Viktor Igorevich Budyansky, sometimes Boudianski (, born 12 January 1984) is a retired association footballer who played as a

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. He last played for Italian club

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Club career

Juventus and various loans

Budyanskiy started his Italy career at

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along with Ilyos Zeytulayev and Serhiy Kovalenko after a trial. He signed a five-year contract on 10 August 2001. He played his first league match for the club on 2 May 2004 against

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. After graduation from youth team in June 2004, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev they were unable to register as a Juve player. At first FIGC declared that their remained two years contract did not fulfill the regulation and void them (FIGC declared that their contract was a youth contract and should be a maximum of three years) and a non-EU player at that time cannot sign a contract extension, thus they were released. But after an appeal, the appeal committee stated that a foreigner can sign a professional contract regardless his age, FIGC regulations only protected domestic youth product could only sign a contract for more than three years after 18, thus available to Juve since December. he joined Reggina in a co-ownership deal for just €1000, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev in January 2005. In June 2005, Juventus bought back Budyanskiy for the same price (€500) and let Zeytulaev went to Reggina permanently. In July 2005, Budyanskiy was loaned to

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of Serie B. In July 2006, he was sold to Ascoli in another co-ownership deal for undisclosed fees. In June 2007, Ascoli bought the remain half for €900,000.

Udinese and various loans

In August 2007 he joined

and in January 2008 left for

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. He played at Lecce for a year and joined

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in another one-year loan, along with team-mate Jani Tapani Virtanen, which also made Udinese had an extra non-EU registration quota. In January 2010 he returned to Italy but failed to make a single appearance.

International career

Born in Ukraine, Budyanskiy has Russian citizenship and played a few matches for the Russia national team at a junior level and finally debuted for the Russia national football team, senior team on 2 June 2007 as he came in as a substitute in the match against

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References

External links

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Profile at AIC.Football.it

Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport
{{DEFAULTSORT:Budyansky, Viktor 1984 births Living people People from Vovchansk Footballers from Kharkiv Oblast Russian men's footballers Russian expatriate men's footballers Russia men's youth international footballers Russia men's international footballers Serie A players Serie B players Russian Premier League players Juventus FC players AS Reggina 1914 players US Avellino 1912 players Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players Udinese Calcio players US Lecce players FC Khimki players Men's association football midfielders Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Russian people of Ukrainian descent 21st-century Russian sportsmen