Aleksandr Golovin

Aleksandr Golovin is a Russian football player who plays as a midfielder for Russian National Team and Russian professional club CSKA Moscow. He started his youth career with DYuSSh Kaltan and has played professionally for only CSKA Moscow since 2014.

Golovin is named one of the prominent players of the Russian National Team coached by Stanislav Cherchesov for the FIFA World Cup 2018.

Aleksandr Golovin's Early Life

Aleksandr Golovin was born as Aleksandr Sergeyevich Golovin on 30 May 1996 (age 22) in Kaltan, Russia. His father is a miner and mother an accountant. His father admitted him to his friend's sports school at the age of 6 where his football journey began.

Golovin dreamt of playing for Russian National Team since his childhood.

Aleksandr Golovin's Net Worth

The famous Rusmidfielderilder and right winger is one of the best players in Current 23 man's squad in Russia. As of 2018, the footballer is reportedly has a market value of €18 million.

The CSKA Moscow's player, penned the contract with CSK Moscow on 15th of July, 2015 at the age of 19 and further extended his contract in 2018 for around €3 million.

The star footballer is currently eyed by English clubs like Brighton and South Hampton but the transfer seems expensive after he penned the contract with CSK Moscow. Though his current net worth isn't known, we assume it to be over $5 million as he is one of the most liked CSK Moscow stars.

Further, the Russian superstar has divided his outfit deal and shoes deal separately with two sports producers, i.e. Nike and Addidas.

He is in an endorsement deal with Nike and wears a Nike Mercurial Vapor 360, and wears training gears from Addidas, which further increases his net worth.

Professional Career of Aleksandr Golovin

The Russian Midfielder started his youth career with DYuSSh Kaltan in 2001 at the young age of 5. He remained in the academy for 8 years until 2009 and joined Metallurg Novokuznetsk's youth team. He played there for 2 years and moved to CSKA Moscow in 2012.

After 2 years in the youth academy, Golovin was promoted to the senior squad in 2014. He made his senior team debut against FC Mordovia Saransk on March 14, 2015. Golovin extended his contract with the club at the end of 2016 season which will keep him in the club until the end of 2020 season.

Talking about his international career, he has so far earned 21 caps with the senior team scoring 3 goals. Previously, he represented Russia in various youth levels having played his first match with the u-17 in 2013.

Golovin was included in Russia's 23-man squad for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and made his world cup debut against Serbia on June 14, 2018. He scored a beautiful free-kick goal in the injury time which saw his team win by 5-0. He also made 2 more assists in the match.

Some of the other members of the team are Fyodor Smolov, Yuri Zhirkov, Ilya Kutepov etc.