Vladislav Kalitvintsev: biography, sports career

Vladislav Kalitvintsev - 23-year-old midfielder of the Odessa "Chernomorets", who fell in love with local fans due to his not-developed football wisdom, excellent performance of standards and the ability to aggravate the attacking game of his team at the right time. A significant role in this played the genes. His father is Yuri Kalitvintsev, the famous footballer of Dynamo Kyiv.

First soccer moves

Vladislav Kalitvintsev almost never parted with the ball from his earliest childhood. At the age of eight, he began studying at the Kiev football school "Eurobis". There was not a group of his peers, so Kalitvintsev, the youngest, had to deal with ten-year-olds. However, among them he showed himself as a gifted player.

Two years later, Vladislav Kalitvintsev received an invitation from the Kiev children's and youth football club Dynamo. Here he begins to train under the guidance of Evgeny Rudakov and Valery Shabelnikov, and later the legendary Alexander Biba became the coach. It was these mentors that could make a young talented young player out of the ordinary boy.

Professional career

Already at the age of 16, Vladislav Kalitvintsev managed to attract the attention of the coaches of the double of the Kiev grandee, who began to claim young talent for official matches. The debut of the player for "Dynamo-2" took place in April 2009 in a duel against "Goverla" from Uzhgorod. In that season Vladislav spent 15 matches, having managed to score 7 goals in them. Especially memorable was an accurate free-kick from the game with FC Kharkov.

A year later, the dream of a young football player was realized - he is higher on the field as part of the main "Dynamo" team. This debut took place in the match against Zaporozhye Metallurgist May 9, 2010. Vladislav Kalitvintsev, photo of which is given to your attention in the article, not only noted the resultant transfer, but also became the youngest footballer, playing for "white and blue" in the Championship of Ukraine. At that time, the player was 17 years and 4 months old.

Unfortunately, the path to further football successes for a while was crossed out by a knee injury. After the course of rehabilitation, Vladislav began to restore his playing form in the youth squad of Dynamo, occasionally leaving on the field and for the main team.

Unable to break into the basis of "white and blue", Kalitvintsev, Jr. decided to change the situation for a while. The leadership of "Dynamo" released him for half a year in Slovak "Slovan", for which the Ukrainian midfielder had 13 matches, not scoring a single goal.

Six months later, Kalitvintsev returned to the location of the Kiev club. Here before the end of the season I managed to play several matches for the main team and score one goal.

In 2015, Vladislav Kalitvintsev got a chance to constantly go on the field. It was for a season rented by Chernomorets from Odessa. Already in the first matches for the "sailors" 22-year-old midfielder began to win a permanent place in the starting lineup. In his active - 5 goals in 20 games for "Chernomorets" in the season 2015/16.

Team Games

In addition to the club career, Vladislav played for different teams of Ukraine. For the U-19 team, Kalitvintsev Jr. spent 14 matches, scoring 3 goals. In the T-shirt of the youth team (U-21), the midfielder came out 15 times on the field and twice managed to sign in the gate of others.

It is very likely that a confident game for the Odessa "Chernomorets" will allow him in the very near future to break into the main team of the country.