Volodymyr Ivanovych Yezerskiy ( uk, Володимир Іванович Єзерський; born 15 November 1976) is a former professional Ukrainian

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defender. He also played for the Ukrainian national team in 1998–2008. Yezerskiy is a Distinguished Master of Sports (2005).National team of Ukraine: for achievements!
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Career

Club

Yezerskiy started his professional football career in 1997 in

Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lviv won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its p ...

. Two years later, he was picked up by Ukrainian giants,

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Union, Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dynamo Sports Soc ...

, and, later, by Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. In 2000, Yezerskiy left to

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 forced in ...

, where he became an integral part of the team. On 20 June 2007 he was signed by

FC Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was ...

on a 3-year deal with a transfer fee of €1.2 million from

. He was loaned out to

Zorya Luhansk FC Zorya Luhansk ( uk, ФК «Зоря» Луганськ ) is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine. However, because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the team play their games at Slavutych-Arena in Zapori ...

during the winter break of the 2009–10 Premier league season.

National

Yezerskiy played his first international game for the Ukraine national team on 15 July 1998 against the

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. However, after his successes in Dnipro, he became a regular player of the national team squad. He helped Ukraine qualify for their first

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in 2006. Ukraine managed to get to the quarterfinals, losing to eventual world champions Italy.

International goals

Both of his goals were scored from a

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and were game openers.

Honours

Club

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...

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'') ...

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Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

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 ...

: 2008 *

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Individual

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Bravery Order III Degree: 2006

References

External links

Profile on Official Shakhtar website

Profile on Official FFU website

Profile on ukrsoccerhistory.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yezerskiy, Volodymyr 1976 births Living people Ukrainian footballers 2006 FIFA World Cup players Ukraine international footballers Sportspeople from Lviv FC Haray Zhovkva players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players FC Dnipro players FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk players FC Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Karpaty-2 Lviv players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Zorya Luhansk players SC Tavriya Simferopol players Ukrainian Premier League players Association football defenders Ukrainian football managers