Sergei Ryzhikov

Sergey Ryzhikov is a legend of Kazan “Rubin”, fans have invented a personal chant in honor of the goalkeeper, but most of all they are attracted by the player's unique charisma. Even making ridiculous mistakes on the field, the goalkeeper carries a positive charge and distributes subsequent comments with a smile.

In addition, the "Rubinovtsy" holds an unofficial record: the world football star Lionel Messi in 4 games did not print Ryzhikov's goal. That is why the sadness of Kazan people is understandable when it became known that the favorite was leaving the team, which was given 10 years.

Sergey Ryzhikov was born on September 19, 1980 in the Belgorod region, in the city of Shebekino. Mom Lyudmila worked as a laboratory assistant at a school, a salesman, father Victor - as a welder. Parents loved sports - they took part in track and field competitions, skied, played volleyball and tennis. In children - Sergei and Andrei - they supported any undertakings.

Ryzhikov's passion for football woke up after his mother brought from a tourist trip sports pants like Diego Maradona's.

From the age of 7, Serezha began classes at the local CYSS. There he met his future colleague - Lokomotiv goalkeeper Alexey Polyakov. According to Ryzhikov, it was under the influence of Polyakov that he changed his initial specialization as a midfielder and decided to become a goalkeeper.

After graduating from the Shebekino Children's and Youth Sports School, Sergey got into the team "Chemist" - the strongest club at that time in the regional championship. Then he continued his career in the Belgorod club of the 2nd league Salyut-Yukos, later renamed Salyut-Energiya. The team, which was experiencing funding problems, attracted mostly students from local football schools, thanks to which the 18-year-old Ryzhikov immediately began playing in the first team. However, his performances can hardly be called successful. The goalkeeper conceded 30 goals in 19 matches.

Ryzhikov played for Belgorod until the end of the 2001 Russian Championship. In the winter of 2002, the goalkeeper went to see Evgeny Smertin at Saturn Ramenskiy. Happiness accompanied him, and Smertin agreed to take Sergei into the team.

In 2003, the footballer played for Saturn's double, and in 2004 under coach Boris Ignatiev he played one game in the Russian Cup and three in the main squad, conceding 5 goals. The main reason for such a weak load at that time Ryzhikov calls the unwillingness to compete with another goalkeeper of the club.

Already in 2005 Ryzhikov was rented by the Anji club, where he played 39 matches, conceding 40 goals. Nevertheless, the fans of the team recognized Sergey Ryzhikov as the best footballer of Anji in 2005.

In early 2006, Sergei moved to Lokomotiv as the third goalkeeper, signing a 3-year contract. Ryzhikov did not manage to play in the main team of Muscovites, but together with the team he became the bronze medalist of the 2006 Russian Championship. In August 2007, the goalkeeper was rented by Tom. The stability of the goalkeeper's game, who conceded only 3 goals, ensured that the Tomsk residents retain their place in the top division and ended the season in 11th place in the tournament table.

In November 2007, Sergei Ryzhikov signed a 4-year contract with Rubin Kazan, where he showed a brilliant game. In the 2008 season, with his help, Kazan for the first time in the history of the club put on gold medals of the Russian championship. In the first 7 matches of the tournament, Sergei only conceded a goal twice, and one from a penalty spot. At the same time, the club set a record series of the Russian championship of 7 victories in a row. Having conceded 19 goals in 26 matches, Sergei Ryzhikov is included in the list of 33 best players of that season, becoming the second goalkeeper in it after Igor Akinfeev from CSKA.

In 2009, Rubin repeated the success of 2008, and Ryzhikov, who played almost all matches without substitutions, conceded 21 goals in 29 matches. He again made the list of the 33 best footballers of the season. At the same time, in 2009, Sergei made his debut in the Champions League, where he, together with the team, won a resounding 2: 1 victory over Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium. With Rubin, Sergei Ryzhikov also became the bronze medalist of the 2010 Russian Championship, the 2012 Russian Cup and 2012 Super Cup.

There were rumors about the possible transfer of the goalkeeper to Spartak Moscow, but Sergei Ryzhikov remained loyal to Rubin, extending his contract with the club for another 4 years in 2013.

