Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko ( ua, Ві́ктор Євге́нович Лео́ненко; russian: Виктор Евгеньевич Леоненко; born 5 October 1969) is a former footballer and Ukraine international who played as a

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. At least since 2006 he is a football commentator and analyst for the televised football forum "3 time" at the Ukrainian TV-network ICTV.3 taim intro page

Club career

Leonenko began his career with stints at Russian clubs such as Geolog Tyumen and FC Dynamo Moscow, before transferring to

FC 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 offici ...

in 1992, where he played until 1998. A successful forward for Dynamo in the early to mid 1990s – Leonenko was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 1992, 1993, and 1994 – Leonenko was eventually forced to the bench with the emergence of the striker partnership of Serhii Rebrov and

Andriy Shevchenko Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko, or Andrii Mykolaiovych Shevchenko ( uk, Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, ; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian football manager, a former professional football player and a former politici ...

. In 1998, he moved to play for

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and ended his career with

FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod ( ) was a Ukrainian professional football club based in Uzhhorod. Following the end of the 2015–16 season it was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League because of debts to (current and former) players.

in 2001.

International career

Born in Russia, Leonenko chose to play for the Ukraine national team soon after transferring to Dynamo Kyiv. During his four years representing Ukraine from 1992 until 1996, Leonenko earned 14 caps and scored 6 goals.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leonenko goal.''

References

External links

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List of all National team games
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Interview to the newspaper "Bulvar Gordona"
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3 taim of 19 August 2010. The studio guest the Ukrainian coach Serhiy Rebrov
(video footage)

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