Valery Vladimirovich Tsvetkov is a famous Russian footballer who played in the position of defender and midfielder. He played for the St. Petersburg football club Zenit. 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 accessible to everyone, and parents decided to enroll the boy in a local academy. Valery successfully passed the show and established himself as a potentially talented player. With each new training, his results became better and better, and the boy himself already dreamed that someday he could play for one of the Russian grands.
When Tsvetkov was sixteen years old, he was invited to the semi-amateur football club from Pskov “Mashinostroitel”, where he played just one year. At seventeen, he suffered a back injury and for some time could not play. At eighteen he was drafted into the army, into the railway troops. For two years he served at the Mga railway station. Valery was discharged with the rank of senior sergeant.
Professional career
After the army, Tsvetkov returned to his hometown and continued to play for the local club. Mashinostroitel has long been considered an amateur club and played in the KFK 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 Zenit. They made Tsvetkov an offer to go to the camp of "blue-blue". 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 went on the field more than seventy times. Twice could distinguish himself by an opponent's goal.
In the national championship Tsvetkov’s highest achievement was the 2003 silver medal. In the same year, he was part of the “Zenith” won the Premier League cube. A year earlier, he became a finalist of the country's cup, but the team lost to a stronger rival and failed to win the cup.
Injuries received as a teenager forced a talented midfielder to leave Zenit in 2005. Two years later, Tsvetkov again began to play, but at an amateur level. During the season, he represented the club "North Palmyra". After the tournament, Valery decided to finally tie with football.
In 2011, a former football player tried himself in the role of a coach and headed PFC Rus and trained him for three years. But due to the difficult financial situation, the club management decided to close it, and dismiss the players and the coaching staff.
