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Andrei Karyaka

Andrei Karyaka
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Coaching Amkar Perm in 2016
Personal information
Full name Andrei Konstantinovich Karyaka
Date of birth (1978-04-01) 1 April 1978 (age 39)
Place of birth Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Left midfielder
Club information
Current team
FC Amkar Perm (assistant manager)
Youth career
1985–1990 Dnipropetrovsk Youth Sports School
1990–1995 Dnipropetrovsk Olympic Reserve School
1995–1996 Metalurh Zaporizhya
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1998 Metalurh Zaporizhya 49 (8)
1998–2000 CSKA Kyiv 35 (4)
2000–2005 Krylia Sovetov Samara 130 (49)
2005–2007 Benfica 11 (2)
2007–2010 Saturn Moscow Oblast 108 (18)
2011 Dynamo Moscow 12 (0)
2012–2014 Volga Nizhny Novgorod 65 (8)
National team
2001–2005 Russia 27 (6)
Teams managed
2015– FC Amkar Perm (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 May 2014.

Andrei Konstantinovich Karyaka (Russian: Андрей Константинович Каряка; born 1 April 1978) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He is an assistant manager with FC Amkar Perm.

Growing up in Dnipropetrovsk in the 1980s, Karyaka was deeply influenced and inspired by the performances of the local club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After multiple championships and two quarter-final finishes in European competition, it is not surprising that his major heroes were the Dnipro leaders, such as Gennadiy Litovchenko and Oleg Protasov. Karyaka attended the Dnipropetrovsk Sports Youth School, coached by W. M. Nikulin, starting at the age of 7, and the Dnipropetrovsk Olympic Reserve School starting at the age of 12. In 1985 he moved to Zaporizhzhia where he initially played for the FC Metalurh Zaporizhya youth team.

Karyaka's debut for the main team occurred on 3 March 1996, in the 1/16 round of the Ukrainian Cup against the FC Shakhtar Donetsk reserve team, and ended in a 1–0 victory for Metalurh, while Karyaka earned a yellow card. His Ukrainian Premier League debut occurred on 26 March 1996 against his original home team FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, and ended with a 2–1 Metalurh victory. He scored his first goal on 13 November 1996 in the Ukrainian Cup, and on 10 April 1997 in the Ukrainian Premier League. Other memorable games include a tie against Dynamo Kiev in blistering heat on 30 June 1997.


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