Sergei Medvedev
Personal information
Full name Sergei Viktorovich Medvedev
Date of birth (1973-04-27) 27 April 1973
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992 FC Presnya Moscow 22 (0)
1992 FC Karelia Petrozavodsk 14 (1)
1993–1994 FC Asmaral Moscow 9 (0)
1993FC Asmaral-d Moscow (loan) 7 (0)
1993FC Asmaral Kislovodsk (loan) 18 (2)
1994FC Asmaral-d Moscow (loan) 16 (0)
1996 FC Olimp Kislovodsk 30 (4)
1997 FC Luch Vladivostok 17 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sergei Viktorovich Medvedev (Russian: Сергей Викторович Медведев; born 27 April 1973) is a former Russian football player.[1]

Club career

He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Asmaral Moscow on 13 March 1993 in a game against FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi.

In September 1998, he came to a friend's wedding in Ingushetia. On the eighth day of the festivities, two cars flew up to Medvedev and took him prisoner to Chechnya. He stayed in captivity for 335 days and was released on August 30, 1998, thanks to his friend and former teammate Sergei Grishin, who ask to the Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Stepashin.[2]

References

  1. Sergei Medvedev at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
  2. "335 дней в плену у боевиков".


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