Oleksandr Shovkovskiy

Oleksandr Shovkovskiy

Shovkovskiy playing for Dynamo Kyiv
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskiy
Date of birth	2 January 1975 (1975-01-02) (age 36)
Place of birth	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	1
Youth career
	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1993	Dynamo Kyiv 3	16	(0)
1993–1994	Dynamo Kyiv 2	16	(0)
1993	→ CSK ZSU Kyiv (loan)	2	(0)
1993–	Dynamo Kyiv	344	(0)
2001–2002	Dynamo Kyiv 2	5	(0)
National team‡
1993–1997	Ukraine U21	12	(0)
1994–	Ukraine	90	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 May 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 September 2011

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Volodymyrovych and the family name is Shovkovskyi.

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskiy (Ukrainian: Олександр Володимирович Шовковський; Russian: Александр Владимирович Шовковский) (born 2 January 1975) is a Ukrainian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He has played for Dynamo Kyiv in the Vyscha Liha the top level of Ukrainian football, since 1993.

Club career

Born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine), Shovkovskiy is a graduate of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy. Since his teenage years and up until now Oleksandr Shovkovskiy has played for only one club. In fact he has more caps for the club than anybody else in the history of Dynamo. After advancing from one age group youth team to another, this talented young goalkeeper made his way to the first squad of the Ukrainian giants Dynamo where he made his debut in a league fixture in 1993. By next year he was already called up to the Ukraine national football team. Throughout the majority of his career he was the first choice goalkeeper for Dynamo, except for a few brief periods caused by injuries. The goalkeeper's fame came to him as he became notorious for saving penalties, which made him popular in the media and among fans. By the end of 2009 his goals against average in the League was .632 with over 300 games played.

International career

Shovkovskiy is well known for his blunder during the EURO 2000 qualification game where Ukraine faced Slovenia where Shovkovskiy on 68th minute in the first match in Maribor, went out almost to the corner flag to kick the ball away, which resulted in the open net and Milenko Acimovic scoring from 40 meters out, which proved to be crucial to Ukraine not qualifying for EURO 2000 in Netherlands/Belgium.

Shovkovskiy was the first-choice keeper for Ukraine at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Notably, he saved two spot kicks in the penalty shootout against Switzerland in their second-round match, which sent Ukraine through to the quarterfinals, becoming the first goalkeeper in FIFA World Cup history not to concede a goal during penalty shootout; Shovkovskiy was subsequently awarded the man of the match award. Also more recently Oleksandr was voted player of the tournament in early 2008, in a Channel One Cup in Israel, which was won by Dynamo in a notorious game against the club's top rival Shakhtar Donetsk. During this game in a series of penalty kicks, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi saved 3 kicks and almost single-handedly won the match. Oleksandr Shovkovskyi also holds a record for being the third most capped player in the Ukrainian national team after Andriy Shevchenko and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk. His goals against average for the national team is .86 with a bit short of 100 games mark on his count (86).

Statistics

Club

As of 25 May 2011

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Season	Club	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo Kyiv	1993–94	9	-6	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-6
	1994–95	25	-15	2	-1	8	-12	-	-	35	-28
	1995–96	25	-13	4	0	3	-1	-	-	32	-14
	1996–97	24	-14	2	-1	3	-6	-	-	29	-21
	1997–98	26	-13	7	-4	12	-14	-	-	45	-31
	1998–99	24	-14	6	-4	13	-13	-	-	43	-31
	1999-00	15	-10	1	-1	16	-19	-	-	32	-30
	2000–01	19	-9	-	-	6	-8	-	-	25	-17
	2001–02	6	-2	2	-3	-	-	-	-	8	-5
	2002–03	15	-13	5	0	2	-2	-	-	22	-15
	2003–04	19	-15	3	0	8	-9	-	-	30	-24
	2004–05	23	-9	4	-2	10	-12	-	-	37	-23
	2005–06	24	-17	3	0	2	-3	1	-1	30	-21
	2006–07	24	-19	5	-5	8	-16	1	0	38	-40
	2007–08	22	-21	4	-3	6	-12	-	-	32	-36
	2008–09	10	-9	2	0	2	-2	1	-1	15	-12
	2009–10	24	-13	1	0	4	-5	1	0	30	-18
	2010–11	10	-7	2	-2	8	-4	0	0	20	-13
Total		344	-219	53	-26	111	-138	4	-2	512	-385

International

As of 29 March 2011

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National team	Year
		Apps	Goals
Ukraine	1994	1	0
	1995	0	0
	1996	1	0
	1997	9	−7
	1998	5	−4
	1999	9	−5
	2000	3	−2
	2001	6	−2
	2002	4	−3
	2003	8	−7
	2004	10	−10
	2005	8	−4
	2006	12	−11
	2007	7	−9
	2008	1	−1
	2009	2	−5
	2010	0	0
	2011	3	−2
Total		89	-73

Honours

Dynamo Kyiv

Ukrainian Premier League: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009

Ukrainian Cup: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

Ukrainian Super Cup: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011

Ballon d'Or

• 1999 – nominated (top 50)

References

1. ^ http://footballfan.com.ua/klub_rudakova._aleksandr_shovkovskiy.html
2. ^ http://www.ffu.org.ua/ukr/tournaments/prof/26328

External links

• Oleksandr Shovkovskiy at FC Dynamo
• Official website
• Oleksandr Shovkovskiy at National-Football-Teams.com

Persondata
Name	Shovkovskiy, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych
Alternative names	Shovkovskiy, Oleksandr
Short description	Professional footballer
Date of birth	2 January 1975
Place of birth	Kiev, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death