Oleksandr Melashchenko

Oleksandr Melaschenko
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Petrovych Melaschenko
Date of birth	13 December 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth	Poltava, Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Ukraine U-21 (assistant coach)
Youth career
	Vorskla Poltava
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–2001	Vorskla Poltava
1997–2000	→ Vorskla-2 Poltava (loan)
2001–2003	Dynamo Kyiv
2001–2003	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv (loan)
2004–2006	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2004	→ Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk (loan)
2007–2009	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
2010	Metalurh Zaporizhia
2010–2013	Nove Zhyttya Andriivka
2015	Dynamo Reshetylivka
International career‡
2000–2003	Ukraine
Managerial career
2013–2014	Nove Zhyttya Andriivka
2016–	Ukraine U-21 (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 July 2009; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 July 2009

Oleksandr Melaschenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Мелащенко; born 13 December 1978 in Poltava, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian footballer. He played as a striker.

Career

In 2013, he played for FC Nove Zhyttya in the Poltava Oblast league. His previous clubs include Vorskla Poltava, Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and ended his professional career with Metalurh Zaporizhya. In 2001 playing for Dynamo Kyiv, he was voted as the third best Ukrainian Footballer of the Year, after Andriy Shevchenko, and Hennady Zubov.

Melaschenko has made 16 appearances for the Ukraine national football team,^[1] and participated in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds.

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