Artem Bezrodnyi Football player Date of Birth: 10.02.1979 Country: Ukraine

1. Artem Bezrodny Biography
2. Professional Club Career: Start and Spartak
3. Youth Team and Bayer
4. Return to Spartak and Later Career

Artem Bezrodny Biography

Artem Bezrodny is a Russian footballer who played as a left midfielder. He spent the majority of his career at Moscow's Spartak. Artem Bezrodny was born on February 10, 1979, in Sumy, Ukraine. His father, Anatoliy Semenovich Bezrodny, was a football coach at the local sports school "Smena," where Artem began his football training at the age of 7. His mother's name is Lyudmila Ivanovna. At the age of 12, he moved to Luhansk, where he studied at the local sports boarding school, where his father worked. Alongside football, Bezrodny also practiced acrobatics for four years and achieved the title of candidate for Master of Sports. After moving to Moscow, he studied at a rural school in Tarasovka, where his coach, Valeriy Zhilyaev, often had to explain his absence from classes due to training.

Professional Club Career: Start and Spartak

At the age of 15, Artem Bezrodny was recognized as the best midfielder in Ukraine among youth players, which led to invitations from Nantes and Ajax in Amsterdam. He was also invited to trial with Belgian and German clubs, but his father did not allow him to go abroad. Moscow's CSKA also invited Bezrodny along with other players from the sports boarding school, Valik Lemzyakov and Igor Blokhin. In the end, the 15-year-old Bezrodny went to Moscow, where he lived at the CSKA base and participated in training sessions. However, his father, a friend of Spartak Moscow's coach Vyacheslav Grozny, convinced him to have a trial with Spartak. Grozny approached Bezrodny on the day of signing the contract with CSKA and persuaded him to have a trial with Spartak, who had shown interest in the midfielder since August. The trial took place in the form of a game in the Sokolniki Sports Arena, where Bezrodny scored a goal and twice outplayed Viktor Onopko, who kicked him in the legs after the third dribble but apologized after the match. Vyacheslav Grozny subsequently helped Bezrodny adapt to the team. After a successful trial, Bezrodny trained with Spartak's reserve team for a while before joining the first team. Initially, the physical demands of the first team were challenging for Bezrodny, and he started the season in the reserves, where he was the youngest player. He was given the nickname "Malyy" (The Young One). While training with Spartak, Bezrodny also received his school education at a rural school near the Tarasovka base. He played his first game with the first team against Chernomorets and was subsequently called up for more games but left on the bench. At the age of 17, Bezrodny made his debut in the Champions League on March 6, 1996, in the quarter-final match between Nantes and Spartak (2-0), coming on as a substitute. In the same year, he became the Russian champion with the team, playing in 10 matches, including the "golden match" against Alania.

Youth Team and Bayer

In 1996-1998, Bezrodny played for the German club Bayer 04 on loan. The reason for his transfer was a conflict with the club's head coach Oleg Romantsev during the final training camp in Turkey. According to Bezrodny, the conflict arose because the club's management demanded that him and Maxim Demenko, who was on trial at the club, sign blank contracts. As a result of the conflict, Bezrodny and Demenko left the team's training camp and returned to Moscow, and the club's vice-president, Grigory Esaulenko, informed Artem that he would be transferred to Germany. Bezrodny arrived in Germany without significant playing experience and without knowing the German language. Even before his first official game for Bayer, he suffered an injury and took a long time to recover. In his first match for the youth team, he broke the opponent's leg and received an eight-match suspension. After the suspension, Bezrodny was sent from the youth team to the junior team but refused to play there twice. The Bayer coach then said that the club did not need such a player. However, Bezrodny later apologized to the coach and resumed playing for Bayer's second team, helping them win the North Rhine-Westphalia Cup. Towards the end of his time in Leverkusen, according to Bezrodny, things "went very well" for him on the field. At the end of the 1997/1998 season, Bezrodny learned about Dmitry Alenichev's departure to Roma and decided to return to Spartak Moscow, despite Bayer's offer to extend his contract.

