Vasily Khomutovsky

Football player infobox
playername= Vasily Khomutovsky
fullname = Vasily Iosifovich Khomutovsky
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1978|8|30|mf=y
cityofbirth = Minsk
countryofbirth = Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
height = Height|m=1.91
position = Goalkeeper
currentclub = FC Carl Zeiss Jena
clubnumber = 55
years = 1994-1995
1996
1997
1997
1998
1998
1999
1999
2000
2000-2001
2001
2002
2002-2003
2003-2006
2006-2007
2008
2008-
clubs = Zmena Minsk
Ataka-Aura-2 Minsk
Ataka-Aura Minsk
Ataka-2 Minsk
BATE Borisov
Zmena-BATE Minsk ("loan")
BATE Borisov
Zmena-BATE Minsk ("loan")
Torpedo Minsk
SV Waldhof 07 Mannheim
FC Dynamo Moscow
Volgar GP Astrakhan
Metalist Kharkiv
Steaua Bucureşti
Tom Tomsk
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Augsburg
caps(goals) = 04 (0)
16 (0)
12 (0)
19 (0)
11(0)
06 (0)
11 (0)
14 (0)
12 (0)
02 (0)
08 (0)
05 (0)
02 (0)
50 (0)
0? (?)
12 (0)
nationalyears = 2000-
nationalteam = Belarus
nationalcaps(goals) = 23 (0)
pcupdate = April 16, 2008
ntupdate = November 27, 2006

Vasily Iosifovich Khomutovsky (Russian: "Василий Иосифович Хомутовский"; Romanian: "Vasili Hamutovski"; born August 30, 1978) is a Belarusian football goalkeeper, who plays for FC Augsburg and the Belarus national team.

Football career

He started his career in 1994 with Zmena Minsk, a club from the Belarusian third division. Since 1995, he has been regularly transferring from one club to another and subsequently played for Ataka-Aura Minsk in 1996, BATE Borisov in 1998, Zmena-BATE Minsk in the same year, again BATE Borisov in 1999 and then again Zmena-BATE Minsk, also in 1999. In 2000, he moved to Tarpeda-MAZ Minsk before transferring abroad for the first time in the summer of the same year, to German side SV Waldhof Mannheim, who played in the 2nd Bundesliga at the time. However, he spent the entire season with the German team as the second-choice keeper and only made two league appearances.

He went on to move to Russian side Dinamo Moskva in 2001, but soon moved to Volgar GP Astrakhan for the beginning of the 2002 season. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=17891.html|title=Khomutovsky ends unhappy Dinamo spell|date=2002-02-21|publisher=UEFA.com] However, he only spent one half-season with the team before moving to Metalist Kharkiv for the 2002-2003 season. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=32/newsid=29888.html|title=Metalist at the double|date=2002-08-11|publisher=UEFA.com]

In the summer of 2003, he joined Romanian team Steaua Bucharest on a free transfer, signing a contract until January 2007. He played three seasons for Steaua and won the Romanian league title twice. In early 2006, he left Romania and joined FC Tom Tomsk, signing a two-year contract. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=388483.html|date=2006-01-25|publisher=UEFA.com|title=Various title]

In January 2008, he joined FC Carl Zeiss Jena, a relegation-threatened side in the German 2nd Bundesliga, where he signed a contract until the end of the season with an automatic one-year extension in case the club managed to stay in the 2nd Bundesliga. He helped the team reach the semi-finals of the German Cup, where they were knocked out by Borussia Dortmund.

Following Carl Zeiss Jena's relegation to the 3rd Liga, he signed a two-year contract with FC Augsburg.

International

Khomutovsky has been capped several times for Belarus. He was part of the team in their qualifying campaigns for the UEFA Euro 2004 and 2008 as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup, appearing in a total of 10 qualifiers for the three tournaments. [cite web|url=http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=7977&modus=4|date=2008-04-16|publisher=Weltfussball.de|title=International matches]

References

External links

* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=700 national-football-teams.com]
* [http://klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=en&id=356867598724014]
* [http://legioner.kulichki.com/index.php?id=11&lang=ru&player=273 Khomutovski at Bundesliga]
* [http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/spieler/15976/vasilikhomutovski/profil.html Transfermarkt profile] de icon