Valeri Sarychev

Valeri Sarychev
Shin Eui-son
Personal information
Full name Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev
Shin Eui-son
Date of birth (1960-01-12) 12 January 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Dushanbe, Tajik SSR
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1981 Pamir Dushanbe 93 (0)
1981 CSKA Moscow 4 (0)
1982–1991 Torpedo Moscow 161 (0)
1992–1998 Ilhwa Chunma 157 (0)
2000–2004 Anyang LG Cheetahs 95 (0)
Total 510 (0)
International career
1997 Tajikistan 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Valeri Sarychev
Hangul
신의손
Hanja
申宜孫
Revised RomanizationSin Uison
McCune–ReischauerSin Ŭison

Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev (Russian: Валерий Константинович Сарычев; born 12 January 1960), also known as Shin Eui-son (Korean: 신의손), is a former Tajikistani footballer who played as a goalkeeper.[1] He is regarded as one of the greatest K League goalkeepers of all time.[2] In 2000, he gained South Korean nationality.

Club career

Sarychev started his senior career in Pamir Dushanbe, the Soviet second division club. He spent his heyday in Torpedo Moscow and reached the Soviet Cup final five times with Torpedo. He received the Lev Yashin Prize [ru] in 1991,[3] but he left for South Korea the next year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He played for Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Anyang LG Cheetahs in South Korea's K League. Since 1999, the K League Federation made a new regulation which bans the use of foreign goalkeepers because the other clubs excessively employed foreign goalkeepers after watching his performances.[1][2] He became a naturalized South Korean in 2000 and named his Korean name "Shin Eui-son" which is his nickname and means the "Hand of God".[1][4] He had a retirement ceremony on 1 May 2005 and became a goalkeeper coach after retirement. He won one Asian Club Championship and four K Leagues in South Korea and was selected as the goalkeeper of the K League 30th Anniversary Best XI in 2013.[5]

International career

In August 1997, the Tajikistani national team were to take 16 players to South Korea to face their national team, but due to missing passports, only 12 players traveled. As a result, the Tajikistan Football Federation called upon Sarychev, as well as Vitaliy Parakhnevych who were playing in the K League.[6]

Personal life

He acquired Korean citizenship in the year 2000, after being encouraged to do so by Cho Kwang-rae, the then manager of FC Anyang (currently Executive Director of Daegu FC). He is married to Olga Sarycheva and has a daughter and a son. Shin neither drinks nor smokes, and his only hobby is listening to music. He has a collection of 700 LP records at home, including complete collections of the Beatles and Genesis albums.[7]

After acquiring Korean citizenship he founded the Guri Shin clan.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[8][9]
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Pamir Dushanbe 1978 Soviet First League 14 0 1 0 — — — 15 0
1979 Soviet First League 18 0 0 0 — — — 18 0
1980 Soviet First League 38 0 2 0 — — — 40 0
1981 Soviet First League 23 0 1 0 — — — 24 0
Total 93 0 4 0 — — — 97 0
CSKA Moscow 1981 Soviet Top League 4 0 0 0 — — — 4 0
Torpedo Moscow 1982 Soviet Top League 1 0 0 0 — — — 1 0
1983 Soviet Top League 2 0 0 0 — — — 2 0
1984 Soviet Top League 26 0 2 0 — — — 28 0
1985 Soviet Top League 26 0 2 0 — — — 28 0
1986 Soviet Top League 6 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 — 13 0
1987 Soviet Top League 3 0 0 0 5 0 — 0 0 8 0
1988 Soviet Top League 26 0 6 0 4 0 1 0 — 37 0
1989 Soviet Top League 30 0 6 0 4 0 4 0 — 44 0
1990 Soviet Top League 24 0 6 0 — 6 0 — 36 0
1991 Soviet Top League 17 0 4 0 — 3 0 — 24 0
Total 161 0 30 0 16 0 14 0 0 0 221 0
Ilhwa Chunma 1992 K League 30 0 — 10 0 — — 40 0
1993 K League 30 0 — 5 0 — — 35 0
1994 K League 30 0 — 6 0 — 36 0
1995 K League 27 0 — 7 0 — 34 0
1996 K League 26 0 1 0 1 0 — 28 0
1997 K League 9 0 0 0 7 0 — 16 0
1998 K League 5 0 0 0 0 0 — — 5 0
Total 157 0 1 0 36 0 — 194 0
Anyang LG Cheetahs
2000 K League 24 0 0 0 8 0 — 32 0
2001 K League 27 0 2 0 8 0 1[a] 0 38 0
2002 K League 26 0 0 0 9 0 — 35 0
2003 K League 18 0 1 0 — — — 19 0
2004 K League 0 0 0 0 7 0 — — 7 0
Total 95 0 3 0 32 0 1 0 131 0
Career total 510 0 38 0 84 0 14 0 1 0 647 0
  1. ^ Appearance in Korean Super Cup

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Tajikistan 1997 1 0

Honours

Torpedo Moscow

Ilhwa Chunma

Anyang LG Cheetahs

Individual

References

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