| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sergei Baltacha Jr. | ||
| Date of birth | 28 July 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Kiev, Soviet Union | ||
| Playing position | Left back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Petershill | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Dynamo Kiev | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1999–2003 | St. Mirren | 64 | (2) |
| 2003–2004 | Millwall | 2 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Petershill | ||
| National team | |||
| Scotland U-21 | 3 | (0) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Sergei Baltacha (born 28 July 1979 [1] in Kiev) is a Scottish-Ukrainian former footballer.
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He first played football in the Dynamo Kiev academy,[2] but began his professional career in Scotland, at St. Mirren, where he gained 3 caps for the Scotland U-21 side. He joined Millwall in January 2003[3] and was released a year later, after which he had an unsuccessful trial with Queen of the South,[3] before signing with Petershill in 2004.
Baltacha comes from a very athletic family — his father, Sergei, played football for the Soviet Union, his mother, Olga, was a pentathlete and his sister, Elena Baltacha, is the current British number one for Women's tennis.