Artyom Igorevich Popov (; born 30 August 1992) is a Russian professional
football
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player who plays as a
full-back (left or right) for
FC Arsenal Tula
FC Arsenal Tula () is a Russian professional football club from Tula playing in the second-tier Russian First League.
Originally founded in 1923, FC Arsenal Tula was promoted to the Russian Premier League in 2014 for the first time in its hi ...
. Earlier in his career, he mostly played as a
winger (also on both sides), and he is occasionally still deployed in that position.
Club career
He made his
Russian Premier League
The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...
debut for
PFC CSKA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA (, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English language, English: ''Central Sports Club of the Army''), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or ''CSK ...
on 24 September 2011 in a game against
FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod
FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod () was a Russian football club from Nizhny Novgorod, founded in 1998. In 2008, FC Volga won the Ural-Povolzhye (Volga Region in Russian) zone of the Russian Second Division and advanced to the Russian First Division. In ...
.
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1992 births
Footballers from Lipetsk
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's youth international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg players
FC Tom Tomsk players
FC Orenburg players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Arsenal Tula players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players
21st-century Russian sportsmen
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