Yuriy Nikiforov
Yuri Nikiforov Valeryevich (Russian ) or Yuri Nykyforow ( Ukr ) (Russian Юрий Валерьевич Никифоров; Ukrainian Юрій Никифоров; . Scientific Transl Yuri Nikiforov Valer'evič ( in Russian), Jurij Nykyforov ( Ukr ), born September 16, 1970 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet- Ukrainian- Russian football player. The central Abwehr-/Mittelfeldspieler one of the few players of modern times, which, senior international missions completed for two organizations that are not in the successor - predecessor relationship; He played in 1992 for the CIS and Ukraine before he became after 1994 regular players of the Russian national team and participated with this at two World Cups and one European Championship.
Club career
Nikiforov played in the youth of Chernomorets Odessa, after a single use in the Soviet league for the club in 1988, he spent a few months to Dynamo Kiev, arrived there but only in youth and reserve games to use before the year 1989/90 moved back to Chernomorets. He stayed with the club until the beginning of the first regular season of the Ukrainian Premier League 1992 /93. However Nikoforow joined in 1993 the Russian League to Spartak Moscow. After several injury-related start-up difficulties and associated operations in the reserve team, he could quickly become a regular player of the championship team of 1993, 1994 and 1996 set: In a little over three years, he came 85 times in the Russian league to use and shot 16 goals. Due to its excellent performance in the Champions League (1993-1996 21 Inserts / four goals) were some Western European teams pay attention to him. Nikiforov went in the summer to Real Sporting de Gijón in the Spanish Primera División; he could indeed prevail there as well as a regular player, but the club rose during Nikiforows second year after a disastrous year with only two wins from 38 games, whereupon he left the club. He was drawn to the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, with this he had again more success in both 2000 and 2001, Nikiforov was with the team champion of the Eredivisie. After the 2002 World Cup, he let his career fade away slowly, first in Dutch second division club RKC Waalwijk and 2003 at the Urawa Red Diamonds from Japanese J. League. With which he concluded his career the Japanese League Cup, Yamazaki Nabisco Cup was able to win. In 2003, Nikiforov finally came back as an active player.
National
Nikiforov showed his talent very early and was a member of various youth and junior team of the USSR. He was co- leading scorer with the Soviet selection in 1987 U-16 World Champion in 1988, together with Oleg Salenko shot the USSR to the U-19 European Championship titles, and was also in the Soviet selection at the 1989 U -20 World Cup. 1991, he was still appointed to the A-team of the selection of the USSR, but was only used after the Soviet Union was disbanded at the turn of 1991/92. He came at an even agreed by the Soviet Union United States and Israel tour the successor selection of the CIS four times used, but was not considered for the European Championship 1992. Nikoforow was the dissolution of the USSR dual citizens with passports of Russia and the Ukraine, but decided first for the Ukrainian selection for which he ran aground in 1992 three times. After he had changed in the Russian Premjer League in 1993, the Russian Federation and FIFA convinced him to change the dressing or to allow the change so that he would eligible to play in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup. He was a regular player of Russia and played a major role in the qualification of Russia for the World Cup 94 and Euro 96, but resigned after the failed 1998 World Cup qualification back to the national team. However, he was reactivated to secure the still possible but endangered qualifying for the World Cup 2002 2001. He played all the games in Japan for Russia, but resigned after leaving after the first round finally back from the national team.