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Vyacheslav Malafeev

1979 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Malafeev is the 7,796th most popular soccer player (down from 7,590th in 2024), the 2,718th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,730th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Russian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vyacheslav Malafeev ranks 7,796 out of 21,273. Before him are Hans Vanaken, Wesley Sonck, Saïd Chiba, Akira Narahashi, Ji Dong-won, and Juninho. After him are Souleymanou Hamidou, Javier Portillo, Sergey Rodionov, Takuya Yamada, Víctor Rangel, and Kenji Moriyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Vyacheslav Malafeev ranks 427. Before him are Yukie Nakama, Igor Duljaj, Holly Madison, Karam Gaber, Shane Filan, and John Morrison. After him are Song Dae-nam, Shahzoda, Yoshimasa Fujita, Ken Chu, Zsolt Lőw, and Bipasha Basu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Malafeev ranks 2,720 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Melentyev (1954), Zlata Ognevich (1986), Alexei Gusarov (1964), Andrey Malakhov (1972), Yuri Kolokolnikov (1980), Vladimir Beschastnykh (1974), Roman Shirokov (1981), and Aysen Nikolayev (1972). After him are Sergey Rodionov (1962), Rubén Gallego (1968), Ilia Kulik (1977), and Lyubov Yegorova (1966).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Vyacheslav Malafeev ranks 100. Before him are Andreas Beck (1987), Artem Dzyuba (1988), Aleksei Berezutski (1982), Roman Eremenko (1987), Vladimir Beschastnykh (1974), and Roman Shirokov (1981). After him are Sergey Rodionov (1962), Valeri Broshin (1962), Dmitri Popov (1967), Marat Izmailov (1982), Sergei Fokin (1961), and Alexei Eremenko (1983).

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