Football club "Tom" became the seventh team in the biography of the Ukrainian athlete Cyril Kovalchuk. Interestingly, this is his second arrival in Russian football. In the period 2009-2011, Cyril already defended the colors of the same Tom.
Becoming
Who is Kirill Kovalchuk, a football player whose biography began in the small regional center of Belyaevka in the Odessa region? At the age of 18, he, being a pupil of Dnipropetrovsk “Dnipro”, spent his first matches in Ukrainian football, however, without becoming the main one, the football player went to conquer the green grass of Moldova, wearing a T-shirt of the local FC Zimbru. The first football year as part of this club brought the first titles. The Kovalchuk team obeyed the silver medals of the championship and the Moldavian Cup.
Relocation to Russia
The success of the young athlete did not go unnoticed, and Cyril received an invitation to a stronger championship in Russia. Since 2009, he began to defend the colors of the local Tomi. He scored his first goal for “Wings of the Soviets” from Samara, and in just the next two seasons Kovalchuk spent 35 matches, in which he scored two productive shots on goal of the opponents. It is noteworthy that during this period of his career, Cyril reunited in the same team with his older brother Sergei. The latter was considered a very promising player, but after a short period of time he was forced to change the team.
Kovalchuk Kirill - footballer of the "Chernomorets"
The next two seasons can be called the brightest in the athlete's career. He joined one of the strong teams in the middle of the standings of the Ukrainian championship, the Odessa “Chernomorets”. Kovalchuk for a long time and firmly settled in the reference zone, where, thanks to his anthropometric data, he stood out from other partners in the line. As a football player himself later admitted in one of his interviews, at first it was difficult for him to get used to the hot southern climate after the Siberian frosts, but returning to his native land did its job - Kirill Kovalchuk began to play with renewed vigor. The footballer became one of the key figures of the then furor that the team of Roman Grigorchuk produced in Europe. That football year and to this day fans of the Odessa club remember with a smile on their face, because he undoubtedly became the best in the club’s new history. Another bright moment in Kovalchuk’s life is connected with the “Chernomorets”. Defending the colors of the Odessa club, the football player received a debut call to the national team of Ukraine, which was just going through a generational change. Not surprisingly, fans in South Palmyra Kovalchuk literally idolized.
Turkish gambit
In total, as part of the Odessa team, Cyril spent 66 matches, after which he “went on promotion” to another Ukrainian club. Since 2015, Kirill Kovalchuk is a footballer of Kharkiv Metalist, in whose ranks he spent a very successful season. However, the club faced financial difficulties at the end of the season, and the Ukrainian athlete was forced to go to the Turkish championship, where he joined the ranks of a local club called “Karshiyaka”. This stage of Kovalchuk’s career cannot be called a failure, but 7 matches held during the season are not the result that the athlete expected from a new stage in his life.
In the summer of 2016, the football player turned up for the second time in “Tom” and managed to help his old-new team in 11 matches of the autumn part of the championship. By the way, his debut match immediately fell on the match with the champion of the previous draw - CSKA Moscow under the leadership of Leonid Slutsky. The contract of Cyril Kovalchuk is designed for a year, but it provides an option to extend for another year, if this will suit both the club and the athlete himself.
Tom Cruise
In addition to playing qualities, Cyril Kovalchuk also has an outstanding appearance. The team for resembling a Hollywood actor jokingly called Tom Cruise. Kovalchuk smiles broadly every time - he really is. However, the fans of Cyril can only rely on a beautiful midfielder game, because the footballer has already played a wedding with his beautiful wife. By the way, it happened just in Tomsk.
Now Kirill Kovalchuk has crossed the thirty-year milestone. For a football player, this is a considerable age, and as a rule, the peak of a career is already behind. However, the midfielder does not lose shape and is sure that his best matches are yet to come. The benefit of incentives for this abound.