Ivan Valeryevich Melnikov (russian: Иван Валерьевич Мельников; born 9 January 1997) is a Russian
football
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player who plays as
right-back or
right midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
He made his debut in the
Russian Professional Football League
The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League is the third level of Russian professional football.
History
In 1998–2010, it was run by the Pr ...
for
FC Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...
on 20 July 2015 in a game against
FC Energomash Belgorod
FC Energomash Belgorod (russian: ФК "Энергомаш" Белгород) was a Russian association football, football team based in Belgorod. It was founded in 2014 after the previous Belgorod team FC Salyut Belgorod went bankrupt. For 2015 ...
.
He made his
Russian Premier League debut for
FC Amkar Perm on 29 October 2017 in a game against
FC Ural Yekaterinburg.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
Profile by Russian Professional Football League
1997 births
People from Domodedovo (town)
Footballers from Moscow Oblast
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Amkar Perm players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Tyumen players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players
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