Valentina Nikolaevna Zhukova (July 26, 1992) - Russian soccer player , striker . She played for the Russian team .
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| Full name | Valentina Nikolaevna Zhukova | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 26 1992 (aged 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 177 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | forward | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Kuzbass | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
A pupil of the football club "Kuzbass" (Kemerovo), the first coach is Natalya Kornyushina.
Since 2011, for seven seasons she played for the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei . Winner (2014), repeated silver (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016) and bronze (2011) medalist of the first division of Russia . She was the leader of the attack of her club and in six seasons in the first league she scored more than 100 goals. She became the best sniper of the Yenisei in the seasons 2011 (26 goals), 2013 (16 goals), 2015 (at least 13 goals), 2016 (39 goals). The best scorer of the final tournament of the first league in 2011 (7 goals) and 2016 (9 goals). In 2017, together with the Krasnoyarsk club, she entered the Premier League , where she made her debut on April 18, 2017 in the match against Rossiyanka , and scored her first goal in the Premier League in the same game [1] . In total, in the 2017 season, she played all 14 matches in the championship without replacements and became the author of 4 of the 5 goals of her club. At the end of the season left the club.
Since 2019, he has again played for Kuzbass, playing in the first division of Russia.
In the spring of 2018, she was called up to the Russian national team to participate in the Algarve Cup tournament, where she played two incomplete matches. The debut match was held on February 28, 2018 against South Korea , replacing Elena Danilova in the 70th minute [2] .