Andrea Vyacheslavovich Chukanov (; born 18 December 1995) is an

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-born

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player who plays for Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

Club career

He made his debut in the

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for

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on 30 August 2015 in a game against Zenit-2 St. Petersburg.

Personal life

His father, Vyacheslav Chukanov, is the 1980 Olympic champion in equestrian show jumping. He was born in

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at the time when his father had been living and working there for six years. His mother is also Russian. As a result, he has an Italian birth certificate but not the passport; his family never applied for citizenship despite being eligible. When Chukanov was 6, his family moved back to Russia, namely

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, where he started his youth career. While living in

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, he developed an interest in football and started to support

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‒ his father's favorite team. He has also cited

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as his childhood footballing idol.

References

External links

Profile by Russian Football National League
* 1995 births Footballers from Cosenza Living people Russian men's footballers Russia men's youth international footballers Italian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards FC Lokomotiv Moscow players FC Tyumen players FC Orenburg players FC Veles Moscow players FC Rotor Volgograd players FC Kuban Krasnodar (2018) players FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players 21st-century Italian sportsmen 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-forward-1990s-stub