Yevhen Valentynovych Lutsenko (born 10 November 1980) is a Ukrainian former professional football

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Club career

Lutsenko began playing in the

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was offic ...

football school, before moving to

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to continue his training with R.S.C. Anderlecht. In 1999, he moved to the

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to play with Lausanne Sports. He helped the team finish second in his first year there. In 2002 with the team relegated he moved to play in the

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with

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...

. After a single season there he moved to another Russian club, FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, before returning to

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to join

Chornomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 ...

for the 2004/05 season. The following season he played 21 games and scored 1 goal, helping the team finish third in the league. Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06 After another season in

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrat ...

he moved to FC Zorya Luhansk in the winter transfer window of the 2006/07 season. He returned to Chornomorets on 8 August 2008.

International

He has been capped by the

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on two occasions.

References

External links

Official Website Profile

Profile and stats on Odessa Football site
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