But the Germans were unable to register him as a player due to the minor’s lack of documents. The German side offered to stay with the promising midfielder, but Magomed’s father decided that he needed to return to Russia.
"Locomotive"
After returning to Russia, Ozdoev ended up in Lokomotiv. At the beginning of February 2010, the midfielder signed a contract with the Moscow club. And in April 2011, Magomed scored his first long-distance goal against Volga. In September, the club offered the player to extend his contract until 2015, which Ozdoev did. In 2011, the young midfielder was recognized as one of the best young football players and took second place in this category, with 141 points.
Magomed Ozdoev played for Lokomotiv
After a series of changes in coaches, Ozdoev was no longer allowed on the field in the first team. From 2012 to 2013, Magomed played three times fewer matches, scoring only one goal. And in the second season, the midfielder was sent to the youth team.
Magomed tried to get into the starting lineup under the guidance of the Belarusian coach, but did not earn his trust. This season, having played 13 games, Ozdoev took a bronze medal at the Russian Championship. After this, he announced that he was leaving the team.
"Ruby".
After the end of the contract with Lokomotiv, Ozdoev decided not to renew it and not to enter into agreements with other Moscow clubs. Realizing for himself that the Moscow rhythm was not suitable for life, Ozdoev decided that he would be better off at Rubin Kazan. In the fall of 2014, the midfielder scored the first goal for the new team, playing against Dynamo. In the 2014/15 season, Ozdoev scored 6 goals, playing 29 matches out of a possible 30. Magomed became a full member of Rubin only in 2015. Spartak became interested in him, but the Kazan team refused to sell their player. The following season, Ozdoev played his 100th game at the Russian Football Championship. In the winter of 2013, the footballer moved on loan to Terek, where he played 6 games.
Transfer to Zenit
In the winter of 2018, Magomed Ozdoev signed a four and a half year contract with the Zenit team. The young midfielder was assigned number 27 at Zenit. Rashid Rakhimov, who coached the player at Akhmat, said: “Ozdoev has good data and is an excellent candidate for Zenit.” The decision to sell or rent a player will be made by club managers. When Magomed trained on our field, he gave his best and I was pleased with his work.” The midfielder himself said in an interview with the Zenit-TV channel that at the 2018 World Cup it is necessary to fight for first place until the very end, which is what he intends to do.
Ozdoev plays for Zenit
Football school
In 2015, Ozdoev opened his own private football school, which makes his sports biography more eventful. The school has about 30 children of different ages. Ozdoev’s students are already showing significant results. Not long ago, the guys beat rivals of the same age from Anzhi and Akhmat.
Football player during the game
The director of the school is Magomed's father, and the coaching staff helps him in managing the school. My father carefully analyzes each training session and works on mistakes.
Family
Ozdoev’s personal life began in Kazan. There Magomed met the Tatar model Margarita Muslimova. The girl graduated from Moscow State University. At the beginning of September 2015, the couple had a baby. The young parents named him Timur.
On February 13, 2017, he moved to Terek on loan until the end of the season. After the expiration of the contract, he continued to play for the Kazan professional football club Rubin.
Magomed is married. His wife, Margarita Muslimova, is a Tatar model. The couple had a son, Timur, on September 2, 2015.
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Ozdoev Magomed Mustafaevich
Russian Football Player
Magomed Ozdoev was born on November 5, 1992 in the city of Grozny, Chechen Republic. Subsequently, the family moved to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. Magomed was taught to play football by his father, Mustafa Ozdoev, a former Terek player, who organized the Sunzha courtyard team in the village of Ordzhonikidze, made up of local children, which competed in children's competitions at various levels.
Then Magomed studied for two years at the Youth Sports School in the city of Malgobek. He began his football career in the amateur football league as part of the Angusht team. Until the age of 15, he trained under the supervision of his father.
At the age of 15, Magomed joined the Terek youth team. However, he did not stay there for long, because a year later, in 2009, Magomed was invited to a tryout by the coaches of the Dynamo Kyiv youth team. In the Ukrainian club, Ozdoev managed to prove himself from the best side, so much so that the German Schalke became interested in him.
Through a Ukrainian agent, a trial was organized at Schalke, where Ozdoev was assigned to the U-23 team and taken to a friendly match in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. He impressed both teams, but the transfer of a minor football player to a foreign club was impossible, because Magomed was only 16 years old at the time.
The young man signed a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow on February 4, 2010, where he played until the summer of 2014. In the spring of the same year, the guy played a series of games consisting of 10 matches for the youth team. Magomed played six out of ten matches in the starting lineup. In the game against Krylia Sovetov, the young football player was able to score an assist. In Austria, where the starting squad trained, Ozdoev scored the winning goal, which became decisive in the game between Lokomotiv and Rubin, which held the training camp there.
