Maksym Drachenko (; born 28 January 1990) is a

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Ukrainian

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who plays for

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club

Shakhter Karagandy Football Club Shakhter (), commonly referred to as FC Shakhter Karagandy ( ), is a professional football club based in Karagandy, Kazakhstan. They have been members of the Kazakhstan Premier League since its foundation in 1992, but fell of to t ...

. He is a product of the FC Slavutych Cherkasy and FC Shakhtar Donetsk sportive schools. Drachenko's first trainer was Serhiy Kovalevych. After some seasons in the

Ukrainian Second League The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...

club FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk, he signed a contract with FC Olimpik in the

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. Maksym is married with one daughter.

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* * 1990 births Living people Ukrainian men's footballers Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Footballers from Cherkasy Men's association football midfielders FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk players FC Olimpik Donetsk players FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players FC Kyzylzhar players FC Okzhetpes players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub