Oleksandr Valeriyovych Yakymenko ( uk, Олександр Валерійович Якименко; born 4 March 1989) is a Ukrainian
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 ...
forward
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Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
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** Power forward (basketball)
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. He is the product of the
Chornomorets Odesa
FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa.
The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 as ...
school system and played for the reserve squad and youth squad until 2008/2009 season. Yakymenko was also a member of the
Ukraine national under-21 football team
The Ukraine national under-21 football team is also known as Youth ootballteam of Ukraine ( uk, Молодіжна збірна України) is one of junior national football teams of Ukraine for participation in under-21 international compet ...
.
On 25 February 2011, it was announced that Yakymenko would join
Dniester
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on loan for the remainder of the 2010–11 season.
References
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Profile on Official Website
1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Odesa
Ukrainian men's footballers
FC Chornomorets Odesa players
FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa players
FC Odesa players
FC Kramatorsk players
FC Real Pharma Odesa players
FSC Bukovyna Chernivtsi players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Ukrainian Second League players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Men's association football forwards
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