Return to Spartak and Later Career

After a personal conversation, Artem Bezrodny and Oleg Romantsev reconciled and decided to forget the past conflict. Romantsev told Bezrodny, "Alenichev is leaving for Roma. Come back and prove your right to a place." In 1999, Bezrodny suffered an injury and only recovered in time for the start of the second half of the Russian Championship. His return was marked by a game against CSKA, where he came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute for Viktor Bulatov and scored a brace. After this game, he consistently performed for the first team, and Bezrodny was considered one of the most talented and promising players in Russia. In the same year, Bezrodny scored his first goal in the UEFA Champions League on September 21, 1999, just 2 minutes and 15 seconds after coming on as a substitute in a match against Sparta Prague. In that season's Champions League campaign, Bezrodny, along with Andrei Tikhonov, was the team's top scorer with 4 goals. In 2002, Bezrodny suffered several injuries, including Achilles tendon problems, which required surgery in Germany. He returned to playing in September 2002 but suffered further injuries. Bezrodny finally recovered by January 2002 but then had to deal with the removal of a furuncle on his ankle, which resulted in another Achilles injury. He started playing for Spartak again in September but suffered his third Achilles injury in October. Bezrodny only fully recovered from his injuries in January 2002 and went on to score goals for Spartak, including against his former club Bayer Leverkusen. After Andrei Tikhonov left Spartak, Bezrodny was expected to replace him on the left flank. At the end of the season, Bezrodny received two points in the Sport-Express poll for the title of the best football player in Russia. In February 2003, Bezrodny suffered an Achilles tendon injury, which took two months to recover from. However, he suffered another injury a month later and was operated on in Germany by Dr. Pfiefer. He resumed training only in June and played a few games before undergoing surgery to remove a boil on his ankle. Bezrodny began playing for Spartak again only in September, featuring for the reserve team. In October, he suffered his third Achilles injury of the season. Bezrodny fully recovered from his injuries by January 2002 but struggled to find playing time due to the team's success and competition for his position. He played his last game for Spartak in 2004 and left the club after a turbulent period. After leaving Spartak, Bezrodny had unsuccessful trials with Amkar and eventually joined the Azerbaijani club MTK-Araz in April 2005. He played four matches in the Azerbaijan Premier League but left the team in May for unclear reasons. There were rumors about his involvement in drugs or compulsory service in the Russian army. Another reason mentioned was Bezrodny's drinking habits. However, he denied all these rumors, explaining that his transfer to MTK-Araz was accompanied by many problems, including being deceived by the person who organized the transfer. During this time, the club allowed Bezrodny to return to Sumy to visit his wife, but due to problems with his passport, he was unable to return to Azerbaijan. The club's representatives traveled to Sumy to confront Bezrodny, but he did not share the details, only stating that the issue had been resolved. After leaving MTK-Araz, Bezrodny disappeared from the public eye, and there were rumors about his whereabouts and well-being. In February 2010, he reappeared and gave an interview, revealing little-known episodes of his biography. He explained his absence from the news for six years by saying that journalists did not contact him, and he did not seek anyone out. He attributed his departure from professional football to numerous injuries, especially Achilles tendon problems that doctors could not heal. He claimed to have cured his Achilles tendon with folk remedies by 2009. As an amateur, Bezrodny played in the Sumy regional championship for the team "Avtoluks" and also trained with the local "Spartak" team. However, he did not play for "Spartak" due to the ban on foreign players in the lower leagues of the Ukrainian championship. In winter 2009/2010, he was invited to train with Sochi's "Zhemchuzhina" but was not called up for the training camp after a change in the club's management, and contact with the team was severed. In March 2010, Bezrodny joined the Orenburg-based "Gazovik" club but had his contract terminated a month later before the start of the season. From 2013 to 2016, Bezrodny played at the amateur level for clubs in the Sumy region. His last club was "Allyans" from Lipova Dolina. Bezrodny played for the Russian U-21 national team and scored three goals in six matches. He also played one game for the Russian national team in the qualifying cycle for the 2000 European Championship, where Russia defeated Andorra 2-1. Bezrodny's playing style was characterized by his coordination, speed, dribbling skills, and a strong left foot. He was known for his persistence and confidence in attacking opportunities.