Smooth, Alexander Nikolaevich

A pupil of a youth sports school (DYUSSH) of his native city of Lozovaya. The first coach of Alexander Gladky was Sergey Lobach. At the age of fourteen, he played for the reserve staff of the Lozovsky “Vanguard” in the championship of the region . In the summer of 2004 he graduated from the sports boarding school of the Kharkov School of Physical Education No. 1 ^[2] . Speaking for the HHFMC in the youth football league of Ukraine , where he played in more than fifty matches and scored about forty goals.

In 2004, he began to play for Metalist and Metalist-2 in the First and Second Leagues of Ukraine, respectively. July 25, 2004 he made his debut in the championship of Ukraine in the match against Poltava “ Vorskla ” (1: 0) ^[3] . In the winter of 2005, he became a player in the Kharkiv Arsenal from the First League. Together with the team, he won the right to enter the Premier League of the country, but in the end, Arsenal was replaced by the newly created Kharkov club, where Alexander Gladky continued his performances. In the 2006/07 season, striker Gladky became the championship's top scorer with 13 goals scored.

In the summer of 2007, a player’s contract was bought back by Shakhtar Donetsk for 2.5 million euros. The 2007/08 season ended for the team with a victory in the national championship and cup . Smooth at the end of the championship became the club's top scorer with 17 goals. In 2009, as part of the team, he became the winner of the last UEFA Cup draw . In the finals of the tournament, Shakhtar beat the German Werder Bremen with a score (2: 1).

In August 2010, Smooth moved to Dnepropetrovsk " Dnepr ", the club paid 7 million euros for the Donetsk people. In the winter of 2012, he transferred on a rental basis to the Lviv Karpaty until the end of the 2011/12 season ^[4] . At the end of the season, the lease was extended for a year ^[5] . In the 2012/13 season, Smooth again spoke for Lviv on loan ^[6] .

On May 29, 2014, the striker signed a two-year contract with Donetsk Shakhtar ^[7] . In the game for the 2014 Ukrainian Super Cup against Dynamo Kyiv (2-0), Gladky scored his fourth goal in matches for the Super Cup and became the top scorer in the history of the tournament ^[8] .

In May 2016, he entered into a three-year agreement with Dynamo Kyiv as a free agent ^[9] . In the new team, he performed under "7" number ^[10] . Six months later, in March 2017, Gladky transferred on a rental basis to Karpaty for a period of six months ^[11] .

In July 2017, Dynamo granted free agent status, after which the player signed a contract with the Carpathians ^{[12] [13]} . In December 2017, Smooth left the camp of Lviv ^[14] .

In the spring of 2018, he was watched in the Polish “ Lech ”, but in the end he became a football player of the Odessa “ Chernomorets ” ^{[15] [16]} . The game against the Kropyvnytsky “ Star ” on May 19, 2018 became the 300th for Gladky in the Ukrainian Championship ^[17] . At the end of the 2017/18 season, Gladky left the camp of Chernomorets, who flew to the First League at the end of the season ^[18] .

On August 31, 2018, as a free agent, he became a player in the club of the Turkish Super League Rizespor ^[19] . September 16, 2018 held the first match for a new team, coming on as a substitute 1 minute before the final whistle in a home match against Bursaspor (1: 1). For six months, the club spent 8 matches in the Turkish championship, in which he did not score a single goal.

On January 30, 2019, he left the Rizespor in the relegation zone and signed a one and a half year contract with the Adana Demirspor First League club ^[20] .

He played for the youth teams of Ukraine up to 17 and up to 19 years , as well as for the youth team up to 21 years . Participant in the final stage of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (France, 2004). Bronze medalist at the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (Switzerland, 2004). Participant in the final stage of the Youth World Championship U20 (Netherlands, 2005).

The debut in the national team of Ukraine was made on August 22, 2007 in a friendly game against Uzbekistan (2: 1), in which Gladkyy scored a goal ^[21] . In total, he played 11 matches for the Ukrainian team and scored 1 goal.

• Champion of Ukraine (2): 2007/08 , 2009/10
• Cup Winner of Ukraine (3): 2007/08 , 2015/16
• Winner of the Super Cup of Ukraine (4): 2008 , 2010 , 2014 , 2016
• UEFA Cup Winner (1): 2008/09
• Bronze medalist of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (2004)
• Silver medalist of the First League of Ukraine (1): 2004/05

• Member of the scorer Club Oleg Blokhin : 108 goals ^[22] .
• The best scorer of the Ukrainian Championship 2006/07 as a part of FC Kharkiv .
• Knight of the Order for Courage III degree (2009) ^[23]

His wife is Maria, whom he married in May 2010 in Cyprus ^[24] . Raises two children ^[25] .

As of November 11, 2018

• Victor Khokhlyuk . Goleadors. - 2012. - p. 91. ISBN 978-966-15-8934-5

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