 Tymoshchuk coaching Zenit in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk | ||
| Date of birth | 30 March 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder, centre back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Zenit Saint Petersburg (assistant) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Volyn Lutsk | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1997 | Volyn Lutsk | 62 | (8) |
| 1998–2001 | Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | 25 | (9) |
| 1998–2007 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 227 | (32) |
| 2007–2009 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 67 | (10) |
| 2009–2013 | Bayern Munich | 86 | (4) |
| 2013–2015 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 32 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Kairat | 34 | (1) |
| Total | 533 | (64) | |
| International career | |||
| 2000–2016 | Ukraine | 144 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2017– | Zenit Saint Petersburg (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk (Ukrainian: Анатолій Олександрович Тимощук [ɐnɐˈtɔl⁽ʲ⁾i tɪmoˈʃtʃuk], Russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Тимощу́к; born 30 March 1979) is a Ukrainian football coach and former midfielder. Since 2017, he has served as an assistant coach of the Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg.[2] Tymoshchuk is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of Shakhtar Donetsk[3] and Zenit Saint Petersburg,[4] and is also a former captain of the Ukraine national team.
Tymoshchuk began his professional career with his local Volyn Lutsk. He moved to play for Ukrainian giants Shakhtar Donetsk, which he captained and won the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and Ukrainian Super Cup titles with. In 2008, Tymoshchuk won the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup as captain of Zenit Saint Petersburg. He also won a Russian Premier League and Russian Super Cup title. After joining German club Bayern Munich, Tymoshchuk won the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the DFB-Supercup titles. With Bayern, he also won the UEFA Champions League in 2013 and finished as runners-up in 2010 and 2012.
A former captain of the Ukraine national team, Tymoshchuk is the nation's all-time most capped player with 144 caps. He took part in Ukraine's first-ever FIFA World Cup in 2006 and their first European Championship in 2012. He won the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year on three occasions.
In 2022, the Ukrainian Association of Football stripped Tymoshchuk of his (Ukrainian) coaching license and titles because he did not speak out against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and stayed on as assistant coach at Zenit Saint Petersburg. On 6 January 2023 he was formally sanctioned by Ukraine among other Russian and pro-Russian celebrities, having his assets frozen and state awards revoked.[5][6][7][8]
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- ^ "33 лучших игрока в истории Зенита". landscrona.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ "Zelensky imposes sanctions against 119 Russian cultural and sports figures". Meduza. 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ^ desk, The Kyiv Independent news (7 January 2023). "Ukraine imposes sanctions on Russian, pro-Russian celebrities". The Kyiv Independent. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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