Andrey_Demchenko

Andriy Demchenko

Andriy Demchenko

Ukrainian-Russian footballer


Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko (Ukrainian: Андрій Анатолійович Демченко; born 20 August 1976) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who manages Georgian club Dinamo Batumi. He played as an attacking midfielder or forward.

Quick Facts Personal information, Full name ...

Club career

Playing football Demchenko started out in his native Zaporizhzhia where his first coach (trainer) was Borys Zozulya and Viktor Vysochyn. When Demchenko turned 13, his new trainer was Anatoliy Vasyleha who coached him before Demchenko moved to Moscow. During his teenage years Demchenko was spotted by Gennadiy Kostylev, a Soviet Union national team coach, and Demchenko participated in some international tournaments among junior teams. During dissolution of the Soviet Union, in 1990 Demchenko was invited as a prospect player to play for PFC CSKA Moscow where Kostylev also became the club's manager.

At the 1994 European U-18 Championship Demchenko, playing for the Russia national team, became a top scorer of the tournament. At that tournament played such football personalities like Raúl, Fernando Morientes, Míchel Salgado, Lars Ricken, Francesco Totti and others. Following the European championship Ajax offered $1 million Moscow team for the 17-year-old Demchenko and both player and club agreed. At Ajax, Demchenko mostly sat on the bench and had limited amount of playing experience. Following end of contract with the Dutch club, he returned to Zaporizhzhia where he joined Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.

Honours

Player

Ajax


References

  1. Andriy Demchenko at WorldFootball.net

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Andrey_Demchenko, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.