Dmitry Yuryevich Chistyakov - a young Russian football player acting as a defender. A graduate of the football academy "Zenith". Since 2019, plays in the football club "Rostov".
Biography
The future footballer was born in January 1994 on the thirteenth in the small Russian town of Pikalevo. From an early age, the boy showed interest in various sports, but he especially liked to play football. Each time, "going on the field" in the yard or at school, he imagined that someday he would play for real, in the colors of his favorite club or national team. Since the family of the future star of Russian football was not rich, and there wasn’t much choice in his hometown, they decided to send the boy to the Pikalevo Metallurg football school.
The guy quickly proved himself, showed all his talents and after several years he moved to the academy more solidly, in Tikhvin “Kirovets”. This transition became crucial for Chistyakov. At one of the games of the youth team, he was noticed by a representative of the Zenit football club and suggested moving to their academy. Dmitry agreed without hesitation.
Professional career
Several years at the academy of one of the best football clubs in the country were not in vain, and in 2012 the club offered the player his first professional contract. Despite all this, the level of the young football player was far from ideal. Chistyakov didn’t even get into rotation, and he could only dream about the basic composition. In the same year, he tried to move to “Rostov”, where he played only three matches for the youth team and returned back to “Zenith”. Starting next season, Chistyakov was sent to Zenit-2, where he became one of the key players. During the season he appeared on the field 44 times.
In 2015, the club management agreed to transfer Chistyakov on loan to the Armenian club "Mika". The agreement was designed for one season, during which a talented defender entered the field seventeen times as part of the national championship and five times in the Armenian Cup. By the time of returning from lease from Chistyakov, the contract with Zenit was coming to an end, by mutual agreement of the player and the club, the agreement was not renewed, and Dmitry became a free agent for some period.
This did not last long, despite the fact that in the Premier League there is no demand for players of this level, he quickly found a new job. The Shinnik football club urgently needed reinforcements in the defense line and Chistyakov was considered as one of the main options. In the Yaroslavl club, he played for two years, after which he moved to Tambov for one season. In 2019, he signed a contract with Rostov from the Premier League. In September of the same year, he was first called up to the national team for the qualifiers for Euro 2020.
