Dmitri Alenichev

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Personal information

Full name	Dmitri Anatolievich Alenitchev
Date of birth	October 20, 1972 (age 34)
Place of birth	Velikie Luki, Russia
Height	5'9 (178 cm)[1]
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	none
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991 – 1993 1994 - 1998 1998 - 2000 1999 - 2000 2000 - 04 2004 - 2006	Lokomotiv Moscow Spartak Moscow AS Roma Perugia (Loan) FC Porto Spartak Moscow	69 (6) 122 (18) 28 (2) 15 (0) 84 (12) 21 (3)
National team²
1996 – 2005	Russia	54 (6)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 July 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 26 July 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Dmitri Anatolievich Alenitchev (Russian: Дмитрий Аленичев) (born 20 October 1972 in Velikie Luki, Russia) is a former professional footballer.

Despite being a Spartak Moscow fan, Alenichev debuted 1991 for Moscow rivals Lokomotiv, where he played during four years before moving to Spartak, where in five years he won three Russian leagues and two cups, and was also elected Russian player of the year in 1997. He won a transfer to Serie A side AS Roma, played 21 matches in the first season, but after only seven matches played, he moved to AC Perugia in December.

In 2000 he was bought by FC Porto, where he made a good first impression (scored the tying against Sporting in the Portuguese Super Cup), and made a good first season where Porto captured the Portuguese cup 2-0 against CS Marítimo, Alenichev scoring the second goal. In the following season, Alenichev suffered some animosity from new Porto coach Octávio Machado (the same happened with compatriot Sergei Ovchinnikov) and spent most of the first half of the season sidelined, under the shadow of Deco. As soon as Octávio was fired and replaced with José Mourinho, Alenichev's luck changed. Although he still didn't play in the starting eleven, he was usually the first player to jump from the bench, especially when Mourinho passed from a 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 formation. A starting player in the UEFA Cup final and mid-game substitute in the Champions League final, Alenichev scored on both: against Celtic he scored the second goal, following a pass from Deco, and against AS Monaco he closed the scoreline with a powerful volley shot following a deflected through cross from Derlei.

During Euro 2004, where he played the whole three matches Russia disputed, he announced his desire to return to Spartak Moscow, and in appreciation for the services done for the club, the FC Porto board made no objections to a transfer.

On 8 April 2006 Sport-Express published Alenichev's interview containing severe criticism of Aleksandr Starkov, Spartak's former head coach.[2][3] Following that, Alenichev was fined, dismissed from the first team, transfer listed 14 April [4] and on 10 September his contract was finally terminated on mutual agreement[5].

[edit] Trivia

Dmitri Alenichev is one of only four players to score goals in two consecutive Cup Finals of different European competitions, the others being Ronald Koeman, Ronaldo and Steven Gerrard.

[edit] Titles

Russian championship: 1994, 1996, 1997
Russian Cups: 1994, 1998
Uefa Cup: 2002/03
Champions League: 2003/04
Portuguese championship: 2002/03, 2003/04
Portuguese Cups: 2000/01, 2002/03
Portuguese Supercups: 2001/02, 2003/04

[edit] External links

Dmitri Alenichev celebrates goal with Porto

Preceded by Andrey Tikhonov	Russian Footballer of the Year 1997	Succeeded by Yegor Titov

	Russia squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Nigmatullin \| 2 Kovtun \| 3 Nikiforov \| 4 Smertin \| 5 Solomatin \| 6 Semshov \| 7 Onopko \| 8 Karpin \| 9 Titov \| 10 Mostovoi \| 11 Beschastnykh \| 12 Cherchesov \| 13 Dayev \| 14 Chugainov \| 15 Alenichev \| 16 Kerzhakov \| 17 Semak \| 18 Sennikov \| 19 Pimenov \| 20 Izmailov \| 21 Khokhlov \| 22 Sychev \| 23 Filimonov \| Coach: Romantsev