Valery Vladimirovich Tsvetkov is a famous Russian footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. He played for the St. Petersburg football club "Zenith". In the early 2010s, he was engaged in coaching for a short time.
Biography
The future footballer was born in November 1977 on the fifth in the Russian city of Pskov. From early childhood, Valera was a mobile, energetic child. In the Soviet Union, football sections were available to everyone, and the parents decided to enroll the boy in the local academy. Valery successfully passed the screening and established himself as a potentially talented player. With each new training session, his results became better and better, and the boy himself already dreamed that someday he would be able to play for one of the Russian giants.
When Tsvetkov was sixteen years old, he was invited to the semi-amateur football club from Pskov "Mashinostroitel", where he played for only one year. At the age of seventeen, he suffered a back injury and was unable to play for a while. At eighteen he was drafted into the army, into the railway troops. For two years he served at the Mga railway station. Valery was demobilized with the rank of senior sergeant.
Professional career
After the army, Tsvetkov returned to his hometown and continued to play for the local club. For a long time Mashinostroitel was considered an amateur club and played in the KLF championship, but once they were able to win the tournament and were promoted to the second division, this is the lowest professional championship in Russia.
It was there that he was noticed by the breeders of the St. Petersburg football club "Zenith". They made Tsvetkov an offer to join the camp of the "blue-blues". In 2000, a childhood dream came true, and Valery first entered the field in the form of a professional club, one of the best in the country. For five years, he played for the club from St. Petersburg, during which time he entered the field more than seventy times. Twice I was able to distinguish myself by scoring an opponent's goal.
In the national championship, Tsvetkov's highest achievement was the 2003 silver medal. In the same year, he won the Premier League cube with Zenit. A year earlier, he became the finalist of the national cup, but the team lost to a stronger rival and the cup could not be won.
Injuries sustained as a teenager forced the talented midfielder to leave Zenit in 2005. Two years later, Tsvetkov played again, but at an amateur level. During the season he represented the Northern Palmira club. After the end of the tournament, Valery decided to finally give up football.
In 2011, the former footballer tried himself as a coach and became the head of PFC Rus and coached him for three years. But due to the difficult financial situation, the club's management decided to close it, and disband the players and the coaching staff.
Personal life
The famous football player took a creative approach to creating a family. He has a beloved wife and two daughters, with whom he loves to spend all his free time.
