Vadym Anatolyovich Yevtushenko () (born 1 January 1958) is a Ukrainian professional

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who played as a

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or striker.

Career

During his career he played almost exclusively for

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

. He earned 12 caps for the USSR national team and was included in the squads for the

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(he did not play in any games there) and

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

World Cups. He scored his only goal for USSR on 26 July 1983 in a friendly against

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. He scored a goal as Dynamo Kyiv won the 1986 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. In the late 1980s Yevtushenko moved to Sweden and became Swedish champion with AIK in 1992. After concluding his playing career in Sweden at

IK Sirius Idrottsklubben Sirius, commonly known as IK Sirius or Sirius, is a Swedish Sport, sports club located in Uppsala. Today IK Sirius is active in bandy, floorball, and association football, football as an . History The sports club that became IK Sir ...

two years later, he remained in Swedish football as first an assistant and then head coach for longer than a decade before moving back to Ukrainian football after 2008.

Personal life

His son,

Vyacheslav Yevtushenko Vyacheslav Jevtushenko (born 26 July 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Following his retirement from playing, he worked as a coach. Beside Swedish citizenship, he has a Ukrainian as well. He is a son ...

played for AIK in early 2000s. Another son Vadim Jevtusheenko played for

Vasalunds IF Vasalunds IF is a Swedish football club based in Solna, Stockholm. The club is affiliated with Stockholms Fotbollförbund. History Vasalund was formed in 1934 and play in the Swedish Third Division: Ettan Norra. In 2002 the club merged with Es ...

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

: 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1988 *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

: 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989 *

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: 1986 * Swedish League: 1992

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070825194046/http://www.valstasyrianska.nu/html/ateam.asp?playerID=49 *https://www.arlandafotboll.se/news/6795528?firstRef 1958 births Living people Footballers from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Ukrainian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet expatriate men's footballers Soviet expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dnipro players AIK Fotboll players Soviet Top League players Allsvenskan players 1982 FIFA World Cup players 1986 FIFA World Cup players Soviet Union men's international footballers Ukrainian Premier League managers FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi managers FC Vorskla Poltava managers FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv managers IK Sirius Fotboll players Hammarby Fotboll non-playing staff Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Ukrainian football managers FC Cherkashchyna managers FC Krystal Kherson managers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-forward-stub