Svatok, Alexander Sergeevich

Alexander Svatok was born on September 27, 1994 in Dneprodzerzhinsk . He studied at the local school number 44, where he began to play football. In the second grade I began to study in the sports school of Dneprodzerzhinsk with coach Viktor Nikolaevich Shevchenko. Later, his coach was Gennady Pavlovich Shmurygin. From 2006 to 2007, he played for Dnipropetrovsk Inter. Then, Svatok moved to the Dnepropetrovsk Dnipro Academy. The trainers at the Dnipro school were Alexey Chistyakov and Sergey Maksimich ^[3] . In total, he played in the children’s and youth football league of Ukraine for four years as a midfielder and played in more than fifty matches. In 2011, Alexander Svatok took second place in the competition for the title of best young football player in Dnepropetrovsk ^[4] .

Dnipro

At the end of the academy, Svatok began playing for the Dnepr double in the youth championship of Ukraine , where he became the main central defender of the team and its captain ^[3] . In its composition, he took fourth place in the tournament with an understudy for the 2011/12 season . During the game in the double, the coaches transferred him from the position of a midfielder into a defender ^[5] .

Before the match of the Europa League with the Romanian “ Panduria ”, in November 2013, two central Dnipro defenders Onjey Mazuh and Douglas were injured ^[6] . This fact allowed the Debut to debut at a professional level. Head coach Juande Ramos released him on the field at 64 minutes instead of Evgeny Cheberyachko . Five minutes after the exit, Alexander earned a penalty kick in his own goal and a warning, however, despite this, the Ukrainian team won with a score (4: 1) ^[7] .

The 2013/14 season ended for the double with bronze awards of the youth championship. In the summer of 2014, the new head coach of Dnipro Miron Markevich took Swatka to the training camp along with the main team, and then he was declared in its composition to participate in the Ukrainian championship ^{[8] [9]} . Despite this, Markevich expressed a desire to send Swat to play for another club on a loan basis for him to gain gaming experience ^[10] .

On August 16, 2014, the defender was given a six-month lease to Lutsk Volyn . Taking a T-shirt with 39 game number ^[11] . Together with Alexander, such Dnipro players as Babenko , Bokhashvili , Kobakhidze and Fedorchuk were sent to Volyn ^[12] . The debut in the new team and the championship of Ukraine took place on August 31 in the game against Lugansk " Dawn " (2: 1) ^[13] . In just six months of the lease, he played in four championship matches and two Ukrainian Cup games.

In the winter of 2015, Swatok visited the training camps with the Dnipro team in Spain and Turkey ^{[14] [15]} . According to the results of the season, Dnipro reached the finals of the Europa League , but Swatok himself remained on the bench in seven games of the tournament. The standby tournament for the team ended in victory, and the Ukrainian championship for Dnipro ended with bronze awards. After the game at the end of the season with the capital Dynamo (0: 1), UA-Football included the Match in the symbolic team of the tour ^[16] .

In February 2016, together with the Dnipro youth team, he became the winner of the Sait Nagjee Trophy , which was held in India. Following the results of the tournament, Alexander Svatok was named the best defender of the competition ^[17] . Together with the main team, he reached the semifinal of the Cup of Ukraine 2015/16 , and with the double he became the bronze medalist of the youth championship .

In the summer of 2016, the Dnieper was headed by Dmitry Mikhailenko , who was the trainer of the Matchday in a double. In the 2016/17 season, he became the captain and main defender of the team ^{[18] [19]} . At the end of the first part of the championship, Svatok became the third in the tournament according to the percentage of accuracy of the pass, second only to Fred and Morozyuk ^[20] . According to the results of the season, Football.ua website called him the best player of Dnipro ^[21] . During the season, Swatok four times got into the symbolic team of the tour according to Football.ua and once according to UA-Football ^{[22] [23] [24] [25] [26]} . This season was the last in history for Dnipro, after which it ceased to exist. The team took the penultimate place in the championship and, despite this, managed to reach the semifinals of the Cup of Ukraine .