The promising football player made his debut in the first team of the new team on July 10, 2010. In the next match of the Russian championship against Anzhi, Magomed replaced Dmitry Torbinsky in the 87th minute and made several accurate passes in the remaining time. This allowed me to prove myself well. The young player brought no less success to his spectacular tackling in the center of the field, from which Lokomotiv’s attack began on April 17, 2011. Then Magomed scored his first goal for Lokomotiv against Volga Nizhny Novgorod. In September, Magomed extended his contract with Lokomotiv until 2015.
Ozdoev was a candidate for participation in the 2012 European Championship, but was not included in the application due to the need to have a balance in positions. Another reason was that in the national team he was considered as Denisov’s backup in the position of a defensive midfielder, but at Lokomotiv he did not always play in his position, as a result of which his lack of experience as a defensive midfielder affected him. Denisov’s position remained the only one not duplicated in the national team, since under certain options he could be replaced by Shirokov.
On July 14, 2014, the talented footballer moved to Rubin on loan. He scored his first goal for the new team on October 27, 2014, in a match against Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the national team under Fabio Capello in a friendly match against Azerbaijan in the fall of 2014.
In 2015, the midfielder's lease with the Kazan club expired. According to Airat Garayev, general director of FC Rubin, a new contract for a period of 4 years was ready for the player, which came into force on June 1, 2015. The lease agreement included an option to buy the player, which the management of the Kazan team decided to use.
After the failure at Euro 2016, it’s time for the coaches of the Russian national team to think about updating the roster and attracting new young players to replace the departing veterans. One of these hopes is footballer Magomed Ozdoev, Rubin midfielder. At a young age, he already attracted the attention of a strong German club, and only age restrictions did not allow Magomed to play in the Bundesliga. He is now 24 years old, which is the beginning of his prime for a football player.
Becoming a Player
Magomed Ozdoev, whose nationality is Ingush, was born in Grozny in the turbulent year of 1992. Soon the boy's family left war-torn Chechnya. Magomed started playing football at the age of seven, and at fifteen he played for the amateur team “Angusht”. Soon he is invited to the youth team of the Grozny Terek.
In 2009, the talented midfielder was invited to try out for Dynamo Kiev. There he managed to show his best side, but according to Ukrainian rules, clubs did not have the right to sign contracts with minor foreigners.
When Magomed Ozdoev was in Kyiv, he was invited to try out for the German Schalke 04. The footballer even played one friendly match for the youth team against the Dutch PSV, where he was able to make several sharp passes. He impressed the team coach and was offered to stay in Germany with the prospect of citizenship. However, as in Ukraine, they could not sign a contract with him until he reached adulthood, so Magomed would have to remain out of the game for a whole year. Therefore, the young player decided to agree to move to Lokomotiv Moscow.
Lokomotiv player
In the first season, Magomed Ozdoev began to appear in matches for the main team of his new team. He scored his first goal in the Russian Premier League against Volga in 2011. The young midfielder was able to catch the period in the team when Dmitry Loskov, a legend of this club, who had returned there, played for Lokomotiv.
At this time, Magomed is attracted to games for the Russian national team of different ages. Thanks to his confident play in the 2011-2012 season, he was even included in the list of candidates for a trip to the 2012 European Championship as part of the national team. But due to the great competition that year, he was left out of the main team.
The transition to the adult level is not always successful for young football players. After a successful season for Lokomotiv, there was a certain decline in Ozdoev’s play, and he lost his place in the starting lineup. In 2014, the player was loaned to Rubin Kazan.
In the capital of Tatarstan
The new club became exactly the team in which Magomed Ozdoev was able to reveal his talent. A midfielder playing in the central zone, he liked to play the role of a “box-to-box” player, that is, capable of roaming the entire space of the field from his own penalty area to the opponent’s zone. This skill came in handy at Rubin, which played a defensive game with quick counterattacks.
After a year of rent, the Kazan club, satisfied with the quality of Magomed’s play, bought out his contract, and in 2015 he became a full-fledged team player. To date, Magomed Ozdoev has played 79 matches for the club, scoring 8 goals.
The progress in the footballer’s game did not go unnoticed. Since 2014, the coach of the Russian national team begins to attract players to the main team. He has already played 8 matches, including 2 in the qualifying tournament for Euro 2016. However, Magomed was not included in the application for the final part of the European Championship.
Personal life
Being a religious man, Magomed Ozdoev did not waste his time on numerous relationships with girls. He is married to a model from Tatarstan, Margarita Muslimova. In 2015, their son Timur was born.
