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Vyacheslav Malafeev
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Russian footballer
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Vyacheslav Malafeev is a Russian association football player and businessperson born on 1979-03-04 in Saint Petersburg. He plays as a goalkeeper and wears the sport number 16. His professional career began in 1997. He has been a member of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, FC Zenit-2, and the Russia men's national football team.
Malafeev participated in UEFA Euro 2004, UEFA Euro 2008, and UEFA Euro 2012 with the national team. During his international appearances, he played 3 matches and conceded 3 points or goals. He has scored 0 total goals in his career. He speaks Russian and is known by the name Вячеслав Малафеев in his native language.
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Key facts
- 2018
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg , (assistant director of sports)
- Full name
- Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malafeev
- Date of birth
- ( 1979-03-04 ) 4 March 1979 (age 47)
- Place of birth
- Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Current team
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg , (assistant director of sports)
- Years
- Team
- 1997 1999
- FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
- 1999 2016
- FC Zenit St. Petersburg
- 1999 2000
- Russia U-21
- 2003 2012
- Russia
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Nationality
- Russia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2012
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Russia men's national football team
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Mass
- 76
- Official website
- www.malafeev.ru
- Image
- Vyacheslav Malafeev 2007.JPG
- Height
- 185
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Vyacheslav Malafeev
- date of birth
- 1979-03-04
- sport number
- 16
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- number of points/goals conceded
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- social media followers
- 182200
- name in native language
- Вячеслав Малафеев
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malafeev (Russian: Вячесла́в Алекса́ндрович Малафе́ев, IPA: [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ məlɐˈfʲe(j)ɪf]; born 4 March 1979) is a Russian football official and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is a one-club man, having spent all 17 of his professional seasons with Zenit Saint Petersburg. He also represented the Russian national team, earning 29 caps. He worked as an assistant director of sports for Zenit from 2016 to 2020.
Club career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vyacheslav Malafeev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.