Rostyslav Rusyn ( ua, Ростислав Ігорович Русин; born 26 October 1995) is a

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professional

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who plays as a

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for Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.

Club career

Rusyn is a product of Youth Sportive school in his native

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(first trainer was Volodymyr Sapuha) and also RVUFK Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk youth sportive school systems. After spent five seasons in the Shakhtar youth team and played in the

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, he was transferred to

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. Returned to Ukraine and signed a contract with Rukh Lviv in August 2018.

International career

Rusyn was called up to the Ukraine national under-16 football team in October 2010 and played as a second-half substituted player in the 2-1 winning match against Denmark on October 14, 2020 in the International youth tournament in

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Personal life

Rusyn is a stepbrother of another Ukrainian football players, Volodymyr Fedoriv (born 1985) and

Vitaliy Fedoriv Vitaliy Fedoriv ( uk, Віталій Миколайович Федорів; born 21 October 1987) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Dnipro-1, on loan from Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv ( ...

(born 1987).

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* 1995 births Living people People from Zhydachiv Piddubny Olympic College alumni Ukrainian men's footballers FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FK Spartaks Jūrmala players FC Rukh Lviv players FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Ukrainian Premier League players Men's association football midfielders Ukrainian First League players Ukraine men's youth international footballers {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub