Name Ivan Taranov Career start 2001 Role Football player Spouse Lubov Taranova | Number 4 Height 1.85 m Children Akim Taranov Years Team Weight 80 kg | |
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Full name Ivan Nikolayevich Taranov Date of birth (1986-06-22) June 22, 1986 (age 29) Current team FC Krylia Sovetov Samara (#4 / Defender) | ||
Place of birth Tomsk, Russian SFSR Playing position | ||
Ivan Nikolayevich Taranov (Russian: Иван Николаевич Таранов; born 22 June 1986 in Tomsk) is a Russian football defender. He plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara.
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Club career
Spotted playing at a footballing school in Prokhladny, Taranov was spirited away to a boarding school by Black Sea side FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk where he spent two years learning his craft. After a season in the Novorossiysk side's reserve team in 2001 Taranov opted to move on to Moscow to join CSKA's reserves. Taranov represented his country at Under-19 level, making the step up to the U21 side with a substitute appearance against Luxembourg in October 2005. Given his senior league debut the same year, he played in CSKA's 2006 Russian Cup final victory against Spartak Moscow and has recently been featured in the first team more often.
He received first senior national team call-up against Republic of Macedonia in 2006, but did not play.
He made 3 appearances in UEFA Champions League 2006-07.