On March 8, 2013, Sergei Ryzhikov was included in the symbolic club named after Lev Yashin. He was among other domestic goalkeepers who did not concede a single goal in 100 matches in different tournaments. The jubilee "dry" game for Ryzhikov was the fight with the Spanish "Levante" in the 1/8 finals of the Europa League.

Ryzhikov's confident play served as the basis for a call to the Russian national team in August 2008. Since then, Sergei has regularly appeared in the national team, but rarely entered the field.

So, in 2011, the goalkeeper as part of the national team held the qualifying match for Euro 2012 with the Armenian team and a friendly match against Qatar, where he conceded 1 goal. On August 19, 2011, Sergei played with the Belarusian Olympic team, and on February 24, he took part in a match against Denmark. In February 2013, Ryzhikov was called up to the national team for a friendly match with Iceland, but he never entered the field.

Sergei Ryzhikov joined the final roster of the Russian national team at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil along with two other goalkeepers - Igor Akinfeev from CSKA and Yuri Lodygin from Zenit. If Lodygin was considered more the hope of the national team, and his challenge was due to the player's prospects, then Sergei Ryzhikov was known as a strong and reliable veteran of the goalkeeper trio, who, if necessary, could replace partners.

Of course, the third goalkeeper in the national team is almost zero chance of entering the field, but Russian fans do not have to worry about the reserve goalkeeper's play. The quality of Ryzhikov's play is kept at a fairly high level. The Rubin goalkeeper himself says that the main thing for him was to go to the 2014 World Cup and help the team with his work and just his presence.

In an interview, Sergei has repeatedly admitted that he is an inveterate family man. The goalkeeper met his wife Maria at the age of 20. The girl was 17 and was dating Ryzhikov's best friend. Young people became close, surprisingly, because of the love of football, and subsequently Masha left her former friend.

The goalkeeper still kept friendly relations with his friend - he became a witness at the wedding of the Ryzhikovs, and Sergei was the godfather of his children.

Maria Ryzhikova is currently working on the ITV sports channel. According to the woman, anecdotal situations about a mother-in-law and son-in-law are not about her husband, Sergey lives in perfect harmony with her mother. Grandmother Klava is the first assistant in raising a grandson and 2 twin granddaughters. The son is the father's namesake, at the age of 5 he became interested in sports, and Ryzhikov brought the boy to the Rubin football school.

In 2014, Seryozha Jr. went to the first tournament in his sports biography, where the team won 3rd place. The head of the family wanted his son to score goals, but in the end, "another Ryzhikov with gloves is growing."

In television programs about the personal life of football players, Maria said that her husband is a rather quick-tempered, groovy person. Sergei himself considers himself a strict father, and his wife, on the contrary, is a “softener”. The family believes in God, the Ryzhikovs regularly visit the Raifa Monastery, and the goalkeeper partially observes the fast.

Photos of his wife and children, pets, shots from travel and training, Sergei periodically publishes on the Instagram page.

Kazan "Rubin", according to a number of sports observers, continues its policy of reducing the expenditure item of the budget and could not offer Sergei Ryzhikov to extend the contract on the same terms, with a salary of € 1.5 million. According to other information, after 10 years spent on one place, the player just wanted to change the situation, but he was still offered to stay in the team.

While the agent was looking for a new job, the goalkeeper went to study - Sergei intends to obtain a coaching license. At the desk, he said, he was sitting with brothers Alexei and Vasily Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich, Denis Glushakov, Vladimir Gabulov and many other football stars.

In May 2018, the goalkeeper played a farewell match for Rubin fans and left for Samara, signing a 2-year agreement with Wings of the Soviets. Ryzhikov finally decided to leave Kazan in April. He explained the reasons vaguely, as if he had always advocated "competition, which gives the right to fight." He refused to comment on what was happening on the sidelines of the team. By this time, a goalkeeper school appeared in the club, which bears the name of Sergei. The footballer promised that, if possible, he would come to see how things were going.

Lev Yashin Club Member

As part of Rubin

Two-time Russian Champion Two-time Russian Super Cup Winner Russian Cup Winner

As part of Lokomotiv

Russian Cup Winner

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