This footballer played for four leading Moscow clubs, except for Spartak. But it was he who most successfully fit 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. He is one of the few players who showed a high level of play in Europe, and when he returned to his homeland, he was not lost, but took a leading role in national football. The future midfielder of the Russian national team, as well as foreign clubs, was born in 1975, December 22, in Krasnodar. He learned to play in the children's school of the local “Kuban”, but after the onset of 18 years he was invited to the capital CSKA, which at that time had not yet been known as the giant of domestic football. A player with such anthropometric data (height 189 cm) is usually involved in defense. But Dmitry Khokhlov was distinguished by a subtle vision of the field, so he took a place in the center, playing the role of inspirer of the army club attacks. In almost five years of being in CSKA, he scored fifteen goals in 62 matches, which is quite a lot, given his disposition on the field. During this time, Dmitry three times played 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 activities in another metropolitan club - Torpedo. But on the eve of the young football player managed not only to enter the national team, but to participate, albeit without much success, in the 1996 European Championship. For a twenty-year-old football player, these events were an absolute breakthrough. After the championship, the young football player attracted the attention of many European clubs. Having played one year in the form of the Torpedo club, Khokhlov at a fairly young age moved to the Dutch PSV.
For this club (one of the permanent leaders of the championship of the Netherlands), Dmitry played for two years, and then moved to the rather modest Spanish Real Sociedad. For the football player, record-breaking means for the Spaniards were paid - almost five million dollars. Having played 111 matches in three leading years in Spain, Dmitry Khokhlov returns to Russia and becomes a member of the third Moscow club - Lokomotiv.
And again Moscow
It was the railroad workers, along with the army, who interrupted the long-standing hegemony of Spartak. And one of those who became the basis of the new Russian grandee was Dmitry Khokhlov. A footballer in the form of railway workers won his first significant trophies - the championship of Russia and the country's super bowl.
As part of Lokomotiv, Dmitry Khokhlov entered the field 64 times, until 2005. In the same year, he spent the last match in the Russian national team, setting the following indicator: six goals in fifty-three matches. Since 2006, the football player is trying on a white and blue Dynamo uniform. For six years, in Dynamo, a football player entered the field 130 times, thus playing the largest number of matches in one team. In the same club, Dmitry Khokhlov tried on a captain's armband, acting as one of the creators of the new Moscow Dynamo.
Coaching path
In 2011, Dmitry Khokhlov received the title of Honored Master of Sports. By this time, he completed the career of an active football player and began the coaching path. Now he was respectfully called by his first name - Khokhlov Dmitry Valerievich (sometimes he is mistakenly called Khokhlov Dmitry Nikolaevich). At the beginning of his career at Dynamo Moscow, he worked as an assistant coach. Although a short period of time in 2012, Dmitry served as chief mentor. Since 2012, he led the youth team: under him, she twice became the champion of Russia. In 2015, Dmitry Khokhlov decided to try his hand at 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.