Maksym Anatoliyovych Levytskyi (; ; born 26 November 1972) is a retired Ukrainian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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Club career

In January 2001, Levytskyi was involved in a fake passport scandal in which he used a purported Greek passport to play for French

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club

AS Saint-Étienne Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), abbreviated as A.S.S.E. () and commonly known as Saint-Étienne, is a French professional football club based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The club was founded in 1933 and competes ...

as a European Union citizen; Brazilian teammate

Alex Dias Alex Dias de Almeida (born May 26, 1972) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Honours *Winner of Pará State championship in 1993 and 1994 with Clube do Remo *Winner of Goiás State championship in 1997, ...

used a fake

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. The pair were given four-month bans with two more months suspended, and Saint-Étienne were deducted seven points, leading to their relegation.

International career

In 2009, Levytskyi committed to be a part of the

2009 Maccabiah Games The 18th Maccabiah Games (), were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Poli ...

football squad representing Russia. When the match dates conflicted with league play, Levytskyi pulled from the squad.

Honours

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

champion: 2001. * Russian Premier League bronze: 2002. * Russian Cup winner: 2003 (played for

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet Top League, Soviet championships (second only to FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv) and 10 Russian Premier League, Russian champ ...

in the early stages of the 2002/03 competition).

European club competitions

With

. * UEFA Champions League 2001–02: 4 games. * UEFA Champions League 2002–03: 3 games.

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1972 births Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople Jewish footballers Living people Sportspeople from Shakhty Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's international footballers SC Tavriya Simferopol players FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players AS Saint-Étienne players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Rostov players FC Akhmat Grozny players Ligue 1 players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Sibir Novosibirsk players Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in France Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Rostov Oblast {{Ukraine-footy-goalkeeper-1970s-stub