Dmitry Verkhovtsov is a Belarusian footballer (central defender), who plays for the club of the Belarusian major league Neman. Of the sporting achievements of Dmitry, only the 2008/2009 Belorussian Cup can be singled out as part of Naftan from the city of Novopolotsk (Belarusian Football League). In addition, Verkhovtsov participated in the European Youth Football Championship in 2009, which was held in Sweden.
Dmitry Verkhovtsov: biography of a football player, childhood and acquaintance with football
Born on October 10 in 1986 in Mogilev, Belarusian SSR. He grew up and was brought up in an ordinary family: his father was a physical education teacher at a comprehensive school, and his mother worked as a therapist in a local hospital. From childhood, Dmitry Verkhovtsov was different from his peers - he was stronger and taller than the rest. Spending entire days on a football field in the yard, the guy dreamed of becoming a professional footballer and winning the world championship in the national team of Belarus. In 1993, Dmitry entered the Mogilev sports school, where he began to actively engage in football.
Dmitry Verkhovtsov initially studied at the specialized children and youth sports school of the Olympic reserve No. 7, and a few years later he graduated from the Dnipro Sports School. The first coaches of the young man were such outstanding professionals as Valery Semenovich Chaplygin and Nikolai Sergeyevich Lukyanchikov.
Club career
Since 2004, Dmitry Verkhovtsov began playing for the Naftan team, in which he later became captain. In 2008, Dmitry played all the matches of the championship of Belarus without a single replacement (30 matches). In the same year, the Belarusian Football Association announced a list of the best 22 players of the Belarusian championship, which included Verkhovtsov. In 2009, Naftan FC managed to win the national football cup of Belarus, and Dmitry Verkhovtsov became the main star of the final match, scoring the winning goal against Soligorsk Shakhtar.
Trying to play in Europe
In 2009, after a successful season at Naftan, Verkhovtsov decided to change the club and began to look closely at European grandees. Dmitry's choice fell on Dynamo Kiev and Celtic from Glasgow. After going through several stages of the reviews in two clubs, Dmitry was saddened by the news that his candidacy was not relevant to anyone. In January 2010, Verkhovtsov signed a contract with the Latvian “Ventspils”, in which he spent the rest of the off-season. Further cooperation with the Latvian club was interrupted due to contractual troubles between Naftan and Ventspils. In December 2010, Verkhovtsov Dmitry tried his luck in the English Everton, however, there were some problems with employment.
Roaming the clubs
In January 2011, a contract was signed between the Krasnodar Kuban and Belarusian defender Dmitry Verkhovtsov. Here he played only one season, in which he managed to excel in one goal.
In December 2011, he accepted a proposal for a three-year contract from the Samara team “Wings of the Soviets”. The years spent in Samara are not the best in the career of a football player. Dmitry won back his contract and immediately left the team, which eventually flew to the second division.
In June 2014, a two-year contract would be signed with Ufa (at that time the team debuted in the Russian Premier League). After a year and a half, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement. At the end of January 2016 he moved to the Polish club Korona, in which he played a season and a half.
In March 2017, he signed a one-year agreement with the Grodno Neman.