Andrei Valeryevich Kovalenko (; born 20 March 1970) is a former
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
ian professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
er.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the
Soviet Second League
The Soviet Second League (, Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet Union, Soviet football (soccer), football, below the Soviet First League. The league was formed in 1971 in place of the Class A Se ...
in 1987 for
Gomselmash Gomel.
Personal life
His younger brother
Konstantin Kovalenko
Konstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian former professional Association football, footballer. He also worked as a youth coach with FC Krasnodar in Russia.
Career
He made his professional debut in ...
also played football professionally.
Honours
Terek Grozny
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Russian Cup winner:
2003–04
References
1970 births
Footballers from Gomel
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Belarusian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Belarusian expatriate men's footballers
Belarus men's international footballers
Russian Premier League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
FC Gomel players
FC Belshina Bobruisk players
FC Kuban Krasnodar players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Rostov players
FC Fakel Voronezh players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Akhmat Grozny players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
PFC Dynamo Stavropol players
FC Arsenal Tula players
FC Slavyansk Slavyansk-na-Kubani players
FC Kristall Smolensk players
FC Kolos Krasnodar players
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