Opening
In January 2016 Ilya Petrov plays for Russia's youth team alongside Zobnin, Barinov and the Miranchuk brothers and wins the Commonwealth Cup. In the summer Dinamo Moscow sign him. He is 20, and by every law of the genre the Premier League should come next.
This is not a story about "never give up". It is about a different question: what do you do when your level is above the league you play in, and for ten straight years football simply doesn't give you the chance to prove it?