Today Magomed Ozdoev is one of the most promising football players. We can only hope that by the 2018 World Cup he will be able to fully reveal his talent and help the national team.
Magomed Ozdoev is a Russian football player, midfielder for Rubin and the Russian national team.
Born in Ingushetia, at the youth level he attended the Angushta and Terek academies. Then he played in the youth teams of Dynamo K and Lokomotiv. He began his professional career in the ranks of Loko, but after another change of coaches he lost his place in the team and was sent on loan to Rubin. Since 2015, he moved to Kazan on a permanent basis, and already at the age of 23 he played his 100th match in the top division of the Russian championship. Magomed played as part of the Russian youth team, and since 2014 he has been regularly called up to the ranks of the main team.
- Full name: Magomed Mustafaevich Ozdoev
- Date and place of birth: November 5, 1992, Ordzhonikidzevskaya (Ingushetia, Russia)
- Role: midfielder (defender)
Club career of Magomed Ozdoev
Magomed was born in Ingushetia and began playing football at the instruction of his father:
“My father taught me football. In his youth, he played in the championship of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. I was eight years old when my dad recruited a team of village kids. I came up with the name “Sunzha”, after the name of the district. Started training. In essence, it was a yard team. My father did not receive money for this. To buy a ball, the guys chipped in among themselves. I spent very little time in a specialized school. And this happened at a fairly mature age."
The following year, Ozdoev began to be involved by Krasnozhan in games for the main team of Loko, played another thirty matches and scored one goal. He also made his debut in Eurocups, where he played in seven matches. On April 17, he scored his debut goal in the fifth round match against Volga. In this meeting, the midfielder came on as a substitute in the 74th minute and scored a successful shot from long range. In September 2011, he extended his contract with the team until 2015. At the end of 2011, he was nominated for the title of best young football player in Russia and took second place here with 141 points.
After another coaching reshuffle, young Magomed no longer made it into Loko’s starting lineup. In the 2012/13 season there were three times fewer matches, scoring one more goal. In the second half of the season, the midfielder was completely exiled to the youth team. In the summer of 2013, Russian media started talking about Ozdoev’s possible departure to CSKA. But soon the footballer himself dispelled the rumors, saying that he would make his way into the starting lineup under the leadership of Leonid Kuchuk. However, the Belarusian specialist also did not trust the young football player. After playing only 13 matches during the season and becoming a bronze medalist at the Russian Championship, Ozdoev announced that he wanted to leave Lokomotiv.
In July 2014, it became known that Magomed would move to the ranks of Rubin.” At first, the midfielder said that these were just rumors, but on the 17th he went to Kazan to undergo a medical examination. Soon, the Ruby team announced the loan of the Russian national team player, and Ozdoev himself stated that he would no longer return to Lokomotiv. In the 2014/15 season, he was a key player for Rubin, played 29 out of 30 possible matches, scored six goals and was again called up to the Russian national team. In December 2014, Lokomotiv President Olga Smorodskaya announced ongoing negotiations on the sale of Magomed.
"Ruby"
On January 2, 2015, Ozdoev became a full-fledged Rubin player, and the new contract should come into force only at the end of the calendar year. Thus, the footballer will move to Kazan on a free basis. At the end of the season, he scored three goals in four matches and helped Rubin take fifth place in the standings. Thanks to the disqualification of Dynamo Moscow, Rubin entered the Europa League. In the summer, the capital's Spartak was interested in Ozdoev, but the Kazan club ruled out the option of selling their defensive midfielder. At the start of the 2015/16 season, he played his 100th match in the Russian top division. It took him four years of playing at the highest level to achieve this.
International career of Magomed Ozdoev
Played a small number of matches for the Russian youth team. He was one of the candidates for participation in Euro 2012, but was not included in the application due to the selection of players in this position. After losing his place in the starting lineup, Loko stopped making the national team. He made his debut here only after moving to Rubin, in a friendly match against Azerbaijan.
Achievements of Magomed Ozdoev
"Locomotive"
- Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship 2014
Magomed Ozdoev is a young and promising football player who has achieved great success in sports. Loud victories and awards did not become a reason for Magomed to suffer from star fever. The guy works hard on his own skills, improving them, focusing on the success of the club, and not on personal achievements.
The athlete changed several clubs and left an unforgettable mark on each, allowing the team to rise in the standings or get closer to winning the championships. Fans of the football player are confident that the guy will play the best matches, and his success is a “warm-up” for the golden seasons. Now Magomed Ozdoev is the main contender for leadership at Zenit, which is why the biography, personal life and photo of the athlete in 2018 is the number one goal for journalists.
