Biography
Vyacheslav Malafeev is the famous goalkeeper "Zenit" and a Honored Master of Sports of Russia. The football player consists in the symbolic "Leo Club Yashin," which includes Soviet and Russian goalkeepers, which retained the gate of their own team in immunity in 100 or more games. As a "Zenit" player, Vyacheslav Malafeev enters the club of Leonid Ivanov "for goalkeepers who repeatedly defended the team's gate in the championships of Russia and other high-level competitions.Childhood and youth
Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Malafeev was born in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) in March 1979. His name more than once came to the list of 33 best players in the country.
The future athlete became interested in football at 6 years old. It was then that he got into the football school "Change", where the preparation of boys was engaged in well-known coaches Valery Savin and Vladimir Wilde.
In 1997, a 18-year-old footballer graduated with honors from school and immediately was invited to the "Zenit-2" team. After 2 years, it was accepted in FC Zenit. Here the big sports biography of Vyacheslav Malafeev began.
Football
The debut of the football player took place in the game against the team of "Alania". Malafeev was put on the replacement of the Roman Berezovsky removed from the field, who insulted the judge. The first chance of Vyacheslav failed to take advantage of, nevertheless, he was noticed and began to be insistently invited to the Olympic team of the country.The debut game of Vyacheslav Malafeev for the Russian Olympic team took place on September 4, 1999. The opponent of his team was the Armenian national team.
The first award came to the athlete in 2001: his team "Zenit" became a bronze medalist. In 2003, the footballer, together with the St. Petersburg club, took the 2nd place in the championship. In the same year, playing 2 matches in Europe, it became the 1st number of the Russian national team.
But in the sports career Vyacheslav was an unpleasant episode. In the qualifying match with Portugal in 2004, he missed 7 heads.
In the professional biography of Malafeev, the takeoffs alternate with annoying drops. But each time the footballer manages to rise and rehabilitate himself. For example, in the 2005 Cup match "Zenit" against CSKA, the athlete received removal and was a second goalkeeper for a long time, losing the first position by Camil Chontofalski. But next year later returned the lost positions: in the UEFA Cup against the Norwegian "Rosenborg", Chonofalski was removed, replacing him again by Vyacheslav.
It was a starry hour athlete. He played in 36 games of the season and again fell with the number of 33 of the best players in Russia.
In 2004, Vyacheslav Malafeev participated in 24 games, skipping 27 goals. He won the gold medals of the championship and became a "goalkeeper of the year."
In June 2011, the athlete played his 100th match for the St. Petersburg team. That game between his native team and "Kuban" ended in a draw. Salary in Zenit at the peak of Career Vyacheslav amounted to € 2 million
In the same year, in December, Malafeev in the 159th time in his sports biography managed to leave the gate in integrity. It was a match with the Portuguese "port". According to the results, Vyacheslav managed to bypass even the famous Sergey Ovchinnikov, turning into a record holder in the number of matches with zero hit in the gate. Therefore, in 2011, Petersburst became the best goalkeeper of the world in the ESPN portal.
Despite the success of the football player, he had to defend his professional honor in court. Malafeev filed a lawsuit on the commentator Dmitry Gubernieva, who in his conversation with a colleague during the break of the match "Spartak" and CSKA allowed himself offensive statements against the goalkeeper of the Russian national team. In his speech, the reporter touched and the circumstances of the death of Marina Malafeva. The conversation came to the live broadcast of the Sportbox.ru website and became public. Vyacheslav demanded that province pays 1.5 million rubles, but the Khimki court reduced the amount of the claim to 75 thousand rubles.
Subsequent years, the goalkeeper has repeatedly become a winner and champion of Russia. In May 2016, Malafeev officially completed his career in football. After the match with Lokomotiv, he made a circle of honor at the Petrovsky stadium.
Business
In 2013, Vyacheslav Malafeev became an entrepreneur. Athlete created a real estate agency called M16-Real Estate. Business footballer began to develop, a separate official website of the company appeared. In parallel, the news and individual pages dedicated to the Company's work began to postpone the name of Vyacheslav. A year later, Malafeev opened a new division of his own agency, which became responsible for elite real estate.
In 2016, the footballer on the basis of real estate companies founded the M16-Group Companies Group. It turned out to be united 6 firms that became subsidiaries. The M16-Group is engaged in working with real estate, both ordinary and elite, interior design, and also includes security service, law firm and even the Lubokorier ski resort.
