Dmitry Sennikov is the most famous Russian footballer playing for Moscow Lokomotiv and the Russian national team.
Dossier
Dmitry Alexandrovich Sennikov was born on June 24, 1976 in Leningrad (USSR). Russian citizen. Years of performance in big football - 1996-2010. The playing position on the football field is the defender. Height 183 cm, weight 80 kg. As a defender he was distinguished by reliability and intransigence in the fight, had a strong and accurate blow.
Club career
Football player Dmitry Sennikov played in the clubs of the second and first division of the championship of Russia. During the period of performances from 1996 to 2010, he played 324 matches, in which he scored 20 goals.
- 1996-97 - Lokomotiv (St. Petersburg);
- 1998 - CSKA Moscow (Moscow);
- 1998 - “Shinnik” (Yaroslavl);
- 1999 - Rubin (Kazan);
- 2000-10 - Lokomotiv (Moscow).
National team
Dmitry Sennikov (the photo below shows the fight with Luis Figo) began to be involved in the national team of Russia in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he held 26 fights. He participated in the finals of the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship.
Stages of the football path
Dmitry Sennikov is one of the nuggets who made a gaming career thanks to his exceptional talent and hard work. He did not study at youth sports schools, did not study at schools of the Olympic reserve, did not finish sports boarding schools. The basics of football mastery Dmitry grasped in domestic and street battles. He did not even intend to master the sports path. Football itself found it, making it one of the strongest players in Russian football in the early 2000s.
Dmitry Sennikov began playing on a real football field , studying at the Institute of Water Transport. These were matches in which he defended the honor of the university in city competitions. This went on for three years. And then everything was decided by chance. At one of the matches there were scouts of the St. Petersburg club Lokomotiv, looking at potential players to strengthen the team.
Lokomotiv itself played in the first league of the championship of Russia. The team did not have a large budget and, of course, could not invite famous football players. Therefore, the coach of the club Givi Nodia (a famous football player of Dynamo Tbilisi, Moscow Lokomotiv and the USSR national team) relied on young local players who did not have the slightest experience playing in big football. He constantly repeated to Dmitry that the lack of playing practice is always compensated by dedication, dedication and enormous capacity for work.
Dmitry Sennikov met his expectations of the coach with his game. In the first season, he played 36 fights in the position of the front central defender of the team. In the second - I did not miss a single calendar match. The promising defender began to be courted by representatives of the top division. Spartak and Zenit tried to get Dmitry. Sennikov chose CSKA and miscalculated.
In the Moscow club Dmitry won the first round of the championship. The team itself was extremely unsuccessful (after 13 rounds it took 14th place). The atmosphere in the club has heated up to the limit. Due to the unfavorable results, the team’s head coach Pavel Sadyrin was dismissed in a hurry, and Dmitry Sennikov, having played only seven matches for CSKA, moved to the Shinnik club in Yaroslavl, coached by the famous David Kipiani. Dmitry quickly joined the new team, became a player in the main team. But soon big changes began in the Yaroslavl club, which led to the resignation of the coaching staff. The football player himself, having managed to play 9 fights, once again changes the club.
In 1999, Pavel Sadyrin signs an annual contract, becoming the head coach of Kazan Rubin. He calls Dmitry Sennikov to his new team. Unfortunately, in this team the footballer played only one season (41 matches, 6 goals). According to the results of the championship (the club took seventh place), the contract with Sadyrin was not continued. The coach left, and the player left, changing the team for the fourth and last time.
Since 2000, Dmitry Sennikov is a footballer of the capital's Lokomotiv club. Dmitry played in this team for 10 years. As part of the "railroad" he played 191 matches and spent 5 goals against the opponents. In this club, he won all his main awards, here and ended his football career due to injury.
Awards and Achievements
As a Lokomotiv footballer, Dmitry became a two-time winner of the Russian championship, a three-time winner of the country's Cup, and twice won the Russian Super Cup. Speaking for the capital's club, he represented the Russian team at the World and European Championships.
Dmitry Sennikov is included in the “Honorary Railway Workers” category.
In conclusion, a few words about the marital status of a football player. The first wife of Dmitry was called Anna. In 2009, their son Maxim was born. In 2013, Dmitry Sennikov divorced his wife. As a result of the division of property, Anna became the owner of a five-room apartment (180 sq.m.) and 6 million rubles. Currently, Dmitry is interested in the former wife of Artem Mikhalkov, Daria, who has a 10-year-old daughter. The couple appeared as invited guests at the Comedy Club festival in Jurmala.