Dmitri Bulykin

Dmitri Bulykin

Personal information
Full name	Dmitri Olegovich Bulykin
Date of birth	20 November 1979 (1979-11-20) (age 32)
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Ajax
Number	19
Youth career
1986–1990	Lokomotiv Moscow
1991–1994	Trudovye Rezervy Moscow
1995–1996	CSKA Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1997–2000	Lokomotiv Moscow	68	(18)
2001–2007	Dynamo Moscow	129	(27)
2007–2008	Bayer Leverkusen	15	(2)
2008–2011	Anderlecht	10	(3)
2009–2010	→ Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)	10	(1)
2010–2011	→ ADO Den Haag (loan)	30	(21)
2011–	Ajax	6	(3)
National team‡
2003–2005	Russia	15	(7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 November 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Dmitri Olegovich Bulykin (Russian: Дмитрий Олегович Булыкин; born 20 November 1979 in Moscow) is an association footballer who plays for AFC Ajax in the Dutch Eredivisie.^[1]

Before joining Ajax, he played for Anderlecht, Bayer Leverkusen, Lokomotiv Moscow and Dynamo Moscow. In 2003–2005, he played regularly in the Russian national team.

Club career

Lokomotiv Moscow

Bulykin began his football career with Lokomotiv Moscow in 1997. He stayed with Lokomotiv for three years scoring 28 goals in 94 appearances and attracted quite a bit of attention. In Lokomotiv Moscow Bulykin won Silver medals (1999, 2000), Bronze (1997) and two times Russian Cup (1997, 2000).

Dynamo Moscow

In 2001 Bulykin signed with Dynamo Moscow and quickly established himself as the first team player for the next three seasons. He scored a total of 29 goals in 90 appearances for the club. In 2003 was invited to the Russian national team.

With improving performances for both club and country, Bulykin, who had never hidden his desire to move to a foreign club, was expected to move abroad. In January 2004 he spent two weeks on trial with Everton FC, but he does not have enough caps for a work permit.^[2] In 2005, hoping move to England, Bulykin went on trials in Portsmouth FC but that transfer did not happen.^[3] As a result, Bulykin remained with Dynamo, and was quickly relegated to play in the second team, and eventually excluded from training process altogether. While almost breaking his relationship with Dynamo, he re-signed for the 2006 season, after the former Russia manager Yuri Syomin was appointed as the club's manager. On 31 March, when Bulykin was ready to come as a substitute against Saturn, Syomin shouted at him, "Take off the mittens!", a moment that was televised live. Syomin later said that he considers wearing gloves when the weather is relatively mild to be a sign of unwillingness to work hard,^[4] while Bulykin himself took Syomin's shout as an emboldening, albeit a bit over the top one.^[5] Syomin was sacked mid season and under the next manager, Andrei Kobelev, Bulykin was placed on the transfer list, where he spent the end of 2006. Trying to resolve Bulykin's deadlock with Dynamo, its general manager, Dmitri Ivanov, stated that the club would release Bulykin with no transfer cost, should there be any interest from anyone.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

On 28 August 2007, Bulykin secured a 1-year contract with German club Bayer Leverkusen, after scoring a goal in two friendly matches during his trial for the Bundesliga club.^[6] On 19 December 2007 he scored for the first time for the club, netting two goals against Zurich in the UEFA Cup, and was declared "man of the match" by UEFA. In Round 20, Bulykin, starting for the first time in his Bayer career, broke the Bundesliga record for the fastest yellow card received (on 12th second). He played 19 official games in this 2007–2008 season and he scored 5 goals for Bayer Leverkusen.

R.S.C. Anderlecht

On 19 August 2008 he moved to Belgian club Anderlecht, hoping to gain more game time as a striker. After initial success where he scored two headers in his debut in the Belgian Pro League, he was quickly benched by the coach Ariël Jacobs and had marginal appearances through the rest of 2008. He played 10 games only and scored 3 goals.

Fortuna Düsseldorf

After being idle for most of 2009, Bulykin was loaned back to Germany, this time to a Bundesliga second division team Fortuna Düsseldorf.^[7] He started with an impressive play in his first match against Hamburger SV in the German Cup. He had bad luck with a serious injury that took him five months to recover from, which made this whole season very unlucky.

ADO Den Haag

While Anderlecht won the Belgian Supercup, Bulykin was on trial at ADO Den Haag. The Dutch Eredivisie team decided to loan him for the 2010–11 season. He has since scored more than twenty goals and became popular among ADO Den Haag fans. After the season Ado den Haag tried to buy Bulykin, but an agreement couldn't be reached and he returned to Anderlecht after his season in the Netherlands.

AFC Ajax

On 31 August 2011 it was announced that RSC Anderlecht and Ajax had come to terms on the move of Dmitri Bulykin to the Amsterdam club as a free transfer. Bulykin signed a 1-year contract with an option for the club to extend it for one more year.^[8] In his first competition match, against rivals PSV Eindhoven, he scored the second Ajax goal, deciding the game on a 2–2 draw.

