Yegor Titov

Yegor Titov

Coaching Spartak Moscow in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Yegor Ilyich Titov
Date of birth	May 29, 1976
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Playing position	Playmaker
Club information
Current team	FC Spartak Moscow (assistant coach)
Youth career
1983–1992	FC Spartak Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1995–2008	FC Spartak Moscow	324	(87)
2008–2009	FC Khimki	12	(1)
2009–2010	Lokomotiv Astana	24	(6)
2011–2012	FC Arsenal Tula (amateur)
Total		464	(107)
National team
1998–2007	Russia	41	(7)
Teams managed
2015–	FC Spartak Moscow (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Yegor Ilyich Titov (Егор Ильич Титов; born 29 May 1976 in Moscow) is an association football coach and a former player who played midfielder. He is an assistant coach of FC Spartak Moscow. He was a goal scoring midfielder playing in "the hole" between the midfield and attack. He was well known for his vision, close control and accurate passing. Other than that he was a renowned set-piece taker and is well known for his temperament.

Career

Titov spent the majority of his club career at Spartak Moscow, starting in 1995, helping them to six consecutive league titles, and winning Russian Player of the Year in 1998 and 2000. He played for Russia at the 2002 World Cup and has amassed over 30 caps for his country. After a Euro 2004 playoff against Wales he was tested positive for the banned substance bromantan and received a 12-month suspension.^[2] Later, former Spartak players Maksim Demenko and Vladyslav Vashchuk along with physio Artyom Katulin blamed Katulin's assistant Anatoly Schukin, who allegedly acted on behalf of manager Andrey Chernyshov.^[3][4] In 2008, Titov had made similar statements in his interview to Sovetsky Sport.^[5] After the ban, he has continued playing for Spartak and has been a major figure for the club when Spartak managed to finish 2nd in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 seasons, thus qualifying for the Champions League.

In 2002, Titov was reportedly close to a move to La Liga side Atlético Madrid, but eventually decided against joining the Spanish outfit.

Titov, who was just several years ago was considered one of Russia's key players stopped playing for the team when he refused to be called up for a Euro 2008 qualifying match against Estonia, saying the reason was because his wife was pregnant and he wants to spend more time with her.

Due to several factors, including a recent severe loss of form and conflicts with Spartak Moscow's manager, Titov became unsettled and, in August 2008, left to join FC Khimki.

In the beginning of 2009, Yegor signed with the newly formed club Lokomotiv Astana. He joined the Kazakh side with his former teammate Andrey Tikhonov.^[6]

He retired from professional football in early 2010. In early 2012, he played several games for FC Arsenal Tula which played in the fourth-tier Russian Amateur Football League at the time and was managed by his former Spartak and Russia teammate Dmitri Alenichev.^[7] Alenichev hired him as his assistant when he was hired as the manager of FC Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2015.

References

1. "Player Profile". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
2. BBC (January 27, 2004). "Uefa to hear Wales appeal". BBC News. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
3. Igor Rabiner (April 29, 2005). "Bromantaned Spartak" (in Russian). Sport-Express. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
4. Lenta.ru (April 16, 2004). "Titov was drugged by Spartak assistant physio" (in Russian). Retrieved April 15, 2007.
5. "Interview with Yegor Titov" (in Russian). Soviet Sports. November 28, 2008. Retrieved November 28, 2008.
6. Lokomotiv signed Titov and Tikhonov Sport.gazeta.kz Feb 15, 2009
7. "Arsenal Tula 2011/12 season summary" (in Russian). Footballfacts. Retrieved 12 August 2015.

External links

• Egor Titov's unofficial website (Russian)
• Club profile (Russian)
• Profile and interview (Russian)
• – Yegor leaves Spartak