Oleksandr Yakovenko (footballer)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Pavlovych and the family name is Yakovenko.

Aleksandr Yakovenko
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Pavlovych Yakovenko
Date of birth (1987-06-23) 23 June 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Second striker
Youth career
1999–2003 Lokomotyv Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Metalist Kharkiv 8 (1)
2004 → Metalist-2 Kharkiv 9 (1)
2005–2006 Lierse 24 (2)
2006–2008 Genk 14 (0)
2008 → Anderlecht (loan) 3 (0)
2008–2013 Anderlecht 23 (6)
2009–2011 → Westerlo (loan) 57 (13)
2012 → OH Leuven (loan) 13 (3)
2013–2016 Fiorentina 3 (0)
2014 → Málaga (loan) 9 (1)
2015 → ADO Den Haag (loan) 11 (2)
2016 Dynamo Kyiv 4 (0)
Total 178 (28)
International career
2002 Ukraine U15 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)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksandr Pavlovych Yakovenko[1] (Ukrainian: Олександр Павлович Яковенко; born 23 June 1987) is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a second striker.

Club career

Yakovenko played for Metalist Kharkiv, and Lierse in the past. In the January transfer window for the 2007–08 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]

In 2015 he joined Fiorentina. In January 2014 he was loaned to Málaga.[3]

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. On 30 May it was announced that Dynamo had freed Yakovenko instead of signing a new contract. Whilst in Dynamo, he played in the 1/8 of the UEFA Champions League, who got knocked out 3–1 on aggregate against Manchester City, and won the Ukrainian Premier League which was also his first club title that he won as a player. He was released at the end of the 2015–16 season[4]

Retirement

After failing to sign for the New York Red Bulls, Yakovenko retired at the age of 29.[5]

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.[6]

Honours

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. 26 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Yakovenko joins Malaga". Viola Channel (Press release). ACF Fiorentina. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Yakovenko leaves Dynamo". comments.ua (Press release). comments.ua. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Oleksand Yakovenko: I am sitting on the bench as many time as Mourinho". Roman Bebekh (Press release). 2+2 Channell. 6 December 2017. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  6. ^ Олександр Яковенко: Я був присутнім на пологах свого сина (in Ukrainian). gold-football.at.ua. 7 October 2010.


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