You should have enough arguments to understand why it is not for nothing that an old-fashioned coach from the Stone Age coaches Lokomotiv: here is the table, here is the team’s counter-attacking pattern, here Jefferson Farfan, running to thank the coach after the “bomb” against Zenit. We need one more touch to understand how this Loko was built. In winter, without wanting to, the Miranchuk brothers could leave the club. While the players were peacefully waiting for the conflict to be resolved, Lokomotiv and the agents tried to squeeze out their profit, and Ilya Gerkus The fireman was assigned a personal bodyguard just in case - he now says that he understands the complexity of the influence of the agent world.
Yuri Palych Semin– the only one who, in the murky story with contracts, Miranchuk behaved transparently from the first day. Lokomotiv trained in Spain, Semin got used to Farfan, whom he initially called Forlan, and regularly received practice in test matches. Semin was asked why, and he answered clearly: “I’m a coach and I’m not involved in politics. My job is to see and evaluate a football player while working with him. And if Lyosha looks better than another player in this position, but I don’t play him and play along with one or the other, then I’m worthless as a coach.” was healing from an injury, but remained with the team in Spain - he also felt trust.
Semin took up the task of educating young people, asked to stay on the team, and his word turned out to be the most important. re-signed the contract and began to carry forward the Lokomotiv attack. For six months he was grinding into the “railroad” team, but in the summer he won his place in the team. And it doesn’t let go anymore.
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Put aside money, contract wars, in which Alexey Miranchuk is not involved, and think about who else in our 2018 team will play like him.
Anton and Alexey Miranchuk are very similar, as it should be with twins, but they have already learned to tell them apart. Different hairstyles, different brands of boots... they have been distinguished since childhood by their external attributes. “We weren’t dressed the same; when I look at old photographs, we’re always dressed differently,” Anton recalls. – True, when dad came from a business trip, I woke up at night and chose the best for myself, and Lyosha had what was left. So I'm cunning." The characters, as Anton says, are also different, but the tastes in clothing and music are the same.
In the Lokomotiv youth team they were also ranked approximately on an equal footing. Anton was considered more talented, he played more often in the 1995 squad, but Alexey was more fortunate in his transition to adult football - he, still 17 years old, was attached to the squad and released in the Premier League Slaven Bilic. Anton stayed to puff in the youth team, went to Tallinn for playing practice, and met Yuri Semin only after returning to Lokomotiv. Yuri Palych became the first to fully assemble the Miranchuk brothers as a core team.
Anton could have opened up in the spring, but at Lokomotiv’s winter training camp he received an unpleasant injury. Then he recovered, began to get playing time, jump from position to position, and came out in Yekaterinburg after a bloody fight in the cup final. Having a yellow card, I decided to dive. “There wasn’t enough artistry,” Anton laughed later. Deja vu: having arrived in Estonia, Miranchuk was also injured in one of the first training sessions, and when he recovered, he received a red card in the second match of Levadia.
But the lesson was enough. At Lokomotiv he never failed again.
If Lokomotiv makes it to the Champions League in the spring (at least there - that will already be a success for the red-greens), then the crazy 4:3 in Tushino should be considered the main point of the season. There, Loko went through self-identification, gave itself a license to constantly rob the favorites and easily mastered the counter-attacking pattern of the game. I found myself there too. I didn’t immediately understand how to fit the second Miranchuk into the Lokomotiv system. At the expense of Anton, Palych changed the formation from 3-4-2-1 to 4-2-3-1, threw more energy into the attack and won seven points at the beginning of the season, but Miranchuk himself worked a lot in an uncomfortable position - in the supporting zone, next to with Denisov.
Lokomotiv easily opened up the champion's center of the field, even losing 0:2, and Semin needed another player ready to push the ball forward. So the coach found an ideal solution to the problems, which is then transformed into the main tactics of the season: the 4-2-3-1 scheme, where Denisov burns out the support zone, and the attacking four collects the balls behind him and runs sharply forward. Where exactly Alexei, Manu Fernandes and Jefferson Farfan will be located does not matter - everyone can play any role in the attack. The main thing is to run away.
