Viktor Yegorovich Zubarev (russian: Виктор Егорович Зубарев) (10 April 1973 – 18 October 2004) was a
football
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forward
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* Forward (surname)
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* Forward (association football)
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** Power forward (basketball)
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from
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. He was nicknamed ''Uncle Stepan'' (дядя Стёпа).
Career
He played for
Batyr
Batyr (May 24, 1970 – August 26, 1993) was an Asian elephant claimed to be able to use a large amount of meaningful human speech. Living in a zoo in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, Batyr was reported as having a vocabulary of more than 20 phr ...
,
Irtysh
The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'erj ...
and
Esil Bogatyr in his native country, for
Arsenal Tula and
Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod in
Russia
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, and for
Apollon Limassol
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in
Cyprus
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.
International team
Zubarev was called up by coach
Serik Berdalin
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Towards the coast the district is mainly flat farmland, used for growing vegetables, while the inland half of Seri ...
to represent the
national team
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in a match against
Pakistan
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for the
1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He scored his first
hat-trick
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in this match, which Kazakhstan won 7–0. He would go on to score 12 goals in 18 caps, being the second top scorer of the national team, only surpassed by
Ruslan Baltiev
Ruslan Takhiruly Baltiyev ( kk, Рұслан Тахирұлы Балтиев, ''Rūslan Tahirūly Baltiev''; born 16 September 1978) is a retired Kazakh football midfielder. He is a former Kazakh international, whom he is the top goalscorer.
...
.
International goals
:''All his scored goals are shown in the box below, with the Score and Result column listing Kazakhstan's goal tally first.''
Death
Zubarev died in his apartment in
Omsk
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.
Career statistics
International
Honours
Club
;Irtysh Pavlodar
*
Top Division/Super League (4):
1997
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,
1999
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,
2002
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,
2003
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*
Kazakhstan Cup
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; kk, Қазақ Сове ...
(1): 1997-98
;Apollon Limassol
*
Cypriot Cup
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(1): 2000–01
Personal
* GOAL Journal "
Best Player of the year": 1999
* Cypriot Cup Winner:
2001
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References
External links
Memorial article
*
1973 births
2004 deaths
Apollon Limassol FC players
Association football forwards
Kazakhstani footballers
Kazakhstan international footballers
Kazakhstani expatriate footballers
Kazakhstani people of Russian descent
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Cypriot First Division players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players
FC Irtysh Pavlodar players
FC Kyzylzhar players
Drug-related deaths in Russia
Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games
FC Arsenal Tula players
Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan
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