Valentin Belkevich

Valyantsin Byalkevich

Byalkevich in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Valyantsin Mihaylavich Byalkevich
Date of birth	(1973-01-27)27 January 1973
Place of birth	Minsk, Soviet Union
Date of death	1 August 2014(2014-08-01) (aged 41)
Place of death	Kiev, Ukraine
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1996	Dinamo Minsk	86	(39)
1996–2008	Dynamo Kyiv	222	(51)
2008–2009	Inter Baku	5	(0)
Total		313	(90)
National team
1994–1995	Belarus U21	2	(0)
1992–2005	Belarus	56	(10)
Teams managed
2010–2013	Dynamo Kyiv Reserves (assistant)
2012–2013	Dynamo Kyiv Youth
2013–2014	Dynamo Kyiv Reserves
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Valyantsin Byalkevich (Belarusian: Валянцін Бялькевіч; 27 January 1973 – 1 August 2014), also sometimes spelled "Valiantsin Bialkevich") was a Belarusian football player. He was most notably a member of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv from 1996 to 2008. During the late 1990s, he was a playmaker for Dynamo Kyiv of the UEFA Champions League, and helped them reach the semi-finals of 1998–99 competition.

In September 1994 while playing for FC Dinamo Minsk, Byalkevich was banned from European competitions for one year by UEFA after testing positive for anabolic steroids following a UEFA Cup match.

In October 2005, Byalkevich retired from the Belarus national team, having scored 10 goals, while being capped 56 times.

Byalkevich married Russian pop singer Anna Sedokova (born in Ukraine) in 2004. They had a daughter on 8 December 2004 and divorced in 2006. In 2008, he accepted Ukrainian citizenship and continued to work in the Dynamo Kyiv football academy.

Byalkevich died on 1 August 2014, after suffering an aneurysm.