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Serhiy Popov

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Playing position
  
Defender

Role
  
Footballer

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.80 m

1989
  
FC Novator Mariupol

Position
  
Defender

Name
  
Serhiy Popov


Serhiy Popov Segmentation Serhiy Popov

Full name
  
Serhiy Oleksandrovych Popov

Date of birth
  
(1971-04-22) 22 April 1971 (age 44)

Place of birth
  
Makiivka, Ukrainian SSR

Serhiy Oleksandrovych Popov (Ukrainian: Сергій Олександрович Попов; Russian: Серге́й Александрович Попов; born 22 April 1971 in Makiivka) is a former footballer from Ukraine. He is the highest scoring defender of the Ukraine national football team.

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Career

Popov is a graduate of the Donetsk sports school of Olympic reserve and started to compete at senior level at age of 17 playing for the Novator Mariupol (Zhdanov). After being drafted to the army, he defended colors of SKA Kiev and FC Nyva Vinnytsia in 1990-91.

After the fall of the Soviet Union Popov signed with Shakhtar Donetsk of the Ukrainian Premier League, with which he stayed until 2004. In the mid 90s he also spend couple of seasons for the Russian Zenit Saint Petersburg. Before retiring in 2006 Popov played for Metalurh Zaporizhia.

International career

The hard-nosed defender was also a regular member of the Ukraine national football team from 1993 to 2003, having appeared in 54 international matches and notching 5 goals.

References

Serhiy Popov Wikipedia