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Before Thursday's Europa League match with Twente from Enschende, a tragic news reached the main goalkeeper of St. Petersburg club Vyacheslav Malafeev - his wife Marina died in a car accident.
According to "Ria Novosti", the mother of two children got into an accident due to a snowdrift - the car skidded off the road and overturned. The singer Dimitrij Rybakovas, who was traveling together, survived but is seriously injured.
The 32-year-old Malafeev immediately left the Zenit camp. Yuri Zhenov will replace him on the field.
The Russian team, which lost the first match 0-3 and has little chance of advancing to the next stage, will play wearing black armbands.
