Alyaksandr Pawlavich Valadzko, also spelled sometimes as Aleksandr Pavlovich Volodko (; ; ; born 18 June 1986) is a Belarusian former professional

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who played as a

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Career

Valadzko spent 10 years playing for BATE Borisov as a

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. He was part of the Belarus U21 national team that participated in the

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. On 19 September 2012, Valadzko opened the scoring and assisted the third goal in BATE's 3–1 away victory over

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, which was the first Champions League group stage win in the team's history. Following his strong performances for BATE, he was called up to the senior national team for the first time in October 2012 for two

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qualifiers against

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and

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. He made his debut on 12 October 2012, playing the first half of the 4–0 loss against the Iberians.

Personal life

Valadzko is of Polish descent.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Belarus' goal tally first.''

Honours

Dinamo Brest *

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: 2006–07 BATE Borisov *

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

*Belarusian Cup: 2009–10, 2014–15 * Belarusian Super Cup:

Shakhtyor Soligorsk *Belarusian Cup: 2018–19

References

External links

*
Player profile at official BATE website
* 1986 births Living people People from Motal Belarusian people of Polish descent Belarusian men's footballers Footballers from Brest region Men's association football midfielders Belarus men's international footballers Belarusian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players FC Dynamo Brest players FC BATE Borisov players FC Shakhter Karagandy players FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan {{Belarus-footy-midfielder-stub