Ruslan Volodymyrovych Kostyshyn (born 8 January 1977) is a Ukrainian retired professional

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who played as a

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and current football manager of Kazakhstani club Aksu.

Career

Kostyshyn began his career in Podillya-Khmelnytskyi, from which he moved to play for

CSKA Kyiv FC CSKA Kyiv ( uk, "ЦСКА Київ") is a Ukrainian amateur football club, until 2001 of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is government sponsored by the Ministry of Defense. As its farm team CSKA-2 Kyiv, in 1994– ...

Arsenal Kyiv Football Club Arsenal Kyiv () is a Ukrainian football club based in Kyiv. In 2019, the club's professional team was dissolved, but its junior teams continue to compete in city competitions. The club claims to be a successor of Kyiv Arsenal fa ...

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

and in 2007 he joined

Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Football Club Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih () was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions. In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier ...

. Kostyshyn played 270 matches in the Ukrainian Premier League and managed to score 26 goals. He is currently one of the vice-captains of the club, and captained

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four times.

Olympics

Kostyshyn represented Ukraine national team in the Olympics, during which he played 3 games.

Achievements

Team * Ukrainian Premier League Bronze:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

* Ukrainian Cup Finalist 1998, 2000, 2003

Personal

Ruslan has a brother Vitaliy Kostyshyn who plays football and later became a coach as well as his son Denys Kostyshyn also became footballer.

External links

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Official Website Profile

1977 births Living people Ukrainian footballers FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Dnipro players FC Arsenal Kyiv players FC CSKA Kyiv players FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi players FC Advis Khmelnytskyi players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Ukrainian football managers FC Kolos Kovalivka managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Ukrainian First League managers Ukrainian Second League managers Association football midfielders Ukrainian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Kazakhstan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub