Not every player manages to become the top scorer of the national championship. Dmitry Kirichenko managed to do this twice. In addition, he is the third among the best scorers in the history of the championships of Russia.
Taganrog goalscorer
Dmitry Kirichenko was born in the city of Novoaleksandrovsk, Stavropol Territory, in January 1977, on the 17th. At a young age, he played in Lokomotiv from Mineralnye Vody. In those years, his goalkeeper instinct had not yet shown itself, therefore, with a zero indicator in the goals scored column after the very first season, he left the club and played for a year in his native Iskra. A year later, he again decided to show himself in big football, moving to the club of the second league - Torpedo from Taganrog. Seven goals in the first season, but especially thirty-two in the second, allowed the player to go up. Rostselmash became the first club in the top division for the player.
On the way to records
Dmitry Kirichenko began his goalscoring exploits in the eighth round of the 1998 championship, scoring five goals against opponents during the season. Next year, one more ball.
But the scorer finished 2000 and 2001 with fourteenand thirteen heads. This was the key to his future achievements. Already the 2002 season, the player starts in the red and blue uniform of the capital's army club and finishes it on the first line in the list of Russian goalscorers, sharing the championship with teammate Gusev.
The same year brings the first awards - silver medals of the Russian championship. The following year brought the championship title, but at the same time the player leaves the first roles in CSKA, which relies on foreign players. Five goals in the 2003 season and 9 the following year were one of the reasons that Dmitry Kirichenko changed one capital club to another - Moskva. But at the same time, he continued to be periodically called up to the Russian national team, where he got during his goalscoring success in Rostov.
Kirichenko records
It was in the game for the Russian national team that Dmitry Kirichenko set his main record. In 2004, the footballer scored a goal against Greece in the 67th second, which was the fastest result in the history of the European Championships.
In total, Dmitry played twelve times for the national team of the Russian Federation in the period from 2001 to 2006, scoring four goals. The move to Moscow again put him in the lead in the goal race, which he finished in 2005 as the top scorer of the Russian Championship, now the sole one.
In 2006, only two goals were scored less than the leading season. Kirichenko's next club was Saturn near Moscow, where he spent four seasons. In this club in 2007 he scoredthe hundredth goal in the Russian championship, becoming the third player in history to achieve such a result. In the same club, two years later, he reached the mark of 300 matches in the top division. In addition, having started the 2004/05 European season in the CSKA team, Kirichenko rightfully became the owner of the UEFA Cup, which the Moscow club won in the spring of 2005 without Dmitry in the squad.
At the age of 34, he returned to the city where he began his career in the major leagues, to the Rostov club. In two years, he did not play very often, but helped the team avoid relegation from the Premier League by scoring in transitional matches. Another record is connected with Rostov, which was set by Dmitry Kirichenko. His pen alty streak began in the team of this city in 2000 and ended ten years later with a missed pen alty against a team from the city on the Don. In total, the series has twenty-two effective strikes.
Instead of afterword
After two years in Rostov Dmitry Sergeevich Kirichenko played one more season for Mordovia. At the same time (in 2013), he entered the Higher School of Coaches, from which he graduated in 2014, announcing the end of his active football career. Since September of the same year, he was enrolled in the Rostov coaching staff, where he currently works.
In the championships of Russia, Dmitry scored 129 goals, which is the third highest figure in history. In total, during his career, this football player scored 160 goals, which is one goal more than Grigory Fedotov, after whom the scorers club is named.
