Ruslan Ivanovich Magal (; born 24 September 1991) is a Russian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player who plays for

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Сочи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg, from – ''seaside'') is the largest Resort town, resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi (river), Sochi River, along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus of Souther ...

. He mostly plays in the

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position, but is also deployed on the left.

Club career

He made his professional debut in the

Russian Professional Football League The Russian Second League (), formerly the Russian Professional Football League, are both the third (Division A) and fourth level (Division B) of Russian professional football. History In 1998–2010, it was run by the Professional Football Lea ...

for Vybor-Kurbatovo Voronezh on 12 July 2014 in a game against

Tambov Tambov ( , ; rus, Тамбов, p=tɐmˈbof) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Central Federal District, central Russia, at the confluence of the Tsna River (Moksha basin), Tsna ...

. He made his

Russian Football National League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used t ...

debut for Sibir Novosibirsk on 11 July 2015 in a game against Volgar Astrakhan. Magal made his

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

debut for

Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh () is a Russian professional football club based in Voronezh. Founded in 1947, the club has played in the Soviet Top League and the Russian Premier League. The club will return to the Russian First League in the 2025–26 season ...

on 17 July 2022 against

Krasnodar Krasnodar, formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 1,154,885 residents, and up to 1.263 millio ...

. On 28 May 2024, Magal left Fakel as his contract expired.

Career statistics

References

External links

Interview in Torpedo

Profile by Football National League
1991 births Footballers from Voronezh Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders FC Sibir Novosibirsk players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Fakel Voronezh players PFC Sochi players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players Russian Second League players 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1991-stub