Russian defender Rykov Vladimir Vladimirovich was born on November 13, 1987 in Novosibirsk, where he grew up and began to study football basics at a local school. The young guy was distinguished by his endurance and ability to read the opponent’s game, due to which he showed himself best in the role of central defender, which he eventually became.
The beginning of a professional career
The first professional club with which Vladimir Rykov, Chkalovets signed a contract in 2005, was only created at that time. The young defender immediately liked the mentor of the Novosibirsk team Sergey Iromashvili, who often began to release an 18-year-old guy on the field. But after only two seasons, due to financial problems, the club dismissed the players, and Rykov, with an asset of 5 goals in 43 meetings, was invited to play SKA Energy.
However, Vladimir failed to enter the field in a Khabarovsk T-shirt - both seasons for which a contract was signed with the club, the defender spent on an annual lease - first in the Amur Smena, and then in the Orenburg Gazovik. Both times, the player fits in perfectly with the team, gaining ground at its core and at the end of the year having more than 20 games and one goal scored.
In 2009, Ramensky “Saturn” called the defender to watch, but Sergei did not fit the coach of the main team. Then the sports director of the “aliens” invited the player to play for six months as part of the farm club, where Rykov remained until the summer. Six months later, in the middle of the season, a message was received from the KAMAZ First Division team that they needed a player like Vladimir Rykov.
The footballer, without hesitation for a long time, accepted the offer, having played the next six months in a shirt of “motorists”. In winter, Nizhny Novgorod “Volga” acquired a player, but without playing in the new club, Rykov returned to KAMAZ, with whom he spent another year. It was in a team from Vladimir’s Naberezhnye Chelny that the Premier League clubs were spotted, where he went in the summer of 2011.
First steps in the Premier League
In a dispute over a talented defender, he won the Moscow Dynamo. “White and Blue” were able to sign the player at the end of August, and already on September 10, Vladimir Rykov made his debut in the new club, having come out for half an hour in the match against CSKA - the game ended in a 0-4 victory for Dynamo. Within the same season, the defender was able to open an account for his goals for the Moscow team - in April 2012 it was his exact blow that brought Dynamo away victory over Anji.
The coach of the second Russian national football team Yuri Krasnozhan noticed a bright Dynamo game , and Vladimir Rykov, having received a call to the national team, took part in the defeat of the Turkish national team with a score of 4: 1, having played all 90 minutes. But not everything went so smoothly in the career of a football player - in 2013, there was a recession in his game, and the Dynamo coaching staff sent Vladimir on loan to Tom.
Triple departure from the Premier League
Rykov did not work out with the Tomsk club - according to the results of the second season, “Tom” flew out of the Premier League, and Vladimir himself, having returned to Dynamo, soon transferred to Torpedo as a free agent. For a year with the “car makers”, the story of the flight to the FNL was repeated, and the subsequent transfer to the Saransk “Mordovia”, which also ended up in the second in a row division, did not hang the best brand on the player.
Nevertheless, the former team decided to use the services of the “unsuccessful” defender - the metropolitan Dynamo, to which Vladimir Rykov joined the summer of 2016. The 29-year-old player managed to return to the “blue and white” - for the first part of the season he took part in 18 meetings, where he scored 2 goals, indicating his claims to a place in the starting lineup. Dynamo now confidently come first, and it is unlikely that Vladimir’s “curse” will prevent them from returning to the Russian football elite, where Rykov himself will be able to prove his level and, perhaps, even help the first Russian team, including at the upcoming world championship.