Проект учащихся 7 класса "Football in Russia"

Russian Fotball

Zenit Football Club

Club History

• Zenit Football Club was founded in May 1925 as a team at the Leningrad Metal Plant named after Stalin. Since 1936, the club was named "Stalinets", and four years later it acquired its current name.

About Club

• Zenit is the only team in the Premier League that represents Saint Petersburg. According to independent analysts, 60 percent of residents in the city support the blue-white-blue team, and more than 80 percent of St. Petersburg residents consider the team a symbol of the Northern Capital. A study conducted at the end of 2008 showed that Zenit is among the top ten most popular clubs in Europe, while being the most popular team in the post-Soviet space. In Russia, the blue-white-Blues are supported by 15 million fans. Zenit is the owner of 18 trophies: the Cup of Champions of Russia (1984, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019), national Cup (1944, 1999, 2010, 2016) and Super Cup (1985, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2016), Premier League Cup (2003), UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup.

Team Composition

Famous players

• Vyacheslav Malafeev
• Since 1999, this goalkeeper has spent seventeen seasons for Zenit. But not all of them were Lucky, often Vyacheslav found himself in the shadow of other goalkeepers. only in the 2010/11 championship, he played for the club almost the entire season, defending 41 matches in goal. At the same time, he always remained a reliable goalkeeper. He was not very lucky in the national team. He once conceded 7 goals against Portugal. But there were also 7 dry matches in a row on his account.

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