Egor Mikhailovich Shaykov (russian: Егор Михайлович Шайков; born 23 June 1980) is a former Russian

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and

beach soccer Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. Whilst football has been played informally on beaches, the introduction of ''beach soccer'' was an a ...

player who was active as forward. Shaykov started his career in

, his best results coming from the period where he played for

FC Arsenal Tula FC Arsenal Tula (russian: ФК Арсенал Тула) is a Russian professional football club from Tula playing in the second-tier Russian First League. Originally founded in 1923, FC Arsenal Tula was promoted to the Russian Premier League ...

. Since 2005, he played for

teams, his best results coming for

BSC Lokomotiv Moscow BSC Lokomotiv Moscow (russian: ПФК «Локомотив» Москва) is a professional beach soccer team associated with the soccer club FC Lokomotiv Moscow based in Moscow, Russia. Lokomotiv Moscow is a four-times Russian champion, four ...

, where he played from 2010 until his retirement in 2018. He is Merited Master of Sports of Russia.

Career

Playing career

Shaykov was sportive since early age. He went to swimming for three years until he switched to

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

at the age of seven, but he felt it was not his type of sports. Once Shaykov's sports teacher recommended him to Nikolay Nikolayevich Sevastyanov, who would become Shaykov's first coach. Sevastyanov went to different schools searching for possible pupils for his club of the large sports school Torpedo. Preliminarily, out of eight people Shaykov was the only one to be chosen.Рейд "Красной машины". Егор "Ягр" Шайков
BeachSoccerRussia.ru Shaykov started his career for the association football team

Torpedo-ZIL Moscow FC Torpedo-ZIL (Russian: Футбольный клуб Торпедо-ЗИЛ) was a Russian football club from Moscow. History The team was founded in 1997 after Torpedo Moscow, which played in the Russian Top Division, became a property of SC ...

and then for the mirror team Torpedo-Luzhniki (now Torpedo Moscow). He played for

for three years, collecting 12 goals in 76 caps; one of his goals was the 800th for Arsenal at the Russian Championships. He then played for

FC Titan Klin FC Titan Klin (russian: «Титан» (Клин)) is an association football team from Klin, Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Klin, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It played professionally from 1992 to 2005. Their best result was 6th place in the Russian ...

for around half a year before making a short break. In 2005, he was invited by future beach soccer top coach Evgeny Pisarev to play for the

Russia national beach soccer team The Russia national beach soccer team (russian: Сборная России по пляжному футболу, ''Sbornaya Rossii po plyazhnomu futbolu'') represents Russia in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the Rus ...

. In their first tournament at the

2005 Euro Beach Soccer Cup The 2005 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the seventh Euro Beach Soccer Cup, one of Europe's two major beach soccer championships at the time, held in December 2005, in Moscow, Russia. Switzerland won the championship for the first time, with hosts Russi ...

team Russia finished second. Shaykov then debuted for BSC Strogino. In 2010, Shaykov switched to BSC Delta together with three other teammates, but in the same year he debuted for

. On 21 December 2012, Shaykov was named Merited Master of Sports by the order of the Sports Minister. At the inaugural

2013 Euro Winners Cup The inaugural 2013 Euro Winners Cup was a beach soccer tournament that took place on two pitches at the UMPI Smart Beach Arena stadium, located at the Riviera delle Palme resort in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, from 15 – 19 May 2013. The tour ...

, Lokomotiv went on to win the trophy and Shaykov was named

MVP In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...

. Shaykov's last appearance in beach soccer was as a player of Lokomotiv at the Russian Super Cup, where the Moscow club lost to

BSC Kristall BSC Kristall (russian: ПФК «Кристалл»), or simply Kristall, is a professional beach soccer team based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kristall is the most successful Russian club at the Euro Winners Cup, having won four times in 2014, 2 ...

, 3–4.

Coaching career

After his retirement, Shaykov serves as coach for the

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

n beach soccer club "Academy" (also known as "Linden City"). He brought them to the final of the Latvia Cup, where they defeated Krass, 5–1.

Achievements

National team

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the ''Beach Soccer World Champions ...

champion: 2011, 2013 *

Euro Beach Soccer Cup The Euro Beach Soccer Cup (EBSC), originally known as the ''European Pro Beach Soccer Championships'' until 2004, was a biennial (previously annual) beach soccer competition contested between European men's national teams, organised by Beach Socce ...

champion: 2012 *

Euro Beach Soccer League The Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) is the premier competition in beach soccer contested between European men's national teams. The competition has been held annually since its establishment in 1998, making it the oldest beach soccer tournament in ...

champion: 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 *

Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup The Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup is an international beach soccer tournament which is held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates every November as the finale of the competitive international beach soccer season. The invitation-only tournament h ...

champion: 2011, 2012, 2015

Clubs

* Russian National champion: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 * Russian Cup winner: 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 * Russian Super Cup winner: 2011 *

Euro Winners Cup The Euro Winners Cup (EWC) is an annual, continental beach soccer club competition contested between top-division European teams; the clubs that are their country's national league/cup champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) fro ...

winner: 2013 *

Mundialito de Clubes The Mundialito de Clubes ( en, link=yes, Club World Cup) is an international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from around the world. The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association footbal ...

winner: 2012

Individually

*2011 season **

, Stage 4 – MVP *2012 season **Merited Master of Sports (21 December 2012)Приказ министра спорта № 66-нг от 21 декабря 2012 г.
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References

External links

Profile at Beach Soccer Russia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaykov, Egor 1980 births Living people Footballers from Moscow Russian footballers Russian beach soccer players Association football forwards FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Torpedo-2 players FC Arsenal Tula players European Games gold medalists for Russia Beach soccer players at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in beach soccer