Dmitry Lebedev: the career of a Belarusian football player

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Dmitry Georgievich Lebedev is a professional Belarusian football player who plays as an attacking midfielder in the Gorodeya club. D. Lebedev is also capable of playing as a winger (from any flank), as a sub-forward and as a classic central midfielder. The football player is 173 centimeters tall and weighs 78 kilograms.

As part of the "Gorodets" plays under the tenth number. Previously, he played for such professional Belarusian clubs as Smorgon, Vitebsk and Neman Grodno. He has a brother, Alexander, who is also a professional football player (he played as a forward in such big clubs as BATE, Kuban, Dynamo Minsk and others).

Belarusian midfielder D. Lebedev was valued at 200,000 euros on the website transfermarket.com. For the same amount, he signed a contract with a football clubGorodeya.

Biography

Dmitry Lebedev was born on the thirteenth of May 1986 in the city of Soligorsk (Minsk region of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic). Born and raised in a sports family. From the age of six, the boy began to attend the football section along with his older brother. Dmitry played as a winger and had high speed, while his brother Alexander has always been a clean forward with good heading skills.

Dmitry is a graduate of the Shakhtar Soligorsk club, in which he played from 2003 to 2005. In 2006, D. Lebedev played for the youth team of MT3-RIPO (currently the club is called Partizan), after which he began to perform at a professional level.

Professional football career: first clubs, first serious injuries

In 2007, Dmitry Lebedev signed his first professional contract with the Smorgon team. In the main team, Dmitry often showed quality football. Lebedev was an excellent techie with incredible attacking potential, and almost immediately began to score and distribute assists to teammates. Spent two seasons here, playing in 61 matches and scoring eight goals.

In 2010, the midfielder was seriously injured, missing several months of the championship. After successful adaptation, the player stopped getting into the main squad, and played each regular match on the bench. Dmitry decided to look for a newjob.

Career in Vitebsk and Neman

In 2010, Dmitry Lebedev (photo below) moved to Vitebsk, where he played in eight matches of the domestic championship. Having demonstrated his football competence, the player aroused interest from Neman. In the same year, Lebedev signed a contract with them for a period of three years. Ultimately, he played here for two seasons, played 34 matches and scored three goals. In 2012, the Belarusian midfielder stopped getting into the application for the championship matches, as a result of which he left the team.

Transfer to Gorodeya football club

On the eve of the 2012/13 season, Dmitry Lebedev signed a contract with Gorodeya, where he established himself in the first team. The club played in the First League of Belarus and sought promotion to the Premier League. Lebedev's contract was designed for three years, and after its expiration in 2015 it was extended. In the 2015/16 season, Dmitry became the team's top scorer and assistant, with a statistics of 19 goals and 17 assists.

In addition, Dmitry is recognized as the best scorer of the Gorodeya club in its entire history (founded in 2004). In total, he played 147 matches for the club and scored 58 goals. Currently, the football player is in the infirmary and is waiting for his recovery from a serious injury (Lebedev missed most of the 2016/17 season). Many teams from the Russian Premier League have repeatedly contacted Gorodiy about the acquisition of a talented Belarusian football player, but the deals have fallen through. Throughout his career Dmitry Georgievich Lebedevspent (and most likely will continue) in Belarus.