Vitaliy Berezovskyi ( uk, Віталій Олександрович Березовський; born 11 April 1984) is a former

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defender from

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Playing career

Berezovskyi began playing in his hometown city of

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, initially with the FC Chornomorets Odesa reserve team, before moving to Dniester Ovidiopol for the 2002–03 season. In 2003, he moved to the

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championship to play with

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and

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. In 2005, he moved back to Ukraine with

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, before having a short spell with FK Ventspils in

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. In 2007, he moved to

FC Ihroservice Simferopol FC Ihroservice Simferopol was a Ukrainian football team based in Simferopol, Ukraine. Uniform colours are white shirts and blue shorts. History FC Ihroservis traces its heritage to FC Dynamo Simferopol (part of the Dynamo sports society) that was ...

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* * * 1984 births Living people Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Stomil Olsztyn S.A. players FK Ventspils players FC Sheriff Tiraspol players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Tiraspol players FC Dynamo Brest players FC Ihroservice Simferopol players FC Naftan Novopolotsk players FC Kaisar players FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Poland FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa players FC Odesa players FC Ros Bila Tserkva players Sandecja Nowy Sącz players Footballers from Odesa {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1980s-stub