For more than a decade, Sergey Zuev has occupied an honorable place among the best players in futsal. The sports star of a football player was lit up in the 80s, when this fascinating kind of sports began to develop actively in the USSR. A skilled goalkeeper defended the honor of his club and the Russian Federation at the highest level competitions. There were also failures in his career: the sport of the highest achievements could not do without them. However, success in the piggy bank goalkeeper is much greater.
From the biography of Sergei Zuev
The future futsal master was born in Severouralsk on February 20, 1980. In this small mining town, located in the Sverdlovsk region five hundred kilometers from Yekaterinburg, Sergei spent his childhood. It has long been mined for bauxite ore.
At the age of seven, Zuev began to play hockey in the courtyard club, where his parents determined. For a long time Serezha tried on the position of a goalkeeper. Until the age of 12, his parents helped the boy drag a heavy bag with ammunition to train: the “gate guard” armor weighed a lot. Sergey had a chance to speak at regional level competitions.
In training, the young hockey player often played football. Over time, he mastered a variation of such a game, which is called futsal. Exotic at the time, the sport captured Sergei. He played in the futsal team at the championship of the city and won it. The talented player was noticed by the team coach of the Ural Polytechnic. It was he who suggested that the young man submit documents to this university, so that he could not only get a good education, but also speak for the institute.
Futsal career
In 1997, Zuev began his career in the Premier League of mini-football of the Russian Federation. As part of the student team, Sergey spent several dozen matches. He becomes the first goalkeeper of his team. After three years of hard training, Zuev joined the expanded national team of the Russian Federation to participate in the World Cup (Brazil). The footballer recalls with a smile how his knees were shaking when he went against the strongest world-class players. And he was impressed by the thousands of stadiums: the Ural student had never seen such a number of fans before.
In that tournament, Russian footballers were marked with bronze. The success of the team made Sergei Nikolaevich a master of sports.
In subsequent years, Zuev played for the Ural club "VIZ-Sinara", again at the position of the guard of his gates. The very first season in this team allowed Zuev to become the best goalkeeper of the regular futsal championship.
Success followed one after another. Zuev firmly takes the place of the first goalkeeper of the national team. In the 2005th and 2007th he added “silver” and “bronze” of the European Championship to the piggy bank of his achievements. Zuev is also the owner of the prestigious UEFA Cup (season 2007-2008).
