Football player Maxim Vasiliev: biography, achievements and interesting facts

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48

Maxim Vasiliev is a Russian professional football player who plays as a central defender in the Krasnoyarsk club Yenisei at number 39.

During his career, the athlete managed to play in six clubs and three different national championships. This list includes the following commands:

• Burevestnik-YURGUES (Shakhty, Russia);
• Volga NN (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia);
• Torpedo (Zhodino, Belarus);
• Yaro (Jakobstad, Finland);
• B altika (Kaliningrad, Russia);
• Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk, Russia).

Maxim Vasiliev is a top-class football player, which contains the defensive system of the entire team. He has a fairly high growth - 197 centimeters (weight 97 kilograms). With such parameters, it is quite easy for him to deal with nimble attackers, who, as a rule, are below average height, and release a soccer ball from his pen alty area. Also, Vasiliev always joins the attack: he plays well with his head, gives diagonal passes, and also breaks good long shots.

Maxim Vasiliev: biography of a football player

Bornathlete on January 31, 1987 in the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since childhood, he was a mobile child. At the age of seven, the parents took the boy to the football section, which was called "Change". There he actively trained and was a leader in his youth team. Maxim was instilled with a love of football by his father, Vladimir Konstantinovich. He was the coach of a children's football team in the city of Pestov, where the Vasiliev family used to live.

Soon the talents of the budding football player were noticed by the coaches. At first, Maxim played at the KFK for the Zenit Sports School, which was coached by Denis Ugarov. And then he was invited to the Rostov SKA, which was headed by the famous coach Arsen Naydenov.

In 2006, Maxim Vasiliev moved to play for the semi-professional club Burevestnik-YURGUES from the city of Shakhty. In 2007, the athlete moved to Volga from Nizhny Novgorod. At the end of April, he made his debut for the main team in a cup match against Dynamo Kirov (a crushing defeat of the Volgars with a score of 1-4). In May 2007, he played his debut match in the Second Division, where he played against the Neftekhimik team. In total, Maxim Vasilyev then played 5 matches in the Second Division season. The following year, he managed to be noted in the application for the match 11 times. In the 2008 Cup of Russia, the Volgaris reached the 1/8 finals, where they lost to the Tom club in the pen alty shootout.

Move to Belarus: transfer to Torpedo, Zhodino

In 2009, Maxim Vasiliev received an offer to move from the Belarusian "Torpedo" (Zhodino). After a shortThe player agreed to negotiate and moved to Zhodino for permanent residence. After several training sessions with the Belarusian club, the management of Torpedo appointed Maxim Vasiliev as a base player. Previously, the team did not have tall defenders who would carry an air threat to rivals in the championship.

However, Maxim Vasilyev did not manage to play for Torpedo (Zhodino) for a long time: after nine matches, the player was seriously injured and dropped out for the rest of the season. By the way, in nine games the defender managed to score one goal.

Transition to the Finnish championship: playing for the football club "Jaro" (Jakobstad)

Recovering from an injury, Vasilyev lost his place in the base, and now he had to prove his worth again in training and matches. Soon he receives an offer from the Finnish club Yaro. Knowing that the standard of living and wages in Finland is much better, Maxim Vasiliev decides to go to Jakobstad. At that time, the coach of the Yaro club was Alexei Eremenko, who invited Maxim to come and demonstrate his football skills. In the end, everyone was enthusiastic about his skill, and the contract was signed. Alexey Eremenko then commented on the signing of the contract. He said that the club signed a real professional and just a good person.

Maxim Vasiliev is a top-class football player, he is a born defensive line player. His abilities will help the club to seize the advantage in the domestic championship. The athlete is able to connect to attacks and give accurate diagonal passes,which no one has done before in FC Yaro.

Football player statistics

The football player made his debut on April 17, 2010 in a match against the Lahti club (from the city of the same name). In the first season, the defender played 25 matches and scored one goal. As a result, "Yaro" were on the 5th line of the championship table. The following season, Maxim took to the field even more often - he played in 32 games out of 33 possible (he scored 3 goals). Unfortunately, the Veikkausliigi 2011/2012 season turned out to be far from the best for Jaro - the penultimate place in the standings. However, the team retained the right to play in the top division in the Finnish football league system. In the period from 2010 to 2012, Maxim Vasilyev performed at Yaro. In total, the defender played in 80 official matches, in which he managed to hit the opponent's goal with a goal scored 5 times. In the summer of 2012, the Russian footballer was interviewed, in which he spoke about the level of the Finnish championship.

The athlete said that the Finnish top clubs "Veikkausliigi" can be compared with the outsiders of the Russian Premier League, as well as with teams from the first half of the FNL (First Division of Russia). Here, as in all Scandinavian countries, the emphasis is on power football.

Maxim Vasiliev was going to leave the football club "Yaro", he even went to see "Spartak" from Nalchik. But the athlete was not invited to play in the new club.

Homecoming: contract with B altika (Kalingrad)

In January 2013, footballer Maxim Vasiliev signed a contractwith the Kaliningrad "B altic". Here he immediately took a place at the base and became an authoritative player in the defensive zone.

The player's debut took place on March 12, 2013 in a home match against the Khimki team near Moscow. For FC B altika Vasiliev scored a goal for the first time on May 25, 2013 in a duel against Torpedo (Moscow). Here he played from 2013 to 2015 and played 76 official matches in which he scored three times.

Where is Maxim Vasiliev playing now?

In 2015, the athlete signed an agreement with the Yenisei football club from the city of Krasnoyarsk. To date, Maxim Vasilyev has played over 26 matches for the club, in which he made five assists.