Mykola Mykolayovych Yurchenko ( uk, Микола Миколайович Юрченко; born 31 March 1966 in

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

) is the Soviet and

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professional

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er known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Mykola has an older brother

Ihor Yurchenko Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko ( uk, Ігор Миколайович Юрченко; born in 5/9/1960) is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Ihor has a young ...

whose name is also tightly intertwined with the fate of the western Ukrainian club.

Playing career

His primary football development obtained in the Spartak youth academy in

. He made his professional debut in the tournament for the reserve teams of the

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

playing for

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 ...

. By the end of the 1980s he moved back to the Western

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playing in Ivano-Frankivsk,

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, and

Drohobych Drohobych ( uk, Дрого́бич, ; pl, Drohobycz; yi, דראָהאָביטש;) is a city of regional significance in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hro ...

. After a short stint at Kryvbas Yurchenko returned to Prykarpattia. In 1991, he finally made his debut in the

playing for

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Union, Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dynamo Sports Soc ...

. With the fall of the Soviet Union he moved to

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

playing in the Czech Premiers. Eventually he returned once again to Prykarpattia where he finished his career in 1995 after the club made to 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'') ...

Honours

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is th ...

champion.

National team

Yurchenko played only a single game for the national team on 15 March 1994. In the game against

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

he substituted

Dmytro Mykhaylenko Dmytro Stanislavovych Mykhaylenko ( ua, Дмитро Станіславович Михайленко; born 13 July 1973) is a retired Ukrainian defensive midfielder and current manager. His son Ivan is also a player, a forward and older broth ...

on the 60th minute. Ukraine has lost the game at home 0:1.

References

External links

Statistics of the player at KLISF

National team participation
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