Valentyn Krukovets

Valentyn Krukovets
Personal information
Full name	Валентин Васильович Круковець
Date of birth	18 March 1977 (age 44)
Place of birth	Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Position(s)	Midfield, Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997-1998	Khutrovyk Tysmenytsia
1998-2000	Desna Chernihiv
2000	Volyn Lutsk
2000-2003	Sokil Zolochiv
2002-2003	→ Desna Chernihiv
2003-2007	Desna Chernihiv
2008-2013	Polessia Dobryanka
Teams managed
2008-2013	Polessia Dobryanka coach
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Valentyn Krukovets (Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Круковець, born December 29, January 1978) is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player. He spend most of his career to Desna Chernihiv the main club in Chernihiv.^[1]

Career[]

Valentyn Krukovets is a pupil of Lutsk football, and started playing football at the local CYSS, for a short time he played in the regional championship for the Lutsk club "Crystal". After graduating from school, the young football player received an invitation from Ivano-Frankivsk "Prykarpattia", but did not play for the main team, made his debut in professional football by playing for the farm club of Prykarpattia from the second league "Tysmenytsia".^[2] After short performances in the second league, Krukovets returned to Lutsk and played in the amateur team "Rose-Express" from Gorka Polonka.

Successful performances for the Tysmenytsia and Hirkopolonkivka teams drew the attention of Valentyn to the leadership of the main team of Volyn, Volyn Lutsk, which at that time played in the Ukrainian First League. In the first league, the footballer made his debut on March 15, 2000 in a game with Dnipro Cherkasy. However, Krukovets did not immediately become the main player of the team, although in the second half of the season he played 16 matches,^[3] but in most of them he either came on as a substitute or was replaced himself. From the beginning of the 2000–2001 season, the player was a regular player of the base, but by the end of the first round he lost his place in the base, and after playing 16 matches of the championship in the first half of the season,^[4] left the club and became a player of the second league. Zolocheva. In the team he became a regular player, and from next season - one of the best scorers of the team. The following season, Sokil Zolochiv took second place in the group stage and reached the first league. Krukovets continued to play for the Zolochiv team in the first league. Since at that time Sokol had a farm club in the second league - Chernihiv's Desna, it had the opportunity to play for both Sokol and Desna Chernihiv. The successful game of the football player caused the management of the Chernihiv club after the termination of existence of "Falcon" to buy out Krukovets' contract.

After Valentyn Krukovets became a full-fledged Desna Chernihiv player, he quickly became not only one of its main players, but also one of its top scorers. For a long time the Chernihiv team and he won the Ukrainian Second League in the season 2005–06 and to get promoted to Ukrainian First League.^[5] and he also became one of the top scorers in the Ukrainian First League in the season 2006–07, scoring 13 goals. goals in 32 matches played. In total, the footballer played 143 matches for Desna in the championships of Ukraine, in which he scored 51 goals. The football player played in the Chernihiv club until the end of 2007, at the beginning of 2008 he played for a short time in another first-league team "Stal" from Dniprodzerzhynsk, after which he finished playing professional football.

After his professional football performances, Valentyn Krukovets returned to the Chernihiv region, where he became the playing coach of the Polissya amateur team from the village of Dobryanka.^[6] Later, in 2013, the footballer played for the amateur club "Revna" from Semenivka.^[2] In 2016, Krukovets played for Nizhyn's Frunzevets, where he won the regional cup.^[7] Since 2017, Valentyn Krukovets has been playing for the Bakhmak club Agrodim.