Name Oleksandr Kovpak Date joined 2013 1997-2002 Sports school (Smila) Weight 72 kg | Number 39 Height 1.81 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Full name Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Kovpak Date of birth (1983-02-02) 2 February 1983 (age 32) Current teams FC Vorskla Poltava (#39 / Forward), Ukraine national football team (Forward) | ||
Place of birth Smila, Soviet Union | ||
Oleksandr Kovpak (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Ковпак; born 2 February 1983 in Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian footballer.
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Career
He moved to Tavriya in the winter of 2005 from Dnipro Cherkassy.
Kovpak become the top goalscorer of the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 with Tavriya, having netted 17 goals.
The head coach of Ukraine's national team Oleksiy Mykhailychenko called him into the Ukrainian squad for the 2010 World Cup qualifying games versus Croatia and Kazakhstan on 6 June 2009 and 10 June 2009 respectively, but he remained an unused substitute for these matches. He finally made his debut on 2 June 2013, in the 0:0 draw with Cameroon in a friendly match after coming on as a late replacement for Roman Zozulya.
During the winter break of the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season he transferred to Arsenal Kyiv.