Vitaliy Mandzyuk

Ukrainian footballer (born 1986)

Vitaliy Mandzyuk
Personal information
Mandzyuk with Dnipro in 2011
Full name	Vitaliy Vasylyovych Mandzyuk
Date of birth	(1986-01-24) 24 January 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Vilino, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back, right-back
Team information
Current team	Kolos Kovalivka (fitness coach)
Youth career
2000–2003	UOR Simferopol
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2009	Dynamo Kyiv	22	(0)
2004	→ Dynamo-3 Kyiv	11	(0)
2004–2008	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv	51	(3)
2008	→ Arsenal Kyiv (loan)	15	(0)
2010–2016	Dnipro	94	(2)
Total		193	(5)
International career^‡
2004–2005	Ukraine U19	10	(0)
2006–2007	Ukraine U21	12	(1)
2008–2013	Ukraine	24	(1)
Managerial career
2020–	Kolos Kovalivka (fitness coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 March 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2013

Vitaliy Vasylyovych Mandzyuk (born 24 January 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who works as fitness coach for Ukrainian Premier League club Kolos Kovalivka. A defender, he played for Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and on loan for Arsenal Kyiv. He made 24 appearances for the Ukraine national team scoring one goal. He is the younger brother of Oleksandr Mandzyuk.

Club career

Dynamo Kyiv

Mandzyuk was born in Vilino, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR. He started his professional football career with Dynamo Kyiv in 2004. Going into the 2007–08 season, Mandzyuk got injured, having to undergo a surgery. This prevented from him playing for the rest of the year 2007, but he recovered to play for the second half of the season.^[1]

In July 2008, Mandzyuk was loaned off to Arsenal Kyiv along with teammate Denys Oliynyk.^[2]

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

On 23 December 2009, Mandzyuk was sold to Dnipro for an undisclosed fee.^[3]

International career

Mandzyuk was a regular member of the Ukraine U21 national team, and captained it on numerous occasions. On 23 August 2007, he scored the third goal in a friendly match victory against Moldova.

Mandzyuk was called up to the Ukraine senior team for a friendly against Cyprus on 6 February 2008. He was called up along with fellow club member Fedoriv by manager Oleksiy Mykhailychenko after the injury of mainstream defenders Dmytro Chyhrynskyi and Nesmachnyi.^[4]

References

^ Interview with Vitaliy Mandzyuk Retrieved 18 January 2008 (in Ukrainian)
^ Mandzyuk and Oliynyk are already in Arsenal! Archived 16 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Official Arsenal website, Retrieved 12 July 2008(in Russian)
^ "Кравченко и Мандзюк – игроки "Днепра" (Kravchenko and Mandziuk – Dnipro players)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
^ Михайличенко залучає Мандзюка та Федоріва – Article on Official Website of the Football Federation of Ukraine, Retrieved 4 February 2008 (in Ukrainian)