Viktor Korniyenko
Viktor Korniyenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Валерійович Корнієнко; born 14 February 1999) is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League.
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| Full name | Viktor Valeriyovych Korniyenko | |||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 14 February 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Poltava, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
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Current team | Shakhtar Donetsk | |||||||||||||||
| Number | 15 | |||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
| 201?–2012 | Vorskla Poltava | |||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Illichivets Mariupol | |||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Ternopil | |||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Mariupol | |||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
| 2016– | Shakhtar Donetsk | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → Mariupol (loan) | 19 | (1) | |||||||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Ukraine U18 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Ukraine U19 | 14 | (2) | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Ukraine U20 | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 2019– | Ukraine U21 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 November 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 September 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
Career
Born in the Poltava Oblast, Korniyenko began to play with Vorskla Poltava youth sportive school system and after continued in the different Ukrainian youth sportive schools.
He made his début for FC Mariupol in the Ukrainian Premier League as a start squad player in a drawing match against FC Karpaty Lviv on 11 August 2019 and was substituted in a second-half.[1]
International career
Korniyenko was a part of the Ukraine national under-20 football team that won the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played one of the key roles in Ukraine's success, appearing in all 7 of his team's matches (6 of them without substitutions).
Personal life
As for 2019 he is married with a wife Arina and daughter Sofiya.
Honours
References
- Чемпіонат УПЛ. 3-й тур Матч №17 (in Ukrainian). UPL Official Web Site. 27 August 2019.