Oleksandr Shovkovskyi

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Володимирович Шовковський; born 2 January 1975) is a retired[3] Ukrainian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Dynamo Kyiv in the Vyscha Liha, the top level of Ukrainian football, from 1993 to 2016. In the 2020 Kyiv local election Shovkovskyi was elected into the Kyiv City Council, as candidate of UDAR (the party of incumbent Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klichko).[4][5]

Oleksandr Shovkovskyi
Shovkovskyi playing for Dynamo Kyiv in 2015
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskyi
Date of birth (1975-01-02) 2 January 1975[1]
Place of birth Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Ukraine (assistant)
Youth career
1986–1993 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2016 Dynamo Kyiv 426 (0)
1993 → CSK ZSU Kyiv (loan) 2 (0)
Total 428 (0)
National team
1993–1997 Ukraine U21 12 (0)
1994–2020 Ukraine 92 (0)
Teams managed
2018– Ukraine (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Volodymyrovych and the family name is Shovkovskyi.

Club career

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Shovkovskyi is a graduate of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy. Since his teenage years and up until now he has played for only one club. In fact he has more caps for the club than anybody else in the history of Dynamo. After advancing from one age group youth team to another, the talented young goalkeeper made his way to the first squad of the Ukrainian giants Dynamo where he made his debut in a league fixture in 1993. By next year he was already called up to the Ukraine national football team. Throughout the majority of his career he was the first choice goalkeeper for Dynamo, except for a few brief periods caused by injuries. The goalkeeper's fame came to him as he became notorious for saving penalties, which made him popular in the media and among fans. By the end of 2009 his goals against average in the League was .632 with over 300 games played.

In the summer of 2011, Shovkovskyi played his 100th match in the Champions League (against Rubin Kazan in Kazan). Shovkovskyi has played 121 matches in European cups, keeping 33 clean-sheets; 109 of these appearances have come in the UEFA Champions League (77, excluding qualifiers), in which he has kept 28 clean sheets (16, excluding qualifiers).[6]

On 13 December 2016, Shovkovskyi announced his retirement at the age of 41.[7]

International career

Shovkovskyi is well known for his blunder during the UEFA Euro 2000 play-off game where Ukraine faced Slovenia. In the 83rd minute of the first leg in Ljubljana, Shovkovskyi came out of his goal almost to the corner flag to kick the ball away, but scuffed his kick to Milenko Acimovic who scored into the empty net from 40 meters out. Ukraine lost this match 2–1 and drew the second leg 1–1 and hence did not qualify for Euro 2000 in Netherlands/Belgium.

Shovkovskyi was the first-choice keeper for Ukraine at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Notably, he saved two spot kicks from Marco Streller and Ricardo Cabanas in the penalty shootout against Switzerland in their second-round match, which sent Ukraine through to the quarterfinals, becoming the first goalkeeper in FIFA World Cup history not to concede a goal during penalty shootout (Tranquillo Barnetta also hit the bar); Shovkovskyi was subsequently awarded the man of the match award. Also more recently Oleksandr was voted player of the tournament in early 2008, in a Channel One Cup in Israel, which was won by Dynamo in a notorious game against the club's top rival Shakhtar Donetsk. During this game in a series of penalty kicks, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi saved 3 kicks and almost single-handedly won the match. Oleksandr Shovkovskyi also holds a record for being the third most capped player in the Ukrainian national team after Andriy Shevchenko and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk. His goals against average for the national team is .86 with a bit short of 100 games mark on his count (92).

In September 2012, Shovkovskyi announced his retirement from the Ukraine national football team.[8]

Until 2013 Shovkovskyi held the record for the Ukraine national team of minutes played without a goal, 728 minutes, but it was beaten by Andriy Pyatov.[9]

Four years after his retirement from the game, Shovkovskyi, as an assistant to national team coach Andriy Shevchenko and aged 45, was listed as a back-up goalkeeper for Ukraine for a friendly match away to France on 7 October 2020 after three of the four goalkeepers in the squad tested positive for COVID-19.[10][11]

Political views/career

Shovkovskyi got a lot of media attention when giving an interview about the Euromaidan situation. When commenting on the number of people killed, he mentioned how his grandfather started every toast saying "For not having any wars", after which he couldn't hold his tears.[12][13][14] Before a Europa League game against Valencia Shovkovskyi sent a request to UEFA to start the games of the Ukrainian clubs from a moment of silence,[15][16] a request that was granted.[17]