Anton became the main player in the development of Lokomotiv's counterattacks, and three scoring combinations began with him. Twice he accelerated through the center, passed to the left edge to Fernandes and Farfan, after which they rolled the ball to the far post. When the "railwaymen" scored the key goal in the match, Miranchuk opened up the middle of the Spartak field alone, winning the junction against Denis Glushakova, and sensed just in time when to pass the ball.
This represents a rare occasion when twins reach dizzying heights in Russian football. Experts name the names of the Kombarovs, Morozovs and Berezutskys, who shone at different times, and in the 21st century they pin high hopes on the Miranchuks.
Childhood and youth
Anton was born in October 1995 in the Krasnodar region, in a city whose geographical name sounds like Slavyansk-on-Kuban. In an interview with the portal The-flow.ru, the football player noted that the city should be called Slavyansk, with the emphasis on the first syllable. Alexey was born first, Anton 10 minutes later.
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Anton Miranchuk and T-killah
Miranchuk noted that finding a soul mate who you can call a wife and raise children together is becoming more and more difficult. He would experience incredible happiness if he could do this by the age of 25. By this age, Anton plans to reach peak athletic fitness and wants to have someone nearby to help him achieve his goal.
In August 2018, the football player became the godfather of the daughter of teammate Dmitry Tarasov. In December of the same year, the rapper published a video on Youtube from Tarasov’s housewarming party, to which Miranchuk came accompanied by Daria Melnikova.
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Anton Miranchuk - in an interview with Sportbox.ru about his loan to Estonia, a coach not from the last century, the 44-year-old goalkeeper of the Egyptian national team and Lokomotiv's chances for the championship.
I don't like too much publicity
– For the second time in a week in Ostankino: on Wednesday – Urgant, on Sunday – Cherdantsev. How does it feel?
- Honestly? I don't like excessive publicity. But we went to Urgant well, so we already know the area here well, we found everything quickly, and didn’t get lost.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcFmA2onacs/?hl=ru&taken-by=miranchuk__jr60- Is mom delighted?
– Yes, but she is also reserved, afraid that they will say something unnecessary. She still prefers watching our matches.
– My brother has 82 thousand followers on Instagram, you have 28. Does this make you angry?
– Not at all (Laughs). It’s a good question, because every subscriber is worth a lot - thanks to everyone who likes and leaves comments. If I progress, there will be more of them.
– And the fact that, according to Transfermarkt, he is worth 7.5 million euros, and you are worth 500 thousand?
– Until you said it, I didn’t even know - I don’t follow it, but everything is logical. He has been playing in the first team of Lokomotiv for almost five years, scoring for the national team, showing his worth everywhere. I've just started - why be surprised? This is fine.
– Doesn’t it bother you that you are not perceived separately? If you ask to name Anton’s strengths and Alexey’s strengths, they will say the same thing.
– If we talk about personal qualities, it is clear: we are twins - we have much the same behavior, there is nothing special about it. About football qualities, perhaps there really is such a thing, but only if we talk about ordinary fans. I have no doubt that the coaches – Semin, Cherchesov – know our characteristics very well. For example, I can play deeper in the supporting zone, unlike, it seems to me, my brother. If we go deeper, I play a little to the left, and Lesha plays to the right. He moves from the flank to the center under his left foot, and he does it very well.
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– I heard that you and Alexey no longer want to give joint interviews.
- Yes it is. We are adults. Why would we both sit in an interview and talk about each other? Lesha and I are able to speak and answer for ourselves. It seems to me that they have already earned this right.
Chose Estonia over FNL because of flights
“The best part is coming to the team and going all the way with it. I would like to contribute to success, to reach the point when the club is already among the leaders,” were your words to SE a year ago.
- That's what I said, right? If he said it, it means he believed it and wanted it. It’s much more interesting to go the whole way, to go through all the difficulties, than to come to everything ready-made. When you try, puff, fight for a place in the lineup, get out of difficult situations with the team, the taste of victory becomes much sweeter.
– When you left for Estonia, it didn’t matter where, just to play?
- No, it doesn’t matter one hundred percent. We were just discussing this topic recently. Once again I was confirmed in the opinion that it was not in vain that I left. Game practice is needed, now I fully understand this. At that moment I just needed to play, play and play.
– Estonia is not at all level.
– You know... There was another option to go to the FNL, but I was immediately confused by the flights, so I chose Estonia.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEttWkLQvnc/?hl=ru&taken-by=miranchuk__jr60– Of course, I remember the story with the negotiations, with the contract. The story was resolved successfully, and everyone was happy.
