Maksym Anatoliyovych Levytskyi ( uk, Максим Анатолійович Левицький; russian: Макси́м Анато́льевич Леви́цкий; born 26 November 1972) is a retired Ukrainian
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper
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.
Club career
In January 2001, Levytskyi was involved in a
fake passport
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scandal in which he used a purported
Greek passport
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to play for French
Ligue 1
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club
AS Saint-Étienne
Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), commonly known as A.S.S.E. () or simply Saint-Étienne, is a professional football club based in Saint-Étienne in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The club was founded in 1933 and competes in ...
as a European Union citizen; Brazilian teammate
Alex Dias used a fake
Portuguese passport. The pair were given four-month bans with two more months suspended, and Saint-Étienne were deducted seven points, leading to their relegation.
International career
In 2009, Levytskyi committed to be a part of the
2009 Maccabiah Games
The 18th Maccabiah Games ( he, המכביה ה-18 ישראל תשס"ט), were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Ol ...
football squad representing Russia. When the match dates conflicted with league play, Levytskyi pulled from the squad.
Honours
*
Russian Premier League champion: 2001.
* Russian Premier League bronze: 2002.
*
Russian Cup winner: 2003 (played for
FC Spartak Moscow in the early stages of the 2002/03 competition).
European club competitions
With
FC Spartak Moscow.
*
UEFA Champions League 2001–02
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: 4 games.
*
UEFA Champions League 2002–03
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: 3 games.
Footnotes
External links
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Profile*
1972 births
Ukrainian Jews
Jewish footballers
Living people
People from Shakhty
Ukrainian footballers
Ukraine international footballers
SC Tavriya Simferopol players
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players
AS Saint-Étienne players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Dynamo Moscow players
FC Rostov players
FC Akhmat Grozny players
Ligue 1 players
Ukrainian expatriate footballers
Russian Premier League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
FC Sibir Novosibirsk players
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in France
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Association football goalkeepers
Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast
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