Football player Andrey Eshchenko

Andrei Eshchenko is a Russian football player of the Krasnodar team "Kuban" and the Russian national team.

Dossier

Football player Andrei Eshchenko was born on February 9, 1984 in the city of Irkutsk (USSR).

Russian citizen. Game role - the defender. Height 171 cm, weight 63 kg. He is married. Has a wife Maria and daughter Alice.

During the game performs a large amount of work, connecting to the attacks of his team. Often performs the functions of an attacking left midfielder. On the football field is fast and uncompromising.

Club career

The current football player Andrei Eshchenko had the opportunity to compete in the championships of Ukraine and Russia for 10 different clubs. From 2003 to 2015 he played 277 matches, in which he scored 8 goals.

• 2003-04 - "Star" (Irkutsk);
• 2005 - Khimki;
• 2006 - "Dynamo" (Moscow);
• 2006-07 - Dynamo (Kyiv);
• 2007-08 - The Dnieper (Dnepropetrovsk);
• 2009-11 - Arsenal (Kyiv);
• 2011 - Volga (Nizhny Novgorod);
• 2012 - Lokomotiv (Moscow);
• 2013 - "Anji" (Makhachkala);
• 2014-15 - "Kuban" (Krasnodar).

National teams

For three different national teams of Russia Andrey Eshchenko performed from 2005 to 2014. He played 29 matches and scored 1 goal.

• 2005-06 - the Russian youth team (U-21);
• 2011 - the second Russian national team;
• 2012-14 - the national team of Russia.

Stages of football path

Game professional career pupil of Irkutsk football began in 2003 as part of the local team "Zvezda", the club of the second Russian division. For two seasons Andrey Eshchenko held 47 meetings, in which he scored 3 goals. At the youth tournament held in the city of Saransk, a young player was noticed by the scouts of the Moscow Region club "Khimki", the teams of the first division of the Russian championship.

In the Moscow Region club Andrey Eshchenko is a football player of the basic staff. He played 34 matches, scored 3 goals, took part in the final match of the Cup of Russia against the CSKA team, made his debut as part of the Russian youth team. But the "Khimki", having occupied in the championship only the fourth place, did not make it into the Russian Premier League. Coaching staff of the club went into retirement, and Andrew Eshchenko, in the spring of 2006, signed a five-year contract with the Kiev team "Dynamo".

In the first season, as part of the Kiev club, he wins silver medals of the championship of Ukraine and the Cup of the country.

And yet the career of the player in Kiev was not asked. Unable to compete in the position of left-back Andrei Nesmachniy, he was given as a rented football player for six months to the Moscow "Dynamo". The debut match in the Russian Premier League, Andrei Eshchenko, played on August 4, 2006 against Torpedo. Having played nine meetings of the Russian championship, he returned to Kiev, where he finished the rest of the championship as part of the first team "Dynamo-2".

With the beginning of the championship of Ukraine in 2007, he passes, as a leased football player, to the club "Dnepr". As part of the Dnepropetrovsk team, Andrew Eshchenko played 20 championship fights, took part in two qualifying matches of the UEFA Cup.

The next two football seasons he holds as part of the Kiev club Arsenal.

Three spent seasons in the "Arsenal" (67 matches, 1 goal) are the best in the career of a football player. He is an indispensable player of the team, showing all his best qualities: reliability, tenacity, endurance, ability to fight in any part of the field. Thus, having signed a contract with Kiev Dynamo, Andrey Eshchenko played his best matches in other Ukrainian teams (Dnipro and Arsenal).

In early 2012, after spending half a season in the Nizhny Novgorod "Volga" (12 games), Andrei Eshchenko moves to the Moscow club "Locomotive". The season held in the team can be considered quite successful. He played 24 games in the championship, held his first matches in the national team of Russia, became a participant in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (2 games).

In the spring of 2013, Andrei Eshchenko concludes a three-year contract with the team "Anji". But in the further career of the football player the serious trauma (rupture of cruciate ligaments of a knee) has interfered. After playing 33 games for Nizhny Novgorod club, the player on June 1, 2014 leased to the team "Kuban". In the season 2014-2015 the football player for the team from Krasnodar played 21 matches.

Recently, fate gave the player another surprise. In Krasnodar, there was a terrible accident, to which directly involved Andrew Yeshchenko. The road accident occurred in the center of the city. Sport car "Nissan", which ran Eshchenko, crashed at a speed of more than 170 km / h in the concrete support, turning into a pile of scrap metal. The football player himself would not be hurt.

A family

Andrei is a family man. His wife, Maryna, gave a footballer in 2013, daughter Alice. It is for this reason that the most important cheerleader Andrei could not support his wife at the World Championships in Brazil. Although usually Maria is present at the stadium when the team of her beloved husband plays, and even conducts an active activity on the Internet. She communicates with the fans, often entering into a squabble with them, if they do not speak well of Andrei.

Nevertheless, today it is known that in the family of Yoshchenko the idyll is over. Both spouses accuse each other of treason. According to the footballer and his wife, the couple thinks about divorce, although until recently they planned to have a second child.