How did his situation affect you?
– Again: we are different. He talked to the president about himself, I talked about myself. I immediately made it clear that I wanted to stay at Lokomotiv.
– They wrote that you two had the option to move to Krasnodar. To your homeland.
- Don't know. This option was not discussed with me.
– Considering the position of Lokomotiv and Rubin in the table, was Alexey’s decision to stay in Moscow the wisest in his life?
- Oh, there will be so much more in life... He told me that my heart told me to stay at Lokomotiv. Thank God it all worked out this way.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYTE4lYHKMK/?hl=ru&taken-by=miranchuk__jr60I don’t have the feeling that Semin is a coach from the last century
– You worked at Loko with, and. How does Semin stand out against their background?
– All the coaches were on good terms with the team, but it was Yuri Palych who truly believed in me. It seems like I felt trust with the others, but now I’m consistently on the field, they really trust me. That’s why I didn’t play for anyone in the RFPL except Yuri Palych. I am sincerely grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to feel this confidence.
– Do you have the feeling that Semin is a coach from the last century?
– I have never had such a feeling. All our exercises - football, tactical exercises - are serious. In theory, InStat transcripts are used. Everything is the same as everywhere else. It seems to me that everyone on the team shares his views on football and fully supports him.
– is in the lead with luck,” – the opinion of fans of Spartak, CSKA and Zenit.
– There is a program on Channel One: “Let them talk.” They can talk as much as they want. Lucky are those who are lucky.
– Also Semin.
“We do our job, we enjoy football. Luck is on our side - and thank God.
– How seriously do you believe that Lokomotiv can win the Russian championship?
– There are so many matches ahead... Eleven! You will need to go through the preseason well, get in shape, and prepare for everything. Even more pressure will fall on us. Still working and working – nothing is clear.
– Do you sincerely think so or are you just avoiding answering?
– I sincerely believe that nothing is clear yet. There are really a lot of matches ahead, a crazy fight ahead.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbfV2NvnWuA/?hl=ru&taken-by=miranchuk__jr60“Boy, are you okay? What is wrong with you?"
– . Is it hard to imagine a duller sign for the opening match?
– This is the World Championship – there are no weak teams. Saudi Arabia? They went out there, didn't they? That means they deserve it. I’m not interested in whether they are considered weak or strong. I will give my all to achieve victory if I get the chance.
– The main goalkeeper of Egypt is twice your age – he is 44 years old. This is fine?
“I hope to be at the World Cup and hit a shot that he won’t have time to save due to a bad reaction: he’ll fall and miss a goal.” No one will feel sorry for him because of his age - he himself must feel sorry for him.
Anton Miranchuk is a Russian footballer, midfielder of the Lokomotiv football club. Twin brother of football player Alexei Miranchuk.Childhood and family
Anton was born on October 17, 1995 in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Territory. On his maternal side, Anton has Siberian roots, but most of the footballer’s relatives are Kuban Cossacks. “The guys have such a core in their character, something irreconcilable, active,” says Elena, the mother of Anton and his twin Alexei. 
Mom dreamed of her sons doing choreography. In the first grade, Elena signed up her brothers for ballroom dancing, but after a couple of lessons, Anton and Alexey protested. Later, the brothers briefly studied karate, but eventually ended up in the local football section “Olympus”.
The boys' first coach, Alexander Nikolaevich Voronkov, brought them to a level where they could compete with their peers from Moscow sports schools. When he first saw the Miranchuk brothers, he immediately realized that they would make excellent players. He later stated that the Miranchuks would become the best twins in the RPFL, surpassing both the Kombarovs (Kirill and Dmitry) and the Berezutskys (Vasily and Alexey).
Sports career
From Olympus, Anton and his brother ended up at the Spartak sports school (at one of the games at Olympus, coach Boris Streltsov noticed them). Mom, who was divorced at that time, decided to go with her sons. Thanks to her pedagogical education, she managed to get a job as a teacher in the boarding school where Anton and Alexey lived. 
In 2011, they entered the Lokomotiv camp. Anton was considered a more promising player - he played more often in the first team, but Alexey was more successful in his transition to “adult” football. Anton played for some time in the youth team.
