Oleksandr Kucherenko

Oleksandr Kucherenko

Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Yevhenovych Kucherenko
Date of birth	(1991-10-01) 1 October 1991
Place of birth	Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Inhulets Petrove
Number	23
Youth career
	Slavkhlib Slovyansk
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2010	Slavkhlib Slovyansk (amateur)	?	(?)
2011	Avanhard Kramatorsk	14	(1)
2011–2013	Nistru Otaci	41	(3)
2013–2014	Costuleni	27	(0)
2014	Veris	14	(2)
2015–2017	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	62	(8)
2017–	Inhulets Petrove	59	(3)
International career‡
2013	Moldova-19	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 August 2017 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 August 2017

Oleksandr Kucherenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Євгенович Кучеренко; Romanian: Alexandru Cucerenco; born 1 October 1991 in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Moldovan football defender, who plays in FC Inhulets Petrove in the Ukrainian First League.

Career

Kucherenko is the product of his native FC Slavkhlib Slovyansk. He played for FC Avanhard Kramatorsk, appearing in Ukrainian Second League matches. During the 2011–2012 transfer winter window he moved to play in Moldova until the end of 2014.

Controversy

In 2012 Kucherenko was signed for FC Nistru Otaci as Moldovan footballer, that was born in 1994 and the next year was called up to play for Moldova national under-19 football team, but previously he played in Ukraine as a Ukrainian citizen of the 1991 year of birth. For these reasons, in the end of 2014 by the Football Federation of Moldova was launched an investigation about this case, but in 2015 Kucherenko signed a contract with FC Zirka again under Ukrainian passport.

External links

• Oleksandr Kucherenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
• Oleksandr Kucherenko at Soccerway