Oleksandr Yatsenko

Oleksandr Yatsenko
Personal information
Full nameOleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko
Date of birth24 February 1985
Place of birthKiev, Soviet Union
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionDefender
Club information
Current team
Unattached
Youth career
2001–2002Dynamo-3 Kyiv
2001–2005Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2002–2007Dynamo Kyiv10(0)
2005–2006→Kharkiv (loan)37(1)
2007→Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan)0(0)
2007–2010Chornomorets Odessa36(0)
2010–2011Illichivets Mariupol27(1)
2012Belshina Bobruisk28(1)
2013Helios Kharkiv19(0)
National team‡
2002Ukraine-171(0)
2005Ukraine-204(0)
2003-2006Ukraine-2133(4)
2005Ukraine1(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 June 2014.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 February 2013
This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Viktorovich and the family name is Yatsenko.

Oleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Вікторович Яценко; born 24 February 1985 in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football player, who currently plays for Helios Kharkiv. He is a defender, and usually plays in the sweeper position.

Club career

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 2007 he signed a three-year contract with FC Chornomorets Odessa.

International career

He has represented Ukraine at all levels. He was a semi-finalist at the 2004 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, and 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 players Serhiy Fedorov and Vyacheslav Shevchuk.

He currently has one cap for the senior Ukraine national football team, in a 1–0 friendly win over Japan on 12 October 2005.

Yatsenko was awarded the Order For Courage by President Viktor Yushchenko for his participation in the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 697/2006 (in Ukrainian). President.gov.ua. 2006-08-23.

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