Valeri Sarychev
Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev (; born 12 January 1960), also known as Shin Eui-son (), is a former Tajikistani footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regarded as one of the greatest K League goalkeepers of all time. In 2000, he gained South Korean nationality. Club career. Sarychev started his senior career in Pamir Dushanbe, the Soviet second division club. He spent his heyday in Torpedo Moscow and reached the final of the Soviet Cup five times. He was selected as the in 1991 and left for South Korea the next year, where he played for Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma  and Anyang LG Cheetahs. Since 1999, K League made a new regulation which bans the use of foreign goalkeepers because the other clubs excessively employed foreign goalkeepers after watching his performances. He became a naturalized South Korean in 2000 and named his Korean name "Shin Eui-son" which is his nickname and means the "Hand of God". He had a retirement ceremony on 1 May 2005 and became a goalkeeper coach after retirement. He won one Asian Club Championship and four K Leagues in South Korea and was selected as the goalkeeper of the K League 30th Anniversary Best XI  in 2013. International career. In August 1997, the Tajikistani national team were to take 16 players to South Korea to face their national team, but due to missing passports, only 12 players traveled. As a result, the Tajikistan Football Federation called upon Sarychev, as well as Vitaliy Parakhnevych who were currently playing in the Korean K League. Personal life. He acquired Korean citizenship in the year 2000, after being encouraged to do so by Cho Kwang-rae, the then manager of FC Anyang (currently FC Seoul). He is married to Olga Sarycheva and has a daughter and a son (all  of them were born in South Korea). Shin neither drinks nor smokes, and his only hobby is listening to music. He has a collection of 700 LP records at home, including complete collections of the Beatles and Genesis albums. After acquiring Korean citizenship he founded the Guri Shin clan. Career statistics. Club. Source: Honours. Torpedo Moscow Ilhwa Chunma Anyang LG Cheetahs Individual