International career

Bulykin made his debut for Russia on 9 September 2003 in the Euro 2004 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland under manager Georgi Yartsev. He made quite an impression in his only second appearance by scoring three goals in Russia's next qualifier against Switzerland. Russia eventually won 4–1 to subsequently qualify for the final tournament.

In the final tournament Bulykin struggled in Russia's two losses against Spain and Portugal. Bulykin finally made an impact against Greece by scoring a header off a Rolan Gusev corner in a game where Russia emerged victorious 2–1 to console their fans being the only team able to beat the eventual champions.

Bulykin was called up for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers and scored in the very first round against Slovakia in a 1–1 draw. He played in Russia 15 games and scored 7 goals.

Career statistics

As of 6 November 2011

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Russia			League		Russian Cup		Europe		Total
1997	Lokomotiv Moscow	Premier League	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1998			18	7	1	1	4	4	23	12
1999			26	8	1	1	9	3	36	12
2000			22	3	4	1	7	0	33	4
2001	Dynamo Moscow	Premier League	28	10	2	2	3	0	33	12
2002			27	5	1	0	0	0	28	5
2003			28	8	1	0	0	0	29	8
2004			22	1	2	0	0	0	24	1
2005			8	1	1	0	0	0	9	1
2006			10	2	2	1	0	0	12	3
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Europe		Total
2007–08	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bundesliga	14	2	0	0	4	3	18	5
2008–09			1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Belgium			League		Belgian Cup		Europe		Total
2008–09	R.S.C. Anderlecht	Pro League	10	3	2	0	0	0	12	3
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Europe		Total
2009–10	Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)	2. Bundesliga	10	1	1	0	0	0	11	1
Netherlands			League		KNVB Cup		Europe		Total
2010–11	ADO Den Haag (loan)	Eredivisie	30	21	2	1	0	0	32	22
2011–12	AFC Ajax	Eredivisie	6	3	1	1	2	0	9	4
Total	Russia		191	45	15	6	23	7	229	58
	Germany		24	3	1	0	4	3	29	6
	Belgium		10	3	2	0	0	0	12	3
	Netherlands		36	24	3	2	2	0	41	26
Career total			261	75	21	8	29	10	311	93

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 September 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	1 – 1	4–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification
2	10 September 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	2 – 1	4–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification
3	10 September 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	3 – 1	4–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification
4	11 October 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Georgia	1 – 1	3–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification
5	20 June 2004	Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Greece	2 - 0	2-1	UEFA Euro 2004
6	18 August 2004	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Lithuania	3 – 1	4–3	Friendly match
7	4 September 2004	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Slovakia	1 – 1	1–1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Lokomotiv Moscow

• Russian Premier League: Runner-up (Silver) 1999, 2000
• Russian Premier League: 3rd Place (Bronze) 1998
• Russian Cup: 1999, 2000

R.S.C. Anderlecht

• Belgian First Division: Runner-up 2008–09
• Belgian Supercup: 2010

References

1. ^ "Ajax contracteert Dmitry Bulykin" (in Dutch). ajax.nl. 31 August 2011. http://www.ajax.nl/Nieuws/Nieuwsarchief/Nieuws-artikel/Ajax-contracteert-Dmitry-Bulykin.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2011. 
2. ^ "Everton move for Butt". BBC Sport. 25 January 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/e/everton/3419157.stm. Retrieved 20 December 2007. 
3. ^ "Pompey line up move for Bulykin". BBC Sport. 24 January 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/football/teams/p/portsmouth/4203237.stm. Retrieved 20 December 2007. 
4. ^ "Юрий СЕМИН: "ХОЧУ ОБЪЯСНИТЬСЯ С БОЛЕЛЬЩИКАМИ"" (in Russian). Sport Express. 20 April 2006. http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2006-04-20/2_1/. Retrieved 18 November 2009. 
5. ^ "Булыкин: Я еще молодой и перспективный игрок" (in Russian). Sovetsky Sport. 15 November 2006. http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/242187. Retrieved 18 November 2009. 
6. ^ "Bulykin looks to revive career at Leverkusen". soccerway.com. http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/August/27/bulykin-looks-to-revive-career-at-leverkusen. Retrieved 20 December 2007. 
7. ^ "Dmitri Bulykin kommt zu Fortuna" (in German). fortuna-duesseldorf.de. 29 July 2009. http://www2.fortuna-duesseldorf.de/pages/news/uebersicht-news/artikel/article/dmitri-bulykin-kommt-zu-fortuna/index.htm. Retrieved 20 August 2009. 
8. ^ "Ajax contracteert Dmitry Bulykin" (in Dutch). ajax.nl. 31 August 2011. http://www.ajax.nl/Nieuws/Nieuwsarchief/Nieuws-artikel/Ajax-contracteert-Dmitry-Bulykin.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2011. 

External links

• Dmitri Bulykin at transfermarkt.de (German)
• Leverkusen who's who
• Player profile (Russian)
• Dmitri Bulykin at ADOstats (Dutch)

Persondata
Name	Bulykin, Dmitri
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	20 November 1979
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death