Sergei Semak
Sergei Semak Bogdanovich (Russian: Сергей Богданович Семак; born February 27, 1976 in Sytschanskoje, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian football coach and former player. In the final round of the European Championship 2008, he was captain of the Russian national team.
Career
Association
The born in Luhansk Semak graduated from the local soccer boarding school, before in 1992 he made his professional career started in the third Russian league. His first club this year Presnja Moscow, he played but towards the end of the year, short for another third division ( Karelija Petrozavodsk ), before moving to his first club for season 1993 - in the meantime notch and renamed Asmaral Moscow - returned. In 1993, he debuted in the top Russian league, but was used mainly in the 1993 third-rate second team of the club. After he a convincing season 1994 the great Moscow club CSKA became aware of Semak and took him to the relegation of his former club under contract. During his time with CSKA he matured very quickly to guide players, already in its third season, 1996, he was captain of the team, but always was in the 90s in the shadow of city rivals Spartak and Lok, until the beginning of the new millennium played the club to seriously the championship. On the club's greatest success - winning the UEFA Cup in 2005 he was involved in, left the club but before the final, to play for the first time in his career abroad. However Semak could not really prevail at the French top club Paris SG and left the club after a streaky 2005 back towards Moscow. This time he was taken from the smallest of the Hauptstadterstligisten FK Moscow under contract. Went to two more years of Rubin Kazan, which he captained to two championships in a row. On August 5, Semak announced his move to Zenit St. Petersburg. As detachment Zenit paid three million euros.
National
After three operations in the Russian U- 21 team, he was first appointed to the cadre of Russian A- selection in 1997, but long remained a pure supplement player who rarely got a full 90 minutes to use, so he belonged to the Russian squad for the 2002 World Cup, however, remained without use. In the qualifiers for Euro 2004 Semak was then, however, more commonly used, however, was no longer considered for the squad for the Euro 2004. As Semak then in 2005 and 2006 only in five games was used and after the World Cup 2006 Russia's new national team coach Hiddink relied heavily on a fresh start with young players, was his international career already considered terminated as Hiddink him a surprise in the squad for the Euro 2008 convened and appointed him for the competition for the captain.
Coach
After his career end Semak acted from the beginning of 2014, first as assistant coach of Luciano Spalletti at Zenit St. Petersburg. As Spalletti was dismissed, particularly in the Russian Championship on March 11, 2014 due to continued Erfolgslosigkeit, Semak was declared the interim coach.
Achievements
- Champion of Russia: 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011/12
- Russian Vice-Champion ( 3): 1998, 2002, 2004
- Russian Cup winner: 2002
Trivia
- At Euro 2008, he was the only football players of the Russian national team, who was not born in Russia.
- He is the only footballer who was captain two different teams of Russian masters.
- While one of the two group matches of the Rubin Kazan against Barcelona in the Champions League 2009/10 for the fifth time become a father Sergei Semak. He gave his daughter the name "Barcelona" - according to the opponents. He described this decision as a " tribute to the Spanish football ". The two games were surprisingly from 2:1 and 0:0 from the perspective of Kazan.