Vasili Berezutski

Vasiliy Berezutski

Berezutski with Russia in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Vasiliy Vladimirovich Berezutski
Date of birth	(1982-06-20) 20 June 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back, right-back
Team information
Current team	Shanghai Shenhua (assistant coach)
Youth career
1990–1997	Smena Moscow
1997–1999	Torpedo Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2001	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow	29	(0)
2002–2018	CSKA Moscow	376	(9)
Total		405	(9)
International career
2001–2003	Russia U-21	5	(1)
2003–2016	Russia	101	(5)
Managerial career
2019	Vitesse (assistant)
2020–2021	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
2021–2022	Krasnodar (assistant)
2022	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
2024–	Shanghai Shenhua (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasiliy Vladimirovich Berezutski (Russian: Василий Владимирович Березуцкий; born 20 June 1982) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He is an first-team coach with the Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua. He began his professional career in 1999 at the age of 17 with Torpedo Moscow, having graduated from their famed academy.^[1] He was a Russia national football team regular, earning his 100th cap on 6 September 2016 in a friendly against Ghana.^[2] He played as a fullback or centre-back and sometimes was also deployed as wingback or midfielder.

Vasili started to play football in sport school Smena in Moscow before going to Torpedo. His identical twin brother, Aleksei, also came through the Torpedo academy with him and played as a defender for CSKA Moscow.

He officially announced his retirement from playing on 21 July 2018.^[3]