Oleksandr Hladkyy

Oleksandr Hladkyy
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Mykolayovych Hladkyy
Date of birth (1987-08-24) 24 August 1987
Place of birth Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Çaykur Rizespor
Number 9
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Metalist Kharkiv 17 (4)
2005–2007 Kharkiv 64 (18)
2007–2010 Shakhtar Donetsk 82 (27)
2010–2014 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 23 (2)
2012–2014 → Karpaty Lviv (loan) 59 (18)
2014–2016 Shakhtar Donetsk 36 (15)
2016–2017 Dynamo Kyiv 8 (0)
2017 → Karpaty Lviv (loan) 13 (4)
2017 Karpaty Lviv 9 (1)
2018 Chornomorets Odesa 9 (2)
2018– Çaykur Rizespor 3 (0)
National team‡
2004–2009 Ukraine U-21 15 (5)
2007– Ukraine 11 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 October 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 September 2018

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Hladkyy (Ukrainian: Олександр Миколайович Гладкий, born 24 August 1987) is a Ukrainian football forward who last played for side Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor. He has also appeared for the Ukraine national team. His last name is variously transliterated into English as Hladkiy,[2] Gladkiy[3] and Gladkyy.[4]

Club career

Kharkiv

Hladkyy began his career in Metalist Kharkiv's football academy, and soon after, the young player was invited to another professional club from the Kharkiv, FC Kharkiv. Under direction of coach Volodymyr Bessonov, Hladkyy became a regular player for the club and soon established himself as one of the best strikers in the league. His first fame came in the 2006–07 season, when after scoring 13 goals to finish as the Ukrainian league's top scorer.

Shakhtar Donetsk

After this success, Hladkyy attracted the notice of giants Shakhtar Donetsk, and on 8 June 2007, he signed a five-year deal worth €2.5 million with the club. On his Shakhtar debut, a friendly match, he scored the winning goal. He scored two goals in another friendly.

On 7 May 2008, in the Ukrainian Cup final, during which he scored and also received a red card, Hladkyy earned the first trophy in his career when Shakhtar defeated rivals Dynamo Kyiv 2–0.

Hladkyy won the Premier League with Shakhtar that season, but fell one goal short of making Ukrainian Premier League history by being the top goalscorer for two consecutive years. However, with the addition of strikers Yevhen Seleznyov and Marcelo Moreno, and with coach Mircea Lucescu using only one forward in a 4-5-1 formation, Hladkyy had difficulty keeping his spot in the starting line-up or even a place on the bench, leaving his future in doubt . After 10 league games with only 1 win, Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu started Hladkyy, who scored in the 28th minute in a 3–0 win over Chornomorets Odessa. Mircea gave Hladkyy another starting opportunity due to an injury to Luiz Adriano, and he scored the third goal in Shakhtar's 4–2 win over FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Hladkyy scored a winner for Shakhtar against Olexandria in the 93rd minute in an Ukrainian Cup quarter final, although he also injured his own side's second-choice goalkeeper Rustam Khudzhamov during a collision in the Shakhtar penalty area. He scored his first two UEFA Champions League goals in a historic 3–2 victory in Spain over F.C. Barcelona, ending the latter's streak of 20 games without defeat. As a result of the win, Shakhtar collected more points in the group stage than ever before (9).

Unable to gain a regular place at Shakhtar Donetsk, he transferred to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on 17 August 2010.[5]

Shakhtar Donetsk return

In May 2014, Hladkyy departed for FC Shakhtar Donetsk, signing a two-year contract.[6]

Dynamo Kyiv

Upon the expiration of his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk, Hladkyy signed a 3-year contract as a free agent with the Ukrainian champions, Dynamo Kyiv, on 23 May 2016.

International career

Oleksandr Hladkyy was a regular member of the Ukraine national under-21 football team and scored 6 goals in 12 games. On 22 August 2007, he made his debut for the senior Ukraine national football team in a friendly against Uzbekistan and scored the opening goal, his only goal in 11 matches for Ukraine's senior squad.[7] Since 2007, he has been called up to the main squad by Oleg Blokhin and then Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, but has not appeared for Ukraine since 2015.

Career statistics

Club

As of 15 September 2018
Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Metalist 2003–04 8300000083
2004–05 91200000111
Total 174200000194
Kharkiv 2004–05 104000000104
2005–06 251210000272
2006–07 29131000003013
Total 64183100006719
Shakhtar 2007–08 29177192114621
2008–09 2645110210427
2009–10 226216100308
2010–11 5000001262
Total 82271432553312438
Dnipro 2010–11 192422000254
2011–12 4020000060
Total 232622000314
Karpaty 2011–12 83210000104
2012–13 235300000265
2013–14 28102000003010
Total 59187100006619
Shakhtar 2014–15 19117430113016
2015–16 1743210310319
Total 3615106133216125
Dynamo 2016–17 80003000110
Total 80003000110
Karpaty 2016–17 134000000134
2017–18 91100000101
Total 225100000235
Chornomorets 2017–18 9200000092
Total 9200000092
Çaykur 2018–19 0000000000
Total 0000000000
Career total 32091431343854411116

International

As of 15 September 2018
Ukraine
Year Apps Goals
2007 51
2008 30
2009 00
2010 00
2011 00
2012 00
2013 00
2014 10
2015 20
2016 00
2017 00
2018 00
Total 111

International goals

Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.[8]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.22 August 2007Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine Uzbekistan1–02–1Friendly

Honours

Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kyiv
Individual
  • Ukrainian Premier league Top Goalscorer (13 goals): 2007
  • Ukrainian Premier League Top Assister (11 assists): 2008

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 7 September 2008.
  2. ↑ "Blokhin fits up trusted squad". Article at ffu.org.ua. 5 October 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2007.
  3. ↑ Player profile at uefa.com, uefa.com, accessed 7 October 2007
  4. ↑ Player profile at shakhtar.com Archived 15 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine., shakhtar.com, accessed 7 October 2007
  5. ↑ "Александр Гладкий: "О переходе в "Днепр" долго не думал" (Oleksandr Hladkyy: About the transfer to "Dnipro" did not think long about it)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  6. ↑ Гладкий підписав контракт із Шахтарем на два роки. www.champion.com.ua (in Ukrainian). champion.com.ua. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Game report from ScoresPro.com Game Report on ScoresPro.com Archived 5 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ "Kravets, Artem". National Football Teams. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
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