Volodymyr Ivanovych Yezerskiy ( uk, Володимир Іванович Єзерський; born 15 November 1976) is a former professional Ukrainian football 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. Two years later, he was picked up by Ukrainian giants,

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 ...

, and, later, by Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. In 2000, Yezerskiy left to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, where he became an integral part of the team. On 20 June 2007 he was signed by FC Shakhtar Donetsk on a 3-year deal with a transfer fee of €1.2 million from Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. 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 Zapor ...

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 Poland national football team. 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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, 2010 *

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* Ukrainian Super Cup: 2008 *

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: 2009

Individual

* Ukrainian Bravery Order III Degree: 2006

References

External links

Profile on Official Shakhtar website

Profile on Official FFU website

Profile on ukrsoccerhistory.com
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