Oleksandr Ivanovych Yatsenko ( uk, Олександр Іванович Яценко; born 24 February 1985) is a

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former

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player. He currently works at Helios Kharkiv youth academy. He played as a defender.

Club career

Yatsenko is a product of the

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youth system, and has featured 10 times for their senior team. He went on loan twice; first to

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.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 ...

for the spring half of the 2006–07 season. In July 2007 he signed a three-year contract with

FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 a ...

International career

He has represented

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at all levels. He was a semi-finalist at the

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, and played in the

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. He captained his team to a silver medal at the

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. Yatsenko was called up to the

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squad as a replacement for the injured players

Serhiy Fedorov Serhiy Vladyslavovych Fedorov ( uk, Сергій Владиславович Федоров, born 18 February 1975 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player. He started off as a central defender, but mostly plays as a right ba ...

and

Vyacheslav Shevchuk Vyacheslav Anatoliyovych Shevchuk ( uk, В'ячеслав Анатолійович Шевчу́к, born 13 May 1979) is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer and manager, mainly known for his time as a player of FC Shakhtar Donetsk. He wa ...

. He currently has one cap for the senior

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, in a 1–0 friendly win over

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on 12 October 2005. Yatsenko was awarded the Order For Courage by President

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

for his participation in the

finals in

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Honours

;Ukraine under-21 *

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: runner-up

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yatsenko, Oleksandr 1985 births Living people Footballers from Kyiv Ukrainian footballers Association football defenders Ukraine international footballers Ukraine youth international footballers Ukraine under-21 international footballers 2006 FIFA World Cup players Ukrainian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belarus Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Ukrainian Premier League players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players FC Kharkiv players FC Dnipro players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Mariupol players FC Belshina Bobruisk players FC Helios Kharkiv players FC Solli Plyus Kharkiv players FC Viktoriya Mykolaivka players

Club career

International career

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Honours

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