Olha Basanska ( uk, Ольга Олександрівна Басанська, born 6 January 1992) is a Ukrainian
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 ...
who plays as a
defender and has appeared for the
Ukraine women's national team.
Career
Basanska has been capped for the
Ukraine national team, appearing for the team during the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle.
In 2019 director of the Russian club
Ryazan-VDV
Ryazan-VDV (Рязань-ВДВ) is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan.
History
Founded in 1996, it won two league titles and one cup in the last years of the twentieth century. Ryazan-VDV was the first team to represent Russia in the U ...
claimed that she was forced to release Basanska due to "psychological pressure" from her homeland.
(Женский футбол. Украинские футболистки покинули «Рязань-ВДВ» из-за травли на родине)
Allsoccer.ru. 2019 The Russian Airborne Troops
The Russian Airborne Forces (russian: Воздушно-десантные войска России, ВДВ, Vozdushno-desantnye voyska Rossii, VDV) are the airborne forces branch of the Russian Armed Forces. It was formed in 1992 from units ...
are known also by their acronym VDV and were among the first who were used during the 2014 Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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1992 births
Living people
People from Nikopol, Ukraine
Ukrainian women's footballers
Women's association football defenders
Ryazan-VDV players
WFC Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv players
Ukraine women's international footballers
Ukrainian expatriate women's footballers
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate women's footballers in Russia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Armenia
Expatriate footballers in Armenia
Sportspeople from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
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