Andrei Karyaka: career in Ukraine, Russia, Portugal

Andrei Karyaka is a former Russian and Ukrainian footballer, who got the most fame, performing in the Russian Championship for the teams "Saturn" and "Wings of the Soviets", as well as for the national team of Russia.

Biographical summary

Footballer Karyaka Andrei Konstantinovich was born on April 1, 1978 in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). Game role - midfielder. Height 179 cm, body weight 74 kg.

Years of performance in big football - 1995-2014. Karyaka is a citizen of Russia and Ukraine. He is married and has a wife Ruslan and two daughters. Since 2015, assistant head coach of the Russian team "Amkar" (Perm).

Achievements: the finalist of the Cup of Ukraine (CSKA) and the Cup of Russia (Krylya Sovetov), the bronze of the Russian Championship (Krylya Sovetov), the winner of the Super Cup of Portugal (Benfica).

Club career

As a football player, Andrei Karyaka played in three European championships for seven different clubs. He played 500 games, scoring 108 goals.

• 1995-1998 - Zaporozhye Metallurgist;
• 1998-2000 - the Kiev "CSKA";
• 2000-2005 - "Wings of the Soviets" (Samara);
• 2005-2007 - Benfica (Lisbon);
• 2007-2010 - "Saturn" from Ramensky;
• 2011 - the Moscow "Dynamo";
• 2012-2014 - The Volga (Nizhny Novgorod).

National teams

In 1999, Andrei Karyaka played one match in the youth national team of Ukraine (U-21). From 2001 to 2005, he played 27 games in the Russian national team's shirt, scoring 6 goals. Andrei Karyaka is a participant of the European Championship in Portugal (2004).

Stages of football path

Football Andrei Karyaka began to engage in the city of Dnipropetrovsk from the age of seven. At first it was a city youth sports school, then - the school of the Olympic reserve.

Since 1995, he became a football player of Zaporizhzhya Metallurg, and on March 3, 1996, he holds his first match in the Zaporozhye team. He fell on the cup match with Donetsk "Shakhtar". Three weeks later, Sergey Karyaka will make his debut in the Ukrainian championship. From the next season, Andrew - the football player of the main team. He scores balls in the championship and the Cup of Ukraine, differs his charge on the football field, adding a special glitter to the team's game. But another wave of military conscription transfers the player from Zaporozhye to the capital of Ukraine.

In 1998, Andrei Karyaka - football player of the Kiev club "CSKA". Here he holds his first European Cup matches. In 2000, after the expiration of the service, the player was put on a transfer. Person interested in the player representatives of the Russian team "Wings of the Soviets." Samara club recruited players unrelated to obligations. Together with Andrew on casting arrived a few players who after a series of test matches did not come to the court of the club.

On August 13, 2000 Andrei Karyaka played his first match in the Russian Championship to become for the long five years the best and irreplaceable player of the Samara team. He is a football player of the basic structure, he plays brightly, technically, scores a lot, holds his first matches in the Russian national team.

Particularly successful for Andrei Karyaka was the 2004 season. He becomes the team's top scorer (17 goals in the championship and 2 in the Cup of Russia), participates in the final part of Euro 2004 (three games), becomes the third prize-winner of the championship and the finalist of the Cup of the country. In total during his stay at the club "Krylia Sovetov" Andrei Karyaka played 158 matches, scored 58 goals.

Due to serious financial problems, the club's managers were forced to sell their leading player to the Portuguese team Benfica for $ 2 million. The first match for the Lisbon club football player was played on May 10, 2005, and on October 18 he holds his debut match in the Champions League. In general, the career of a player in Benfica can not be considered too successful. For three seasons he spent only 12 matches, in which he scored 3 goals.

In 2006, Andrei Karyaka changed the Portuguese championship to Russian, having signed a contract with the team "Saturn" (Ramenskoye). Here he is a solid player of the main team and her top scorer (11 goals).

For four years of performances, he played more than 100 matches, scoring 18 goals. In 2011, the team "Saturn" ceased to exist, making Andrei a free agent. He signs a contract with the Moscow "Dynamo" for a year and a half. Finished his football career Andrei Karyaka in Nizhny Novgorod club "Volga".

On March 26, 2012 he scored the hundredth ball, becoming a member of the "Club 100", and in 2013 Andrew - the leader and captain of the team, the best footballer of the "Volga". Here in 2014, and completed his playing career, football player Andrei Karyaka, in parallel graduating from the Higher School of Trainers, receiving a license category "A".

Since early 2015, he has been working as an assistant to head coach Haji Hajiyev in the Amkar team (Perm).

Andrew - a man long married. Ruslana, the wife of Andrei Karyaka, a former student of the chemical faculty of Kiev State University. In Kiev, as a footballer, "CSKA", he met with her. The family brings up two daughters-schoolgirls.