Viacheslav Malafeev

Vyacheslav Malafeev is the famous goalkeeper of St. Petersburg Zenit and the Honored Master of Sports of Russia. The footballer is a member of the symbolic Lev Yashin Club. This club includes Soviet and Russian goalkeepers who have kept the gates of their own team intact in 100 or more games. As a Zenit goalkeeper, Vyacheslav Malafeev is a member of the Leonid Ivanov Club. It is also a symbolic and honorable club for goalkeepers who have defended the team's gates many times in the Russian championships and other high-level competitions.

Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malafeev was born in St. Petersburg (then still Leningrad) in March 1979. His name has been included in the list of the 33 best football players in the country more than once.

The future athlete became interested in football at the age of 6. It was then that he entered the football school "Smena", where the famous coaches Valery Savin and Vladimir Vilde were training the boys.

In 1997, the 18-year-old footballer graduated from school with honors and was immediately invited to the Zenit-2 team. After 2 years he was admitted to FC Zenit. It was here that Vyacheslav Malafeev's big sports biography began.

The footballer's debut took place in the game against the Alania team. Malafeev was put up to replace Roman Berezovsky, removed from the field, who insulted the judge. Vyacheslav did not manage to take advantage of the first chance, nevertheless he was noticed and began to persistently invite him to the country's Olympic team.

The debut game of Vyacheslav Malafeev for the Russian Olympic team took place on September 4, 1999. The opponent of his team was the national team of Armenia.

The first award came to the St. Petersburg athlete in 2001: his team "Zenith" became the bronze medalist. In 2003, the footballer, together with Zenit, took 2nd place in the championship. In the same year, having played 2 matches in Portugal, he became the first number of the Russian national team.

But in Vyacheslav's sports career there was also an unpleasant episode. In a qualifying match against Portugal in 2004, he conceded 7 goals.

In the football biography of Malafeev, ups alternate with annoying falls. But every time the footballer manages to rise and rehabilitate himself. For example, in 2005 Zenit's cup match against CSKA Vyacheslav was sent off and for a long time was the second goalkeeper, losing the first position to Kamil Chontofalski. But the very next year, Malafeev again regained lost ground: in the UEFA Cup against the Norwegian Rosenborg Chontofalski was removed, again replacing him with Malafeev.

It was the athlete's finest hour. He played in 36 games of the season and again finished with the top 33 in Russia.

In 2004, Vyacheslav Malafeev participated in 24 games, conceding 27 goals. He won gold medals in that championship and became Goalkeeper of the Year.

In June 2011, the St. Petersburg athlete played his 100th match for the Zenit team. That game between his home team and “Kuban” ended in a draw.

In the same year, in December, Malafeev managed to leave his goal intact for 159 times in his sports biography. It was a match against Portuguese Porto. According to the results, Vyacheslav managed to bypass even the famous Sergei Ovchinnikov, becoming the record holder in the number of matches with zero goal hits. Therefore, in 2011, the Petersburger became the best goalkeeper in the world in the season according to the ESPN portal.

In 2013, Vyacheslav Malafeev went into business. The athlete created a real estate agency called M16-Real Estate. The footballer's business began to develop, a separate official website of the company appeared. In parallel, news and individual pages dedicated to the work of the company began to appear on Vyacheslav's personal website. A year later, Vyacheslav Malafeev opened a new division of his own agency, which became responsible for luxury real estate.

At the same time, Vyacheslav did not leave the sport. In 2014, the footballer played for Zenit in the Russian Championship, the team won silver. In 2015 Zenit won the title of Russian champion.

With his first wife Marina Malafeev met during a vacation. The southern romance ended in marriage in November 2001. Marina is the daughter of the famous Dynamo footballer Yuri Bezborodov. And although the girl studied at the Civil Aviation Academy, she was always on the same wavelength with her husband.

After marriage, Marina left her job at the insistence of her husband and devoted herself to her family. After 2 years, a daughter, Ksenia, was born to the Malafeevs. Vyacheslav turned out to be a caring father and a wonderful husband. He attended childbirth, and then looked after the baby, bathed and got up to her bed at night. For the birth of Ksyusha, he thanked his wife with a brand new Infinity FX35 car.

It is noteworthy that with the birth of Ksenia, the career of the young father went up rapidly: he received the Goalkeeper of the Year prize.

3 years later, in 2006, the couple had a son, Maxim. The couple were happy and considered a strong couple. When the children grew up, Marina opened a studio, which she named "Malafeev Production". She started producing the duet "M-16". The husband encouraged her in every possible way.

In March 2011, Marina Malafeeva crashed in an accident: her car crashed into a tree, ramming a billboard. The woman returned home after the concert of her group and volunteered to give a lift to the soloist of "M-16" Dmitry. Dima survived, but the footballer's wife died immediately. Ksenia at that time was 7 years old, and Maxim was only 5.

In December 2012, Vyacheslav Malafeev's personal life changed for the better. The athlete married a second time to DJ Ekaterina. His chosen one was 9 years younger and studied at the University of Culture.

Even after the announcement of the engagement, the couple did not begin to tell the details of the planned marriage. The press has long featured the wrong wedding date - five days earlier. Fans speculated that this was done by the couple on purpose to keep outsiders out of the event.

Catherine managed to find a common language with the children of Vyacheslav and even formalized official motherhood. Soon, Ksyusha and Maxim had a little brother, Alex. The spouses do not hide their children from their fans, and family photos became the basis of Vyacheslav's Instagram account.

Today, Vyacheslav Malafeev continues to play football professionally and maintain himself in athletic form (the weight of a football player is 77 kg with a height of 185 cm). The goalkeeper, as before, plays for the Zenit team. In 2016, Zenit with Vyacheslav in the squad took third place in the Russian Championship.

Also, the athlete continues to pay attention to his own business. In 2016, Vyacheslav Malafeev, based on real estate companies, founded the "M16-Group" Group of Companies. Here six companies were united and became subsidiaries. M16-Group deals with real estate, both ordinary and elite, interior design, and also includes a security service, a law firm and even the ski resort "Lyubogorye".

Team:

"Zenith"

1999, 2010, 2016 - the winner of the Russian Cup (with the Zenit team) 2001, 2009, 2016 - the bronze medalist of the Russian championship (with the Zenit team) 2003, 2013, 2014 - the silver medalist of the Russian championship (with the team Zenit ") 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015 - Champion of Russia (with the Zenit team) 2003 - Winner of the Russian Premier League Cup (with the Zenit team) 2008 - Winner of the UEFA Cup (with the Zenit team) 2008 - Winner of the UEFA Super Cup (with the Zenit team) 2008, 2011, 2015 - Winner of the Russian Super Cup (with the Zenit team) 2008 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship (with the Russian national team)

Personal

2003, 2007, 2012 - "Goalkeeper of the Year" 2003, 2006 - second place in the list of 33 best football players in the Russian Championship 2004, 2012 - first place in the list of 33 best football players in the Russian championship 2006 - the best goalkeeper of the Russian championship according to Sport -Express "2008 - the third place in the list of 33 best football players of the Russian championship

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