Mykola Yurchenko

Mykola Mykolayovych Yurchenko (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Юрченко; born 31 March 1966 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Mykola has an older brother Ihor Yurchenko whose name is also tightly intertwined with the fate of the western Ukrainian club.

Mykola Yurchenko
Personal information
Full name Mykola Mykolayovych Yurchenko
Date of birth (1966-03-31) 31 March 1966
Place of birth Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Spartak youth school (Ivano-Frankivsk)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1984 Shakhtar (reserves) 26 (1)
1987 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 46 (5)
1988–1989 SKA Lviv/Halychyna Drohobych 30 (0)
1989 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 15 (10)
1990 Prykarpattia 20 (6)
1991 Dynamo Kyiv 18 (1)
1991–1993 Zbrojovka/Boby Brno ? (?)
1993–1995 Prykarpattia 47 (18)
National team
1994 Ukraine 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

His primary football development obtained in the Spartak youth academy in Ivano-Frankivsk. He made his professional debut in the tournament for the reserve teams of the Soviet Top League playing for Shakhtar Donetsk. By the end of the 1980s he moved back to the Western Ukraine playing in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Drohobych. After a short stint at Kryvbas Yurchenko returned to Prykarpattia. In 1991, he finally made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for Dynamo Kyiv. With the fall of the Soviet Union he moved to Brno playing in the Czech Premiers. Eventually he returned once again to Prykarpattia where he finished his career in 1995 after the club made to the Ukrainian Premier League.

Honours

National team

Yurchenko played only a single game for the national team on 15 March 1994. In the game against Israel he substituted Dmytro Mykhaylenko on the 60th minute. Ukraine has lost the game at home 0:1.

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