Yegor Ilyich Titov (; born 29 May 1976) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a

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. He was a goal scoring midfielder who usually played in "the hole" between the midfield and attack, as an

attacking midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. As a playmaker, 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

Born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

, Titov spent the majority of his club career at

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, starting in 1995, helping them to six consecutive league titles, and winning Russian Player of the Year in 1998 and 2000. He played for

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at the

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and has amassed over 30 caps for his country. After a

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playoff against

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he was tested positive for the banned substance bromantan and received a 12-month suspension. Later, former Spartak players

Maksim Demenko Maksim Vladimirovich Demenko (russian: Максим Владимирович Деменко; born 21 March 1976) is a Russian football manager and a former player who played as a central midfielder. He is one of six players who scored for six ...

and

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along with physio Artyom Katulin blamed Katulin's assistant Anatoly Schukin, who allegedly acted on behalf of manager Andrey Chernyshov. In 2008, Titov had made similar statements in his interview to

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. 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

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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

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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

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. 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. He retired from professional football in early 2010. In early 2012, he played several games for

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which played in the fourth-tier

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at the time and was managed by his former Spartak and Russia teammate

Dmitri Alenichev Dmitri Anatolyevich Alenichev (russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Аленичев; born 20 October 1972) is a Russian football coach, former player and politician. Club career Despite being a Spartak Moscow fan, Alenichev debuted ...

. Alenichev hired him as his assistant when he was hired as the manager of

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyn ...

in the summer of 2015.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

Spartak Moscow *

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(6): 1996,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, 2001 * Russian Cup (2): 1997–98, 2002–03

Individual

* CIS Cup top goalscorer: 2000 (shared)

References

External links

Egor Titov's unofficial website

Club profile

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