Dmitri Sychev was born on October 26, 1983 in Omsk, Soviet Union. Since Dmitri’s very boyhood his father, Evgeniy Mihailovitch who played for some amateur football teams was bringing him up to be a football leader. Despite the obvious liking for football, young Sychev also tried out in hockey, which was a more traditional sport for a Siberian. Later Dmitri commented this fact, saying that he would hardly become an outstanding hockey-player, at best just a rather good one and not necessarily a forward.
After gaining some football experience in the youth ranks of FC Dynamo Omsk and the famous Smena football academy Sychev had a trial at FC Zenit St. Petersburgh second squad, but his attempts to secure a starting spot there were not a success. In June 2000, the young footballer joined Spartak Tambov. In 2002, Sychev made a move to FC Spartak Moscow and scored 9 in 18 games for the club. In 2003, the promising striker was scouted for Olympique de Marseille. Here Dmitri made his debut on the European level in the game against FK Austria Wien and scored a goal thereby helping his new squad to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
In 2004, the striker returns to Russia. Then the head coach of FC Lokomotiv Moscow Yuri Semin was looking for a player who could rapidly adapt to the team’s style and could make a good finish at the end of a charge. Dmitri Sychev appeared to be an appropriate candidate and after short negotiations, kept on January 2004, Sychev joined Lokomotiv. Dmitri showed his paces in the very first season and thereby managed to prove his outmost significance for the new squad. Then he scored 15 goals and became one of the main architects of the champion’s title Lokomotiv won that year. Such a success was highly praised by the footballer’s colleagues: they named the striker the Russian Footballer of the Year.
At the end of 2009 Sychev, aged only 26, was named one of the most experienced players of the club. By that time he had already played six seasons with the team and won all the possible titles of Russian football.
In 2013 Dmitry went on with a loan spell at Dinamo Minsk. Later on he joined Volga.
As an international Sychev passed through several Russia youth national teams and in 2002 appeared for the senior squad at 2002 FIFA World Cup, thereby being the youngest player to feature for Russia or Soviet Union. At that very tournament his left-foot finish made him the fourth youngest goalscorer in the FIFA World Cup. His latter appearance in the jersey of the Russia national squad occurred in 2010.
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