Oleksiy Cherednyk

Oleksiy Cherednyk
	Oleksiy Cherednyk in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk
Date of birth	15 September 1960
Place of birth	Stalinabad, Tajik SSR
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender; midfielder;
Team information
Current team	Shakhtar Donetsk (scout)
Youth career
1974–1978	Pamir Dushanbe
Senior career*
Years	Team
1979–1982	Pamir Dushanbe
1983–1989	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1990–1993	Southampton
1994	Chornomorets Odesa
1995	Metalurh Zaporizhya
1995–1996	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
Total
International career
1986–1988	USSR (Olympic)
1989	USSR
Managerial career
1996	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
1997	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
Medal record
Representing the Soviet Union
Men's football
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aleksei Valentinovich Cherednik (Russian: Алексей Валентинович Чередник, Ukrainian: Олексій Валентинович Чередник; born 15 September 1960) is a Soviet, Tajikistani, and Ukrainian former professional footballer who later for quite some time played in Ukraine and later became a Ukrainian football manager and a scout for Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Dnipro.

Career

Cherednyk was born in Dushanbe, at that time "Stalinabad". His parents moved to Tajikistan in the 1930s, his father came from near Volgograd and his mother from near Penza.^[1] To football, Cherednyk arrived by coming into a local sports school in Dushanbe as a companion to his friend.^[1] Initially, he started as a goalkeeper, but, due to his height, he was reassigned as a defender.^[1] His first coach was Vladimir Maksakov.^[1] To Pamir, Cherednyk arrived in 1977 when the team was managed by Ishtvan Sekech.^[1]

In late 1982, when Pamir was playing a few matches back-to-back in Ukraine (Zaporizhia – Nikopol) during the 1982 Soviet First League season, Cherednyk was snatched from under the nose of Dinamo Moscow by the Dnipro scouts.^[1]^[2]