Andriy Rusol

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Personal information
Andriy Rusol

Date of birth	January 16, 1983 (1983-01-16) (age 25)
Place of birth	Kirovohrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.82 m
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Youth clubs
	Zirka Kirovohrad
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-1999 1999-2003 2003-	Zirka Kirovohrad Kryvbass Kryvy Ryh Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 (0) 40 (0) 136 (5)
National team²
2004-	Ukraine	40 (3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 September 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 21 November 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Andriy Anatoliyovych Rusol (born January 16, 1983 in Kirovohrad, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football player. He is 182 cm tall and weighs 75 kg.

1 Career
- 1.1 Club career
- 1.2 National team
2 Personal life
3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Club career

Rusol is a defender. He started his career with FC Zirka Kirovohrad in the 1998/99 season. He then transferred to FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih for the 1999/2000 season. He played for Kryvbas until 2003, when he was transferred to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. He played 117 matches for Dnipro and scored 5 goals. In the 2007-2008 season Andriy finnaly became the captian of Dnipro.

Many of Europe's top clubs were interested in signing him this summer, Olympique de Marseille, Werder Bremen, Schalke and Bayern Munich all looking at him.

[edit] National team

Rusol debuted for the Ukrainian national football team on March 31, 2004. Since then he played 35 matches and scored 3 goals (as of June 23, 2006).

Rusol scored Ukraine's first ever World Cup finals goal on the 4th minute in the game against Saudi Arabia in the Fifa World Cup 2006. Recently he was the captain when Ukraine faced Sweden in Solna and beat them 1-0.

[edit] Personal life

At this moment, he is a bachelor. At an interview, he said that he wanted to keep his freedom. He likes to listen jazz and read good books. He is an intellectual player.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

Dnipro's website (in Russian/Ukrainian)
FIFA World Cup 2006 Profile

v • d • e Ukraine squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup

1 Shovkovskiy • 2 Nesmachniy • 3 Yatsenko • 4 Tymoschuk • 5 Yezerskiy • 6 Rusol • 7 Shevchenko • 8 Shelayev • 9 Husyev • 10 Voronin • 11 Rebrov • 12 Pyatov • 13 Chygrynskiy • 14 Husin • 15 Milevskiy • 16 Vorobei • 17 Vashchuk • 18 Nazarenko • 19 Kalynychenko • 20 Byelik • 21 Rotan • 22 Sviderskiy • 23 Shust • Coach: Blokhin