Pavel Pogrebnyak

Pavel Pogrebnyak is the kind of forward I instinctively root for. At 1.88 m he had the frame to bully defenders, but what I appreciate is that he came up the hard way through Spartak Moscow and then tested himself abroad in Germany and England, where neither the language nor the culture cuts a striker any slack. Players who travel like that need real mental toughness, and his university education in sport hints at someone who thought about the game rather than just running on instinct. He was never a glamour name, but a grafter who scored ugly, necessary goals. I admire that durability.

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Name (English)

Pavel Pogrebnyak

Name (Japanese)

パヴェル・ポグレブニャク

Reading

ぱゔぇる・ぽぐれぶにゃく

Born

November 8, 1983 (age 42)

Origin

Moscow, Soviet Union

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

University

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Pogrebnyak
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%96%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205778

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.