The name of Viktor Fayzulin is familiar to every connoisseur of Russian football. He is a three-time RFPL champion, Honored Master of Sports, and recently completed his professional career. Where did he start? How did you go to success? This and much more will now be discussed.
early years
Victor Fayzulin was born in 1986 on April 22 in the city of Nakhodka. His father was a sailor, mom is a housewife. He grew up a very active and restless child who preferred football to school. And since his mother was a non-strict, kind-hearted person, no one forced him to do his lessons.
Seeing how much his son likes to chase the ball, the parents decided to send it to the children's sports school. As the years have shown, this turned out to be a very reasonable, far-sighted decision.
At 18, the young man began a professional career. His first club was Ocean. There he spent an incomplete season, playing 9 matches.
Then Victor moved to SKA-Khabarovsk. There, the young man spent two seasons. The team was then led by Sergey Gorlukovich. For all the time he played 51 matches and scored 8 goals.
Then Victor Fayzulin, whose photo is presented in the article, went to play for Spartak-Nalchik, which was coached by Yuri Krasnozhan. He entered the field in 28 meetings and scored 3 goals. Then he was recognized as one of the best young players of the Premier League.
Going to Zenit
In 2008, the football player Viktor Fayzulin moved to the team in which he spent the next 10 years of his career. St. Petersburg “Zenith” bought it for two million euros. Initially, the contract was calculated for 3 years.
Then the club's coach was Dick Advocaat. He spoke of Victor in a positive way: “He is a talented guy. The blow is excellent, the field vision is excellent, and the legs are both workers. He attracted my attention precisely with playmaker qualities. Victor has an impressive potential. Around him, you can even build the game of the whole team. He has one problem. Victor, to put it mildly, is not the fastest player. ”
The debut of the football player took place in 2008, on February 13. It was a match with FC Villarreal. The next game was a meeting with Bayern, in which Fayzulin scored a goal against Oliver Kahn.
He was a good central attacking midfielder. Victor himself chose this position. He said: “She is optimal for me. I focus on Luca Modric, David Silva and Andres Iniesta. They are my favorite players in this role. Yes, and I love Spanish football more than English. It’s perfect for me: a lot of pass game and equipment.
Achievements
Studying the career and biography of Viktor Fayzulin, you need to list the awards that he managed to win over 10 years with Zenit. The list of trophies is impressive:
- UEFA Super Cup and Cup in 2008.
- Three times victory in the championship of Russia. He won gold in 2010, 2012 and 2015.
- Two-time victory in the Cup of Russia - in 2010 and 2016.
- Second place in the championship of Russia. Viktor and Zenit occupied them in 2013 and 2014.
- Third places in the championship of Russia - in 2009 and 2016.
Also, Viktor Fayzulin has a personal award at the state level. At the age of 22, he became a Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation.
In the national team
Victor Fayzulin has been playing for the national team since 2006. First for the youth, then for the second. In 2012, he began to play for the main one. But he did not spend much time in it - only from 2012 to 2014. During this period he played 24 matches and scored 4 goals.
Why did such a productive, promising footballer spend so little time on the national team? The reason was the injury, which will be described later. But it should be noted that the leadership of the national team has always been in touch with him. Everyone expected that at the World Cup, held in Russia in the current 2018, he will perform. Unfortunately, this did not happen.
Injury
Talking about where Victor Fayzulin played and how he showed himself, it is necessary to pay special attention to this topic.
In January 2015, at the first winter training camp, the football player felt a slight knee pain. I did not attach any importance to this, but already at the next training session the discomfort intensified. Surveys have begun.
2-3 months passed, in the end Victor flew to Germany for medical help. There he was diagnosed with arthrosis. It turned out there was no cartilage in the knee. But the doctor was encouraging: it will be possible to return to the field if an operation is performed. And he agreed.
In an interview, Victor said that the intervention was mandatory - all of his knee was in the “rust”. Why did arthrosis occur? In 2008, he underwent two operations - on the meniscus of the right leg and on the cruciate ligaments of the left knee. Naturally, this did not pass without a trace.
Recovery
For several weeks Victor did not appear on the field. Due to constantly recurring knee problems, he played only 7 matches between May and September. And then an event happened that spoiled his further career.
In September 2015, in the match with Amkar, Viktor came out at the base, although at the beginning of the season he played for 15-30 minutes. He spent almost the entire match on the field. He was replaced in the 80th minute. The player himself asked, because his knee started to pour quickly, almost immediately swollen.
The problems are back. Again I had to do an operation. Arthrosis greatly influenced the health of the football player, other problems appeared. The operation was performed in order to make the player new cartilage. After that, he walked on crutches for 2 months.
There were chances to return to football. The doctor who operated on Victor said that the probability of this is 95%. And Fayzulin was sure that he would not just return to football, but also play at the 2018 World Cup. But unfortunately, 5 operations performed on the legs cannot but affect the state of health. Especially a professional football player.
Retirement
Victor Fayzulin suffered for a very long time with an injury. But he did not give up hope of returning to football. In April 2018, on the official website of Zenit, the player was congratulated on his birthday, and wished to return to duty. And two weeks later they announced that he was completing a career ...
On May 13, Victor officially left football. He admits that parting with the Zenith was in the subconscious. Morally, he was ready for the wires. But tears at parting with the club in which Fayzulin spent so much time, of course, rolled over.
The only thing the player regrets is that he failed to play in the Premier League. Talking about the career, biography and personal life of Viktor Fayzulin, it must be mentioned that he loves Spanish football very much. And really wanted to play Valencia or Elche.
Personal life
Much has been said about the biography of Viktor Fayzulin (photo above). Finally, a few words about the family.
The footballer has a wife, Veronica. He met her on vacation in Kislovodsk - back in those days when Fayzulin played in Spartak from Nalchik.
Some time after the start of the relationship, they got married, and on April 14, 2009 they had a son, who was named Sevastyan. Victor, by the way, has a tattoo with his name. In 2013, a daughter was born, who was named Mirra.
Hobbies and non-football activities
It should be noted that Victor Fayzulin is the main founder of the company, known as the "Algorithm-Development." And its CEO is a close friend of the footballer, Oleg Samsonov, also a former Zenit player. The cost of the Algorithm residential complex erected by the company is estimated at about 1 billion rubles. And the salary of Fayzulin as a football player, by the way, amounted to 2.2 million euros per year.
Victor's main hobby is traveling. In his youth, he said that he wanted to earn so much money that he had enough for constant travel after 30 years. The dream has come true. He wanted to go around the world, but family responsibilities appeared.
But Fayzulin visited the Amazon, where he caught and roasted piranhas. For another 2 weeks, he and his wife sailed from French Polynesia to California. He says that a boat trip to the Cook Islands is an unforgettable experience.
Now Viktor Fayzulin has set about trying to gather a big company to go all together to Cape Horn through Argentina, and also look into Antarctica.
The footballer says that he and his wife have a card at home, which they inject buttons into, thus marking those countries that they managed to visit. Now there are 56 of them. In some, Victor was several times, but I want to travel more often and more. And after the end of his career, he noted: now it will be time.