Yuriy Kalitvintsev

Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev (, ; born 5 May 1968) is a football manager and former player.

Born in Russia, Kalitvintsev became a naturalized Ukrainian after a spell with Dynamo Kyiv and represented the Ukraine national team.

Kalitvintsev coached Ukraine U-19 to victory during the 2009 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

His son Vladyslav is also a player, a midfielder for Desna Chernihiv.

Club career A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, Dynamo Moscow, and Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club of Nizhniy Novgorod soon he was offered opportunity from the Ukrainian football giant, Dynamo, which he did not refuse playing alongside such players as Andriy Shevchenko, Serhii Rebrov, Vitaliy Kosovskyi, and others. His playmaking abilities during the late 1990s were particularly useful during his partnership with Serhii Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko on both the club and national team level where he earned an honorary position of a team captain. Kalitvintsev was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 1995. In 1998, Kalitvintsev earned a paid transfer to play for Trabzonspor in Turkey, returning to play for CSKA Kyiv to finish his playing career in 2000.

International career

Kalitvintsev earned 22 caps for the Ukraine national team. He scored one goal, a very important one against the group favorites, Croatia, at Republican Stadium in Kyiv on 11 June 1995 during qualification to the Euro 1996.

Coaching career Following his retirement, Kalitvintsev coached Zakarpattia Uzhhorod for several years. After Markevych's resignation of late August 2010 Kalitvintsev was appointed Ukraine's caretaker manager on 25 August 2010. On 21 April 2011, Oleh Blokhin was appointed head coach of the Ukraine national team; Kalitvintsev stayed on as Blokhin's assistant.

In June 2016, Kalitvintsev was appointed manager of Russian First League team Dynamo Moscow and let them to promotion back to the Russian Premier League.