Penza, 13 September 2012. PenzaNews. Former football player, TV commentator and agent Dmitry Gradilenko became a sports director of Penza football club Zenit.

According to the spokesman of FC Zenit Nikolay Shumilin, this position was vacant, and the club management decided to fill it in.

“Dmitry Gradilenko accepted our proposal, the contract is signed. He is interested in the team, and has already begun inquiring about the sporting life of Zenit attending the trainings,” he stated.

Nikolay Shumilin added that Dmitry Gradilenko has wide game experience.

“In the past he played in many well-known Russian teams including Moscow Spartak. In 1990 he participated with this team in the match against Italian club Napoli with Diego Maradona,” he concluded.