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Ihor Yurchenko

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Ihor Yurchenko
Personal information
Full name Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko
Date of birth (1960-09-05) 5 September 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Stanislav, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Spartak youth school (Ivano-Frankivsk)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1978 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 18 (1)
1979–1980 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 13 (0)
1981 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 40 (3)
1982–1984 Shakhtar Donetsk 73 (9)
1985–1986 Chornomorets Odessa 36 (6)
1987 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk ? (?)
1988–1989 SKA Karpaty Lviv 41 (5)
1989 Chornomorets Odessa 3 (0)
1990–1995 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk ? (?)
Managerial career
1993–1996 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
1997 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
1998–1999 Nyva Ternopil
2003 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
2006 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Миколайович Юрченко; born in 5/9/1960) is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Ihor has a younger brother Mykola Yurchenko whose name is also tightly intertwined with the fate of the western Ukrainian club.

Playing career

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He made his professional debut in the tournament for Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk in 1977. Throughout of his career played for different clubs of the Soviet Top League such as Shakhtar Donetsk, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, and Chornomorets Odessa. With the fall of the Soviet Union Yurchenko was on the roster of the football club Prykarpattia which was placed in the Ukrainian Premier League in 1992 after finishing second in the Soviet fourth division. He stayed with the club before its return to the Premiers after the 1994–95 season, becoming the playing coach for the team. Yurchenko soon after the club secured its place in the top league retired as a player continuing to coach the club from Ivano-Frankivsk. Later in his coaching career he managed Nyva Ternopil.

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