Dmytro Matviyenko ( uk, Дмитро Олександрович Матвієнко); Dmitriy Matviyenko (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Матвие́нко; born 25 May 1992) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

(until 2014), 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 ...

defender.

Career

Matviyanko was born in

Saky Saky (: ; crh, Saq) or Saki is a town of regional significance in Ukraine, in the Crimean peninsula. Although it is the administrative centre of the Saky Raion, it does not belong to the raion (district), serving instead as the center and the on ...

where at the age of 6 he started attending the local sportive youth school. Matviyenko made his debut for

Tavriya Simferopol Sports Club Tavriya ( uk, Спортивний клуб "Таврія") was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League making them ...

against

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia MFC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Футбо́льний клуб «Металу́рг» Запорі́жжя ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zaporizhzhia. Reestablished in 2017, it is a "phoenix club" of the original Soviet ...

on 9 March 2013 in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League'') ...

Personal life

His younger brother

Mykola Matviyenko Mykola Oleksandrovych Matviyenko ( uk, Микола Олександрович Матвієнко; born 2 May 1996) is a Ukrainian professional football who plays as a centre-back or left back for Shakhtar Donetsk and the Ukraine national team ...

is also a professional footballer and plays for

club

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...

and

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 ...

. In 2014, after the

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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

he received Russian citizenship with the Russian name Dmitriy Matviyenko.

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* * 1992 births Living people People from Saky Ukrainian men's footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian Second League players SC Tavriya Simferopol players FC Olimpik Donetsk players Men's association football defenders Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova FC Tiraspol players Naturalized citizens of Russia Russian men's footballers Crimean Premier League players FC Sevastopol (2014) players FC Yevpatoria players FC Dynamo Saky players {{Russia-footy-defender-1992-stub