Aleksei Anatolyevich Kozlov

Aleksei Kozlov is the kind of player who never made highlight reels, and that's exactly why he interests me. A right-back out of Petrozavodsk, a cold city far from Russia's footballing limelight, he built a professional career on the least glamorous job on the pitch: shutting down the opposition's most dangerous flank, ninety minutes of relentless up-and-down running. At 186 cm he had the frame, but it was the unglamorous discipline that kept him in the game. To me, full-backs like Kozlov are the unsung architects of any defense, and I have a soft spot for athletes whose value lives in the work no statistic ever captures.

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Name (English)

Aleksei Anatolyevich Kozlov

Name (Japanese)

アレクセイ・コズロフ

Reading

あれくせい・こずろふ

Born

December 25, 1986 (age 39)

Origin

Petrozavodsk, Russia

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei%20Kozlov%20(footballer%2C%20born%201986)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%20(1986%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2889443

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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