Dawn

In June 2017, Swatok signed a two-year contract with Lugansk Zarya , together with four other partners on the Dnieper - Lunin , Lunev , Cheberko and Kochergin ^[27] . At the time of the Swatka transition to the Luhansk camp, its transfer value was estimated by the Transfermarkt website at 700 thousand euros ^[28] . The debut in the “Dawn” took place on July 23, 2017 in the match of the championship of Ukraine against “ Mariupol ” (1: 1) ^[29] . As part of the team, he played in all the matches of the Europa League group stage. The game against the Berlin “ Hertha ” ended for “Dawn” with the first ever victory (2: 1) in the group stage of the European Cup. Alexander Svatok scored the second goal of the match, the heel, and thereby brought the club a historic victory ^[30] . A month after the goal of "Herte", Svatok scored a similar goal with the heel in the Ukrainian championship against the Odessa " Chernomorets " ^[31] . At the end of the first part of the season, UA-Football website included the Match in the symbolic team of the Premier League ^[32] .

The match on April 1, 2018 against Shakhtar (0: 3) ended for Swat in the seventh minute in connection with a tear of the ligaments, after which he did not play for three weeks ^{[33] [34]} . “Dawn” at the end of the season took fourth place, losing the battle for the bronze of the Poltava “ Vorskla ” ^[35] . During the season, Swatok became the main player and four times got into the symbolic national team of the Premier League tour of Ukraine according to Football.ua ^{[36] [37] [38] [39]} .

For the first time in the youth national team of Ukraine under the age of 19, Svatok was called up by Yuri Moroz in December 2011 ^[40] . The debut in the team’s camp took place on April 12, 2012 in a friendly match against Belgium (2-0) ^[41] . In April 2012, he participated in the Slovakia Cup tournament, where Ukrainians took fifth place ^{[42] [43]} . Together with the team he took fourth place at the Vilotić Memorial, in September 2012, in Serbia. “Yellow-blue” lost the bronze medals of the tournament in Hungary , losing to her with a score (0: 2) ^[44] .

The matchmaker also participated in the games of the elite round of qualification for the European Championship 2013 , where he played in all three matches. Ukraine then took the penultimate third place, overtaking only Russia ^[45] . In total for the youth team, Swat played 12 matches.

In January 2014, the head coach of the youth national team of Ukraine under 21, Sergey Kovalets, called the defender to the Commonwealth Cup , where the Ukrainians reached the final and beat the Russians with a score (4: 0) ^[46] . Together with the team, Swatok also became the winner of the Antalya Cup tournament, which was held at the end of January 2015 in Turkey ^[47] . At the tournament in memory of Valery Lobanovsky in June 2015, Ukraine reached the final, where she lost in the penalty shoot-out in Slovenia (1: 1 regular time and 5: 6 on penalty) ^[48] .

During the qualifying tournament for the European Championship 2013, Swatook played five games - half of all the tournament's games, in which he scored one goal scored in Scotland (2: 2) ^[49] . At the Antalya Cup tournament in January 2016, Ukrainians won silver ^[50] . The memorial to Valery Lobanovsky, in June 2016, ended with bronze awards for Ukrainians ^[51] .

Speaking for the youth team, Svatok repeatedly entered the field as a captain and spent 31 games in its composition, scoring 2 goals ^[52] .

In November 2017, the head coach of the national team of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko first called Swatka to the team’s location for a friendly game against Slovakia , but he did not participate in the match ^{[53] [54]} . Before the friendly match with Turkey , November 20, 2018, defender Sergei Krivtsov was injured and Shevchenko was taken by Swatka in his place ^[55] .

The matchmaker stands in the position of the central defender. The anthropometric data of a football player (height 185 cm and weight 78 kg) allow him to withstand the opponent's overall strikers ^[56] . During the game, the Matchmaker is often connected to the standard position draws ^[57]

"Dnieper"

• Bronze medalist of the championship of Ukraine (1): 2015/16
• Winner of the Youth Championship of Ukraine (1): 2014/15
• Bronze medalist of the youth championship of Ukraine (2): 2013/14 , 2015/16

As of June 20, 2018

• Profile on the official website of Volyn (Ukrainian)
• Profile on football.lg.ua
• Semion Igor. Hero of a football day. Alexander Svatok (neopr.) . UA-Football (December 3, 2017). Date of treatment June 20, 2018.