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| Full name | Dmitri Viktorovich Kharine | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 August 1968 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Moscow, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
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| Current club | Luton Town | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1982 | FShM Moscow | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 1982–1987 | FC Torpedo Moscow | 63 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1988–1991 | FC Dynamo Moscow | 40 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1991–1992 | CSKA Moscow | 34 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1992–1999 | Chelsea | 118 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Celtic | 11 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Hornchurch | 23 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 289 | (0) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1988–1991 | USSR | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1992 | CIS | 11 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1992–1998 | Russia | 23 | (0) | |||||||||
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| 2004– | Luton Town (goalkeeping coach) | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Dmitri Viktorovich Kharine (Russian: Дмитрий Викторович Харин), (born 16 August 1968 in Moscow) is a retired association footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeping coach at Conference National club Luton Town.[1]
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He played for Russian sides Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow and CSKA Moscow in the early part of his career, before moving to English FA Premier League club Chelsea in December 1992 for £400,000.
With Chelsea, Kharine impressed in their run to the 1994 FA Cup Final – though he conceded four goals in the final itself – and then the club's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup run a year later, where they reached the semi-finals in their first European campaign since the 1970s. His later years at the club were blighted by injury problems and the signing of Dutch goalkeeper Ed de Goey, which limited him to 20 appearances in his last three seasons. In total, he played in 146 games for Chelsea.
Kharine wasn't fit for inclusion in Chelsea's FA Cup Final triumph at the end of the 1996–97 season (Norwegian Frode Grodås played instead), and didn't make the squad for the Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup final victories a year later. When Gianluca Vialli became Chelsea manager he established de Goey as the club's first choice goalkeeper; Kharine was limited to five appearances that season, mainly in cup games. He remained at the club as a reserve goalkeeper for a further two seasons after this.
Kharine signed for Scottish side Celtic in the summer of 1999 on a free transfer. He arrived at Celtic Park as the first signing of new management team John Barnes and Kenny Dalglish, but injury problems ensured that he played just 11 games for the club.
He was released in the summer of 2002 and signed for non-League club Hornchurch, where he was sent-off on his debut.
Kharine was also an international; as a result of the political turmoil in his home nation, he ended up playing for three different teams. He won six caps for the USSR, eleven for the CIS and then 23 for Russia. Aided in part by the short-lived nature of the CIS, he was their most-capped player. He represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the football competition. He played for the CIS at the 1992 European Championships, performing well in the 0–0 draw with Holland in Gothenburg; and for Russia at USA 94 and Euro 96, with his team going out in the group stages on each occasion. He lost his last cap in September 1998 against Ukraine.
He currently works as the goalkeeping coach at English Conference side Luton Town.
His younger brother Mikhail Kharin played football professionally as well.
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