Oleksandr Pavlovych Yakovenko

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Pavlovych and the family name is Yakovenko.
Oleksandr Yakovenko
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Pavlovych Yakovenko
Date of birth (1987-06-23) 23 June 1987
Place of birth Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
Dynamo Kyiv
Number 7
Youth career
1999–2003 FC Lokomotyv-MSM-OMIKS Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Metalist Kharkiv 8 (1)
2005–2006 Lierse 24 (2)
2006–2008 Racing Genk 14 (0)
2008Anderlecht (loan) 3 (0)
2008–2013 Anderlecht 23 (6)
2009–2011Westerlo (loan) 57 (13)
2012OH Leuven (loan) 13 (3)
2013–2016 Fiorentina 3 (0)
2014Málaga (loan) 9 (1)
2015ADO Den Haag (loan) 11 (2)
2016– Dynamo Kyiv 3 (0)
National team
2002 Ukraine-15 3 (0)
2003 Ukraine U16 5 (3)
2002–2004 Ukraine U17 17 (3)
2005 Ukraine U18 5 (3)
2005 Ukraine U19 6 (2)
2006–2008 Ukraine U21 9 (0)
2010– Ukraine 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 April 2016.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 February 2016

Oleksandr Pavlovych Yakovenko[1] (Ukrainian: Олександр Павлович Яковенко; born 23 June 1987) is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv as a left winger.

Club Career

He has also played for FC Metalist Kharkiv, and SK Lierse in the past. In the January Transfer window for the 2007-2008 season, he was loaned out to Anderlecht and made an immediate impact constantly being selected as a starter as well as scoring goals in the domestic league and the UEFA Cup. The following summer Anderlecht signed him on a four-year full-time contract.

After being loaned out for two seasons to Westerlo, Iakovenko chose to be loaned out to Oud-Heverlee Leuven in 2012.[2]

Dynamo Kyiv

On 2 February 2016, Yakovenko signed a contract with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv until the end of the 2015/16 season with the option to extend it, signing as a free agent after terminating his contract with his former club Fiorentina.

Personal life

He is the older son of the former Ukrainian footballer and current coach Pavlo Yakovenko. His younger brother Yuriy Yakovenko is also footballer[3]

Honours

Club

Dynamo Kyiv

References

  1. His name is sometimes transliterated as Alexander Yakovenko or Oleksandr Iakovenko.
  2. "Iakovenko to play at Den Dreef" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 2012-01-26.
  3. Олександр Яковенко: Я був присутнім на пологах свого сина (in Ukrainian). gold-football.at.ua. 2010-10-07.

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