Yuriy Kalitvintsev

Yuriy Kalitvintsev
	Kalitvintsev as Dynamo Moscow manager in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev
Date of birth	5 May 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth	Volgograd, Soviet Union
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1985–1986	Rotor Volgograd
1986–1988	SKA Rostov-on-Don
1988–1991	Rotor Volgograd
1992–1994	Dynamo Moscow
1993–1994	→ Dynamo-d Moscow
1994	Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
1994–1998	Dynamo Kyiv
1997–1998	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv
1998	→ Dynamo-3 Kyiv
1999	Trabzonspor
1999–2000	CSKA Kyiv
Total
International career
1995–1999	Ukraine
Managerial career
2001–2002	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
2002–2005	Ukraine U19
2005–2006	Ukraine U17
2006–2009	Dynamo-2 Kyiv
2009	Ukraine U19
2009–2010	Dynamo-2 Kyiv
2010–2012	Ukraine (assistant)
2010–2011	Ukraine (caretaker)
2013–2014	Volga Nizhny Novgorod
2016–2017	Dynamo Moscow
2021	Olimpik Donetsk
2021–2024	Polissya Zhytomyr
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev (Ukrainian: Юрій Миколайович Калитвинцев,^[1] Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Калитвинцев;^[2] born 5 May 1968) is a football manager and former player.

Born in Russia, Kalitvintsev became a naturalized Ukrainian after a spell with Dynamo Kyiv^[3] and represented the Ukraine national team.

Kalitvintsev coached Ukraine U-19 to victory during the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.^[4]^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[4] 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.^[7] After Markevych's resignation of late August 2010 Kalitvintsev was appointed Ukraine's caretaker manager on 25 August 2010.^[4] On 21 April 2011, Oleh Blokhin was appointed head coach of the Ukraine national team; Kalitvintsev stayed on as Blokhin's assistant.^[8]^[9]

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.^[10]^[4]