Dmitry Bulykin is a famous Russian footballer who played in the position of striker. His career was held in Moscow “Dynamo” and “Locomotive”, German “Bayer”, Belgian “Anderlecht”, Dutch “Ajax”. He spent 15 matches for the national team of Russia, in which he scored 7 goals, in 2004 he participated in the European Championship. He currently works as an expert on Match TV and an adviser to the president of the Lokomotiv football club.
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Bulykin was born in Moscow in 1979. His parents Larisa Vladimirovna and Oleg Sergeevich were professional footballers, both had the title of international-class masters of sports. Therefore, the son was raised in a love of sport.
For most of his career, Oleg Bulykin played for CSKA, won the European Championship as part of the Soviet Union team. Now she works as the head of the Department of Physical Education at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Dmitry Bulykin grew up with his younger sister Irina. She also went into sports, played tennis, became the vice-champion of Europe in the beach version of this sport. Bulykin himself in childhood was fond of swimming, volleyball, football, even has the first youth rank in chess.
First steps in sports
Soccer player Dmitry Bulykin came to football school in 1986, when he was seven years old. He got into the system of the capital “Locomotive”. Viktor Kharitonov, who taught him the basics of this sport, considers his first coach.
In 1990, Dmitry Bulykin, together with his team and coach, transferred to the base of the sports reserve for children and youth of the Olympic reserve "Labor Reserves". Win the Cup of Russia among junior teams. In 1995-1996 he studied at the CSKA sports school with coach Evgeny Lobkov.
Professional career
The football player Dmitry Bulykin began his professional career in 1995 in the Third League in the double of the capital Lokomotiv. At the end of 1996, the head coach of the main team Yuri Semin already invites the young man to train with the main staff of the “railroad”.
In April 1997, he first entered the field for the “Locomotive”. In the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup at 74 minutes, he changes forward Zaza Janashia in the game against UralAZ from Miass. For the “railroad” that game ends in a convincing 5-0 victory, in the end they win the country's cup. In the major league, Dmitry Olegovich Bulykin will make his debut only in May 1998 in a game against the Novorossiysk “Chernomorets”, a quarter of an hour before the end of the match, he changes Maminov. After about two months, he scored his first goal in the elite division of the Russian championship, hitting the away gates of the Kaliningrad Baltika. The game ends 3-0 in favor of Muscovites. In all, in his first season for the “Locomotive”, he scores three goals in 14 matches, winning bronze medals.
In the 1998/99 season, Dmitry Bulykin, whose biography is given in this article, successfully performs in the last Cup Winners' Cup. He takes the double in the 1/16 finals in the game against CSKA Kiev, in the next round he scores two goals against the Portuguese “Sporting”. In that draw, “Locomotive” reaches the semifinals, losing only to the Roman “Lazio” (1: 1, 0: 0).
In 2000, Dmitry Bulykin in the “Locomotive” becomes the owner of the country's cup. In the decisive match against CSKA Moscow, he enters the field in the starting lineup. The game ends in a draw 1: 1. At 96 minutes, the hero of our article takes the “railroad” forward, and at the 113th Ilya Tsymbalar makes the score 3: 1. “CSKA” manages to win back only one ball already in time compensated by the first half.
In “Locomotive” Bulykin spends three seasons. Three times the country’s cup wins, twice silver and once bronze medals. Total scores 24 goals in 89 matches. After the completion of the contract, he becomes a free agent, looking for new employment options. Bulykin was actively invited to the Italian “Sampdoria” and the Swiss “St. Gallen”, but he decided to stay in Russia, agreeing to play with Dmitry Prokopenko in the Moscow “Dynamo”.
Top scorer
The 2003 season turns out to be very successful for a football player. The statistics of Dmitry Bulykin is impressive, he becomes the team's top scorer, receives a call to the national team. True, in the championship, “blue and white” are left without medals, taking sixth place.
After such success, Bulykin decides to leave for the European club, but the Dynamo leadership does not want to let him go. There is a conflict between them, as a result of which the player is put up for transfer for an inappropriately high price; nobody buys it.
In 2006, Dynamo began to be trained by Yuri Semin, who was well acquainted with the footballer working at Lokomotiv. Inspired by this appointment, Bulykin signs a contract for six months, but Semin is fired before the end of the season, and Dmitry is again put up for transfer.
In “Dynamo” Bulykin had a lot of conflicts with fans, scandalous situations. Many had the impression that he prefers a secular life to training; Dmitry himself accused the club of all problems, which did not allow him time to prove himself on the field.
