Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev (russian: Валерий Константинович Сарычев; born 12 January 1960), also known as Shin Eui-son ( ko, 신의손), is a former

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

i footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regarded as one of the greatest K League goalkeepers of all time. 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 Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...

and reached the

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final five times with Torpedo. He was selected as the in 1991, but he left for South Korea the next year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He played for

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential city ...

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. 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". He had a retirement ceremony on 1 May 2005 and became a goalkeeper coach after retirement. He won one

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and four K Leagues in South Korea and was selected as the goalkeeper of the K League 30th Anniversary Best XI in 2013.

International career

In August 1997, the Tajikistani national team were to take 16 players to

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

to face their national team, but due to missing passports, only 12 players traveled. As a result, the

Tajikistan Football Federation The Tajikistan Football Federation (russian: Федерация футбола Таджикистана; tg, Федеросиюни футболи Тоҷикистон, Federosijuni futboli Toçikiston, or FFT) is the governing body of football i ...

called upon Sarychev, as well as Vitaliy Parakhnevych who were playing in the K League.

Personal life

He acquired Korean citizenship in the year 2000, after being encouraged to do so by

Cho Kwang-rae Cho Kwang-rae ( ko, 조광래, born March 19, 1954) is a former South Korean football player and manager. He is the current executive director of Daegu FC. International career Cho was selected for the university students' national team for t ...

, the then manager of FC Anyang (currently FC Seoul). 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. After acquiring Korean citizenship he founded the Guri Shin clan.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Torpedo Moscow *

: 1985–86 Ilhwa Chunma *

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: 1992 *

Asian Super Cup The Asian Super Cup was an annual football competition between the winners of the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The competition started in 1995, but came to an end in 2002 after both major AFC tournaments were merged int ...

: 1996 *

Afro-Asian Club Championship The Afro-Asian Club Championship, sometimes referred to as the Afro-Asian Cup, was a football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between the winners of the Africa ...

: 1996 Anyang LG Cheetahs *

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* Korean Super Cup: 2001 *

runner-up: 2001–02 Individual *Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year:

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Best Defender/Goalkeeper: 1992,

* K League 1 Best XI: 1992,

, 2001 * K League 30th Anniversary Best XI: 2013

References

External links

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The Legends of K-League : K-리그 역사의 한 페이지를 장식하다 – 신의손 ①

The Legends of K-League : K-리그 역사의 한 페이지를 장식하다 – 신의손 ②
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarychev, Valeri 1960 births Living people Tajikistani people of Russian descent South Korean people of Russian descent Association football goalkeepers Soviet footballers Tajikistani footballers Tajikistani expatriate footballers Soviet Top League players CSKA Pamir Dushanbe players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Torpedo Moscow players Seongnam FC players FC Seoul players FC Seoul non-playing staff K League 1 players Tajikistani expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate footballers in South Korea Tajikistan international footballers Russian expatriates in South Korea Naturalized citizens of South Korea