Oleksandr Kosyrin

Oleksandr Kosyrin
Personal information
Full nameOleksandr Mykhaylovych Kosyrin
Date of birth18 June 1977
Place of birthZaporizhia, Soviet Union
Height1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current team
Free agent
Youth career
FC Torpedo Zaporizhia
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1997FC Torpedo Zaporizhia21(0)
1997–2000FC Dynamo Kyiv5(1)
1998–1999FC Cherkasy (loan)18(11)
1999–2000Maccabi Tel Aviv17(4)
2000–2002FC Arsenal Kyiv32(4)
2002–2005FC Chornomorets Odessa86(44)
2005–2008FC Metalurh Donetsk61(26)
2008–2010FC Chornomorets Odessa19(8)
2010–2011FC Odesa41(15)
2012–2013FC Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod2(1)
National team
1996–1998Ukraine (U-21)6(4)
2003–2005Ukraine7(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 March 2012.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2012

Oleksandr Mykhaylovych Kosyrin (Ukrainian: Олександр Михайлович Косирін, born 18 June 1977 in Zaporizhia, USSR, now Ukraine) is a professional footballer currently a free agent. He is also a member of the Ukrainian national football team.

Career

Club career

Kosyrin started playing in his home town of Zaporizhia, at the football academy of FC Torpedo Zaporizhia. He spent two seasons playing in the Ukrainian Second League with Victor Zaporizhia. In 1995 he was brought back to Torpedo Zaporizhia, and after two seasons was sold to the Ukrainian giants FC Dynamo Kyiv. He only managed a handful of appearances for the senior team, spending most of his time playing for FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv and FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv, the club’s reserve teams which compete in the Ukrainian Second League and Ukrainian First League respectively. In 1998 he was loaned out to FC Cherkasy, and had a good season there, scoring 11 goals in 18 league games. Kosyrin also spent a year playing in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He also spent two years with FC Arsenal Kyiv. In 2002 he was sold to the newly promoted FC Chornomorets Odessa, where he finally established himself as a formidable player. Kosyrin had a good three year spell with the team, becoming the league leading scorer in the 2004–05 season. He formed a strong partnership with Kostantyn Balabanov. In 2005 he was sold to FC Metalurh Donetsk where he continued his good scoring form. On 19 June 2008 he made his return to Odessa by signing a two-year contract with Chornomorets.[1] In the summer of 2010, when his contract expired, he joined FC Dniester Ovidiopol in the Ukrainian First League.

International career

Kosyrin has played for the Ukraine national under-21 football team on 6 occasions and has played for the Ukrainian national football team 7 times. His senior debut came on 15 August 2005 in the game against Macedonia.

References

  1. "Черноморец" "подписал" Косырина на два года (in Russian). football.odessa.ua. Retrieved 19 June 2008.

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