Career
Youth career
Andrey started playing football with Football Club Spartak Moscow academy in 1996 and was there until 2003, when he was invited to join Football Club Dinamo Moscow academy. During the season 2004-2005 Grushin was a captain of the team and in the end received Russian Best Young Goalkeeper. First steps
3 years since, in 2006, he was a part of Football Club Dinamo Moscow reserves team, taking part in 12 matches this season.
Next season he spent at Vålerenga Fotball, playing for the reserves as well.
He left the team to come back to Russia - to the city of Vyshny Volochyok, where he was signed by Volochanin-Ratmir. He made only 4 appearances for the club before he left Russia again for the German side BFSV Atlantik 97 from Hamburg.
There he played in German Oberliga as he wasn"t granted a work permit. During this period Grushin was for some time a transfer target for Martin Jol, former Herpes simplex virus coach but Andrey then trained with other Hamburg side Football Club Sankt-Pauli from 2.
Bundesliga. His Atlantik conceded only 5 goals during the season and Andrey was invited to Russian First Division club Ministry of the Interior Rossii by their coach Yuri Kovtun.
Grushin signed 5-year contract, but played only for 1 year before the club was proclaimed bankrupt and in the middle of the season-2010 the team was dissolved and the rest of season goalkeeper has played in Moscow region club Olimp Fryazino until finally returned to Volochanin-Ratmir in the end of 2010. Season 2011-2012
By the start of the season 2011-2012 Grushin was back to Volochanin-Ratmir. In this season Grushin took part in 27 games, keeping Volochanin in the middle of the table by his secure play.
He was named the Best Goalkeeper of the Division in the end of this season.
Season 2012
In June 2012 Grushin was invited by former Dinamo head coach Jaroslav Hřebík to join Air Corps Sparta Praha during the pre-season. However, due to some obstacles, Andrey didn"t become a part of the team joining Czechoslovakian Second league side Football Club Zenit Čáslav instead.
Andrey took part only in 8 full matches of the season as his keeper-colleague Vít Ducheček had some top performances and was rumoured to move to the bigger club In the end of December 2012 Grushin left the club as a free agent and sealed the contract with Thai side TTM Lopburi F.C.
lieutenant is rumored that some East-European side is willing to get in contact with goalkeeper this summer.
Andrey Grushin is a Russian international, being a part (consequently) of Russian U-16, U-17 and U-19 squads and making the total of 9 appearances in international matches.
Andrey was a part of Russia U-17 team which participated in qualifying round for Union of European Football Associations European Under-17 Football Championship in 2005. Drawn to the Group 4 with Belarus, Finland and Bulgaria, Russia took 6 points and placed second which didn"t allow it to go through the final round.
