Vera Grigoryevna Djatel (; also

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Dyatel; born 3 March 1984) is a Ukrainian

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who most recently played for

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. Besides regular association football, Djatel plays

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variation. She previously played for Swedish

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club

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, Lehenda Chernihiv and Zhytlobud Kharkiv in the Ukrainian League, as well as Zvezda Perm and Zorky Krasnogorsk in the Russian Championship.

Club career

Djatel started her football career in a small city of

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near

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playing for a local sports school (DYuSSh). Sometime around 2000, she started to play for the Ukrainian major women club from

, Lehenda and eventually Djatel ended up at the even more successful Kharkiv's Zhytlobud-1 which at that time was known as Metalist and Arsenal (

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). Before joining the Kharkiv team, Djatel already had three national titles by playing for Lehenda Chernihiv. In 2008 Djatel moved to the

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where she played until 2015. Djatel helped Zvezda reach the 2009 UEFA Women's Cup Final with three goals in the quarter-final and semi-final ties against Brøndby and

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. She won two Russian leagues with Zvezda. In January 2015 Djatel joined

of Sweden, who had been trying to sign her for several years. She suffered an injury in August 2015 and left Linköpings in July 2016 after failing to reclaim her place in the team. She moved to Spanish Primera División club

for the 2016–17 season, but agreed to terminate her contract in December 2016 after suffering from

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in her knees.

International career

Djatel debuted for

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against

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in November 2000 and later represented her country at

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. A starter in all three games, she assisted

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for Ukraine's first goal in the tournament against

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Official international goals

* 2005 European Championship qualification ** 1 in Ukraine 1–0

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* 2009 European Championship qualification ** 1 in

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0–4 Ukraine ** 1 in Ukraine 2–0

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(play-offs) * 2011 World Cup qualification ** 1 in Ukraine 7–0

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** 1 in Bosnia 0–5 Ukraine * 2013 European Championship qualification ** 2 in

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1–4 Ukraine ** 1 in

0–2 Ukraine ** 1 in

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0–5 Ukraine

Honours

;Lehenda Chernihiv *

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(3) 2000, 2001, 2002 * Women's Cup (2) 2001, 2002 ;Zvezda Perm * Russian Leagues (2) 2008, 2009 *

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(2) 2007,

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;Linköpings FC *

(1)

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;Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv *

(2) 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20

References

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