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How a Zenit academy graduate from Nakhodka, with every Russian youth team and five loans behind him, ended up at Baltika — and why he is paid for his head, not his centimetres.
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Meet the team's new signing. Some footballers' careers are a straight line upwards. Others deliberately take the ring road so as to arrive precisely, even if it takes a little longer and goes a little further.
Ilya Kirsh is one of the latter. And now his road officially leads to Kaliningrad: his contract with Baltika runs until 15 July 2030.
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