Oleksandr Kovalenko (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kovalenko | ||
Date of birth | 24 March 1976 | ||
Place of birth | Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR | ||
Date of death | 21 December 2010 | (aged 34)||
Place of death | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1993 | Metalurh Kostyantynivka | 21 | (1) |
1994–1996 | Shakhtar Makiivka | 87 | (15) |
1996–1998 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 40 | (4) |
1997 | → Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk | 4 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | (0) |
1998–1999 | → Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | 27 | (2) |
1999–2003 | Metalurh Donetsk | 55 | (2) |
2002–2003 | → Metalurh-2 Donetsk | 5 | (0) |
2003–2004 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 16 | (0) |
2004 | → Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih | 3 | (1) |
Total | 262 | (25) | |
International career | |||
1997 | Ukraine U21 | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kovalenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Коваленко; 24 March 1976 – 21 December 2010[1]) was a Ukrainian professional footballer and later a football referee.
Career
[edit]Kovalenko made his professional debut in the Ukrainian Second League in 1993 for FC Metalurh Kostyantynivka.[2] After his initial professional stint he played for different Ukrainian Premier League clubs.
Kovalenko played four matches for the Ukraine national under-21 football team in 1997.
After retiring as a footballer, Kovalenko worked as a football referee.
Death
[edit]On 21 December 2010, Kovalenko committed suicide by jumping from his apartment.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dyuvbakov, Alexander (22 December 2010). Погиб экс-игрок "Днепра" Александр Коваленко [Dnipro Ex-Player Oleksandr Kovalenko Killed] (in Russian). UA-Football. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ Profile at Official FFU Site
External links
[edit]- Oleksandr Kovalenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
Categories:
- 1976 births
- 2010 deaths
- People from Bakhmut
- Ukrainian men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
- FC Metalurh Kostiantynivka players
- FC Shakhtar Makiivka players
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
- FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players
- FC Dnipro players
- FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk players
- FC Metalurh Donetsk players
- FC Metalurh-2 Donetsk players
- FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players
- FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Ukrainian First League players
- Ukrainian Second League players
- Ukrainian football referees
- Suicides by jumping in Ukraine
- 2010 suicides
- Footballers from Donetsk Oblast
- Ukrainian football midfielder, 1970s births stubs
- Sportspeople who died by suicide
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen