The "golden" times of the Makhachkala "Anji" six years ago have long come to an end. The club has lost multi-million dollar funding from the outside, and after the 2013-2014 season. was forced to sell all the stars of world magnitude invited to the team. However, disappointing forecasts, promising "eagles" downgrade, were not destined to come true. New football players came to the club who were capable of much, and one of those who wrote the latest history of the Dagestan team was the Russian football player Arsen Davidovich Khubulov. He defends the colors of the team from Makhachkala at the position of the central or flank midfielder.
early years
Arsen Khubulov is a native of Vladikavkaz. The boy became interested in football, as soon as he began to walk, and at the age of 12 the guy began training at the Togliatti Football Academy. By the way, along with Arsen, his peer friend, and now the star of the Moscow CSKA, Alan Dzagoev, also studied at the Academy of Yuri Konoplev.
At a professional level, Arsen Khubulov made his debut in 2008. His first team - Vladikavkaz Avtodor, took part in the Second Division Championship. The midfielder has entered the field eight times during the championship, and already in the next season, becoming one of the team leaders, played for the Ossetian club in thirty fights and scored five goals. The services of a nineteen-year-old midfielder were interested in one of the capital's clubs, the name of which was not disclosed, as well as “Zenith”. Khubulov even visited the youth team of the St. Petersburg club. However, in the end, he decided to stay in his hometown.
In the Premier League
Since 2010, Arsen Khubulov is a football player of the Vladikavkaz “Alania”. In a red and yellow T-shirt, the midfielder made his debut in the important Premier League match against Spartak Moscow. For half an hour allotted to him on the field, Arsen managed to write down a yellow card in the passive, and a few minutes before the end of the match forced him to capitulate the Spartak goalkeeper - Dzhanayev, fixing the victory of his team on the scoreboard.
A year later, Arsen Khubulov was included in the team of the National Football League teams, which had a friendly match against a similar team made up of Italian Serie B. footballers. Alania midfielder in that match became the only Russian football player to score a goal.
From 2013 to 2016, Khubulov defended the colors of the Krasnodar Kuban, for which he played 73 matches. At the beginning of 2017, the Footballer signed a long-term contract with Makhachkala's Anzhi, in which he managed to score five goals in his first seven matches. In the Dagestan team, Arsen began to appear more often on the midfield, and not in the center, as it was before.
