Viktor Zubarev
- October 18, 2004
- 31 years
- drug overdose
About Viktor Zubarev
Viktor Zubarev, 31, Kazakhstani football player, drug overdose.
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Full Biography
|Viktor Yegorovich Zubarev (Russian: Виктор Егорович Зубарев) (10 April 1973 – 18 October 2004) was a football forward from Kazakhstan. He was nicknamed Uncle Stepan (дядя Стёпа).
Career
He played for Batyr, Irtysh and Esil Bogatyr in his native country, for Arsenal Tula and Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, and for Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.
International team
Zubarev was called up by coach Serik Berdalin to represent the national team in a match against Pakistan for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He scored his first hat-trick in this match, which Kazakhstan won 7–0. He would go on to score 12 goals in 18 caps, being the second top scorer of the national team, only surpassed by Ruslan Baltiev.
Death
Zubarev died of drug overdose in his apartment in Omsk.
Career statistics
- As of match played 15 July 2014
International
International goals
- All his scored goals are shown in the box below, with the Score and Result column listing Kazakhstan's goal tally first.
Honours
Club
- Irtysh Pavlodar
- Top Division/Super League (4): 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003
- Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1997–98
- Apollon Limassol
- Cypriot Cup (1): 2000–01
Personal
- GOAL Journal "Best Player of the year": 1999
- Cypriot Cup Winner: 2001
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