Ivan Vasylyovych Nesterenko ( ua, Іван Васильович Нестеренко; born 23 July 2003) is a Ukrainian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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for

FC Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( uk, ФК «Во́рскла» Полта́ва ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football. History Kolos Poltava The clu ...

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'') ...

Career

Nesterenko is a product of

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 ...

and

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 ...

systems. In January 2021 he was signed by Vorskla Poltava. He made his debut as a second half-time substituted player for Vorskla Poltava in the

in an away losing match against

FC Kolos Kovalivka FC Kolos Kovalivka ( uk, Колос Ковалівка) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the Ukrainian First League on ...

on 24 April 2021.

International career

In March 2021, Nesterenko was called up to the preliminary squad of the

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, with which he was expected to participate in the training preparation to qualifying matches for the youth Euro 2022, but later the training was canceled due to the

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* * 2003 births Living people Footballers from Zaporizhzhia Ukrainian men's footballers FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia players FC Vorskla Poltava players Ukrainian Premier League players {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-2000s-stub Men's association football midfielders