Ilyos Zeytulayev
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ilyos Zeytulayev | ||
| Date of birth | 13 August 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Angren, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder, Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sportakademklub | |||
| Juventus | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2005 | Juventus | 0 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Reggina | 2 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Crotone (loan) | 13 | (3) |
| 2006–2007 | → Genoa (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Vicenza (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Verona | 13 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Pescara | 28 | (7) |
| 2009–2013 | Lanciano | 52 | (1) |
| 2014 | Torino | 0 | (0) |
| 2014 | → HNK Gorica (loan) | ||
| National team | |||
| 2001–2007 | Uzbekistan | 10 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 November 2011. |
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Ilyos Zeytulayev (Uzbek: Илёс Зейтулаев, born 13 August 1984) is an Uzbek footballer who plays as a midfielder or as a forward.
Zeytulayev has spent most of his career in the Italian Serie B and Lega Pro Prima Divisione (formerly Serie C1). His first name is sometimes spelled Illyos, or Ilyas (Cyrillic: Ильяс), the latter of which is the Russian equivalent. Moreover, Zeytulayev is also romanized as Zeytulaev.
Zeytulayev started his professional career in the Juventus youth teams along with Serhiy Kovalenko and Viktor Budyanskiy. He signed a 5-year contract on 10 August 2001. He joined Juve permanently in February 2002 along with Kovalenko after a loan from Sportakademklub Moscow, the team he played since he was 13. The Turin club paid US$400,000 (about €454K) to buy the duo's image and registration rights. He also played both legs against Sampdoria in the Coppa Italia 2001–02.
After graduating from the U20 team in June, along with Viktor Budyanskiy, they were unable to register as a Juve players. At first, FIGC declared that their remaining 2-year contracts did not fulfill the regulations and voided them. The FIGC declared that they had been on youth contracts which could only run for a maximum of 3 years. In addition, a non-EU player at that time could not sign a contract extension. Thus they were released. However, after an appeal, the appeal community stated that a foreigner could sign a professional contract regardless his age, and FIGC regulations only protected domestic youth products who can only sign a contract for more than 3 years after the age of 18. They were transferred to Reggina for €1K to co-own the players in January 2005, He played in his first Serie A match on 19 March 2005, coming on as a substitute for Marco Borriello in the 75th minutes against his first club Juve. The match ended in a 0-1 loss. In June 2005, Juventus bought back Budyanskiy for €0.5K, while Reggina signed Zeytulayev permanently for the same price.
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