Shovkovskyi is a supporter of the Euromaidan movement, and said he wants to live by "European values and not by Soviet values". He also criticized the previous government for the use of violence against the protesters. However, he criticized the decision of the new government to take away the status of Russian language as a second language in Russian language speaking regions.[18]

Shovkovskyi was a Kyiv City Council candidate of UDAR (the party of incumbent Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klichko) in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for 25 October 2020.[19][4] He was elected, together with 29 other representatives of his party.[5]

Career statistics

Club
As of 17 October 2017

[20]

Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps GA Apps GA Apps GA Apps GA Apps GA
Dynamo Kyiv 1993–94 9 6 — — — 9 6
1994–95 25 15 2 1 8 12 — 35 28
1995–96 25 13 4 0 3 1 — 32 14
1996–97 24 14 2 1 3 6 — 29 21
1997–98 26 13 7 4 12 14 — 45 31
1998–99 24 14 6 4 13 13 — 43 31
1999-00 15 10 1 1 16 19 — 32 30
2000–01 19 9 — 6 8 — 25 17
2001–02 6 2 2 3 — — 8 5
2002–03 15 13 5 0 2 2 — 22 15
2003–04 19 15 3 0 8 9 — 30 24
2004–05 23 9 4 2 10 12 — 37 23
2005–06 24 17 3 0 2 3 1 1 30 21
2006–07 24 19 5 5 8 16 1 0 38 40
2007–08 22 21 4 3 6 12 — 32 36
2008–09 10 9 2 0 2 2 1 1 15 12
2009–10 24 13 1 0 4 5 1 0 30 18
2010–11 10 7 2 2 8 4 — 20 13
2011–12 24 11 1 3 9 9 1 1 35 24
2012–13 6 5 1 4 2 3 — 9 12
2013–14 8 5 2 1 5 3 — 15 9
2014–15 18 9 2 0 9 10 1 2 30 21
2015–16 18 7 — 7 5 1 0 26 12
2016–17 8 7 — 1 2 1 0 10 9
Total426263593414417085637440

International
As of 29 February 2012[21]
National team Year
Apps GA
Ukraine 1994 10
1996 10
1997 97
1998 54
1999 95
2000 32
2001 62
2002 42
2003 87
2004 109
2005 84
2006 1211
2007 79
2008 11
2009 25
2011 53
2012 10
Total 9271

Honours

Club
Dynamo Kyiv

Ukraine and CIS

Worldwide and European

References
  1. "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. p. 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/en/team/dynamo/players/shovkovskiy/
  3. http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ru/allnews/news/aleksandr_shovkovskiy_spasibo_klubu_i_bolelschikam/
  4. "Klitschko is leading his sign language interpreter and Shovkovskyi to the elections". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 26 August 2020.
  5. (in Ukrainian) Results of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  6. "The Champions League's greatest ever goalkeepers". UEFA.com. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Александр Шовковский: "Лечу вместе с командой в Париж" [Oleksandr Shovkovskyi: I'm flying together with the team to Paris] (in Russian). ua-football.com. 13 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  9. "Пятов установил рекорд по продолжительности сухой серии в сборной Украины". 16 November 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  10. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54446356
  11. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54366305
  12. Александр Шовковский плачет, комментируя ситуацию в Украине [Oleksandr Shovkovskyi cries while explaining situation in Ukraine] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  13. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/video/5307aa1d.html Archived 26 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Шовковський: Той безлад, який зараз твориться в Україні, не повинен залишати байдужим нікого (in Ukrainian). 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  15. "Шовковский попросил УЕФА о минуте молчания во время матча с "Валенсией"" [Shovkovskyi asked for a minute of silence from FIFA during a match with Valencia]. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  16. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/5305aa36.html Archived 26 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  17. Матч Виктория – Шахтер начался с минуты молчания (in Russian). 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  18. Александр Шовковский: «В Киеве нет фашистов и бандеровцев. Приезжайте и посмотрите – я куплю билет кому угодно» [Oleksandr Shovkovskyi: There are no Nazis or nationalists in Kyiv. Come and see – I will buy tickets for everybody] (in Russian). 15 March 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
  19. Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (15 July 2020)
  20. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. "Oleksandr Shovkovskyi". eu-football.info. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  22. Символическая сборная постсоветского пространства 2000–2010 rus.
  23. Ballon d'Or — «Золотой мяч-99» rus.
  24. Рубин – Динамо Киев. ЛЧ. Сейв Шовковского. Archived 30 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine rus.
  25. Шовковский – самый эффективный вратарь Лиги Европы rus.
Preceded by
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk		 Most beautiful by VIVA!
2006
With: Natalia Mohylevska		 Succeeded by
Savik Shuster
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