Yevgeny Vladimirovich Luzhnikov

Yevgeny Luzhnikov

Yevgeny Luschnikow on August 30, 2008 at the Schlecker Cup
Player information
Full name	Yevgeny Vladimirovich Luzhnikov
Nickname	"Zsenya / Женя / Schenja "
birthday	March 2, 1976
place of birth	Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union
citizenship	Russian
height	2.03 m
Playing position	Circular rotor
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	MKB Veszprém
Jersey number	18th
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
-1994	Polyot Chelyabinsk
1994-1995	University of Moscow
1995-2001	CSKA Moscow
2001-2004	Medvedi Chekhov
2004–	MKB Veszprém
National team
	Games (goals)
Russia	21 (?)
As of: national team August 1, 2007

Yevgeny Vladimirovich Luschnikow ( Russian Евгений Владимирович Лушников ; born March 2, 1976 in Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian handball player . His body length is 2.03 m.

Luschnikow, who plays for the Hungarian club MKB Veszprém (back number 18) and previously played for the Russian national team, is mostly used as a circle runner.

Yevgeny Luzhnikov began playing handball in his hometown of Chelyabinsk. In 1994 he went to Moscow, first to Unist and later to CSKA Moscow. With the latter he won the Russian championship in 2000 and 2001 before the club was renamed Medvedi Chekhov . Luzhnikov won the championship in 2002, 2003 and 2004 before moving abroad to the Hungarian series champion MKB Veszprém in 2004. With the men from Lake Balaton , he won the Hungarian Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2008 and the Hungarian Cup in 2005 and 2007. In 2008 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Veszprém .

Yevgeny Luzhnikov has so far played 21 international matches for the Russian national team , but never took part in a major tournament with Russia. Since he moved to Hungary in 2004 against the wishes of Vladimir Maximow , Chekhov's coach and Russian national coach, he has never been called up to the national team.