Dmitry Gradilenko is a Soviet and Russian footballer. He acted as a defender. He has the title of master of sports. Currently graduated from a sports career, works as a football agent and television commentator.
Soccer player biography
Dmitry Gradilenko was born in Moscow in 1969. He is a pupil of the sports school for children and youth of the Olympic reserve of CSKA. Here he learned the basics of football skill, mastered the position of defender. In this role he played throughout his career.
His first adult team was the Moscow “Krasnaya Presnya”, on the basis of which in the early 90s the famous club “Asmaral” was created, playing in the Major League. However, when Dmitry Gradilenko made his debut in the team, the team performed in the second league of the USSR championship.
In 1986, the team won in the 1st zone, winning 19 out of 30 matches. The second-placed Tula Arsenal in the final table was 4 points behind. In the final tournament for the right to participate in the first league, the Krasnopresnentsy fell into the same group as Wings of the Soviets from Samara (then Kuibyshev) and Azerbaijani Kapaz.
Gradilenko's team began with two defeats with the same score 0: 1. Then at home in all respects she defeated Kapaz 9: 2, but in the last round she lost to the Samara team again and took the last place in the group.
Repeat success for the next year failed. Only 5th place in the first zone. The victory was won by Smolensk Iskra. For two seasons in “Krasnaya Presnya” Dmitry Gradilenko spent 29 matches.
Gradilenko in Spartak
Even in the second league, a talented football player was considered by the leaders of the Moscow Spartak. In 1987, at the age of 18, Gradilenko signed a contract with the Red-White. However, he failed to gain a foothold in one of the strongest championship clubs. For a season and a half he appeared on the field only 6 times. At the very beginning of 1989 he was given to CSKA. For “army men” he entered the field only once and moved to the SKA in Lviv. But there he spends more time on the bench.
At the end of 1989, the defender was returned to Spartak. In 1993, he spent the only match in the major league in the “red-white". In a meeting against Spartak from Vladikavkaz he replaced 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, Dmitry Gradilenko finally left Spartak. The football player first played for the Interros team near Moscow, which at that time played in the Center zone of the First League. Took third place there.
Then he changed many teams. He played in Togliatti “Lada”, “Rostselmash” from Rostov-on-Don, Moscow “Torpedo”, Sochi “Pearl”, Nizhny Novgorod “Locomotive”, where he was even the captain of the team.
He finished his professional career in 2002 with the Metallurg team from Vidnoye. In the second division of the zone "West" took the 6th place with the team.
After football
After the end of his sports career, Gradilenko remained close to football. At one time he held the post of sports director of the Bryansk Dynamo and Penza Zenit. Teams played in the second division and were not able to achieve much success during this time. However, Gradilenko is best known for his other activities.
Gradilenko Dmitry, whose personal life has developed quite successfully after leaving football, is a well-known football agent. Searches for players new clubs, helps to establish relations with employers.
He is also a football commentator who is popular in sports in Russian television journalism. Works both at international meetings and at domestic championship matches.
He began his journalistic career on the Sport TV channel. Then he switched to "Russia 2". Currently, Dmitry Gradilenko is collaborating with the new federal television sports channel Match TV.