Dmitry Khokhlov: the leader on the field

This football player played for four leading Moscow clubs, except for "Spartacus." But it was he who most successfully blended into the "Spartak" game of the Russian team.

The Beginning of the Glorious Path

If we talk about a football player like Dmitry Khokhlov, his biography differs from the standard one. He - one of the few players who showed a high level of play in Europe, and returned to his homeland, not lost, and took the lead in national football. The future midfielder of the Russian national team was born, as well as foreign clubs in 1975, on December 22, in Krasnodar. He studied at the children's school of the local "Kuban", but after the age of 18 he was invited to the capital's CSKA, which in those days was not yet a giant in Russian football. A player with such anthropometric data (height 189 cm) is usually involved in protection. But Dmitri Khokhlov had a subtle vision of the field, so he took a place in the center, playing the role of inspirer of the attacks of the army club. Almost for five years in CSKA, he scored fifteen goals in 62 games, which is quite a lot, given his disposition on the field. During this time, Dmitry played three times under the flag of Russia as part of the Olympic team.

Career

In 1997, together with the coach and some former teammates, Dmitry Khokhlov began his activity in another metropolitan club - Torpedo. But on the eve of the young footballer managed not only to enter the national team, but to participate, albeit without much success, in the 1996 European Championships. For the 20-year-old football player, these events were an absolute breakthrough. After the championship, a young footballer attracted the attention of many European clubs. After playing one year in the form of the club "Torpedo", Khokhlov at a fairly young age turns into Dutch PSV.

For this club (one of the permanent leaders of the championship of the Netherlands), Dmitry played two years, and then moved to a modest Spanish "Real Sociedad". For the player were paid a record for the Spanish funds - almost five million dollars. After playing in Spain for the leading roles of 111 matches in three years, Dmitry Khokhlov returns to Russia and becomes a member of the third Moscow club - "Locomotive".

And again Moscow

It was railroad workers, along with the army team, who interrupted the long-term hegemony of Spartak. And one of those who became the basis of the new Russian grandiose was Dmitry Khokhlov. Footballer in the form of railwaymen won his first significant trophies - the championship of Russia and the country's supercup.

In the "Lokomotiv" Dmitry Khokhlov went on the field 64 times, until 2005. In the same year he spent the last match in the Russian national team, setting the following figure: six goals in fifty-three matches. Since 2006, the football player is trying on a blue and white Dynamo uniform. For six years in "Dynamo" the player went on the field 130 times, thus having played the greatest number of matches in the same team. In the same club Dmitry Khokhlov tried on himself captain's armband, acting as one of the creators of the new Moscow "Dynamo".

Trainer's path

In 2011, Dmitry Khokhlov received the title of Honored Master of Sports. By this time, he had completed his career as an active football player and began his coaching career. Now he was respectfully called by his name and patronymic - Khokhlov Dmitry Valeryevich (sometimes mistakenly called him Khokhlov Dmitry Nikolaevich). At the beginning of his career in Moscow, "Dinamo" he worked as an assistant coach. Although a short time in 2012, Dmitry acted as the main mentor. Since 2012, he led the youth team: with him, she twice became the champion of Russia. In 2015, Dmitry Khokhlov decided to try himself in another club and returned to his native Krasnodar.

The first independent coaching experience was unsuccessful - in "Kuban" he worked only a few months and left this club without showing the required results.