Oleksandr Shovkovskiy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oleksandr Shovkovskiy
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1975(1975-01-02)
Age	49
Country	United Kingdomraine
Birth City	Kiev
Horoscope	Capricorn

Oleksandr Shovkovskiy Biography

Oleksandr Shovkovskiy is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on January 2, 1975 in Kiev, United Kingdomraine. Oleksandr Volodymyrovych (Ukrainian: Oleksandr Volodimirovich Shovkovs’kii born on 2 January 1975) is a retired Ukrainian footballer who was goalkeeper. He was with Dynamo Kyiv in the Vyscha Liha the highest stage of Ukrainian football from 1993 until 2016.

The summer of 2011 Shovkovskiy completed his 100th game at the Champions League (against Rubin Kazan in Kazan). Shovkovskiy has played in 121 games at European cups, registering 33 clean sheets; 90% of his appearances taken place from the UEFA Champions League (77, exempting qualifiers) and Shovkovskiy has maintained the score at 28 (16 not counting qualifiers).

Until 2013 Shovkovskiy held the record for the Ukraine national team of minutes played without a goal, 728 minutes, but it was beaten by Andriy Pyatov.

On 13 December 2016, Shovkovskiy announced his retirement at the age of 41.

Shovkovskiy was the first choice goalie for Ukraine during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In particular, he saved the two penalty kicks of Marco Streller and Ricardo Cabanas during the penalty shootout against Switzerland in their second round game, which put Ukraine to the quarterfinals. He became the first goalie to ever in FIFA World Cup history not to concede a goal in a penalty shootouts (Tranquillo Barnetta also missed on the goal line); Shovkovskiy was subsequently named with the player of the award for the match. Additionally, more recently Oleksandr was named the winner of the tournament in the early part of 2008, during the Channel One Cup in Israel that took the title of Dynamo in a controversial match against their top opponent Shakhtar Donetsk. In the game, during penalties, Oleksandr Shovkovskiy saved 3 kicks and was almost able to win the game. Oleksandr Shovkovskiy also holds the record of being the third highest capped player of the Ukrainian national team, following Andriy Shevchenko as well as Anatoliy Tymoshchuk. His average goals against his national squad is .86 which is just less than 100 games in his record (92).

Oleksandr Shovkovskiy Net Worth

Oleksandr Shovkovskiy is one of the richest Association Football Player from United Kingdomraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oleksandr Shovkovskiy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In Kiev, Ukraine, Shovkovskiy has graduated from the Dynamo Kyiv football academy. From the time he was a teenager, and until the present, the only club he’s played for is one club. In actual fact, he has more games at the team than anyone ever before ever in history Dynamo. After moving from one youth group of the age group to the next, the highly skilled young goalkeeper was promoted to the initial squad that made up Dynamo. Ukrainian huges Dynamo where the first time he played was in a league match in 1993. In the following year, he had already selected to the Ukraine national team. Through the entirety of his time, he was the primary goalkeeper at Dynamo and was only absent for some brief moments that were caused by injuries. The goalkeeper’s fame was brought to him when he became known for his penalty-saving skills which earned him acclaim with the media as well as the fans. In the year 2009, his goal-against average in the League was .632 and he played more than 300 game played.

Shovkovskiy is famous for his error in his blunder in the UEFA Euro 2000 play- off game that saw Ukraine was playing Slovenia. In the 83rd minute during the first game in Ljubljana Shovkovskiy stepped out of his goal nearly to the corner flag and attempted to kick the ball away but missed his shot to Milenko Acimovic, who scored in the net that was empty from 40m away. Ukraine lost the match 1-1 and also drew the 2nd leg 1-1 , and was not able to qualify for Euro 2000 in Netherlands/Belgium.

In September 2012, Shovkovskiy announced his retirement from the Ukraine national football team.

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Oleksandr Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdomraine. Oleksandr Shovkovskiy celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.