Evgeny Giner - President of the CSKA football club

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Evgeny Giner is a well-known Russian businessman, owner of the CSKA football club (Moscow), director of the financial committee of the Russian Football Union.

Giner bought everything

Says one of the most famous football "chants", which is familiar to all fans and fans of Russian football. The essence of this statement lies in the fact that the president of the CSKA club took over the entire football industry in Russia. Initially, the phrase was invented by fans of St. Petersburg "Zenith" and Moscow "Spartak" (ardent opponents), who explained the constant victories of the army club. Perhaps they are right in some way, because we all know or have heard about corruption schemes in the Russian Premier League, where the CSKA club has always been dominant. In a word, there has always been something unclean here, so the reaction of the fans is appropriate. But the phrase has become so common and, if I may say so, winged that the CSKA fans themselves began to use it in their rhymes to the “chants”. Thus, they are ironic about this topic, believing that the superiority of their club in the Premier League is based only on the quality of the game. However, we will not talk about what "black" schemes have taken root in the Russian championship, but about thePresident of CSKA - Yevgeny Lennorovich Giner.

Biography

He was born on May 26, 1960 in Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR). In his own words, he grew up without parents and was raised by the street. Eugene did not have a happy childhood, but only severe trials in the extreme conditions of a cruel world. Little is known about the biography of Evgeny Giner. He does not like to remember the past, and even more so to dedicate the general public to it. It is known that the future successful entrepreneur studied at the Kharkov Institute of Municipal Construction Engineers, but never received a higher education. Information about his youth is hidden from Internet users as much as possible. Biographical information about Giner is available to the public from the moment when he has already achieved success in many areas of entrepreneurial activity.

Ticket to the capital

In 1986 Evgeny Giner made a desperate decision to move to Moscow to start his career here. Without any education, he starts looking for a job. Again, the press does not know what Giner did between 1986 and 1990.

In 1991, Evgeny starts his entrepreneurial activity, joining the new economic standards of the country. Based on this, we can safely say that Evgeny Giner is a typical representative of the "dashing nineties". At that time, many entrepreneurs made their capital on illegal business, which was so popular during the collapse of the country. One can also conclude why those years inthe biographies of a major Russian businessman are not publicized. Things were going rapidly uphill, and since 1993 Evgeny Giner began to provide financial assistance to the country's youth teams. At the same time, the businessman made his way into the Russian football industry, cooperating with its association.

Rotating in football circles, Giner already in the winter of 2001 becomes the general president of the most famous and eminent professional club in the country - CSKA Moscow.

Evgeny Giner at the head of the "soldiers"

In the same 2001, the composition of the club's shareholders changed. It included the AVO-Capital enterprise, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the little-known British company Blue Castle Enterprises Limited, the legitimacy of which is being clarified by Russian journalists to this day. At that time, Yevgeny Giner himself, who became the president of the "army", was also little known in public circles.

Transfer policy

From the first days of the reign of the new president, it became clear that global changes were coming at the club. This was clearly shown by the summer transfer campaign, during which CSKA acquired new talented players. Among those were striker Denis Popov, goalkeeper Sergei Perhun and Latvian midfielder Yuri Laizansa. Later, during the winter transfer period, the “soldiers” were strengthened by such players as defender Alexei Berezutsky, midfielder Igor Yanovsky and goalkeeper Veniamin Mandrykin. The teamwork of the team was a little lame, but the potential and desire were visibleplayers to victory. In the season of the Russian Premier League 2001/2002. CSKA fans expected beautiful victories and won cups from their team, but then they failed to rise above 7th place. This result was due to the following reasons: the tragic death of goalkeeper Sergei Perkhun on the field, as well as the news of the death of eminent coach Pavel Sadyrin after a long oncological illness.

The further history of CSKA under Giner is characterized only by stability, glory and high achievements. Since 2002, the club's management has been continuing the transfer policy of acquiring new talented football players, and also signing many successful contracts.

CSKA's achievements under Giner

Under the leadership of Evgeny Giner, the army club received many honorary titles: a three-time championship in the Russian Premier League in 2003, 2005 and 2006, a five-time triumph in the Russian Cup in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009, four-time dominance in the Russian Super Cup in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009. In addition to the above, CSKA became the first Russian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2005, beating Sporting Lisbon in the final with a total score of 1:3. It is also worth noting that in the 2009/2010 season, the army team reached the Champions League quarter-finals, which no one from Russian clubs could achieve before.

Thus, five league titles, six Super Bowl victories and other football trophies won by the team since 2001 are indisputable proof of the able leadership of the president of the club.