Alexei Mikhailichenko

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Alexei Mikhailichenko
Personal information
Full name Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mikhailichenko
Date of birth March 30, 1963 (1963-03-30) (age 45)
Place of birth    Kiev, Soviet Union
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club Ukraine
Youth clubs
1973–1981 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1981–1990
1990–1991
1991–1996
 Dynamo Kyiv
U.C. Sampdoria
Glasgow Rangers
Total		 137 (39)
24 (3)
110 (20)
271 (62)   
National team
1987–1992
1993–1994
 USSR
Ukraine
Total		 41 (9)
2 (0)
43 (9)
Teams managed
2002–2004
2004–2008
2008–		 Dynamo Kyiv
Ukraine U-21
Ukraine

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Alexei Aleksandrovich Mikhailichenko or Oleksiy Oleksandrovich Mykhailychenko (Ukrainian: Михайличенко Олексій Олександрович) (Russian: Михайличенко, Алексей Александрович) (born March 30, 1963 in Kiev) is a former Soviet Ukrainian professional footballer who played for Dynamo Kyiv, Sampdoria and Rangers. He is currently the head-coach of Ukraine national football team.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Club

Mikhailichenko began his football career in the youth system of Dynamo Kyiv, under the guidance of Anatoliy Byshovets. He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1981, and went on to have a great career with Dynamo, winning four championships and three runner-up medals. He also won the Soviet Cup three times. His biggest success with Dynamo came when they won the 1986 European Cup Winner‘s Cup. He was awarded the Soviet Footballer of the Year award in 1988, as well as two Ukrainian Footballer of the Year awards in 1987 and 1988. In 1990 he was signed by the Italian club Sampdoria, who won their first Serie A title that season. The following season he moved to play with the Scottish Premier Division giants Rangers. With Rangers Alexei managed to win another five champion’s medals. All-in-all Mikhailichenko won championship medals in 3 different leagues, and for 7 consecutive seasons — USSR in 1990, Italy in 1991 and Scotland from 1992 to 1996.

[edit] National

At national level Mikhailichenko was capped 41 times, scoring nine goals for the USSR. He won the Gold Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and was part of the silver-medal-winning Soviet squad at Euro 88. He also played in the Euro 92 championship but injury deprived him of a place in the Italia 90 squad and he was sorely missed as the Soviets crashed out in the first round. Mikhailichenko also played twice for Ukraine.

[edit] Coaching

After retiring from playing football in 1997, Alexei went back to Ukraine to begin coaching under the legendary Kyiv manager Valeri Lobanovsky, remaining his assistant for five years. When Lobanovsky passed away in 2002 Mikhailichenko took over as caretaker manager, before assuming full control of the team in the 2002/03 season. Mikhailichenko led the team to two league titles and the 2003 Ukrainian Cup, but was replaced in August 2004. In 2004 he became the head coach of the Ukraine national under-21 football team. In that capacity he led the team to the final of the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, which they lost to Netherlands. On June 16, 2006, it was reported that Mikhailichenko would take over as head coach of Scottish Premier League club, Heart of Midlothian. Hearts did not follow up their reported interest and instead appointed caretaker Valdas Ivanauskas on a full-time basis. Mikhailichenko was announced as head coach of the Ukraine national football team on January 11, 2008.[1]

[edit] Individual honours

Olympic medal record
Men’s football
Gold 1988 Seoul Team

[edit] As a player

[edit] As coach

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ “Mikhailichenko takes Ukraine reins”. article from fifa.com. Retrieved on January 16, 2008.
Awards
Preceded by
Aleksandr Zavarov		 Ukrainian Footballer of the Year
1987 – 1988		 Succeeded by
Volodymyr Bessonov
v • d • e
CIS squad - UEFA Euro 1992
1 Kharine • 2 Chernyshov • 3 Tskhadadze • 4 Tsveiba • 5 O. Kuznetsov • 6 Shalimov • 7 Mikhailichenko • 8 Kanchelskis • 9 Aleinikov • 10 Dobrovolski • 11 Yuran • 12 Cherchesov • 13 Kiriakov • 14 Liuty • 15 Kolyvanov • 16 D. Kuznetsov • 17 Korneev • 18 Onopko • 19 Lediakhov • 20 Ivanov • Coach: Byshovets
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v • d • e
Ukraine national football team – Managers

Prokopenko (1992) • Pavlov (1992c) • Bazilevych (1993–1994) • Pavlov (1994c) • Szabo (1994) • Koñkov (1995) • Szabo (1996–1999) • Lobanovsky (2000–2001) • Buriak (2002–2003) • Blokhin (2003–2007) Mykhailychenko (2008–present)

(c) caretaker