The player, whom many are happy to see in a Zenit T-shirt, was born in the Chechen Republic, the city of Grozny on November 5, 1992. The guy's family was not wealthy.
Despite the fact that Magomed’s father played professionally for the Terek club, for a long time his parents had financial difficulties, which they dealt with by moving to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya.
In the village, my father opened a small business, and devoted his free time to training the Sunzha yard team, which periodically participated in competitions at various levels.
It was Mustafa, the head of the family, who instilled in his son a love of football. It was difficult for the boy to develop professionally due to the lack of football sections. This did not become an obstacle for Magomed on his path to a brilliant career as a football player. He regularly studied with his father, honing his technique. In his free time, he played football in the yard with friends.
Studying at the Youth Sports School
Ozdoev has been trying to prove that he deserves a place on the list of the best football stars since childhood. The guy's main idol is Zinedine Zidane. The father saw his son’s talent and aspiration, so he helped him enter the Youth Sports School in Malgobek, where the guy trained for two years.
With the Youth Sports School, the future football star managed to break into the amateur league, where Ozdoev played for the Angusht team.
Mustafa recalls that until the age of 15, his father played an important role in his athletic development, who controlled his training and forced his son to work harder than his teammates. The work on himself bore fruit - at the age of 15, Magomed played for the youth team of Terek. I didn’t have to play for this club for long; soon the people of Kiev became interested in the player.
Career at Dynamo
The coach of the Ukrainian Dynamo youth team invited the talented football player to a tryout, where Ozdoev demonstrated all his skills and became part of the team. It was the Kiev club that gave Magomed the opportunity to prove himself from the best side.
The coaching staff noted Magomed’s tenacity and flexibility; the guy played well in different positions.
Compared to his partners, Ozdoev stood out with his professional, mature play. This attracted the attention of the German Schalke. Ukrainian agents did not refuse to help the football player organize a viewing at a famous club. The athlete was invited to try out for the U-23 team as part of a friendly match with the Dutch Eindhoven.
In a friendly match, he impressed the club's management, but the transfer did not take place due to age restrictions; he was 16. This violated the rules for a football player moving to a foreign FC.
Career at Lokomotiv
The guy joined the capital team in February 2010 after signing a contract. Ozdoev played for Lokomotiv for 4 seasons, in which:
- played a series of brilliant games, marked by assists, assists and several goals scored.
- in the match with Krylia Sovetov, he helped the team beat the opponent, demonstrating impressive technique and endurance;
- in Austria, in a match with Rubin, he scored the winning goal against the opponent.
He earned a place in the starting lineup from the first days of his contract with Lokomotiv. As part of the Russian Championship, in a match against Anzhi, the football player who came on as a substitute gave not one, but several effective and important passes for the team.
Demonstration of effective tackling in the center of the field allowed Ozdoev's team to launch an attack. Using this tactic, the athlete scored the winning goal against the Nizhny Novgorod team. In the fall of 2014 he moved to Rubin.
Career at Rubin
After signing the contract, the athlete became a part of the main team. Scored an important goal against Dynamo Moscow.
Demonstrated excellent passing and rebounding of the ball.
Ozdoev played for Terek of the First Professional League, where the footballer’s father achieved heights. After playing for the team, he returned to Rubin, played 87 matches, scored 9 goals.
In the winter of 2018, Ozdoev and his teammate Elmir Nabiullin moved to play for Zenit, with whom the management of the Kazan club agreed on a contract for a period of 4 years and 5 months.
Magomed Ozdoev played for the Rubin club
Magomed Ozdoev demonstrated amazing skills to Zenit fans during open training. This fuels media interest in his biography, details of his personal life and photos from the family archive of 2018.
Team career
The talented football player was not lucky enough to play well in the Russian national team.
- The main candidate for participation in the European Championship in 2012, hoped to show talent on the other side, to help the team achieve a triumphant victory. But the contract with Magomed was not signed due to lack of experience playing as a midfielder.
- The footballer joined the national team led by Fabio Capello in 2014 and played one match during a friendly match with Azerbaijan.
- As part of the 2018 World Cup, the football player is considered as a player in the main squad; there is no information about the approval of the application.
Personal life
Magomed Ozdoev, the current Zenit player, talks a lot about his biography and professional career. He prefers to remain silent about his personal life. This forces fans to evaluate the status of an attractive man solely based on personal photos of 2018.
According to journalists, the footballer’s heart is occupied by his chosen one, Margarita Muslimova. In 2015, the guy became a father. The firstborn was named Timur.