Ihor Zhurakhovskyi

Ihor Zhurakhovskyi
	With Metalurh in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Ihor Ihorovych Zhurakhovskyi
Date of birth	19 September 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	FC Kuban Krasnodar
Number	25
Youth career
2005–2010	Sports School #15 Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team
2013–2015	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
2016–	FC Kuban Krasnodar
International career‡
2014–	Ukraine-21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 September 2016; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 September 2015

Ihor Zhurakhovskyi (Template:Lang-ua; born 19 September 1994 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football midfielder. He is currently playing for Russian side FC Kuban Krasnodar.^[1]

Zhurakhovskyi is product of Sports School #15 Kyiv.^[2] Made his debut for FC Metalurh entering as a second time playing against FC Metalurh Donetsk on 11 May 2014 in Ukrainian Premier League.^[3]

Early life

Igor Zhurakhovskyi was born in Kiev. From his early years play football. The pupil football sports school №15 in Kiev. Besides football actively engaged in football freestyle. Three times (2009, 2012, 2013) participated in national competitions Red Bull Street Style. All three times was among the Top8.

Club career

Since the season 2013/14 he is a player of FC Metallurg Zaporozhye. On September 12, 2013, he made his debut in the Metallurg U-21 in the home match against Chernomorets Odessa. In total,he played for Metallurg U-21 played 12 games (1 goal) in the Ukrainian Championship among youth teams of the season 2013/14. In the spring of 2014, he began to train with the first team Metallurg. On May 11, 2014, he made his debut for the first team in the Premier League away match in the 29th round against Metallurg Donetsk(0:2), coming on as substitute in the 82nd minute of the match.

Before the start of the season 2014/15 for the first time took part in pre-season training camp of the basic structure. In preparation he played 6 games (all in start) against Zarya (Lugansk), Hajduk (Split, Croatia), Rabotnicki (Skopje, Macedonia), Sarajevo (Bosnia), Domžale (Slovenia), Triglav (Kranj, Slovenia).

On July 27, 2014, spent his first full official match, coming into the starting lineup of Metallurg in the match of the 1st round of the Ukrainian Championship League 2014/15 season against Shakhtar (Donetsk) (0:2).

On January 21, 2015, scored his first goal for the first team of Metallurg, in a friendly match against FC Okzhetpes (Kokshetau, Kazakhstan), at the training camp in Belek, Turkey.

International career

In early November 2014, he was among the 24 players called by Serhiy Kovalets (head coach) to training camp of the U-21 national team of Ukraine, which was officially announced on 6 November at the site of the Football Federation of Ukraine. He played the first official game for the U-21 team of Ukraine on November 13, 2014, against the youth team of Turkey (2:0).

Statistics

Club statistics

Club	Season	League			Cup			Europe^[4]			Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists
FC Metalurg (Zaporizhya)	2013/14	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	1	0	0
	2014/15	22	0	1	2	0	0	-	-	-	24	0	1
	2015/16	11	0	2	1	1	0	-	-	-	12	1	2
	Total	34	0	3	3	1	0	-	-	-	37	1	3
Career total		34	0	3	3	1	0	-	-	-	37	1	3

Apps and goals for the Ukraine U-21

№	Date	Opponent	Score	Goals	Assists	Сompetition
1	Nov 13, 2014	Turkey U-21	2:0	0	0	Friendly match
1	Jun 02, 2015	Moldova U-21	5:0	0	1	V. Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament
1	Sep 08, 2015	Denmark U-21	2:0	1	0	Friendly match