Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev (,Profile . Football Federation of Ukraine. Ukrainian transliteration: Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalytvyntsev. ;Russian transliteration: Yuriy Nikolaevich Kalitvintsev born 5 May 1968) is a football manager and former player.
Born in Russia, Kalitvintsev became a naturalized Ukrainian after a spell with Dynamo KyivЮрий Калитвинцев:"Даже мысли нет вернуться в Россию" , Сегодня.ua (19 December 2007) and represented the Ukraine national team.
Kalitvintsev coached Ukraine U-19 to victory during the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.Premier congratulates Ukraine on winning UEFA European Under-19 Championship , Interfax-Ukraine (3 August 2009)
His son Vladyslav is also a player, a midfielder for Desna Chernihiv.
Club career A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, Dynamo Moscow, and Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club of Nizhniy Novgorod soon he was offered opportunity from the Ukrainian football giant, Dynamo, which he did not refuse playing alongside such players as Andriy Shevchenko, Serhii Rebrov, Vitaliy Kosovskyi, and others. His playmaking abilities during the late 1990s were particularly useful during his partnership with Serhii Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko on both the club and national team level where he earned an honorary position of a team captain. Kalitvintsev was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 1995. In 1998, Kalitvintsev earned a paid transfer to play for Trabzonspor in Turkey, returning to play for CSKA Kyiv to finish his playing career in 2000.
International career
Kalitvintsev earned 22 caps for the Ukraine national team. He scored one goal, a very important one against the group favorites, Croatia, at Republican Stadium in Kyiv on 11 June 1995 during qualification to the Euro 1996.
Coaching career Following his retirement, Kalitvintsev coached Zakarpattia Uzhhorod for several years. He was the coach of FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv in 2006–10. In January 2013 Kalitvintsev was appointed the head coach of FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod returning to Nizhniy Novgorod after almost 20 years when he played for Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod.
Kalitvintsev was a coach of several junior Ukraine national football teams that played in tournaments for U-19 and U-17 players. Kalitvintsev was appointed as assistant of head coach Myron Markevych of Ukraine's national football team early February 2010.Markevych, Surkis sign contract of national football team's chief coach, Kyiv Post (21 April 2010) After Markevych's resignation of late August 2010 Kalitvintsev was appointed Ukraine's caretaker manager on 25 August 2010.Markevich leaves Ukraine helm , UEFA (25 August 2010) On 21 April 2011, Oleh Blokhin was appointed head coach of the Ukraine national team; Kalitvintsev stayed on as Blokhin's assistant.Ukraine appoint Blokhin, Sky Sports (21 April 2011)Oleg Blokhin appointed Ukraine coach, Reuters (21 April 2011)
In June 2016, Kalitvintsev was appointed manager of Russian First League team Dynamo Moscow and let them to promotion back to the Russian Premier League.
Career statistics International goals Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kalitvintsev goal.
+ List of international goals scored by Yuriy KalitvintsevNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition111 June 1995Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine1–01–0UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying
Honours As Player Dynamo Kyiv Ukrainian Premier League: 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98 Ukrainian Cup: 1995–96, 1997–98 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup: 1997, 1998
Rotor Volgograd Soviet/Russian First League: 1991
Individual Ukrainian Premier League Footballer of the Year: 1995
As Coach Polissya Zhytomyr Ukrainian First League (II tier): 2022–23
Dynamo Moscow Russian Football National League (II tier): 2016–17
Ukraine U19 UEFA European Under-19 Championship: 2009
Individual Ukrainian Premier League Coach of the Month: October 2023
References
External links
Short biography at legioner.kulichki.ru