Biography
In 2018, the Russian football premier League was replenished with the new legionnaire Samuel Zigo, which from the Belgian "Ghent" switched to Moscow "Spartak". In the face of this guy of Franco-Algerian origin, the metropolitan club received a central defender who knows how to calculate the play situations and create dangerous moments, while on the edge of attacks.Childhood and youth
Samuel Florena Toma Zigo was born on October 12, 1993 in France, his childhood was held in the provincial city of Avignon. Despite the fact that at times the family experienced financial difficulties, the future "Spartakovec" and his native brother Tony was carried away by different sports, including boxing, rugby, motocross and football.
In adolescence, the guys decided on further biographies, and their preferences and careers were separated. Tony chose the path of a professional rugbyist, and Samuel entered the MJC Football Academy.
In the 2000s, the younger jig did the same tattoos with his friends on the street and, saying goodbye to his childhood, became a player of the Avignon Foot Youth Club. And when the team was disbanded due to financial insolvency and bankruptcy, the football player moved to Le-Ponte from his native city. In 2011, in order not to lose gaming practice, Marseille's proposal passed to Marcelno and moved to the lagging club "Arl-Avignon".
Football
In 2013, Zigo performed in the second division of France. A young defender, who debuted in the main composition at the end of August, spent more than 30 matches for Arl-Avignon and scored 4 goals. Unfortunately, it did not save "Arl-Avignon" from numerous defeats, which caused the translation into the status of lovers, so Samuel began to search for a new team.In 2015, moved to Belgium, for £ 360 thousand became a player of the club "Crurteik". There, the Frenchman, distinguished by extravagant hairstyle and height 187 cm when fluctuating weight from 83 to 85 kg, held 53 games with multi-level rivals, and then appeared again on the transfer and for a record in his career amount £ 1.17 million was sold to the Belgian club "Ghent "
Under the contract, the defender who debuted with new partners in the Zhupiller League in July 2017 should have remained 4 seasons in the team, but by won the bronze medals of the National Championship, agreed with the leadership and left the club.
In the transfer window before the 2018/2019 season, Russian teams became interested in the football player, and Zigo stood before the choice - "Krasnodar" or Moscow "Spartak". As a result, "Red-White" made representatives of the athlete a more advantageous offer and paid the amount of € 8 million, after which the French footballer moved to the capital and signed a 4-year contract with the club.
In the debut match of the 1st round of the Premier League against the team from Orenburg Samuel scored a victorious goal to the goal of rivals, and in September, in September, Artem Dzyuba hurts Artem Jüb in the match with the St. Petersburg "Zenit".
Having left for the rest of the season from the Russian championship, Zigo suffered an operation to eliminate the rupture of an anterior cross-shaped bundle and only in March 2019 he again got into the "Spartak" application, and in April spent 90 minutes on the football field and thus returned to the main composition.
Personal life
In an interview with sports editions that appeared during the recovery period after surgery, Samuel decided to tell about his personal life and what he was doing, being over a year in Moscow. It turned out that, being a player of the Belgian clubs, Vigo married a long-standing girlfriend-Frenchwoman.
Now in Instagram, the defender appeared joint photos with his wife and son, who in January 2019 became a Christmas gift for a young couple and in honor of the relative of the football player received a sonorous name Nale.
Samuel Zigo now
Returning to the main composition of the metropolitan team, Samuel Zigo became one of the best players of Spartakov, making breakthroughs from the penalty.Now the French legionnaire in terms of the number of goals scored is the leader of the intraclature championship and continues to delight coaches and fans with outstanding results and a beautiful game.
Achievements
- 2017 - Bronze medalist of the Belgium Championship ("Gent")