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 ...

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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 Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. After the annexation of

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

to the

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Golaydo also received a Russian passport.

External links

Player profile on Official Tavriya Profile

Profile at FFU Official Website
* 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 {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub