Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (born January 17, 1977) is a
football (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
strikerForwards, also known as attackers and strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
who plays for the
Russian national teamThe Russia national football team is the national football team of Russia controlled by the Football Union of Russia and affiliated with UEFA. Guus Hiddink is currently managing the team....
and also currently plays for
FC Saturn Moscow OblastFC Saturn Moscow Oblast is a Russian football club, based in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoe. It is also known as FC Saturn Moscow Region...
. He previously played for FC Moscow and
CSKA MoscowPFC CSKA Moskva is a football club in Moscow, Russia.- History :...
. He played for his country at
Euro 2004The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship was the twelfth tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football tournament for European nations, and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between 12 June and 4 July 2004...
, scoring the quickest ever goal in the European Football Championship - in the second minute against
GreeceThe Greece national football team represents Greece in international football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. Greece spent most of their history in relative obscurity, having participated only twice in the final tournaments of the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European...
. He is very talented at playing up front and is one of Russia's most consistent players and is known for his free kicks.
In 2008 in the first match of his team in the
UEFA Intertoto CupThe UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...
, in the victory 7-0, he scored 4 goals.
Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (born January 17, 1977) is a
football (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
strikerForwards, also known as attackers and strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
who plays for the
Russian national teamThe Russia national football team is the national football team of Russia controlled by the Football Union of Russia and affiliated with UEFA. Guus Hiddink is currently managing the team....
and also currently plays for
FC Saturn Moscow OblastFC Saturn Moscow Oblast is a Russian football club, based in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoe. It is also known as FC Saturn Moscow Region...
. He previously played for FC Moscow and
CSKA MoscowPFC CSKA Moskva is a football club in Moscow, Russia.- History :...
. He played for his country at
Euro 2004The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship was the twelfth tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football tournament for European nations, and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between 12 June and 4 July 2004...
, scoring the quickest ever goal in the European Football Championship - in the second minute against
GreeceThe Greece national football team represents Greece in international football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. Greece spent most of their history in relative obscurity, having participated only twice in the final tournaments of the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European...
. He is very talented at playing up front and is one of Russia's most consistent players and is known for his free kicks.
In 2008 in the first match of his team in the
UEFA Intertoto CupThe UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition was discontinued...
, in the victory 7-0, he scored 4 goals. He didn't 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 Bundesliga German champions
VfB StuttgartVerein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...
. With 5 goals at total he became the top scorer of the
UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008The 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the last UEFA Intertoto Cup football tournament, the 14th to be organised by UEFA and the third since the competition's format was given a major overhaul. Three rounds were held, and eleven teams qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The draw...
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Career statistics
As of August 29, 2009
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1998Spartak Moscow won their third consecutive Russian title, and sixth overall.- Top goalscorers :-External links:*...
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RostovFC Rostov is a Russian football club, from Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia.-Club:Previous names
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1999Spartak Moscow won their fourth consecutive Russian title, and seventh overall.Alania qualified for the UEFA Cup thanks to Lokomotiv winning the Russian Cup in 2000.- Top goalscorers :-Awards:...
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2000Spartak Moscow won their fifth consecutive Russian title, and eighth overall.Chernomorets qualified for the UEFA Cup thanks to Lokomotiv winning the Russian Cup in 2001.- Top goalscorers :-Awards:...
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2001Spartak Moscow won their sixth consecutive Russian title, and ninth overall.During the round 22 match between Anzhi and CSKA on 18 August, CSKA and Ukraine goalkeeper Serhiy Perkhun clashed heads with Anzhi striker Budun Budunov...
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20022002 was the first season of the Russian Premier League. While the structure of the competition did not change, the top level clubs gained independence from the Professional Football League.Spartak's six-year dominance in the league was broken by Lokomotiv....
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CSKA MoscowPFC CSKA Moskva is a football club in Moscow, Russia.- History :...
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2003CSKA won their first Russian title. It was their first championship since the last edition of the Soviet Top League in 1991. Newly promoted Rubin got the bronze.- Top goalscorers :-Awards:...
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2004Lokomotiv won their second Premier League title, while Krylya Sovetov finished in the top three for the first time, winning bronze. Kuban were relegated after just one season in the Premier League. They were joined by Rotor who played at the top level since the beginning of the Russian league.- Top...
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2005- Final standings :- Top goalscorers :-Season statistics:*Goals: 539 **From penalties: 58 **Saved/Missed penalties: 17 **Goals scored home: 324 **Goals scored away: 215...
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2006Russian Premier League 2006 was the 15th season of Russian Football Championship, and 5th under the current Russian Premier League name. The league was won by defending champions CSKA Moscow. Torpedo Moscow and Shinnik were relegated...
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2007Russian Premier League 2007 was the 16th official season of Rosgosstrakh Russian Football Championship, and 6th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started with the match between Luch-Energia and Moskva in Vladivostok on Saturday, 10 March 2007, at 18:00 local time...
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Saturn Moscow OblastFC Saturn Moscow Oblast is a Russian football club, based in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoe. It is also known as FC Saturn Moscow Region...
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Premier LeagueThe Russian Premier League is the top division of Russian football. There are 16 teams in the competition. At the end of the season, two teams are relegated to the Russian First Division and replaced with the two top First Division teams....
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2008The Russian Premier League 2008 was the 17th edition of the Russian Football Championship, and the seventh under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on Friday, 14 March 2008 with a match between Terek and Krylia Sovetov in Grozny. Krylia Sovetov won 3–0...
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2009The 2009 Russian Premier League is the 18th season of the Russian football championship since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 8th under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on 14 March 2009 with a goalless draw between Amkar Perm and Rostov. The last matches will be...
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