Semak in 2011
|
|||
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Sergei Bogdanovich Semak | ||
Date of birth | 27 February 1976 | ||
Place of birth | Sychanske, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
|
Ufa | ||
Youth career | |||
Luhansk Football Academy | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992 | Presnya Moscow | 19 | (4) |
1992 | Karelia Petrozavodsk | 3 | (0) |
1993–1994 | Asmaral Moscow | 21 | (3) |
1994–2004 | CSKA Moscow | 289 | (69) |
2005–2006 | Paris Saint-Germain | 26 | (1) |
2006–2007 | Moscow | 64 | (13) |
2008–2010 | Rubin Kazan | 61 | (12) |
2010–2013 | Zenit St. Petersburg | 49 | (10) |
Total | 532 | (112) | |
National team‡ | |||
1997–2010 | Russia | 65 | (4) |
Teams managed | |||
2013–2016 | Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant) | ||
2014 | Zenit St. Petersburg (caretaker) | ||
2014–2016 | Russia (assistant) | ||
2017– | Ufa | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 April 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
Sergei Bogdanovich Semak (Russian: Серге́й Богда́нович Сема́к [sʲɪrˈɡʲej bɐɡˈdanəvʲɪtɕ sʲɪˈmak]; Ukrainian: Сергій Богданович Семак; born 27 February 1976 in Sychanske, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian football manager and a former international midfielder of Ukrainian origins who is currently a manager of Ufa.
Semak was born in the selo Sychanskoye in the Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast into a peasant family of modest economical background. He was an excellent student and had an ideal behavior. When he was a child his teachers would argue as to whether he would become a mathematician or a football player.
He left Ukraine shortly before the USSR fall, but his parents stayed there. He would become a Russian naturalized citizen, but until today he uses to visit his bornland; he had declared that he misses Ukraine.
His older brother Andrei Semak and younger brother Nikolai Semak are also professional footballers.
He started training football at the Luhansk football school.
In 1992 he signed in FC Presnya Moscow who played in the Russian Top Division. After 19 matches (where he scored 4 goals) he was sold to FC Karelia Petrozavodsk, but in 1993 returned to FC Presnya Moscow (which changed its name to Asmaral Moscow).