Football club Zenit

Zenit
returned to its home city of Leningrad in spring of 1944, after which it sensationally won the USSR Cup.
In 1958,
Georgy

Zharkov
, from Moscow, became the first coach from outside Leningrad to head the club.
Yury

Morozov
returned to the helm of the club in the beginning of the new
millenium
.
Morozov
led Zenit to a third-place finish in the Russian Premier League in 2001.
The
Czech coach
Vlastimil

Petržela
, who replaced
Morozov
, gave the team the liberty it needed on the field, and Zenit came in second place in the Russian Premier League for the first time in 2003.
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of "
Zenit”
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FC Zenit is the only team in the Russian Premier League representing St. Petersburg.
According
to research
in 2008
, Zenit is one of the ten most popular clubs in
Europe.
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"Zenit”
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World War II led to new changes in
Zenit`s
history.
The
club came under the management of the State Optical-Mechanic Plant (later – LOMO) during the war, while the team`s players and coaches were evacuated to Kazan.
Some
stayed in Leningrad and took part in matches held during the city’s blockade. Many of the team’s players went to fight.
The blue-white-light blues were still eventually relegated.
Zenit
played in Russia's second league for three years in a row.
Vitaly


Mutko
became the new club president.
Mutko
was the vice mayor of St. Petersburg at the time.
The new coach gave his players new creativity, while foreign players took on leadership positions within the
Zenit
squad for the first time ever.
However, after the first match in the spring stage of the championship of 2014, against the "Tom"
Spalletti
was dismissed from his post, and his place was taken by Sergey
Semak
.
20 March 2014-the year the club announced the decision to appoint the new head coach of
Zenit's
Portuguese specialist Andre Villas-Boas.
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Shevelyova

Nadezhda
,

Avdeeva

Daria
,
Razgovorova
Valeria
School
№

490 Class 8A
Zenit
hired Italian coach
Luciano

Spalletti
to lead the team in January, 2010.
Zenit
did extremely well in the first half of the season, and the team also won its second Russian Cup.
In 2010
Zenit
won the Russian Premier League for the second time at
Petrovsky
Stadium.
The 2011/12 season
Zenit
second time in a row confidently confirmed the title of the leader of Russian football, for the first time in its history, winning two sets of gold medals in a row.
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"
Zenit” (1)
Starting from 1938,
Stalinets
played among the best teams in the country. The team played its first match in the highest division on May, 1938.
At
the end of 1939, the Leningrad Metal Plant came under the command of the People’s Commissariat for Arms and Ammunition, and the team was renamed Zenit in 1940.
Zenit officially stopped being supported by LOMO on August 6th, 1990
.
Vladislav

Gusev
, a famous sports journalist, was elected as the first president of the team.
At
the end of the 1991 season Zenit found itself in the relegation zone, and was demoted to the second league.
FC
Zenit`s
history began with the physical education group of the Leningrad Metal Plant in the name of Stalin. A football team was organized at the factory on May 25, 1925.
In 1935–1936, when voluntary sports groupings were formed in the USSR, the Leningrad Metal Plant football team came under the aegis of the “
Stalinets
”.
In 2009
Zenit
took on Manchester United, winner of the UEFA Champions League, in the UEFA Super Cup.

Zenit
became the first Russian team ever to win the UEFA Super Cup.
The new plans introduced by
Yury

Morozov
, who took over as
Zenit’s
coach at the end of the 1970s.
Zenit
came in third place in the USSR Championship for the first time in its history.
Pavel

Sadyrin
took over as
Zenit’s
coach in the end of 1982.
Zenit
reached the final of the USSR Cup for the 3rd time in its history in 1984 and became champion of the USSR.
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Zenit was once again close to winning the USSR Championship in 1963 under
Evgeny

Eliseyev
.
His
replacement, German
Zonin,in
the fall championship of 1976 and reaching the semifinal of the USSR Cup in 1977.
Zenit
was headed by a new trainer
Yury

Morozov
in October, 1977.
Zenit
still needed a coach capable of bringing the team to a new level. It was Dick
Advocaat
, the Dutch specialist, who did so when he became
Zenit’s
coach in 2006. The next season was triumphant for
Zenit
.
Zenit
became Russian Premier League champions for the first time.
The Russian Footballer of the Year award was given to
Zenit
player Konstantin
Zyryanov
in 2007.
The spring of 2008 brought international success to Dick
Advocaat’s
team.