Oleg Iachtchouk
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| Oleg Iachtchouk | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Oleg Iachtchouk | |
| Date of birth | October 26, 1977 | |
| Place of birth | Lanivtsi, Soviet Union | |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Centre forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Cercle Brugge | |
| Number | 9 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1990–1994 | Elov | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1994–1996 1996–2006 2006–2007 2007– |
Nyva Ternopil Anderlecht Ergotelis Cercle Brugge |
34 (10) 119 (31) 26 (3) 24 (9) |
| National team | ||
| 1994 1995–1996 1998–1999 |
Ukraine U17 Ukraine U18 Ukraine U21 |
4 (3) 6 (2) 3 (2) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Oleg Iachtchouk (Ukrainian: Олег Ящук, born October 26, 1977 in Lanivtsi, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Cercle Brugge and also holds the Belgian nationality. His last name is sometimes transliterated as Yaschuk or Jachtsjoek.
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[edit] Club career
Iachtchouk first made a name for himself in the Ukrainian Premier League in the 1995–96 season. Playing for an unfashionable FC Nyva Ternopil side, then a 17-year old, on matchday 1 he scored a hat trick at Shakhtar Donetsk helping his side to a shock 4-2 away win.[1] He finished the season as the club's top scorer with 10 goals as Nyva narrowly avoided relegation.
Iachtchouk's talent caught the eye of Anderlecht and he signed for the Belgian club at the end of the season. He made a good start in the first team in the 1990s but then became injured for long periods of time. In some seasons he barely played at all because of recurring injuries, yet Anderlecht extended his contract in 2001 for another five years. In 2006 he left the club, having played only 119 league matches during ten seasons.
He signed for Ergotelis in Greece for the 2006–07 season where he finally managed to shake off his injury problems.
On June 14, 2007, Iachtchouk decided to return to Belgium, signing a contract with Cercle Brugge who had just appointed his former Anderlecht teammate Glen De Boeck as manager.
[edit] International career
Iachtchouk has played for all of Ukraine's youth national teams (Under-17, Under-18 and Under-21), including a spell alongside Andriy Shevchenko for the Under-18s. In 1994 he became his team's highest scorer at the European Under-17 Championship in Ireland where Ukraine finished 3rd.[2] One of the three goals Iachtchouk scored at the tournament was against Belgium.
However, Iachtchouk has not won a single full international cap: initially due to persistent injuries, and when he finally recovered it emerged that his dual Ukrainian/Belgian nationality was an obstacle to a call-up.[3]
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Preceded by Darko Pivaljević |
Cercle Brugge Topscorer alongside Stijn De Smet and Tom De Sutter 2008 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Shakhtar 2–4 Nyva T. ukrainiansoccer.net. Retrieved on 23 December 2007.
- ^ Ukrainian Youth National Teams. ukrsoccerhistory.com. Retrieved on 23 December 2007.
- ^ Yaschuk: I am not interested in playing for Belgium. ukrainiansoccer.net. Retrieved on 26 December 2007.
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