Personal life
With the first wife of Marina Malafeev met during the rest. The southern novel ended in November 2001. Marina is the daughter of the famous football player "Dynamo" Yuri Bezborodova. And although the girl studied at the Civil Aviation Academy, but was always on the "one wave" with her husband.After marriage, Marina left the work at the insistence of her husband and devoted himself to the family. After 2 years, the spouses were born daughter of Ksenia. Vyacheslav turned out to be a caring father and a wonderful husband. He was present in childbirth, and then cared for the baby, I dressed and got up to her crib at night. For the birth of Ksyusha, he thanked his wife with a new car Infinity FX35.
It is noteworthy that with the appearance of the young father's career, the career of the young father quickly went up: it was then that he received a prize "goalkeeper of the year".
3 years later, in 2006, the Son Maxim was born at the couple. Spouses were happy and considered a strong pair. When the children were grieved, Marina opened the studio, which was called "Malafeev Production". She was engaged in producing the M-16 duet. The husband strongly encouraged her occupation.
In March 2011, Marina Malafeev crashed into an accident: her car crashed into a tree, racing an advertising shield. A business woman returned after the concert of the group home and volunteered to pass the Solist M-16 Dmitry. Dima survived, but the football player's wife died in an accident immediately. Ksyusha at that time was 7 years old, and maxima only 5.
Marina's grave is located at the Smolensk cemetery, not far from the chapel of Ksenia Petersburg. The first interview after the funeral of the wife of Malafeev gave in the program "Let them say". In addition, the killed wife of the goalkeeper dedicated the video. The premiere of the song of the group "For Glory" was timed to the day of her birth. The goalkeeper himself appeared in the video.
In December 2012, Vyacheslav Malafeev's personal life has changed for the better. The athlete married the second time on DJ in Ekaterina Komyakova. His chosen was his choice for 9 years and studied at the University of Culture, previously consisted of a group of support for HC SKA and was fond of dancing. Rod Katya was from the Borovichsky district, which in the Novgorod region. Later in the media appeared information that the girl's father in the 90s consisted of a criminal group and after one loud business was in prison.
Even after the announcement of the engagement, the pair did not tell the details of the planning marriage in Peterhof. The press for a long time appeared the wrong wedding date - 5 days earlier. Fans suggested that it was done specifically to protect the event from strangers.
Catherine was able to find a common language with the children of Vyacheslav and even issued official motherhood. Soon, Ksyusha and Maxim appeared a little brother Alex. Spouses do not hide children from fans, and family photos became the basis of the Vyacheslav account in "Instagram".
Despite the completion of the football career, Vyacheslav Malafeev continues to support himself in an athletic form. The weight of the businessman is 77 kg with a height of 185 cm.
In March 2020, his daughter, Ksenia Malafeev, came out of the house of the former football player. According to Vyacheslav, the girl soon felt an adult, so for her parents prepared an apartment where she was able to live separately. Ksyusha did not lose time for nothing - began a musical career. Young singer recorded 2 songs: "Baby" and "Package of Drugs".
In the summer, the daughter of the former goalkeeper was detained while attempting to sell drugs. In the police, the girl stated that for the first time she was engaged in selling forbidden substances, and the money planned to spend money on personal needs. Malafeev decided to revise the principles of education. Ksenia passed a rehabilitation course and now lives at home.
Pandemic COVID-19 adversely affected the life of the family. Ekaterina Malafeev mentioned this on his page in "Instagram". She even thought about divorce, but the relationship was able to save. Already in December 2020, the couple visited a joint holiday.
Vyacheslav Malafeev now
In mid-January 2021, the ex-athlete was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia, which developed against the background of coronavirus infection. According to his spouse, the temperature was held for 2 weeks, although Vyacheslav had no cough. In the hospital, he lay down after the extensive lung damage was diagnosed. Businessman's health status is stable, he plans to quickly recover.
Achievements
- 1999, 2010, 2016 - Winner of the Cup of Russia with Zenit
- 2001, 2009, 2016 - Bronze medalist of the championship of Russia with Zenit
- 2003, 2013, 2014 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship with Zenit
- 2003 - Premier League Cup winner with Zenit
- 2003, 2007, 2012 - "Goalkeeper of the Year" according to the magazine "Spark"
- 2006 - the best goalkeeper of the Russian Championship according to the Sport-Express newspaper
- 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015 - Champion of Russia with Zenit
- 2008 - Winner of the UEFA Cup with Zenit
- 2008 - Winner of UEFA Super Cup with Zenit
- 2008, 2011, 2015 - owner of the Super Cup of Russia with Zenit
- 2008 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship with Zenit
- Since 2009 - Member of the Leo Club Yashin