Dmitry Gradilenko: sports career

Dmitry Gradilenko is a Soviet and Russian football player. Acted as a defender. Has the title of Master of Sports. At the moment he has finished his sports career, he works as a football agent and a TV commentator.

Biography of a football player

Dmitry Gradilenko was born in Moscow in 1969. He is a pupil of the sports children's and youth school of the Olympic Reserve CSKA. Here I learned the basics of football skill, I mastered the position of the defender. In this role played throughout his career.

His first adult team was the Moscow "Krasnaya Presnya", on the basis of which in the early 90s the famous Asmaral club was established, which played in the Major League. However, when the team debuted Dmitry Gradilenko, the team played in the second league of the USSR championship.

In 1986, the team won in the 1st zone, winning 19 games out of 30. Tulip Arsenal, who took second place, was 4 points behind in the final table. In the final tournament for the right to participate in the first league "Krasnopresnentsi" were in the same group as the "Wings of the Soviets" from Samara (then Kuibyshev) and the Azerbaijani "Kapaz".

Team Gradilenko started with two defeats with the same score 0: 1. Then at home on all counts defeated "Kapaz" 9: 2, however in the last round once again lost to Samarans and took the last place in the group.

Repeat the success for the next year failed. Only 5 th place in the first zone. The victory was won Smolensk "Spark". For two seasons in the "Red Presnya" Dmitry Gradilenko spent 29 matches.

Gradilenko in "Spartacus"

Even in the second league of a talented football player, the leaders of Moscow's "Spartak". In 1987, at the age of 18, Gradilenko signed a contract with the "red and white". However, it was not possible to gain a foothold in one of the strongest clubs of the championship. For a half of the season appeared on the field only 6 times. At the very beginning of 1989 he was transferred to CSKA. For the "army team" came on the field only once and moved to Lviv SKA. But there is more time spends on the bench.

At the end of 1989, the defender was returned to Spartak. In 1993, he held the only match in the top league in the "red-white". In a meeting against "Spartacus" from Vladikavkaz came on as a substitute in the middle of the second half instead of Ramiz Mammadov. In that meeting the Muscovites won 5: 1.

Career in the Russian Championship

In 1993, finally left the "Spartacus" Dmitry Gradilenko. Footballer first played for the Moscow Region team "Interros", which at that time performed in the zone "Center" of the First League. I took the third place there.

Then I changed a lot of teams. He played in Togliatti's Lada, Rostselmash from Rostov-on-Don, Moscow's Torpedo, Sochi's Pearl, Nizhny Novgorod's Lokomotiv, where he was even the captain of the team.

He finished his professional career in 2002 in the team "Metallurg" from Vidnoye. In the second division of the zone "West" took 6th place with the team.

After football

After the end of sports career, Gradilenko remained close to football. At one time he held the post of sports director of Bryansk "Dynamo" and Penza "Zenith". The teams performed in the second division and did not manage to achieve any special success during this time. However, most of all Gradilenko is known for his other activities.

Gradilenko Dmitry, whose personal life has developed quite successfully after leaving the big football, a well-known football agent. He looks for players new clubs, helps to establish relationships with employers.

He is also a popular commentator in sports Russian television journalism football matches. Works both at international meetings and at matches of the national championship.

His journalistic career began on the TV channel "Sport". Then he moved to "Russia 2". Currently, Dmitry Gradilenko is cooperating with the new federal publicly available sports TV channel "Match TV".