Any football club is closely connected with the names of the players who forged its glory. Football nineties in our country were marked by the superiority of one club - Moscow Spartak. The practically unconditional champion of Russia of those years, besides successes in the domestic arena, loudly declared himself in European club football. Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev managed to create a real team of like-minded people who can achieve a lot on the football field. Andrey Tikhonov, Yegor Titov, Alexander Filimonov - without these players it is impossible to imagine a “romance” team. And the embodiment of the defensive order of the Moscow club was Dmitry Parfyonov, a player who played in “Spartak” in many positions and forever remained his true leader.
Dmitry Parfyonov (soccer player): biography, childhood
The seventies gave our country a galaxy of great football players. Another united Soviet Union was famous for its distinctive national schools: Russian, Georgian, Armenian and, of course, Ukrainian. It was in Ukraine, in the city of Odessa, on September 11, 1974 that Parfenov Dmitry Vladimirovich, the future star of the Moscow Spartak and the Ukrainian team, was born. An ordinary working family, studying in an ordinary Odessa school, the ordinary childhood of a Soviet boy, the same as the millions of his Soviet peers of that time. What distinguished Parfyonov among peers? Fanatical love of football. Often to the detriment of studying at school, spending leisure time with friends. Everything was subordinate to one thing - football.
The beginning of a sports career
Football repaid young Parfyonov in return. Possessing by nature quite modest dimensions (height - 170 cm, weight - 69 kg), Dmitry Parfyonov already in children’s teams removed all questions about his professional suitability for big football. Out of years, the confident game of the young football player did not go unnoticed by the coaches of the local “Chernomorets”, who at that time was one of the participants in the major league of the USSR Football Championship. And already in 1991, at the age of 17, Dmitry Parfyonov made his debut as part of the main team. He twice replaced in the games of the last USSR Cup.
Ukrainian football
1992 was a landmark year for allied football. The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of the history of individual Championships. Odessa “Chernomorets” in Ukraine immediately became one of the strongest teams in the Championship, competing with Dynamo Kyiv. In the 1992 season, Dmitry Parfyonov was already thoroughly one of the main players in the team, having played 12 games for Chernomorets. In the same season, Parfyonov came and the first team title: Odessa “Chernomorets” won the first independent Cup of Ukraine.
In total, Dmitry Parfyonov spent 6 seasons for this club, having played 164 games and scored 10 goals in them. A very good result for an extreme defender. This was followed by a season in the Dnepropetrovsk "Dnieper". But even then it was noticeable that Dmitry Parfyonov outgrew the level of these clubs, and an invitation from a more serious team was just around the corner.
Moscow "Spartak"
Before the start of the 1998 season, Parfyonov became interested in two of the strongest clubs in the post-Soviet space - Spartak and Kiev Dynamo. Everything went to the point that Parfyonov will continue his football career in Kiev, under the leadership of Valery Vasilievich Lobanovsky. However, Dmitry Parfyonov chose to move to Russia, to Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev. It was in the “Spartacus” Parfenov fully revealed as a football player. Immediately having reserved a place on the right edge of the defense of the Moscow club, Dmitry played 125 matches for Spartak, scoring 15 goals in them.
As part of the team, Parfyonov became the four-time champion of Russia, the holder of the Russian Cup, silver and bronze medalist of the Championship, repeatedly being one of the best players in his position. Who knows how bright and long Dmitry’s career would have been if it had not been for the terrible injury he received in 2002. In a crucial match with Dynamo Moscow, Dmitry Parfyonov joined the game with Sergey Grishin and as a result received a double fracture of his lower leg with an offset. It took more than a year to recover from this injury. As a result, Dmitry could no longer fully play at a high level. He was in his career and Dynamo, and Khimki, and Saturn, but that was not it. Parfyonov did not succeed in reaching his game form at the time of Spartak. And in 2012, Dmitry completed the career of the current player, focusing entirely on the coaching path.
Ukraine national team
Parfyonov’s relationship with the national team began back in 1992. Having made a bright debut as part of the “Chernomorets”, Parfyonov forced to draw attention to the coaching staff of the youth team of Ukraine. A very nice team with Shevchenko, Rebrov, Shovkovsky was not able to achieve any major successes at the youth level. In the future, most of these players moved to the national team of the country, but even there, for the time being, Ukrainians were disappointed. Several times the Ukrainian team successfully passed the group qualifying tournament, however, failures in the butt matches did not allow it to play in major football forums. Nevertheless, for the teams of different ages Parfyonov played 41 matches, scoring one goal.
Coaching career
Having finished his playing career, Parfyonov could not completely break with football. He is active in the coaching staff of the junior national team of Russia, working with Ivanovsky “Tekstilshchik”. At the moment, Dmitry Parfyonov is the holder of the PRO coaching license. For the second season, he heads the ambitious FNL club - Tosno. And if the first season in the club can hardly be called successful, then this year Dmitry Parfyonov’s wards seriously apply for a prize, and therefore an opportunity to play in the Russian Premier League.