Dmitry Khomukha and his career in football

Dmitry Khomukha is a former Soviet and Turkmen football player, and now a coach who is without a contract. The last club, which was headed by a 47-year-old specialist - Latvian "Riga". Dmitry Khomukha, when he was still a football player, acted as an attacking midfielder.

Club career

Dmitry Khomukha was born on August 23, 1969 in the city of Ashkhabad of the Turkmen SSR. There he started playing soccer in a children's sports school. At the age of 16 he joined the Turkmen club "Kolkhozchi", for which he had 47 matches for two years - he also scored the first goal scored in his career. In 1988 he moved to the Moscow club "Seagull-CSKA", for which he played 45 games and scored three goals during the year. Then he briefly moved to the club "SKA Carpathians", where he added 17 games and one goal to his track record. In 1989 he joined Metalist, where he spent the next five years.

In the Soviet club, he played 37 games, not scoring a single goal, and in Ukrainian - already 54 games, which scored three goals scored. In 1994, the 25-year-old midfielder moved to the club Erzu, for which he played only 14 matches and scored two goals - and immediately after that moved to St. Petersburg Zenit, where he stayed for two whole years - he played 61 new clubs Match and scored four goals. In 1997, the player joined the Moscow CSKA, for which he played for a long time. It was with the army team that Dmitry Khomukha was able to achieve better results in the League - the second and third place in 1998 and 1999 respectively. In total, he spent four seasons in the club, having played 116 games and punching 27 goals in them - twice as many as in all previous clubs put together. But in 2001 Khomukha left CSKA Moscow, joining Shinnik, with whom he played for another three years. He went on the field 69 times, scored 16 goals and helped the club in 2001 to go to the Premier League. And in 2004 he joined the "Terek", which became his last club. There he managed to immediately go to the Major League and immediately win his first trophy in his career - the Cup of Russia. For two years, he spent in "Terek", Khomukha played 36 matches and scored four goals. In the winter of 2006, a 36-year-old football player announced his retirement.

National team appearances

Dmitry Khomukha is a football player who started playing in the youth team of the Soviet Union, but he did not get a call to the adult team until the collapse of the USSR. After that, the footballer managed to hold 15 matches and score two goals for the national team of Turkmenistan.

Coaching activities

Immediately after the end of sports career Khomukha returned to CSKA, where he was appointed coach of youth. He worked for this position for four and a half years, after which he received an offer from the Football Union of Russia, and in the autumn of 2009 he became the coach of the Russian youth team under the age of 15 years. Each subsequent year, he was promoted to the next age category, and in 2015 he already worked with the youth team to 21 years. And only in April 2016 he received the position of coach at the Latvian club "Riga", where he worked only four months.