Vitālijs Maksimenko
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Maksimenko playing for SV Mattersburg
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Vitālijs Maksimenko | ||
| Date of birth | 8 December 1990 | ||
| Place of birth |
Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR (now Republic of Latvia) |
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| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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SV Mattersburg | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996–2003 | JFC Skonto | ||
| 2003–2007 | Daugava 90 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2009 | Daugava Rīga | 9 | (0) |
| 2009 | → CSKA Moscow (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Skonto Riga | 76 | (2) |
| 2013–2015 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 1 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Yeovil Town (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2014 | → Kilmarnock (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | → VVV-Venlo (loan) | 21 | (0) |
| 2015 | FK Liepāja | 2 | (1) |
| 2015– | SV Mattersburg | 35 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Latvia U-17 | 17 | (9) | |
| Latvia U-19 | 6 | (0) | |
| 2009–2012 | Latvia U-21 | 11 | (2) |
| 2013– | Latvia | 23 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:46, 8 July 2016 (UTC) |
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Vitālijs Maksimenko (born 8 December 1990) is a Latvian professional football defender, who plays for SV Mattersburg in the Austrian Bundesliga. Maksimenko also plays for the Latvia national football team.
As a youth player Vitālijs Maksimenko was a member of his local club Skonto Riga academy. At the age of 13 he moved to Daugava 90. In 2008 Maksimenko was taken to the club's first team Daugava Rīga. That year they became champions of the Latvian First League. Maksimenko made his first team debut in 2009. In mid-season, with 9 Latvian Higher League caps under his belt, the player went on trials with the Russian Premier League clubs Lokomotiv Moscow and CSKA Moscow. CSKA signed him on loan until the end of the season. He played several matches for the club's reserves.
At the start of 2010 Maksimenko began training with the Latvian Higher League club Skonto Riga. Leaving a good impression, he signed a contract with the club on 15 March 2010. Playing 25 matches in his debut season, Maksimenko helped Skonto become the champions of the Latvian Higher League. In 2011 they became the champions of Baltic League, but in 2012 won the Latvian Football Cup. Skonto finished the 2012 season as the runners-up of the league, with Maksimenko being included in both – Latvian Football Federation and sportacentrs.com teams of the tournament. He was also named the best defender of the season, and later on voted the best Skonto Riga player of the season.
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