Playing position Role Footballer Current team Free Agent Height 1.76 m | 2001–2004 Juventus Position Midfielder Name Viktor Budyanskiy | |
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Full name Viktor Igorevich Budyansky Date of birth (1984-01-12) 12 January 1984 (age 31) Place of birth Vovchansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Similar People Ilyos Zeytulayev, Ivan Saenko, Vladimir But, Serhiy Kovalenko, Davide Chiumiento | ||
Viktor Igorevich Budyansky (or Romanization as Boudianski (Russian: Виктор Игоревич Будянский, (born 12 January 1984) is a retired association footballer who played as a midfielder. He last played for Italian club Udinese.
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Juventus and various loans
Budyanskiy started his Italy career at Juventus along with Ilyos Zeytulayev and Serhiy Kovalenko after a trail. He signed a 5-year contract on 10 August 2001. He played his first league match for the club on 2 May 2004 against Perugia.
After graduation from youth team in June 2004, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev they were unable to register as a Juve player. At first FIGC declared that their remained 2 years contract did not fulfill the regulation and void them (FIGC declared that their contract is youth contract and should be a maximum of 3-year) and a non-EU player at that time cannot sign a contract extension, thus they were released. But after an appeal, the appeal committee stated that a foreigner can sign a professional contract regardless his age, FIGC regulations only protected domestic youth product could only sign a contract for more than 3 years after 18, thus available to Juve since December.
he joined Reggina in a co-ownership deal for just €1K, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev in January 2005. In June 2005, Juventus bought back Budyanskiy for the same price (€0.5K) and let Zeytulaev went to Reggina permanently.
In July 2005, Budyanskiy was loaned to Avellino of Serie B.
In July 2006, he was sold to Ascoli in another co-ownership deal for undisclosed fees. In June 2007, Ascoli bought the remain half for 900K.
Udinese and various loans
In August 2007 he joined Udinese and in January 2008 left for Lecce. He played at Lecce for a year and joined Khimki in another 1-year loan, along with team-mate Jani Tapani Virtanen, which also made Udinese had an extra non-EU registration quota.
In January 2010 he returned to Italy but failed to make a single appearance.
International career
Although he was born in Ukraine he has Russian citizenship and played a few matches for the Russian national team at a junior level and finally debuted for the senior team on 2 June 2007 as he came in as a substitute in the match against Andorra.