MOSCOW, June 15 Former Russian midfielder Igor Denisov said he could I would play until the age of 40 if I had not encountered problems in Russian football. During his career, Denisov played for St. Petersburg Zenit, Makhachkala Anji, Moscow Dynamo and Lokomotiv. He is the owner of the UEFA Cup and Super Cup (with «blue-white-blue») and a four-time champion of Russia (three times with Zenit, once with Lokomotiv). Denisov announced his retirement in May 2019. «I'm 100 percent sure that I would have played until the age of 40 at the same level if I hadn't run into this shit — our Russian football. My wife saw what was happening to me. «I could not talk in the evenings. I could not understand anything. How can you fire the president who assembled the team and ask the captain for a pay cut? Why? I went through all this dirt at Dynamo. Me (the ex-president of Lokomotiv» ) Ilya Herkus pulled me out of this swamp. I got back in top form for Russia. I had a lot of energy. And again I have the same thing that was happening at Dynamo. And I have everything, I couldn’t do it anymore, » Denisov said in an interview with Nobel Arustamyan, published on the journalist's YouTube channel. I refused twice, but after a year and a half, although I understood that I had one a chance in a million, I got up in the morning and said to Misha: “I want something. Motivation. «Then they laughed so hard, they said that we were sick. It was a little more than a year after the end of our career,» said the 38-year-old football player.
