Evgeny Giner is a well-known Russian businessman, owner of the CSKA football club (Moscow), director of the financial committee of the Russian Football Union.
“Giner bought it all.”
It is said by one of the most famous football “chants”, which is familiar to all fans and fans of Russian football. The essence of this statement is that the president of the CSKA club took control of the entire football industry in Russia. Initially, the phrase was invented by fans of St. Petersburg “Zenith” and Moscow “Spartak” (ardent opponents), which this explained the constant victory of the army club. Perhaps they are right in something, because we all know or have heard about corruption schemes in the Russian Premier League, where the CSKA club has always been dominant. In a word, there was always something unclean here, so the reaction of the fans is appropriate. But the phrase became so widespread and, so to speak, winged that the fans of CSKA began to use it in their rhymes for “chants”. Thus, they are ironic about this topic, believing that the superiority of their club in the Premier League is based only on the quality of the game. However, it will not be about what “black” schemes are rooted in the Russian championship, but about the president of CSKA, Evgeny Lennorovich Giner.
Biography
He was born on May 26, 1960 in Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR). In his own words, he grew up without parents and was brought up by the street. Eugene did not have a happy childhood, and there were only severe trials in the extreme conditions of a cruel world. Little is known about the biography of Eugene Giner. He does not like to recall the past, much less to devote the general public to it. It is known that a future successful entrepreneur studied at the Kharkov Institute of Public Utilities Engineers, but never received a higher education. Information about his youth is most hidden from Internet users. Biographical information about Giner is available to the public from the moment when he has already achieved success in many areas of entrepreneurial activity.
Ticket to the capital
In 1986, Eugene Giner made a desperate decision to move to Moscow to begin his career here. Without any education, he begins to look for work. Again, the press does not know what Giner did from 1986 to 1990.
In 1991, Eugene begins entrepreneurial activity, joining the new economic standards of the country. Based on this, we can safely say that Eugene Giner is a typical representative of the "dashing nineties." At that time, many entrepreneurs built up their capital in the illegal business, which was so popular during the collapse of the country. You can also conclude about why those years in the biography of a major Russian businessman are not covered in public. Things went quickly uphill, and since 1993 Evgeny Giner began to provide financial assistance to the youth teams of the country. In parallel with this, the businessman was paving his way into the football sphere of Russia, collaborating with its association.
Spinning in football circles, Giner in the winter of 2001 became the general president of the country's most famous and eminent professional club - Moscow CSKA.
Eugene Giner at the head of the "army"
In the same 2001, the composition of the club’s shareholders changed. It includes the company “ABO-Capital”, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the little-known British company Blue Castle Enterprises Limited, the legitimacy of which is ascertained by Russian journalists to this day. At that point in time, Eugene Giner himself, who became the president of the “army”, was also little known in the public circles.
Transfer policy
From the first days of the new president’s reign, it became clear that global changes were coming in the club. This was clearly shown by the summer transfer campaign, during which CSKA acquired new talented players. Among them were forward Denis Popov, goalkeeper Sergey Perkhun and Latvian midfielder Yuri Laizans. Later, in the winter transfer period, “CSKA” was strengthened by such players as defender Alexei Berezutsky, midfielder Igor Yanovsky and goalkeeper Veniamin Mandrykin. The teamwork was a little lame, but the potential and desire of the players to win was visible. In the season of the Russian Premier League 2001/2002. CSKA fans were expecting beautiful victories and won cups from their team, however, they failed to rise above 7th place. This result was explained by the following reasons: the tragic death on the field of goalkeeper Sergei Perkhun, as well as the news of the death of the eminent coach Pavel Sadyrin after a long cancer.
The further history of “CSKA” under Giner is characterized only by stability, fame and high achievements. Since 2002, the club management continues the transfer policy for the acquisition of new talented players, and also concludes many successful contracts.
