Vladislav Kalitvintsev - 23-year-old midfielder of Odessa “Chernomorets”, loved by local fans due to his precocious football wisdom, excellent standards and the ability to sharpen the attacking game of his team at the right time. Genes played a significant role in this. His father is a famous player in the past Dynamo Kyiv Yuri Kalitvintsev.
First football steps
Vladislav Kalitvintsev from early childhood almost never parted with the ball. At eight years old, he began to study at the Kiev football school "Eurobis". There was no group of his peers, so Kalitvintsev Jr. had to deal with ten-year-olds. However, among them, he showed himself as a gifted player.
Two years later, Vladislav Kalitvintsev received an invitation from the Kiev children and youth football club Dynamo. Here he begins to train under the leadership of Yevgeny Rudakov and Valery Shabelnikov, and later the legendary Alexander Biba became a coach. It was these mentors who could make an ordinary gifted young football player out of an ordinary boy.
Professional career
Already at the age of 16, Vladislav Kalitvintsev managed to attract the attention of the coaches of the Kiev Grand double who began to declare his young talent for official matches. The debut of the player for Dynamo 2 took place in April 2009 in a duel against Goverla from Uzhgorod. In that season, Vladislav spent 15 matches, having managed to score 7 goals in them. Particularly memorable was the exact free-kick in the game with FC Kharkiv.
A year later, the young football player’s dream came true - he is higher on the field as part of the Dynamo main team. This debut took place in the match against Zaporizhzhya Metallurg on May 9, 2010. Vladislav Kalitvintsev, whose photo is presented to your attention in the article, not only noted himself with an assist, but also became the youngest player to play for the “white and blue” in the Ukrainian Championship. At that time, the player was 17 years old and 4 months old.
Unfortunately, the path to further football success for some time crossed out a knee injury. After a rehabilitation course, Vladislav began to restore his game form in the Dynamo youth squad, occasionally leaving the field and for the main team.
Unable to break through to the base of the “white and blue”, Kalitvintsev Jr. decided to temporarily change the situation. The Dynamo leadership released him for six months in the Slovak Slovan, for which the Ukrainian midfielder spent 13 matches without scoring a single goal.
Six months later, Kalitvintsev returned to the location of the Kiev club. Here, before the end of the season, he managed to spend several matches for the main team and score one goal.
In 2015, Vladislav Kalitvintsev got a chance to constantly go on the field. He was rented for one season by Chernomorets from Odessa. Already in the first matches for the “sailors" 22-year-old midfielder began to gain a permanent place in the starting lineup. He has 5 goals in 20 games for Chernomorets in the 2015/16 season.
Team Games
In addition to his club career, Vladislav played for the Ukrainian teams of different ages. For the U-19 team, Kalitvintsev Jr. spent 14 matches, scoring 3 goals. In the T-shirt of the youth team (U-21), the midfielder went on the field 15 times and twice managed to sign in the wrong gates.
It is very likely that a confident game for Odessa “Chernomorets” will allow him to get into the main team of the country in the very near future.