Ivan Zaytsev ( Italian: Ivan Zaytsev ; October 2, 1988 , Spoleto , Italy ) is an Italian volleyball player of Russian origin, playing for Modena and the Italian national team .
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| Born | October 2, 1988 (30 years old) Spoleto , Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 202 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | diagonal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born in a family of Soviet athletes, Olympic volleyball champion Vyacheslav Zaitsev and swimmer Irina Pozdnyakova , in the Italian city of Spoleto , where his father played at that time. At the age of 7, he and his family ended up in his father’s hometown, St. Petersburg , where he went to school and started playing volleyball, but returned to Italy two years later [1] .
Ivan Zaitsev began his professional career in 2004 as a liaison with the Perugia club [2] , in 2006 he moved to Roma (in both clubs he shared playing time with two-time world champion Paolo Tofoli ). In 2008, paired with Giorgio Domengini, he became the champion of Italy in beach volleyball , played in world and European beach tours and changed his role in classic volleyball - having returned to Roma, playing in Series A2 , he began to go out on the court as a player.
In 2009, he made his debut in the national team of Italy and became the winner of the Mediterranean Games . In 2010, he joined the national team to participate in the World League , in the same year he played at the World Cup . In 2011, he won a silver medal with the national team at the European Championships , in 2012 - a bronze medal at the Games of the XXX Olympic Games in London .
After the Olympics, he signed a contract with one of the leading Italian clubs - Macherata , where he began to play in the diagonal position. Zaitsev also played in a new role in most matches of the Italian national team, starting with the World League 2013 [3] . In September, he won the second silver medal in his career at the European Championship and won the prize for the best bowler of the tournament.
In the 2013/14 season, he was captain of the Macerata and won the Italian Championship. In May 2014, he announced his transfer to Dynamo Moscow , with which he signed a three-year contract [4] [5] .
In July 2015, before the Final Six of the World League, Ivan Zaitsev, together with three partners in the Italian national team, was expelled from the team for violation of discipline [6] . Before the World Cup, he was returned to the Italian national team by its new head coach Gianlorenzo Blendini, following the results of this competition he won a silver medal and an individual prize for the best diagonal. In August 2016, he became the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
Achievements
In a club career
- Champion of Italy (2013/14, 2017/18), bronze medalist of the Italian Championship (2016/17).
- Winner of the Italian Cup (2017), finalist of the Italian Cup (2012).
- Winner of the Italian Super Cup (2012, 2017).
- Silver ( 2015/16 ) and bronze ( 2014/15 ) medalist of the Russian championship .
- Bronze medalist of the Cup of Russia (2015) .
- Winner of the European Volleyball Confederation Cup (2014/15).
- Silver (2016/17) and bronze (2017/18) Champions League medalist.
With Italy Team
- Silver medalist of the Olympic Games (2016) , bronze medalist of the Olympic Games (2012) .
- Silver ( 2011 , 2013 ) and bronze ( 2015 ) medalist of the European Championships .
- World League bronze medalist ( 2013 , 2014 ).
- Bronze medalist of the World Cup of Champions (2013) .
- Silver medalist of the World Cup (2015) .
Individual Prizes
- MVP Super Bowl of Italy (2012).
- He entered the symbolic team of the “Final Six” of the World League (2013), World Cup (2015), European Championship (2015) and Champions League (2017).
- The best bowler of the European Championship (2013).
Personal life
On May 18, 2013, Ivan Zaitsev married an Italian fashion model with Irish roots Ashling Sirocci [7] . October 31, 2014 they had a son, Sasha. In 2018, they had a daughter, Sienna. [8] .
Notes
- ↑ “Relations with the paternal role did not work out” . " Sport Express " (September 20, 2011). Date of treatment 2014-05-10 =.
- ↑ “In the finals of the European Championship, I was rooting for Italy” "Sport Express" (October 20, 2005). Date of treatment May 10, 2014.
- ↑ “If the Russians play in their strength, they will win” . Championship.com (May 7, 2014). Date of treatment May 10, 2014.
- ↑ “The Russian language is a little forgotten, but I will remember in Dynamo” (Inaccessible link) . ITAR-TASS (May 7, 2014). Date of treatment May 10, 2014. Archived on May 11, 2014.
- ↑ Diagonal Ivan Zaitsev signed a contract with Dynamo . The official website of VK Dynamo Moscow (May 13, 2014). Date of treatment May 10, 2014.
- ↑ Zaitsev: I let my teammates down and now I want to apologize . Championship.com (July 14, 2015). Date of treatment July 21, 2015.
- ↑ Ivan Zaytsev ha detto sì alla sua Ashling (Italian) . Tuttosport.com (May 19, 2013). Date of treatment May 10, 2014.
- ↑ Dynamo Moscow player Ivan Zaitsev had a son! . The official website of VK Dynamo Moscow (October 31, 2014). Date of treatment November 1, 2014.