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MALAFEEV: I AM GLAD WITH MY CAREER IN ZENIT
Sport Express spoke to the Russian goalkeeper,
who signed a five-year extension to his contract with Zenit on April 14.
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Vyacheslav Malafeev Photo SPORT
EXPRESS
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"For the in-field players it's easier to switch to
another club and get used to the new circumstances", said Malafeev.
"According to statistics goalkeepers change two or three clubs in
their careers and many of them stay faithful to their team".
"If the goalie was born is the city, where he plays and coaches count
on his services, it's difficult to decide to change the club".
"I need to have serious reasons to make decision to quit the team.
As for me i didn't find any of them".
"My contract envisages the sum of money, which I will have to pay
if I decided to quit the club. Of course I speak about the foreign club,
because I don't see any reason of leaving Zenit for another Russian club".
"I like German and Spanish championships. I don't mean big clubs,
however I think it's possible to find job in the high divisions in these
countries".
"I offered to sign a ten-year extension contract, but I was said
that it's impossible. Though Zenit was not against it".
"Zenit extended contracts of several players, whose agreements were
to expire in 2009 too. However nobody from our management talked to me
about extension contract, so I provoked their interest through mass media
at the end of the last season".
"If Zenit hadn't offered me a new contract and I hadn't found any
other variants of continuing my career, I would have been forced to move
to our rivals".
"In fact I considered this variant as emergency measure. I had variants
both in Russia and abroad, but they were not comparable to my work in
Zenit".
"Becoming the team's captain is not the main target for me. To my
mind any players should feel as a captain at his position on the pitch".
"It's a difficult to guess who will replace Anatoly Tymoschuk as
our captain, as I don't know who will choose him".
"Dick Advocaat appointed Tymoschuk as the captain and two goalkeepers
as his assistants, and he is likely to have some variants too".
Sport
Express Daily, 06 June 2009
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