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Anatoli Davydov

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Anatoli Davydov
Davydov with Tom in 2013
Personal information
Full name Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov
Date of birth (1953-11-13) 13 November 1953 (age 70)
Place of birth Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Team information
Current team
Zenit St. Petersburg (academy director)
Youth career
Torpedo Tula
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1975 Mashinostroitel Tula
1975–1988 Zenit Leningrad 370 (10)
1989 Torpedo Tolyatti 32 (2)
1989 Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev 3 (0)
1990 Ponnistus (3)
1991 Lokomotiv St. Petersburg (amateur)
1992–1995 Ponnistus 80 (2)
1996 Foshan Fosti (1)
1997 Zenit St. Petersburg 15 (0)
Managerial career
1995 Ponnistus
1997–1998 Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant)
1998–2000 Zenit St. Petersburg
2000 Zenit-2 St. Petersburg (assistant)
2001 Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2002–2005 Metallurg Lipetsk
2005–2006 Sibir Novosibirsk
2007 Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo
2008–2009 Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2009 Zenit St. Petersburg
2010–2013 Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2013 Tom Tomsk
2017 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
2017– Zenit St. Petersburg (academy director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov (Russian: Анатолий Викторович Давыдов; born 13 November 1953) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the director of the academy for Zenit St. Petersburg.

Career

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Davydov made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1971 for Metallurg Tula.[1] He played two games in the UEFA Cup 1987–88 for Zenit Leningrad, the former name of Zenit Saint Petersburg. Davydov was one of the most respected and influential players during Zenit's golden era in the 1980s, and continued to play top-level competitive football until the record age of 43, then becoming a Zenit's coach. He also holds the club record for the most first team appearances - 454 official games, 53 games in Soviet Cup.

Davydov played for Chinese side Foshan Fosti in 1996. He hold the record for being the oldest person to have played in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 348 days, as well as the oldest person to have scored in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 292 days before 2018 when Zhuang Yi broke his records.[2][3]

Personal life

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His son Dmitri Davydov is a professional footballer.

Honours

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Player

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Zenit Leningrad

Manager

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Zenit Saint Petersburg

References

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  1. ^ Anatoli Davydov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian) Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "45岁庄毅演绎不老传说". sina.com.cn. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  3. ^ "中乙老板连创中国足坛纪录 成职业联赛最大年龄进球者". sina.com.cn. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.