Serhiy Viktorovych Kovalenko ( uk, Сергій Вікторович Коваленко; born 10 May 1984) is a Ukrainian retired

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 le ...

who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

Career

Early career

Serhiy Kovalenko started his youth career at

Yunist Chernihiv Yunist Chernihiv ( uk, ФК «Юність» Чернігів) is a Ukrainian amateur football team based on Yunist sports school in Chernihiv. The sports school is known for its talent players like Andriy Yarmolenko, Pavlo Polehenko, Serhiy K ...

. Then he moved to Russia to play for the youth squads of

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

and Sportakademklub Moscow.

Juventus

Kovalenko moved to

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

youth team in 2001. He was offered a contract after a trial along with

Ilyos Zeytulayev Ilyos Zeytulayev ( uz, Илёс Зейтулаев, born 13 August 1984) is an Uzbekistan, Uzbek retired Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder or as a Forward (association football), forward. He is currently the head coach ...

and

Viktor Budyanskiy Viktor Igorevich Budyansky (or Romanization as Boudianski (russian: Виктор Игоревич Будянский, born 12 January 1984) is a retired association footballer who played as a midfielder. He last played for Italian club Udinese. ...

. In February 2002, he joined Juve permanently. The

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

club paid US$400,000 (about €454,000) to buy Kovalenko and Zeytulayev's image and registration rights from Sportakademklub Moscow.

Loan to Lodigiani

In January 2004, he was loaned to Lodigiani.

Standard Liège

He joined

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (; nl, Standard Luik ; german: Standard Lüttich ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most ...

in August 2004. Juve received €5,000 for the player.

Loan to Lokeren

He then joined

Lokeren Lokeren () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality located in the Belgian Provinces of Belgium, province of East Flanders, and belongs to the Waasland, also called ''Land van Waas'', of which it is the second ...

in January 2007.

Roeselare

In August 2007 he signed a 2-year contract with

Roeselare Roeselare (; french: Roulers, ; West Flemish: ''Roeseloare'') is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren, Oekene and Rumbeke. The ...

. In March 2008 he terminated his contract with Roeselare.

Volyn Lutsk

Kovalenko returned to Ukraine to play for

Volyn Lutsk Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...

on 12 August 2008.

Torpedo Zhodino

In March 2009, he was signed by Torpedo Zhodino of

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

References

External links

*
Sergey Kovalenko - career, fotos, all goals, statistic
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovalenko, Serhiy 1984 births Living people Footballers from Chernihiv FC Yunist Chernihiv players Ukrainian footballers Association football midfielders Ukrainian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Belarus Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Belgian Pro League players Ukrainian First League players Belarusian Premier League players Juventus F.C. players A.S. Lodigiani players Standard Liège players K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players K.S.V. Roeselare players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino players FC Belshina Bobruisk players FC Naftan Novopolotsk players PFC Sumy players FC Poltava players FC Yednist Plysky players