Ruslan Rotan

Ruslan Petrovych Rotan (Ukrainian: Руслан Петрович Ротань; born 29 October 1981) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer and manager of Ukraine national under-21 football team. He was a member of the Ukrainian national football team.

Ruslan Rotan
Rotan with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 2016
Personal information
Full name Ruslan Petrovych Rotan
Date of birth (1981-10-29) 29 October 1981
Place of birth Poltava, Ukraine
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Ukraine U21 (manager)
Youth career
1998–1999 UFK Dnipropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2005 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 105 (11)
2005–2008 Dynamo Kyiv 50 (5)
2008–2017 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 211 (23)
2017–2018 Slavia Prague 7 (0)
2018 Dynamo Kyiv 9 (0)
Total 382 (39)
National team
2003 Ukraine U21 10 (1)
2003–2018 Ukraine 100 (8)
Teams managed
2018 Olimpik Donetsk (assistant)
2019– Ukraine U21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Petrovych and the family name is Rotan.

Club career

Rotan's career started off for Dnipro in the 1999–2000 season. He played a total of 105 matches for Dnipro and scored 11 goals.

He transferred to Dynamo Kyiv in the summer of 2005 and was given the number 14. In Dynamo, he played 50 matches and scored five goals in the Ukrainian Premier League.

During winter break 2007–08 Rotan was transferred back to his home club of Dnipro. The transfer fee was undisclosed. However, he signed a three-year contract with Dnipro. He now wears the number 29 jersey.

He became the top assister of the Ukrainian Premier League of the season 2008–2009.[1]

In the summer of 2014, after his Dnipro contract had expired, Rotan went on trial with Rubin Kazan, nearly signing with the club before turning down the offer due to the political situation around the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Rotan eventually signed a new three-year contract with Dnipro on 8 August 2014.

In the 2014–15 season, Rotan helped Dnipro reach the UEFA Europa League Final in Warsaw on 27 May 2015, in which he equalised the score at 2–2 with a free kick against holders Sevilla FC, who eventually won 3–2.[2]

International career

Rotan made his debut for Ukraine on 12 February 2003, replacing Andriy Voronin for the final eight minutes of a goalless friendly against Turkey in İzmir. He scored three goals in seven games in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, going on to play three of their five matches (one start) as they reached the quarter-finals at the tournament. When Ukraine hosted UEFA Euro 2012, he played five minutes as a substitute for Voronin in their opening 2–1 victory over Sweden at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv. With 100 caps, Rotan is Ukraine's third-most capped player of all time. He was also on Ukraine's World cup 2006 squad.

International goals
Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.[3]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.8 September 2004Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan2–12–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.3 September 2005Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia Georgia1–01–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.8 October 2005Meteor Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Albania2–22–22006 FIFA World Cup qualification
4.15 August 2006Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine Azerbaijan3–06–0Friendly
5.6 September 2006Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine Georgia2–23–2UEFA Euro 2008 qualification
6.22 August 2007Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine Uzbekistan2–02–1Friendly
7.15 August 2013Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine Israel1–02–0Friendly
8.9 October 2016Marshal Józef Piłsudski Stadium, Kraków, Poland Kosovo3–03–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Dynamo Kyiv

Dnipro

Individual

References
  1. "Украина. Премьер-лига - Статистика игроков - Чемпионат.com". Championat.ru. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  2. Rose, Gary (27 May 2015). "Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-3 Sevilla". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  3. "Rotan, Ruslan". National Football Teams. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

Ruslan Rotan at the Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)

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