Andrey Arshavin

Arshavin was one of those players who made football look like mischief. A small man from Saint Petersburg with an outsized sense of cheek, he could unlock a defense with a single sly pass or a flick nobody saw coming. His four goals at Anfield for Arsenal remain unforgettable, a one-man heist delivered with a shrug. There's something fitting about a graduate of a design and technology university painting such inventive pictures on the pitch. Now an executive at Zenit, he's swapped flair for administration, and I'm quietly curious whether that playful intelligence translates to running a club.

Name (English)

Andrey Arshavin

Name (Japanese)

アンドレイ・アルシャヴィン

Reading

あんどれい・あるしゃゔぃん

Born

May 29, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Origin

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player

University

Saint Petersburg State University of Technology and Design

• Official sitehttps://arshavin.eu/
• Xhttps://x.com/AndrArshavin23
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Arshavin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47230

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-17

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