Finally, in 2007, the German Bundesliga club Bayer from Leverkusen showed interest in Bulykin. In August, the player moves to the new team as a free agent. In total for Dynamo, he holds 119 matches, in which he scores 26 goals.
German championship
In the German championship, Bulykin will make his debut in September, appearing on the field at the end of the home match against Bayern Munich. He ends up losing his club 0: 1.
Bulykin failed to excel in official matches by that time for the past year. He interrupted this “drought” in December 2007 in the group stage game of the UEFA Cup against the Swiss “Zurich”. The Russian striker draws a double, and his club wins 5-0.
In the quarter finals, his club is defeated at home from St. Petersburg “Zenith” 1: 4. In the second leg, Bulykin scored a goal, which turns out to be the only one in the game, but the Russian team still goes further.
For all the time in the Bundesliga, Bulykin scored only two years. At the gates of Munich “Bavaria” and the “Energy” team from Cottbus. In 2008, the club decides to part with it. In total, he has accumulated 19 games for Bayer and five goals during this time.
Anderlecht
In August 2008, Bulykin became a player in the Belgian Anderlecht. The club buys it for one million euros. Already in the debut match, the player is marked by a double into the Kortrijk goal.
However, the future prospects of Bulykin were reflected in his conflict with head coach Ariel Jacobs. Because of him, Dmitry is sent to the bench, and then leased to the German Fortuna from Dusseldorf. In total, in “Anderlecht” he managed to play 10 games and score 3 goals.
Leased
“Fortune” performs in the Second Bundesliga. But here, Bulykina is waiting for failure. In the first game for his new team, he is injured.
This is a fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone, which he received in the game for the German Cup against Hamburg. Wanting to prove himself, Bulykin continues to play, which only aggravates the damage. During this time, he even scores his first goal for a German club, but then he still goes for treatment.
The season is blurry. In total, he enters the field 10 times, and the first goal scored remains the only one.
From "Fortune" Bulykin goes on loan to the Dutch "ADO Den Haag." In the first game in the new club, he draws a double into the goal of the “BBB Venlo” team, and his club wins 3: 2. It turns out to be a successful season in his career. Bulykin scores 21 goals, becoming the second in the list of scorers. His club ranks seventh, winning a ticket to the Europa League.
Ajax
The following year, Bulykin signs a contract with Ajax. In September, in the game against PSV, he scored his first goal, winning a draw for his club. In total, he manages to distinguish himself 9 times in 19 matches. He wins the Dutch champion title, experts recognize Dmitry as the most effective striker. However, after the season ends, the club decides not to renew the contract with him, Bulykin is again a free agent.
Then he receives an invitation from another Dutch club Twente. The game in this club is not so outstanding. He holds 22 matches on the field, in which he scores five goals.
In 2013, Bulykin returned to Russia, agreeing to the proposal of the Volga from Nizhny Novgorod. Things on this team went wrong from the start. He rarely went out on the field, did not differ in goals scored, moreover, the club delayed his salary. The player was not going to end his career, he wanted to continue it in Russia or the Netherlands. But he did not receive adequate offers at home, and he was prevented from returning to the Netherlands by the limit on legionnaires introduced there.
The game on March 31, 2016 as part of the Volga against the Permian Amkar turned out to be the last in his career. Bulykin came on as a substitute, his club lost 1: 5.
In the national team
For the Russian national team, Bulykin made his debut in 2003 in a game against the national team of the Premier League. He scored two goals, the Russians won 5-2.
In official matches, he opened the scoring for goals for the national team in the qualifying match for the right to play in the European Championship against Switzerland. Dmitry makes a hat-trick, scoring a 4-1 victory. A month later, he scores a goal against the Georgian team (3: 1)
In 2004, he sends with the team to the European Championship. In the game against Greece, he scored the second goal of the Russians in the 17th minute, as a result of a 2-1 victory, but two defeats in the opening matches did not allow the club to leave the group.
The national team is sharply criticized, they also criticize Bulykin, who did not realize many good points.
In October of that year, Bulykin holds his last game in the national team, taking part in its biggest loss - 1: 7 from Portugal.
A family
A lot is known about the personal life of Dmitry Bulykin. He met with Oksana Kuptsova, Ekaterina Polyanskaya. With the last formalized relationship officially.
The wife and children of Dmitry Bulykin always delight and support him. In 2007, the wife gave birth to a girl, Agatha. A few years later, in 2010, the second daughter of the couple was born, happy parents named baby Vitalina.