Oleksiy Byelik

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Personal information
Oleksiy Byelik
Date of birth	February 15, 1981 (1981-02-15) (age 27)
Place of birth	Donetsk, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	VfL Bochum
Youth clubs
	Shakhtar Donetsk
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999-2007 2008-	Shakhtar Donetsk → VfL Bochum (loan)	141 (51) 004 0(0)
National team²
2004-	Ukraine	27 (5)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 18, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of May 30, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Oleksiy Hryhoriyovych Bielik (born on February 15, 1981 in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a professional Ukrainian football striker. He currently plays for the club VfL Bochum. He also plays for the Ukraine national football team, and appeared on the main squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] Career

Oleksiy Byelik started his career in Shakhtar Donetsk. He was a regular starter for the club, until 2006 Fifa World Cup, after which he was seldom used. In 2007, Byelik was linked with a move away from the Ukrainian side with a host of Premiership and Championship clubs interested in securing his signature. Wigan, Leicester and West Brom are just 3 times that have been linked of late.

In the January 2008 transfer window, Byelik was loaned from Shaktar, to German Bundesliga side, VfL Bochum. He made his first start for VfL Bochum against VfL Wolfsburg were he hit the post, and received a yellow card, but was substituted in the 58th minute.

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VfL Bochum – current squad

1 Heerwagen • 2 Concha • 3 Meichelbeck • 4 Maltritz • 5 Dabrowski • 6 Drsek • 7 Bechmann • 8 Zdebel • 9 Šesták • 10 Epalle • 11 Mięciel • 13 Fuchs • 14 Auer • 15 Imhof • 16 Sand • 17 Byelik • 18 Schröder • 19 Grote • 20 Mavraj • 21 Pfertzel • 22 Azaouagh • 23 Ono • 24 Bönig • 25 Yahia • 26 Schmidtgal • 27 Laštůvka • 28 Zajas • 30 Fabian • 31 Renno • 35 Gündogan • Coach: Koller

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