Artem Milevskiy

Artem Milevskiy
Personal information
Full name	Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy
Date of birth	January 12, 1985 (1985-01-12) (age 25)
Place of birth	Mazyr, BSSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	10
Youth career
	FC Zmina Shaktar Donetsk
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001-2002 2002 2002-2005 2002–	Shaktar Donetsk Dynamo-3 Kyiv Dynamo-2 Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv	8 (3) 1 (0) 50 (18) 102 (29)
National team2
2006 2006–	Ukraine U21 Ukraine	20 (7) 21 (4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 August 2009. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 14 June 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy (Ukrainian: Артем Володимирович Мілевський), (Belarusian: Арцём Мілеўскі), (born January 12, 1985 in Mazyr, Belarus) is a Ukrainian professional football striker of Belarusian descent, who currently plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premiere League. He is also an Ukrainian international.

Club career

Milevskiy started his professional career in Ukraine's Shaktar Donetsk, moving in 2002 to national giants FC Dynamo Kyiv. In 2006, he was voted best footballer in Ukraine for the month of August, in a traditional survey by football journalists, head coaches and captains conducted by sports newspaper Komanda. Serhiy Kravchenko took second place.^[1]

On September 6, 2007, in the club's 80th anniversary, Milevskiy scored a header in a 2-2 draw with A.C. Milan, in a friendly match. However, he spent the majority of the 2007-08 season injured, only making 11 appearances with 5 goals for the runners-up, as Shakhtar Donetsk were crowned champions.

On August 6, 2008, Milevsky scored a cruical penalty against Drogheda United, in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (second leg) to put Dynamo 2-0 up, in a final 2-2 home draw (4-3 win on aggregate). A week later, he scored twice and assisted to help Dynamo come back from 1-0 down against arch-rivals Spartak Moscow in the competition's third qualifying round, in a 4-1 away triumph. In the return leg he netted another brace, in an identical result.

In the Ukrainian Super Cup 2008 final, Milevsky scored the opening goal in the 6th minute, although Kyiv would again come up short to Donetsk, now on penalties.

International career

Milevskiy began playing internationally for Belarus, being a part of the nation's unsuccessful qualifying campaign for the European under-16 championship, before taking Ukrainian nationality.^{[2][citation needed]}He was part of its U19 team that finished semi-finalists at the 2004 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. In next year's FIFA World Youth Championship, Milevsky and the team were ousted in the last-16.

Milevsky then joined Ukraine's U-21 squad for the 2006 European Under-21 Championship, where the nation finished second to Netherlands, and was picked by UEFA.com journalists as a member of the 'Team of the Tournament', pitching as striker alongside the Netherlands' Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.^[3] During the tournament's group stage, also against Holland, Milevsky became known for his cheeky Panenka-style penalty taking, in a 2-1 win.^[4]

Later in the year, he was picked for the nation's World Cup squad, where he would earn his first full cap, on June 19, 2006, against Saudi Arabia, coming on as a late substitute for legendary Andriy Shevchenko, in a 4-0 win.

In the second-round match against, Switzerland, Milevskiy was one of three Ukrainian kickers who successfully scored their penalty, following a 0-0 draw after regulation (while repeating his Panenka number,^[5] which backfired domestically on October 26, 2008, in a league contest against SC Tavriya Simferopol). Ukraine won the shootout 3-0, but ended their 2006 World Cup campaign with a 3-0 loss to traditional powerhouse Italy in the quarter-finals.^[6]

Milevskiy scored his first goal for the senior side on February 6, 2008 in a 1-1 draw with Cyprus, in a friendly game.

Artem's second goal for the national team was a penalty kick against Slovakia in a friendly match in Cyprus on February 10, 2009.

Career statistics

As of 13 December 2009.

Honours

Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009
• Ukrainian Cup: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Ukrainian Super Cup: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009

Ukraine under-21

• UEFA U-21 Championship 2006: runner-up

References

External links

• Dynamo Kyiv profile
• 2006 World Cup player profile

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