Andriy Vorobei

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Andriy Vorobei

Full name	Andriy Vorobei
Date of birth	November 29, 1978 (1978-11-29) (age 29)
Place of birth	Donetsk, Soviet Union
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Number	11
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1997 1997-2007 2007-	Shakhtar Donetsk D2 Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	75 (17) 219 (80) 13 (6)
National team²
2000-	Ukraine	65 (9)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 24, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 12 September 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Andriy Oleksiyovych Vorobei (born November 29, 1978 in Donetsk, Donetsk oblast, Soviet Union) is a professional football forward. He currently plays as the captain of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk as well as the Ukrainian national football team. In the 2000-01 season Vorobei was the leading scorer with 21 goals. He is a skillful forward.

[edit] Career

Andriy Vorobei was a member of Shakhtar Donetsk since 1995 and had amassed 79 goals in 209 matches in the Ukrainian Premier League. He signed a 3 year contract with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on June 17, 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.

[edit] External links

Profile at Official Shakhtar website

Preceded by Maksim Shatskikh	Ukrainian Premier League top scorer 2000-01	Succeeded by Serhiy Shyschenko

v • d • e Ukraine squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup

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