Maksym Koval

Maksym Koval

Personal information
Full name	Maksym Anatoliyovych Koval
Date of birth	9 December 1992 (1992-12-09) (age 18)
Place of birth	Zaporizhya, Ukraine
Height	1.84 m (6 ft  1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	35
Youth career
2004-2008	Metalurh Zaporizhya Youth
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2008–2010	Metalurh Zaporizhya	22	(0)
2010-	Dynamo Kyiv	12	(0)
National team‡
2008-2009	Ukraine-17	8	(0)
2009–	Ukraine-19	2	(0)
2010	Ukraine-20	1	(0)
2010-	Ukraine-21	1	(0)
2011-	Ukraine
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 November 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2010

Maksym Koval (Ukrainian: Максим Анатолійович Коваль; born 9 December 1992 in Zaporizhya, Ukraine) is a professional Ukrainian football goalkeeper who plays for Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Career

Koval on his debut with Ajax's Luis Suárez.

Koval is a product of Metalurh Zaporizhya Youth school system. He first appeared on the bench for the first team on the 26 July 2009. He was there for just 5 games before he was given his chance. Mainly due to the number of absentees, he appeared in goal for Round 12 of the Ukrainian Premier League on November the 1st; He kept a clean sheet in a 3-0 win. After a fine performance, he kept his place for the next two games, keeping two more clean sheets in the process. Even when he did concede, it was only a single goal in a 1-1 draw with Dynamo Kyiv, a game in which he also saved a 94th minute penalty kick from Artem Milevskiy, saving the point.^[1] Metalurg's form rose, and he kept his place from then on. A 0-4 drubbing by Metalist was the only real blip on his seasons performance. He ended with 6 clean sheets and having only conceded 23 in 19 games.

After a fine debut season, starting whilst he was aged just 16, Dynamo Kyiv showed interest. This was intensified after a superb performance against them during the season. He signed for them just 3 games into the 2010–11 season.

He made his debut for Dynamo in a UEFA Champions League play-off game against AFC Ajax, and with an impressive performance^[2] subsequently established himself as the first-choice goalkeeper with his new club in the absence of the injured Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, at the age of only 17. When Shovkovskiy returned from injury in the second half of the 2010-2011 season, Koval was moved to the back-up goalkeeper position.

In November 2010, Koval was named by Spanish football magazine, Don Balón as one of the 100 best young players in the world.^[3]

International

Koval was called up to the senior national team in June 2011 for matches against Uzbekistan and France.

Career statistics

Club

Statistics accurate as of 26 August 2011

Club	Season	League			Ukrainian Cup			Europe			Other			Total
		Apps	G.C.	C.S.	Apps	G.C.	C.S.	Apps	G.C.	C.S.	Apps	G.C.	C.S.	Apps	G.C.	C.S.
Metalurg ZP	2009–10	19	23	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	23	6
	2010–11	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	1
Dynamo Kyiv
	2010–11	11	7	6	1	2	0	5	6	2	0	0	0	17	15	8
	2011–12	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Career total		34	33	13	1	2	0	5	6	2	0	0	0	52	41	16

Apps – Appearances; G.C. – Goals conceded; C.S. – Clean sheets.

References

1. ^ http://www.ffu.org.ua/eng/tournaments/premier_liga/4741/
2. ^ "Ajax ready to pounce on Dynamo". UEFA official website. 2010-08-23. http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=1516270.html. Retrieved 2010-11-14. 
3. ^ "Don Balon Top 100 Young Players In The World". Ministry Of Glove. 2 November 2010. http://ministryofglove.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/david-de-gea-maksym-koval/. Retrieved 2 November 2010. 

External links

• Profile at FFU Official Site (Ukr)
• Profile at Transfermarkt.de site

Persondata
Name	Koval, Maksym
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	9 December 1992
Place of birth	Zaporizhya, Ukraine
Date of death
Place of death