Valerii Yuriyovych Fedorchuk ( ua, Валерій Юрійович Федорчук; born 5 October 1988) is a Ukrainian professional

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

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 ...

for Rukh Lviv.

Career

Fedorchuk was born in

Netishyn Netishyn ( uk, Нетішин, russian: Нетешин, pl, Niecieszyn) is a city in Shepetivka Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province), in the west of Ukraine. It is located on the Horyn River. Netishyn hosts the administration of Netishyn urb ...

, Khmelnytskyi Oblast,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. He began his career in the youth side for Svitanok Vinnytsia under head coach Sergey Verich, who scored in his first season 25 goals in the Duflo 71 and in 2005 signed his first professional contract for

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Football Club Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih () was a professional Ukraine, Ukrainian Association football, football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions. In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expel ...

, here earned his first seven professional matches over two years. In January 2007 Fedorchuk left Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and signed for

FC Lviv FC Lviv ( uk, ФК «Львів», pl, FK Lwów) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv, that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League. While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of 1 ...

who played 29 games, two Cup Matches and scored three goals. On 1 March 2010, he joined

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' ...

side

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club was owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv. In 2018 FC Dnipro was force ...

for €480,000 transfer fee, but was initially loaned back to Kryvbas. On 4 February 2016, Fedorchuk signed a contract with Ukrainian champions

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...

until the end of the 2015–16 season, signing as a free agent after his contract with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had expired.

International career

On 27 May 2008, he earned his first international match for 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 ...

and presented the team between now in 12 matches and scored one goal.

Personal life

In June 2011, Fedorchuk married broadcaster Olena Kindzerska, daughter of

's President

Yuriy Kindzerskyi Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic languages, Slavic (russian: Юрий, Yuriy, or uk, Юрій, Yuriy, or bg, Юрий, Jurij, or be, Юры, Jury) form of the masculine given name George (given name), George ...

.Валерій Федорчук став зятем президента ФК "Львів" Юрія Кіндзерського
(Ukrainian)

Honors

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk *

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It ...

: runner-up 2014–15 Dynamo Kyiv *

: 2015–16 *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup ( uk , Суперкубок України) is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competiti ...

: 2016

References

External links

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Profile on Football Squads
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