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Andriy Vorobey
Personal information

Full name	Andriy Oleksiyovych Vorobey
Date of birth	(1978-11-29) 29 November 1978 (age 33)
Place of birth	Donetsk, Ukraine
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Metalist Kharkiv
Number	9
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1997–2007	Shakhtar	219	(80)
2007–2009	Dnipro	47	(12)
2009–2010	Arsenal Kyiv	23	(9)
2010–	Metalist	20	(4)
National team^‡
2000–2008	Ukraine	68	(9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 May 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 January 2011

Andriy Oleksiyovych Vorobey (born 29 November 1978 in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Metalist Kharkiv. When he performs on the national team, he plays as a support striker.

Contents

1 Career
2 Career statistics
3 International career
4 Honours
5 References
6 External links

Career

Shakhtar Donetsk

Vorobey started his career in Shakhtar Donetsk in 1994. He was promoted to the senior team in 1997. In the 2000–01 season Vorobey was the leading scorer with 21 goals. He amassed 79 goals in 209 matches in the Ukrainian Premier League playing for Shakhtar Donetsk. His total career for the Shakhtar senior team lasted ten years.

Dnipro

Vorobey signed a 3 year contract with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on 17 June 2007. He scored his first goal in European Competition for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the UEFA Cup 2007/2008 season, in a 1–1 draw with Aberdeen, however Dnipro were eliminated by Aberdeen on the away goal rule.

Metalist

On 28 May 2010 it was officially announced that Vorobey signed a two-year contract at Metalist.

Career statistics

As of 21 May 2011

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Shakhtar	1997–98	9	0	2	0	1	0	-	-	12	0
	1998–99	18	11	4	2	3	0	-	-	25	13
	1999–00	24	15	2	0	2	0	-	-	28	15
	2000–01	24	21	5	6	12	7	-	-	41	34
	2001–02	25	9	6	5	6	2	-	-	37	16
	2002–03	29	8	6	5	4	1	-	-	39	14
	2003–04	29	9	5	2	6	0	-	-	40	11
	2004–05	29	4	7	1	13	1	-	-	49	6
	2005–06	16	1	2	0	3	1	1	0	22	2
	2006–07	16	2	6	1	4	0	-	-	26	3
Total		219	80	45	22	54	12	1	0	319	114
Dnipro	2007–08	26	7	1	0	3	1	-	-	30	8
Dnipro	2008–09	21	5	1	0	2	0	-	-	24	5
Total		47	12	2	0	5	1	-	-	54	13
Arsenal Kyiv	2009–10	23	9	1	0	0	0	-	-	24	9
Total		23	9	1	0	0	0	-	-	24	9
Metalist Kharkiv	2010-11	20	4	1	0	8	0	-	-	29	4
Career totals		309	105	49	22	67	13	1	0	426	140

Other - National Super Cup

International career

Vorobey has been on the Ukraine national football team since 2000. Notably, he was on Ukraine's FIFA World Cup 2006 squad, where Ukraine got to the quarterfinals.

Vorobey is also well known for being the fourth top scorer of the Ukraine national football team. Along with now-retired Andriy Husin, Vorobei has scored 9 goals in the international arena. The people ahead of him are Andriy Shevchenko with 45 goals for the team, and Serhiy Rebrov, with 15 goals for the team, and Serhiy Nazarenko with 11 goals for the team .

His most recent goal for Ukraine was in UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying match against Faroe Islands, which Ukraine won 5–0. Vorobey scored the last goal of the match in the 64th minute.^[1]

Honours

Ukrainian Premier League: 2002, 2005, 2006

Ukrainian Cup: 2001, 2002, 2004

Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005

References

^ Ukraine rout lifts spirits in Kiev – UEFA Euro 2008, Accessed 28 August 2008

External links

Preceded by Serhiy Rebrov	Ukrainian Premier League MVP 2000	Succeeded by Valiantsin Bialkevich

v t e Ukrainian Premier League top scorers

1992: Hudymenko 1993: Husyev 1994: Huseinov 1995: Avakov 1996: Huseinov 1997: Matveyev 1998: Rebrov 1999: Shevchenko 2000: Shatskikh 2001: Vorobei 2002: Shyschenko 2003: Shatskikh 2004: Demetradze 2005: Kosyrin 2006: Brandão / Okoduwa 2007: Gladkiy 2008: Devych 2009: Kovpak 2010: Milevskiy 2011: Seleznyov

v t e Ukraine squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup

1 Shovkovskiy 2 Nesmachniy 3 Yatsenko 4 Tymoshchuk 5 Yezerskiy 6 Rusol 7 Shevchenko (c) 8 Shelayev 9 Husyev 10 Voronin 11 Rebrov 12 Pyatov 13 Chygrynskiy 14 Husin 15 Milevskiy 16 Vorobey 17 Vashchuk 18 Nazarenko 19 Kalynychenko 20 Byelik 21 Rotan 22 Sviderskyi 23 Shust Coach: Blokhin

v t e FC Metalist Kharkiv – current squad

1 Startsev 2 Romanchuk 3 Villagra 4 Berezovchuk 5 Shelayev 6 Torsiglieri 7 Valyayev 8 Edmar 9 Vorobey 10 Xavier 11 Sosa 15 Fininho 16 Barvinko 17 Pshenychnykh 18 Yeremenko 19 Torres 21 Cristaldo 22 Obradović 23 Blanco 24 Budnik 25 Marlos 27 Chonka 29 Horyainov 30 Gueye 33 Devych 37 Bordiyan 77 Taison 80 Štetina 81 Dišljenković Manager: Markevych

Persondata
Name	Vorobey, Andriy
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	29 November 1978
Place of birth	Donetsk, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death

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