Andrei Yarmolenko: brief biography

Yarmolenko Andrey - footballer of the club "Dynamo" (Kiev) and the Ukrainian team. On the field can act on the position of the flank midfielder or striker. Usually plays on the left flank in midfield or attack. This is due to the fact that the worker has a left leg. Always Andrew's coaches noted the large amount of work that he performs during any game, regardless of its status.

Childhood

Andrey Yarmolenko, whose photo is presented below, was born on October 23, 1989 in the city of Leningrad. His parents are born in the village of Smolianka, Chernihiv region (Ukraine), and went to work in the Northern capital immediately after the wedding. Three years after the birth of Andrew, they returned to their homeland and settled in Chernigov. According to the memories of the athlete's mother, interest in the ball from the son began to manifest at the age of four.

First soccer moves

In his childhood Andrei Yarmolenko spent a lot of time playing with the ball. One day, during this occupation, he accidentally noticed the coach Nikolai Lisova, and then immediately invited the boy to attend a local football school. Many of Andrey's friends went there, so he agreed. Over time, the guy became a player in the youth of the Chernigov "Youth". At the age of thirteen he entered the football academy of the Ukrainian grand club Dynamo. A year later, Andrei was forced to return to his native Chernigov, because he could not stand the competition. Here he began to perform as part of the local "Desna".

Dynamo (Kyiv)

When Yarmolenko was sixteen years old, he was again summoned to the "Dynamo". Then the players were coached by Anatoly Demyanenko. The first two years the guy performed in a duplicate composition. The instructor himself spoke positively about the young man as a football player with a great future, but under his leadership Andrey never played a single match. The fight against the club "Vorskla" from Poltava, which took place on May 11, 2008, was a game when the main team debuted Andrei Yarmolenko. Valery Gazzayev headed the Dynamo in 2009. With this coach, the football player began to perform regularly in the "basis."

At first, in official games, Andrei often devoured hundred percent goal chances. Because of this, he was heavily criticized not only by the press, but also by the fans of the team. Despite everything, Valery Gazzaev continued to make a bet on him. An interesting case occurred on March 15, 2010, when, after another failed match, the football player refused an after-match interview with a journalist from one of the TV channels saying: "I'm not a football player." This caused another wave of sarcasm and jokes in his address. Whatever it was, the confidence of the mentor had positive results: Andrei Yarmolenko progressed in terms of technology and football intelligence. The player later recalled that at the first training game Valery Georgievich put him on the left flank of defense. After the end of that "two-way" guy went to the mentor, apologized and said that in this position, he does not get any pleasure from football. To this they did not answer, and the situation did not change. A few months later, Andrei was transferred to the midfield, and only then, he said, he realized that the head coach did it just so that he could play on the whole flank and, if necessary, qualitatively work out on the defensive.

When in 2011 Gazzaeva was replaced by Yuri Semin, the place of the player in the starting lineup was no longer contested. Currently, Andrei has grown into a leader not only of his team, but also of the national team. Not surprisingly, the coaches of many European teams would like to see this player in their lineup.

National team of Ukraine

The player acted as a member of the junior and youth national teams of Ukraine. In 2011, he became the leader of his team during the European Championships (among players up to age 21), which was held in Denmark. In the national team of Ukraine, Andrei Yarmolenko played for the first time on September 5, 2009. It was a match with Andorra during the selection for the 2010 World Cup. The player took only 18 minutes to distinguish his first goal scored. Ukraine then won with a score of 5: 0. In November 2014, against Luxembourg, Andrew made his first (and so far only) hat-trick for the Ukrainian team. As of September 2015, the football player in the national team had already 51 matches, which scored 20 goals scored.

Personal life

Andrey Yarmolenko is married. His wife's name is Inna. She is an expert in diplomacy and international relations, now heads the American charitable foundation. Young people lived four years in a civil marriage, and in 2011 officially legalized their relationship. The family has two sons - Ivan (born in 2013) and Daniil (born in 2015).