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Oleksandr Kovpak

Oleksandr Kovpak
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Kovpak in 2009
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kovpak
Date of birth (1983-02-02) 2 February 1983 (age 34)
Place of birth Smila, Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Cherkaskyi Dnipro
Number 99
Youth career
1997–2002 Sports school (Smila)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 Dnipro Cherkasy 47 (22)
2005–2010 Tavriya Simferopol 142 (41)
2011–2013 Arsenal Kyiv 53 (13)
2013–2014 PFC Sevastopol 25 (7)
2014–2016 Vorskla Poltava 41 (10)
2016– Cherkaskyi Dnipro 0 (0)
National team
2005 Ukraine-21 1 (0)
2013 Ukraine 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2016.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 May 2016

Oleksandr Kovpak (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Ковпак; born 2 February 1983 in Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian footballer who plays as a forward for Cherkaskyi Dnipro in the Ukrainian First League.

He moved to Tavriya in the winter of 2005 from Dnipro Cherkassy.

Kovpak become the top goalscorer of the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 with Tavriya, having netted 17 goals.

The head coach of Ukraine's national team Oleksiy Mykhailychenko called him into the Ukrainian squad for the 2010 World Cup qualifying games versus Croatia and Kazakhstan on 6 June 2009 and 10 June 2009 respectively, but he remained an unused substitute for these matches. He finally made his debut on 2 June 2013, in the 0:0 draw with Cameroon in a friendly match after coming on as a late replacement for Roman Zozulya.

During the winter break of the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season he transferred to Arsenal Kyiv.


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