Alexander Anatolievich Gritsay ( Ukrainian: Oleksandr Anatoliyovich Gritsay ; born , ) - Ukrainian football player , midfielder . He played for the Ukrainian team .
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| Full name | Alexander Anatolievich Gritsay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 182 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  Zarya (Lugansk) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | head coach assistant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
He started playing football in the Chernihiv SDYUSHOR, where his elder brother Oleg brought him in the second grade. The first coach is Valery Nikiforovich Podgorny [1] . After graduating from a sports school, he performed in amateur teams for the championship of the Chernihiv region. There he was noticed by Simon Osinovsky, who coached Cherkasy and invited him to his team [2] . By this time, his older brother Oleg was already playing there. Cherkashchans played well and claimed to enter the major league.
Soon, Alexander received several offers to continue his career, from clubs from Russia and Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro . The player chose the Ukrainian club and in 2000 moved with his brother to Dnepropetrovsk. He made his debut in the Premier League in March 2000, in a match against Kryvbas . In the Dnipropetrovsk club, he twice became the winner of the championship, played in the final of the Cup of Ukraine, performed in European competitions, received a call to the Ukrainian team , where he debuted on August 22, 2007, in a friendly match with the national team of Uzbekistan . After eight seasons in the Dnepropetrovsk club, in 2009 he moved to Krivbass [3] . Having played the second round in his composition, he responded to the offer of the Kiev Arsenal coach Alexander Zavarov to go to the capital's club. In the new club, he successfully entrenched in the first team.
In January 2012, after the contract expired, despite the fact that Alexander played stably in the first team, the management of the Kiev club did not renew the agreement with the 34-year-old defensive midfielder, after which Gritsai accepted the invitation from Dawn , signing a two-year contract with the Lugansk club [4] . At the end of February, at a team meeting, Gritsay was elected vice-captain of the team [5] , which made his debut on March 11, 2012, in a game against his former club, Kiev Arsenal. Quite quickly, an experienced football player became one of the leaders of the team, playing almost without replacements. In the second round duel of the 2012/13 season against Zaporizhzhya Metallurg , he played the 300th anniversary match in the top football division of Ukraine [6] .
In June 2015, he left the team as a free agent [7] , and at the end of August he returned as an assistant head coach [8] [9] .
On July 27, 2017, he was replaced as an assistant to the head coach of Dawn Yuri Koval , who took the post of sports director [10] .
Achievements
- Bronze medalist of the Championship of Ukraine (2): 2000/01 , 2003/04
Personal life
With his wife Irina, met at the birthday of football player Sergei Kosilov. Raise a son Oleg and daughter Masha [11] .
He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Institute of Physical Culture in 2008 [12] .
Notes
- ↑ Gritsai “Conducted training notes” (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Gritsai: “Sorry, Zidane had already been tied up by that time”
- ↑ Gritsay Alexander (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 22, 2011. Archived November 26, 2010.
- ↑ Alexander Gritsai: They didn’t explain anything at Arsenal
- ↑ Nikita Kamenyuk - captain of the "Dawn"
- ↑ Alexander Gritsai: “I can’t imagine my life without football”
- ↑ Rafailov: Bely, Gritsay and Vernidub left the team
- ↑ Alexander Gritsai again in the "Dawn"!
- ↑ Gritsai became an assistant to Yuri Vernidub
- ↑ Gritsai became Vernidub's assistant in Dawn
- ↑ Gritsai: “I prefer to get around the nuances of renting a group of Dnepr”
- ↑ Dnipro footballer defended master's works (inaccessible link)