Viacheslav Malafeev<\/DIV>

Viacheslav Malafeev was born in Leningrad. <\/P>

Career<\/B> <\/P>

Having started playing football at the age of nine, he marks that understanding that football is his calling and future occupation has come later, after leaving school. He is a football school «Smena» graduate (coaches – V. P. Savin, V.V. Vilde, V. P. Smakov). <\/P>

From 1997 played for «Zenit- 2» team. From 1999 till now he sticks up for FC Zenit colors (he made his debut for the first team on the 7th of July, 1999 in the match against FC Alania with the 2 – 2 scoreline. <\/P>

From 1999 Viacheslav played in the Russia youth international team. (debut on the 4th of September, 1999 in the match against Armenia). <\/P>

From 2000 he’s been called up to the Russian national side (his debut took place on the 19th of November, 2003 in the away match against the Welsh national squad which ended with the Russian side victory 0 – 1. <\/P>

Track record<\/B> <\/P>

1999 - the owner of the Russia Cup. <\/P>

2000 – the Intertoto Cup finalist <\/P>

2001 - the Russia Championship bronze prizewinner <\/P>

2003 - the Russia Championship silver prizewinner <\/P>

2003 - the owner of the Premier League Cup, number 2 in the «33 Lutshich» list (“Best 33 players list”), «Ogonyok» magazine award laureate (The best Russia goalkeeper), the best goalkeeper of the Russia Championship (version of the newspaper ‘Sport- Express’). <\/P>

2004 - the best goalkeeper of the Russia Championship, RFPL award «Premier». <\/P>

Played in official matches for Zenit - 194, goals conceded - 189. Played for Zenit in Russian Championship - 152, goals conceded - 149. Played for second team - 2, goals conceded - 2. Played for farm-club - 53, goals conceded - 48. <\/P>

Get to know more<\/B> <\/P>

• Viacheslav has a wife Marina and two children – daughter Ksenia and son Maxim <\/P>

• 2005 – graduated from the Lesgaft state physical training university (football-hockey department), his degree work title was “Goalkeeper preparation in the child sport school by the example of SDUSHOR “Smena” <\/P>

• 16 on his T-shirt is his favorite number, which accompanies Viacheslav everywhere <\/P>

• It’s not a problem for Viacheslav to communicate with English-speaking partners as he studies English <\/P>

• Viacheslav gets along with Kamil Contofalsky very well despite their professional competition. Both of them say they have a lot in common to talk shop. One more curious fact: our keepers played against … each other. This happened during the World Cup preliminary fixtures when Slovak Republic and Russia met in one group. <\/P>

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Played in official matches for Zenit - 199, goals \u0441onceded - 198. Played for Zenit in Russian Championship - 156, goals \u0441onceded - 158. Played for second team - 2, goals \u0441onceded - 2. Played for farm-club - 53, goals \u0441onceded - 48. <\/P>","z5Y67K11JOiUIghdirKJFQ==":"0","vPqnPNTlh05cpWFk6lG9Zg==":"1979-3-4","y\/UOKf\/Owk4=":"\u0e40\u0e0b\u0e19\u0e34\u0e15 \u0e40\u0e0b\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c \u0e1b\u0e35\u0e40\u0e15\u0e2d\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e2a\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e01","JwXz1\/QWlIA=":"134","cfcBlRGoOcBcpWFk6lG9Zg==":"3","3dOGRY9YVEBmgdG9fBLRAw==":"\u0e23\u0e31\u0e2a\u0e40\u0e0b\u0e35\u0e22","bNzYY2JnjaIKMs9OC2JuJg==":"","e_index":9}; var playerStats={"e_index":9};