Playing position Weight 73 kg Years Team Parents Sergey Kirichenko | Name Dmitri Kirichenko Height 1.75 m | |
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Full name Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko Date of birth (1977-01-17) 17 January 1977 (age 39) Role Association football player Spouse Tatyana Kirichenko (m. 2001) Children Ulyana Kirichenko, Stefania Kirichenko, Yulia Kirichenko | ||
Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (Russian: Дмитрий Серге́евич Кириченко, born 17 January 1977) is an association football coach and a former player – a striker, he is a former Russian international. He worked as an assistant manager for FC Rostov.
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As of 10 March 2014, he is the 3rd all-time top scorer in the Russian Premier League (129 goals), and the 5th player by league appearances (377).
Club career
Kirichenko started his career playing for small clubs such as Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody, Iskra Novoaleksandrovsk and Torpedo Taganrog. In 1998, he joined Rostselmash, following impressive performance for Taganrog club during the previous year.
He became one of the most promising Russian strikers during the next years, and joined CSKA Moscow in 2002. With the army men Kirichenko managed to become the league top scorer in 2002 (along with his teammate Rolan Gusev), won the Russian Premier League twice, and got the Russian Cup.
In 2005, he left for FC Moscow. Playing for the new team, he repeated his success, becoming the top scorer again.
He played for Saturn from 2007 to 2010. In 2008 in the first match of his team in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, in the victory 7–0, he scored 4 goals. He did not play in the second match of that round. At the next round he scored a goal at the first match in a 1–0 victory against 2007 German champions VfB Stuttgart. With 5 goals at total he became the top scorer of the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008.
In 2011, after Saturn were dissolved due to financial problems, Kirichenko returned to Rostov, the club where he had made a name for himself back in the 1990s.
International career
He played for his country at Euro 2004, scoring the quickest ever goal in the European Football Championship – in the second minute against Greece.
Coaching career
He was appointed the caretaker manager of FC Rostov on 6 August 2016 following the resignation of Kurban Berdyev. His caretaking spell ended on 9 September 2016.
Career statistics
As of 19 July 2010