Oleksandr Yatsenko

Personal information
Oleksandr Yatsenko
Full name	Oleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko
Date of birth	February 24, 1985 (1985-02-24) (age 23)
Place of birth	Kiev, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	FC Chornomorets Odessa
Number	18
Youth clubs
2001–02 2001–05	Dynamo-3 Kyiv Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002–05 2005–06 2007 2007–present	Dynamo Kyiv Kharkiv (loan) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan) Chornomorets	10 (0) 37 (1) 0 (0) 4 (0)
National team²
2004 2005 2006 2005–present	Ukraine (U-19) Ukraine (U-20) Ukraine (U-21) Ukraine	? (?) 24 (3) 28 (3) 1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 10, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of August 10, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Oleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko (born February 24, 1985, in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football player, who currently plays for the Ukrainian Premier League team FC Chornomorets Odessa. He is a defender, and usually plays in the sweeper position. Yatsenko is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv youth system, and has featured 10 times for their senior team. He went on loan twice; first to Kharkiv in 2005, and in 2007 to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk for the spring half of the 2006–07 season. In July of 2007 he signed a three-year contract with FC Chornomorets Odessa.

He has represented Ukraine at all levels. He was a semi-finalist at the 2004 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, played in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. He captained his team to a silver medal at the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. Yatsenko was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Ukraine squad as a replacement for the injured Serhiy Fedorov. He currently has one cap for the senior Ukraine national football team, in a 1-0 friendly win over Japan on October 12, 2005.

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