Gitya, Valery Valerievich

A pupil of Kirovograd football. In the first half of his career, he performed under the name Petrinsky. He made his debut at an adult level in the summer of 1992 at the Zvezda club (Kirovograd), who played in the second league of Ukraine . After spending the season in his native team, he moved to the club of the first league of Belarus IPPC (Mozyr), where he played half the season. Then he played in the transitional and second leagues of Ukraine for “ Sirius ” (Yellow Waters), was distinguished by high performance for the midfielder, scoring 13 goals in a calendar year, and became the winner of the transitional (third) league of the 1993/94 season.

At the beginning of 1995 he was invited to the Niva club (Vinnitsa) in the club of the major league of Ukraine . The debut match in the championship was played on March 4, 1995 against the Carpathians , having played all 90 minutes ^[1] . In total, before the end of the season he spent 7 matches in the major league and two games in the Cup of Ukraine , where he became a quarter-finalist.

In 1996, he played in Russia for Volga (Ulyanovsk), the silver medalist of the zone tournament of the third league . The following year he played in the first division of Russia for Zarya (Leninsk-Kuznetsk), became the quarterfinal of the Cup of Russia , a participant in a winning away match in the 1/8 finals against CSKA Moscow ^[2] . In the summer of 1997, he left the Russian club and played in one of the lower divisions of Poland.

Since the summer of 1998, he played in the second league of Ukraine for Metallurg (Novomoskovsk), while he had new documents for the name Gitya.

In the spring of 1999 he moved to the Simferopol Tavria . He played for the club the only match in the major league - May 14, 1999 against the " Carpathian " ^[3] . It soon became clear that the player under the old name retains a valid contract with the Lenin-Kuznetsk “Dawn”, so he does not have the right to speak for “Tavria”. The player received a lifelong disqualification from the PFL of Ukraine, which was later withdrawn when Valery settled labor disputes with the Russian club, but the Tavria leadership refused to continue relations with him ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} .

At the beginning of 2000, he was watched in the Russian club SKA-Energia ^[8] . In the same year he played at the amateur level for the team "Artemis" (Kirovograd) and became the champion of the Kirovograd region. At the beginning of 2001 he returned to professional football and for five incomplete seasons played for Pitman in the second league.

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