In the fall of 2012, Anton made his debut in the youth championship in a match against CSKA, a few months later he played as part of the Russian youth football team at the Granatkin Memorial (Miranchuk’s team won the tournament), and in the summer of the following year the football player was invited to a training camp with the main team.
Anton’s debut in the main team took place on October 30, 2013, in the Russian Cup match against Volgograd FC Rotor. In the next two seasons, Miranchuk was involved in Lokomotiv’s training sessions, but never took to the field.
In 2016, Anton was rented by the Estonian club Levadia. He called the main reason for the transition the opportunity to finally get a full-fledged gaming experience.
On April 2, the young footballer made his debut in the Estonian championship in a match against the Tallinn club Nomme Kalju. In the next match, Miranchuk scored the winning goal, but was sent off in the middle of the 2nd half.
After returning to Russia and to Lokomotiv, Anton met coach Yuri Semin - it was he who gathered the brothers into the team. However, at the beginning of 2017, the football player was injured during training - he injured his foot and was out of the game for several weeks.
In April 2017, Anton made his debut in the Russian Championship - the footballer came on as a substitute in the match against Rostov. A few days later, Miranchuk scored a goal in the match of the 3rd round of the Europa League group stage against Sheriff.
Personal life of Anton Miranchuk
For a long time, Anton dated a girl named Arina. According to the footballer, his lover attended all his matches. It’s difficult to say whether the young people are together today. 
When asked about the “ideal girl,” Anton answered that he did not like “artificial” ladies with eyelashes, bright lipstick and tattoos. His chosen one must certainly be interested in football and love Lokomotiv.
Previously, it was very difficult to distinguish between twins. There were few differences: Anton is right-handed, while Alexey is left-handed. Many people have noticed that their ears are of different shapes. With age, the situation has changed.
Anton Andreevich Miranchuk. Born on October 17, 1995 in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Territory. Russian footballer, midfielder.
Twin brother - football player.
Anton was born a few minutes later than Alexey. Anton is right-handed, while Alexey is left-handed.
Anton and Alexey were like two peas in a pod since childhood, which is why even their close people constantly confused them.
At school we sat together at the same desk. Mom wanted to send her brothers to ballroom dancing, but they flatly refused and insisted on taking the football section.
Anton is a product of Kuban football. Together with his brother, he began training in his native Slavyansk-on-Kuban at the Olimp football club. The first coach was Alexander Nikolaevich Voronkov.
But they didn’t stay long at Spartak - they were considered physically underdeveloped there.
Since 2011, the brothers trained at the FC school "Locomotive". In the Lokomotiv youth team, the brothers were placed approximately on an equal footing. Anton was even considered more talented; he played more often in the 1995 squad, but Alexey was more fortunate in his transition to adult football.
The main football difference between Anton Miranchuk and his brother is that he is physically more powerful and benefits from his mass.
Anton made his debut for the first team of the "railroad workers" on October 30, 2013 in the Russian Cup match against Rotor. In the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons, he was involved in Lokomotiv’s training sessions and matches, but never took the field.
In 2016, he was loaned to the Estonian club Levadia. His debut in the Estonian championship took place on April 2 in a match against Nõmme Kalju. In his next match he scored the winning goal, and was sent off midway through the second half.
In December 2012, the coaching staff of the Russian youth team (under 17 years old), led by Dmitry Ulyanov, called Miranchuk to the Granatkin Memorial. His team won this tournament. He also played for the Russian youth teams under 18 and 19 years old.
On September 3, 2017, he played in the test match of the Russian national team against Dynamo Moscow, scoring a goal in the 22nd minute. He made his debut on October 7, 2017 in a friendly match against the South Korean national team.
Twin football players Anton and Alexey Miranchuk
Anton Miranchuk's height: 183 centimeters.
Personal life of Anton Miranchuk:
Not married.
Anton had a whirlwind romance with a student named Arina, a Lokomotiv fan. The girl introduced the football player to high art - she took him to museums and exhibitions.
Sports achievements of Anton Miranchuk:
Lokomotiv (Moscow):
Russian Cup winner: 2014/2015, 2016/17
"Levadia" (Estonia):
Silver medalist of the Estonian Championship: 2016
Russian youth team:
Winner of the Granatkin Memorial: 2013
