Vitaliy Mandzyuk

Vitaliy Vasylyovych Mandzyuk (born 24 January 1986 in Vilino, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired Ukrainian football defender who last played for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League. Previously he played for Dynamo Kyiv and was on loan to Arsenal Kyiv. He is a former player for the Ukraine national under-21 football team having made 12 appearances and the senior team. He is younger brother of the player of Oleksandr Mandzyuk. Currently he works as fitness coach for Ukrainian Premier League club Kolos Kovalivka.

Vitaliy Mandzyuk
Mandzyuk with Dnipro in 2011
Personal information
Full name Vitaliy Vasylyovych Mandzyuk
Date of birth (1986-01-24) 24 January 1986
Place of birth Vilino, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Centre back, Right back
Team information
Current team
Kolos Kovalivka (fitness coach)
Youth career
2000–2003 UOR Simferopol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2009 Dynamo Kyiv 22 (0)
2004Dynamo-3 Kyiv 11 (0)
2004–2008Dynamo-2 Kyiv 51 (3)
2008Arsenal Kyiv (loan) 15 (0)
2010–2016 Dnipro 94 (2)
Total 193 (5)
International career
2004–2005 Ukraine-19 10 (0)
2006–2007 Ukraine-21 12 (1)
2008–2013 Ukraine 24 (1)
Managerial career
2020– Kolos Kovalivka (fitness coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 March 2014
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2013

Career

Dynamo Kyiv

Mandzyuk started his professional football career with Dynamo Kyiv in 2004. Going into the 2007–08 season, Mandzyuk got injured, having to undergo a surgery. This prevented from him playing for the rest of the year 2007, but he recovered to play for the second half of the season.[1]

In July 2008, Mandzyuk was loaned off to Arsenal Kyiv along with teammate Denys Oliynyk.[2]

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

On 23 December 2009, Mandzyuk was sold to Dnipro for an undisclosed fee.[3]

International career

Mandzyuk was a regular member of the Ukraine national under-21 football team, and captained it on numerous occasions. On 23 August 2007, Mandzyuk scored the third goal in a friendly match victory against Moldova.

Mandzyuk was called up to the senior team of Ukraine for the friendly against Cyprus on 6 February 2008. He was called up along with fellow club member Fedoriv by manager Oleksiy Mykhailychenko after the injury of mainstream defenders Dmytro Chyhrynskyi and Nesmachnyi.[4]

References

  1. Interview with Vitaliy Mandzyuk Retrieved 18 January 2008 (in Ukrainian)
  2. Mandzyuk and Oliynyk are already in Arsenal! Archived 16 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Official Arsenal website, Retrieved 12 July 2008(in Russian)
  3. "Кравченко и Мандзюк – игроки "Днепра" (Kravchenko and Mandziuk – Dnipro players)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  4. Михайличенко залучає Мандзюка та Федоріва – Article on Official Website of the Football Federation of Ukraine, Retrieved 4 February 2008 (in Ukrainian)

Honors

UEFA Europa League (1) runner-up 2014–15

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