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MOSCOW, Oct 27, Alena Sulizova. The bronze medalist of the 2008 European Football Championship as part of the Russian national team, Roman Pavlyuchenko, announced that he had completed his professional career. «, — said Pavlyuchenko, who will turn 41 in December. On Thursday, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (FTC RFU) disqualified Pavlyuchenko, who plays for the Noginsk club Znamya, for eight matches of the Second League. The forward received a red card in the match of the 17th round with Cosmos from Dolgoprudny after he touched the body of the referee Alexander Samsonov while trying to hit the opponent with his hand. , I, in principle, expected something like this. I thought that they would give me 5 games, well, here 8. Although, in principle, I didn’t do anything like that. I won’t go to the ninth game (laughing), I’m finishing with professional football » — added Pavlyuchenko. Pavlyuchenko in the Moscow «Spartak» became a three-time silver medalist of the championship of Russia and won the Cup of the country. The striker also played for Stavropol Dynamo, Volgograd Rotor, Moscow Lokomotiv, Krasnodar Kuban, Yekaterinburg Ural, Moscow Ararat and London Tottenham.