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player.

Club career

He made his

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debut for

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on 13 March 1993 in a game against

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. In September 1998, he came to a friend's wedding in

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. On the eighth day of the festivities, two cars flew up to Medvedev and took him prisoner to Chechnya. He stayed in captivity for 335 days and was released on August 30, 1998, thanks to his friend and former teammate Sergei Grishin, who ask to the Minister of Internal Affairs

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References

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