Artur Paporotnyi

Artur Sergeyevich Paporotnyi (Артур Сергеевич Папоротный; born 28 November 1985) is a Russian beach soccer player. Paporotnyi debuted in the Russian national beach soccer team in 2011. Since 2013, he is playing for BSC Kristall.

Career
Paporotnyi was born 28 November 1985 in Mirny, Bryansk Oblast. As a child he played basketball; as a reminder he often performs a basketball shot hand movement on the pitch. Then he started playing association football, he also tried himself in futsal. In 2009, he switched to beach soccer, debuting for City. His first coach was S. Stepanov.

He debuted for the Russia national beach soccer team in 2011. His first match was against Romania at the 2011 Euro Beach Soccer League. After that he was chosen for the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which Russia won.

In 2019, Artur Paporotnyi, Anton Shkarin, Maxim Chuzhkov and Yuri Krashennikov scored a goal each at the qualification tournament for the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, bringing the score 7–1 against Italy.

National team

 * FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup champion: 2011, 2021
 * Euro Beach Soccer League champion: 2011, 2017
 * Euro Winners Cup champion: 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021

Clubs

 * Russian National champion: 2013, 2015, 2016
 * Russian Cup champion: 2015, 2017

Individually

 * 2017 Euro Beach Soccer League, Superfinal – Best Player
 * 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup – Silver Ball