Pavel Yakovenko

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Pavel Yakovenko
Full name	Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakovenko
Date of birth	December 19, 1964 (1964-12-19) (age 43)
Place of birth	Nikopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	none
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981-1982 1982-1993 1993-1994	Metalist Kharkiv Dynamo Kyiv FC Sochaux	2 (0) 161 (5) 6 (1)
National team
1986-1990	USSR	19 (1)
Teams managed
1994-1995 1996-1997 2002-2004 2004-2005 2005-2007 2007-	FC Metalurh Nikopol Uralan Elista Ukraine U-21 FC Khimki FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Rostov
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Pavlo Oleksandrovych Yakovenko (Ukrainian: Павло Олександрович Яковенко) - or Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakovenko (Russian: Павел Александрович Яковенко) -, born 19 December 1964 in Nikopol, Ukrainian SSR), is a former footballer and USSR international. Yakovenko's superb build-up play during the mid-1980s made him the starting midfielder for both Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national football team during their respective successful campaigns of winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and advancing to the quarterfinals in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. However, recurrent injuries had limited Yakovenko's playing time after 1987 and Yakovenko never returned to his earlier form, becoming a bench player at best.

[edit] Individual honours

European Footballer of the Year: t-21st in 1986

v • d • e USSR squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup

1 Dasayev • 2 Bessonov • 3 Chivadze • 4 Morozov • 5 Demyanenko • 6 Bubnov • 7 Yaremchuk • 8 Yakovenko • 9 Zavarov • 10 Kuznetsov • 11 Blokhin • 12 Bal • 13 Litovchenko • 14 Rodionov • 15 Larionov • 16 Chanov • 17 Yevtushenko • 18 Protasov • 19 Belanov • 20 Aleinikov • 21 Rats • 22 Krakovsky • Coach: Lobanovsky