Denys Holaydo ( uk, Денис Олександрович Голайдо); Denis Golaydo (russian: Денис Александрович Голайдо; born 3 June 1984) is a retired Ukrainian-born Russian
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
He debuted for the
Ukraine national football team
The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Ukr ...
on Wednesday 26 March 2008, where he gave an assist to Ukrainian legend
Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko, or Andrii Mykolaiovych Shevchenko ( uk, Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, ; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian football manager, a former professional football player and a former politici ...
, helping Ukraine in the 2–0 win against
Serbia
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. After the annexation of
Crimea
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to the
Russian Federation
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Golaydo also received a Russian passport.
External links
Player profile on Official Tavriya ProfileProfile at FFU Official Website
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1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Simferopol
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
SC Tavriya Simferopol players
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players
FC Metalurh Donetsk players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
Ukraine men's international footballers
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus
FC Slutsk players
Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
Naturalised citizens of Russia
Russian men's footballers
FC TSK Simferopol players
Crimean Premier League players
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