Rinat Dasaev is a famous football goalkeeper who defended the gates of Spartak Moscow and Sevilla of Spain. What is interesting about the athlete's biography and personal life?
Goalkeeper biography
The future footballer was born on June 13, 1957 in Astrakhan. From childhood, the boy began to play sports. First he signed up for the swimming section. There Rinat achieved some success and even managed to take part in all-Union competitions. But a shoulder injury sustained in a summer camp put an end to the career of a gifted young man.
Then his parents advised him to enroll in the football school of the local Volgar club. The team just at that moment went for promotion to a stronger division. At first, Dasaev played as a striker, but did not achieve much success. Once the coach suggested to a tall young man to try himself as a goalkeeper. This was a fateful decision in the career of an outstanding athlete.
Already at his first tournament as part of the youth team of the club, Dasaev received the title of the best goalkeeper. Two seasons later, he became the main goalkeeper in the main team of Astrakhan. Spartak Moscow became interested in the young footballer. As a result, in 1977, Rinat moved to Moscow to play for the national team.
At first, Rinat was a substitute for another legend of the Moscow Spartak Alexander Prokhorov. But he gradually ousted him from the main team. In 1979, Dasaev took a place at the gates of the main team of the country for many years. In Spartak, Rinat played about 10 seasons and managed to become a two-time champion of the USSR and took second place five times. Dasaev's manner of playing was revolutionary for those times. He confidently plays not only with his hands, but also kicks the ball. It is also used by partners in their combinations when they throw the ball back to their goalkeeper. Rinat successfully guards the gates of Spartak and deserves an invitation to the USSR national team.
First, he becomes the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Moscow. Then he repeatedly participates in the world football championships. But he achieves the greatest success with the team at the 1988 European Championship, when he wins the silver medals of the championship. That loss in the final of the Dutch national team forever went down in the history of world football.
Dasaev has been recognized as the best goalkeeper in the country for several years in a row, and in 1982 he became the best athlete in the USSR. All these successes at home make it possible to draw the attention of titled European clubs to him. In 1988, Rinat moved to play in the Spanish Sevilla.
For three seasons in Spain, Dasaev could not win the love of the public and achieve any significant victories with the team. But he ended his sports career and got a job in the club as a goalkeeper coach. Then Rinat went into business, but quickly realized that this occupation was not to his liking.
In 1998, the great goalkeeper returned to his homeland and began to work with the goalkeepers of Moscow Spartak. He also helped Georgy Yartsev in the Russian national team for several years. And since 2013 he has been coaching young goalkeepers of Spartak-2.
Goalkeeper's personal life
The first time Rinat married in 1985, a young athlete Nelly Gaas, who bore him two daughters, Christina and Elmira. After moving to Spain, the couple announced their divorce.
The second and last wife of the great goalkeeper was the Spaniard Maria Moreno. She gave birth to three children to the athlete. With this woman, Dasaev found peace in his personal life and stopped drinking alcohol in order to stay with loved ones as long as possible.
