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.

Oleksandr Yatsenko

Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Ivanovych Yatsenko
Date of birth	(1985-02-24) 24 February 1985 (age 37)
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 Odessa	36	(0)
2010–2011	Illichivets Mariupol	27	(1)
2012	Belshina Bobruisk	28	(1)
2013	Helios Kharkiv	19	(0)
Total		239	(7)
National team
2002	Ukraine U17	1	(0)
2005	Ukraine U20	4	(0)
2003–2006	Ukraine U21	33	(4)
2005	Ukraine	1	(0)
Teams managed
2014–2017	Helios Kharkiv (youth academy)
Honours Men's football Representing  Ukraine UEFA European Under-21 Championship Runner-up 2006 Portugal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 Odesa.

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

• 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship squads#Ukraine

Honours

Ukraine under-21

• UEFA Under-21 Championship: runner-up 2006

References

External links

• Oleksandr Yatsenko at National-Football-Teams.com
• Oleksandr Yatsenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
• Oleksandr Yatsenko at Soccerway
• Oleksandr Yatsenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)

На других языках

[fr] Oleksandr Yatsenko

[it] Oleksandr Jacenko

[ru] Яценко, Александр Иванович