Artem Milevskiy

Artem Milevskiy

Personal information
Full name	Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy
Date of birth	12 January 1985 (1985-01-12) (age 26)
Place of birth	Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Second striker
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	10
Youth career
	Smena Minsk
	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–	Dynamo Kyiv	152	(51)
National team‡
2001	Belarus U16	1	(0)
2001–2002	Ukraine U17	5	(5)
2003–2006	Ukraine U21	31	(7)
2006–	Ukraine	42	(7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 July 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21 April 2011

Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskiy (Ukrainian: Артем Володимирович Мілевський; Belarusian: Арцём Мілеўскі, Arciom Milieúski; born 12 January 1985) is a Belarusian-Ukrainian professional football second striker who currently plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premiere League. He is also a Ukrainian international.

Club career

Milevskiy played at the youth level for Smena Minsk of Belarus. In 2000 he moved to Ukraine FC Borysfen Boryspil before joining FC Dynamo Kyiv in 2002. In 2006, he was voted best footballer in Ukraine for the month of August, in a traditional survey by football journalists, head coaches and captains conducted by sports newspaper Komanda. Serhiy Kravchenko took second place.^[1]

On 6 September 2007, in the club's 80th anniversary, Milevskiy scored a header in a 2–2 draw with A.C. Milan, in a friendly match. However, he spent the majority of the 2007–08 season injured, only making 11 appearances with 5 goals for the runners-up, as Shakhtar Donetsk were crowned champions.

On 6 August 2008, Milevskiy scored a cruical penalty against Drogheda United, in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (second leg) to put Dynamo 2–0 up, in a final 2–2 home draw (4–3 win on aggregate). A week later, he scored twice and assisted to help Dynamo come back from 1–0 down against arch-rivals Spartak Moscow in the competition's third qualifying round, in a 4–1 away triumph. In the return leg he netted another brace, in an identical result.

In the Ukrainian Super Cup 2008 final, Milevsky scored the opening goal in the 6th minute, although Kyiv would again come up short to Donetsk, now on penalties.

On 31 October 2010 Dynamo beat Mariupol Illichivets 9-0, with Artem Milevsky getting his first hat-trick and finishing the game with 4 goals.

International career

Milevskiy began playing internationally for Belarus, being a part of the nation's unsuccessful qualifying campaign for the European under-16 championship, before taking Ukrainian nationality.^[2] Because he played for U-16 Belarus national team there was a big international issue back in 2003 him joining the Ukrainian side. After some dialogues between Belarusian and Ukrainian federations the consensus was finally reached. He was part of Ukrainian U19 team that finished semi-finalists at the 2004 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. In next year's FIFA World Youth Championship, Milevsky and the team were ousted in the last-16.

Milevsky then joined Ukraine's U-21 squad for the 2006 European Under-21 Championship, where the nation finished second to Netherlands, and was picked by UEFA.com journalists as a member of the 'Team of the Tournament', pitching as striker alongside the Netherlands' Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.^[3] During the tournament's group stage, also against Holland, Milevsky became known for his cheeky Panenka-style penalty taking, in a 2–1 win.^[4]

Later in the year, he was picked for the nation's World Cup squad, where he would earn his first full cap, on 19 June 2006, against Saudi Arabia, coming on as a late substitute for legendary Andriy Shevchenko, in a 4–0 win.

In the second-round match against, Switzerland, Milevskiy was one of three Ukrainian kickers who successfully scored their penalty, following a 0–0 draw after regulation (while repeating his Panenka number,^[5] which backfired domestically on 26 October 2008, in a league contest against SC Tavriya Simferopol). Ukraine won the shootout 3–0, but ended their 2006 World Cup campaign with a 3–0 loss to traditional powerhouse Italy in the quarter-finals.^[6]

Milevskiy scored his first goal for the senior side on 6 February 2008 in a 1–1 draw with Cyprus, in a friendly game.

Artem's second goal for the national team was a penalty kick against Slovakia in a friendly match in Cyprus on 10 February 2009.

Career statistics

As of 28 August 2011

^[7]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo Kyiv	2002-03	6	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	10	2
	2003-04	8	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	12	2
	2004-05	8	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	11	1
	2005-06	16	3	6	3	0	0	1	0	22	6
	2006-07	14	5	4	1	6	1	1	1	25	8
	2007-08	21	5	7	0	4	0	0	0	32	5
	2008-09	24	10	2	0	15	7	1	1	42	18
	2009-10	27	17	3	1	6	1	1	0	37	19
	2010-11	26	9	3	2	14	6	0	0	43	17
	2011-12	6	1	0	0	3	1	1	1	10	3
Total		156	52	35	10	49	16	5	3	245	81

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	6 February 2008	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	Cyprus	1-1	Draw	Friendly
2.	10 February 2009	Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus	Slovakia	2-3	Win	Friendly
3.	5 September 2009	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine	Andorra	5-0	Win	2010 World Cup qual.
4.	5 September 2009	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine	Andorra	6-0	Win	2010 World Cup qual.
5.	8 October 2010	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine	Canada	2-2	Draw	Friendly
6.	8 February 2011	Municipal Stadium, Paralimni, Cyprus	Romania	2-2	Draw	Friendly
Correct as of 8 February 2011

Honours

Team

Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009
• Ukrainian Cup: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Ukrainian Super Cup: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011

Ukraine under-21

• UEFA U-21 Championship 2006: runner-up

Individual

• Top assister of the Ukraine Premier League: 2008/2009^[8]
• Top scorer of the Ukraine Premier League: 2009/10^[9]
• Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 2008, 2009
• Ukrainian Premier League Player of the Year: 2009

References

1. ^ Milevsky makes double; Ukrainiansoccer.net, 5 September 2008
2. ^ "Stats and scores from the Houston Chronicle". chron.com. http://stats.chron.com/chlg/players.asp?player=7139. Retrieved 2008-07-06. 
3. ^ uefa.com's Team of the Tournament; UEFA.com, 5 June 2006
4. ^ Video of Panenka-style penalty, against Netherlands U-21
5. ^ Video of Panenka-style penalty, against Switzerland
6. ^ Switzerland vs. Ukraine moments; Soccerway.com, 2 Feb 2008
7. ^ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.dynamomania.com/dynamo/players/1425-artem-milevskiy&ei=40IkTuujC8_GtAaE96zeBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.dynamomania.com/dynamo/players/1425-artem-milevskiy%253Fcontract%253D2968%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1600%26bih%3D713%26prmd%3Divns
8. ^ http://www.championat.ru/football/_ukraine/53/statistic/player/assistent.html
9. ^ http://www.championat.ru/football/_ukraine/110/statistic/player/bombardir.html

External links

• Artem Milevskiy at National-Football-Teams.com
• Dynamo Kyiv profile
• 2006 World Cup player profile
• Artem Milevskiy career stats by KLISF

Persondata
Name	Milevskiy, Artem
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	12 January 1985
Place of birth	Minsk, BSSR, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death