Vasyl Valeriyovych Storchak (; born 21 June 1965) is a Ukrainian professional

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coach and a former player.

Career

Storchak started his professional career at the Lviv army club,

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( Soviet First League) which merged with FC Karpaty Lviv. Later he played briefly for Torpedo Lutsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk before moving to Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. In the

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he played total of 31 games and scored two goals. Until 1992 Storchak played in Ukraine, but soon after the start of the 1992–93 season he transferred to Russia in 1992 where its season was coming to a close. In Russia Storchak stayed until 1996 switching two clubs FC Asmaral Moscow and

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. In 1996, he came back to

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where he played until 1997 ( FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia). In the beginning of 1998 Storchak moved to

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for half of season (

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). Later same year he came back to Ukraine ( MFC Mykolaiv). In 2000-2001 Storchak played for lower league teams such as SSSOR Metalurh Zaporizhzhia and ZAlK Zaporizhzhia (amateurs).

Honours

champion: 1988. * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1987. *

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winner: 1989 (played in the early stages of the 1988/89 tournament for

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). * USSR Federation Cup winner: 1986.

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* * 1965 births Sportspeople from Kovel Living people Soviet men's footballers Footballers from Volyn Oblast Men's association football defenders Men's association football forwards Ukrainian men's footballers FC SKA-Karpaty Lviv players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Dnipro players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Presnya Moscow players FC Sokol Saratov players FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia players FC Tiraspol players MFC Mykolaiv players SSSOR-Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players Soviet Top League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players Russian Premier League players Moldovan Super Liga players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Ukrainian football managers FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia managers 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1960s-stub