Andrea Vyacheslavovich Chukanov (russian: Андреа Вячеславович Чуканов; born 18 December 1995) is an

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-born

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n football player who plays for Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk.

Club career

He made his debut in the

Russian Football National League The Russian First League (russian: Первая лига, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division (russian: Первый дивизион) and Russian Football National League (FNL) (russian: Первенство Футбольн� ...

for

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on 30 August 2015 in a game against Zenit-2 St. Petersburg.

Personal life

His father,

Vyacheslav Chukanov Vyacheslav Chukanov (born 24 April 1952) is a Soviet equestrianism, equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in show jumping with the Soviet team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Personal life His son Andrea Chukanov is a ...

, is the 1980 Olympic champion in equestrian show jumping. He was born in

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at the time when his father had been living and working there for six years. His mother is also Russian. As a result, he has an Italian birth certificate but not the passport; his family never applied for citizenship despite being eligible. When Chukanov was 6, his family moved back to Russia, namely

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, where he started his youth career. While living in Cosenza, he developed an interest in football and started to support S.S. Lazio ‒ his father's favorite team. He has also cited

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as his childhood footballing idol.

References

External links

Profile by Russian Football National League
* 1995 births Footballers from Cosenza Living people Russian men's footballers Russia men's youth international footballers Italian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards FC Lokomotiv Moscow players FC Tyumen players FC Orenburg players FC Veles Moscow players FC Rotor Volgograd players FC Kuban Krasnodar (2018) players FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players {{Italy-footy-forward-1990s-stub