Dmitry Stotsky is a Russian footballer playing in the midfielder position. The pupil of Kaliningrad football has come a long way in his career, which began in the amateur league. Currently, the footballer is a player in one of the most spectacular teams in Russia - FC Krasnodar.
Dmitry Valerievich Stotsky was born during the Soviet Union on December 1, 1989 in the city of Kaliningrad. From an early age, the child was active and showed interest in sports. He loved to play football in the yard with his peers. Interest in this sport began to form from childhood, which was facilitated by the fact that Dmitry's older brother was already engaged in the sports section of the local team. In addition, a football coach lived in the same house with the Stotskikh family. It was he who drew attention to the certain abilities of young Dmitry and invited him to enroll in the Kaliningrad football school.
Dmitry Stotsky began to receive his first football education at the specialized football school of the Yunost team (Kaliningrad). His sports career at the kids club began in 1996. The success of the young footballer and his talent allowed him to start playing in the adult amateur team Baltika Plus ten years later.
The beginning of the career of Dmitry Stotsky
In 2009, the extreme midfielder's creativity and game thought attracted the attention of the selection department of FC Baltika. The team spent the 2009 season in the FNL championship. In this league, Dmitry's career in professional football began. As the footballer himself says, since childhood he was rooting for the Kaliningrad club, so being in the first team was a real success for him.
Stotsky's career at Baltika counts more than a hundred matches. He entered the field 122 times, scored eight goals against opponents. True, Stotsky's sports path was not devoid of periods when the player was rented out. In particular, in 2010 he played 13 matches in the Lithuanian top division, where he played for the Klaipeda team.
Dmitry Stotsky's career in the RFPL
February 2015 was the time of Stotsky's transition to the club of the Russian Football Premier League. The first team playing in the domestic elite division was Ufa. In his debut match for Ufa players, Stotsky spent all ninety minutes of the meeting with Moscow Dynamo on the pitch. At the end of May, he scored his famous winning goal against Spartak Moscow. All in all, Dmitry Stotsky played 97 matches in FC Ufa, in which he managed to score ten times, hitting the opponent's goal with precise strikes.
At the end of the 2017-2018 season, the management of Ufa announced that midfielder Dmitry Stotsky will move to Krasnodar in the new calendar football year. The midfielder continues to play for the team from Kuban to this day.
It is known about the personal life of the Krasnodar midfielder that he is married. When he was still a player at Baltika, he became a father for the first time. This happened in 2014. To celebrate, the newly-made dad, in honor of the birth of his daughter, scored a goal in one of the FNL matches.