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Oleksandr Yatsenko

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Oleksandr Yatsenko
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Ivanovych Yatsenko
Date of birth (1985-02-24) 24 February 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1998–2002 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2007 Dynamo Kyiv 10 (0)
2001–2002 → Dynamo-3 Kyiv 9 (0)
2002–2005 → Dynamo-2 Kyiv 73 (4)
2005–2006 → Kharkiv (loan) 37 (1)
2007 → Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan) 0 (0)
2007–2009 Chornomorets Odesa 36 (0)
2010–2011 Illichivets Mariupol 27 (1)
2012 Belshina Bobruisk 28 (1)
2013 Helios Kharkiv 19 (0)
Total 239 (7)
International career
2002 Ukraine U17 1 (0)
2005 Ukraine U20 4 (0)
2003–2006 Ukraine U21 33 (4)
2005 Ukraine 1 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2017 Helios Kharkiv (youth academy)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Ukraine
UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Switzerland
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up 2006 Portugal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Yatsenko.

Oleksandr Ivanovych Yatsenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Яценко; born 24 February 1985) is a Ukrainian former football player. He currently works at Helios Kharkiv youth academy. He played as a defender.

Club career

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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 Odesa.

International career

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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

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Honours

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Ukraine under-21

References

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  1. ^ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 697/2006 (in Ukrainian). President.gov.ua. 23 August 2006. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
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