Oleksandr Kosyrin

Oleksandr Kosyrin
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Mykhaylovych Kosyrin
Date of birth	18 June 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–1995	Viktor Zaporizhzhia
1996	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
1997–1999	Dynamo Kyiv
1997–1999	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv
1997–1999	→ Dynamo-3 Kyiv
1999	→ Cherkasy (loan)
2000	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2000–2002	CSKA / Arsenal Kyiv
2000–2002	→ CSKA-2 Kyiv
2002–2005	Chornomorets Odesa
2005–2008	Metalurh Donetsk
2008–2010	Chornomorets Odesa
2010–2011	Odesa
2012–2013	Hoverla Uzhhorod
International career
1996–1998	Ukraine U21
2003–2005	Ukraine
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksandr Mykhaylovych Kosyrin (Ukrainian: Олександр Михайлович Косирін, born 18 June 1977) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made seven appearances for the Ukraine national team.^[1]

Club career

Kosyrin started playing in his home town of Zaporizhzhia, at the football academy of Torpedo Zaporizhzhia. He spent two seasons playing in the Ukrainian Second League with Viktor Zaporizhia. In 1995, he was brought back to Torpedo Zaporizhzhia, and after two seasons was sold to the Ukrainian giants Dynamo Kyiv. He only managed a handful of appearances for the senior team, spending most of his time playing for Dynamo-3 Kyiv and Dynamo-2 Kyiv, the club's reserve teams which compete in the Ukrainian Second League and Ukrainian First League respectively. In 1998, he was loaned out to FC Cherkasy, and had a good season there, scoring 11 goals in 18 league games. Kosyrin also spent a year playing in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He also spent two years with Arsenal Kyiv. In 2002, he was sold to the newly promoted Chornomorets Odesa, where he finally established himself as a formidable player. Kosyrin had a good three-year spell with the team, becoming the league leading scorer in the 2004–05 season. He formed a strong partnership with Kostantyn Balabanov. In 2005, he was sold to Metalurh Donetsk where he continued his good scoring form. On 19 June 2008, he made his return to Odesa by signing a two-year contract with Chornomorets.^[2] In the summer of 2010, when his contract expired, he joined Dniester Ovidiopol in the Ukrainian First League.

International career

Kosyrin played for the Ukraine U21 national team on six occasions and for the Ukraine senior national team seven times. His senior debut came on 15 August 2005 in a game against Macedonia.