Biography
As a child, Andrei Yarmolenko from Chernigov with a fading heart was sick for "Dynamo" Kiev, unaware that years will play for his favorite club. Over time, the soccer player has converts the Ukrainian championship and played for major European teams. In addition, Andrei has established itself as a reliable and bright national team player of Ukraine.Childhood and youth
Despite the fact that both parents of Andrei from the Chernigov region, their son was born in Leningrad on October 23, 1989. Yarmolenko engaged in earnings in the northern capital, but when the son turned 3 years later, returned to his native land. Therefore, the football player considers Chernigov and its surroundings.
The little Andrei first tried the game with the ball at 4 years old. The boy came out well, and, hitting the eyes of Coach Nikolai Lipov, he found himself in a football school. There was surrounded by friends and classmates, and therefore the workouts turned into a fascinating and fun process. Over time, there are some kind of missed whoever, but Yarmolenko continued to engage in stubbornly.
There was almost no time to school. If in the elementary class, the boy still tried to teach something, then after the 5th grade, the study went on the third plan, giving way to workouts, walks and girls.
At the 13th age, Andrei went to Kiev, where he tried to enroll in the Pharm Academy of the Metropolitan "Dynamo". The competition he passed, but the life was far from home could not stand, and the level of training Chernihival in Kiev was estimated at a low. Yarmolenko returned to Chernihiv with a stamp about the uniformity and hardly forced himself to engage in being depressed.
Father and other family members supported a guy, while coaches advised him to find another lesson. However, having survived the lane of failures, Andrei played for the local team "Youth", and then replenished the youth composition of the Chernihiv football club "Desna".
Football
The professional sports biography of Yarmolenko began in the "Desna" team, for the adult composition of which Andrei began to perform in 2006. He pronounced himself at the start, scoring 4 goals in the 9 meetings, and drew attention to the leadership of Kiev Dynamo.At first, Andrei included in the second composition of the capital club, where he performed the function of the attacker. At the same time, Andrei pulled into the "double" of the main team. As the basis of Dynamo, the football player played at Valeria Gazzayev, who provided a credibility loan to the player, despite the fact that Chernigov did not immediately manage himself.
Yarmolenko collided with the criticism of the press and fans, but continued to go out in the main composition and progressed from the game to the game. Soon, the Kievians had already difficult to imagine without the left attacker speaking at number 10, which scored the spectacular balls and distributed assists.
From Dynamo, Andrei began to receive invitations to the national team, debut for which was held in 2009. The Yarmolenko's home championship of 2012, Yarmolenko has already been firmly entrenched as part of the main Ukrainian team, where he became famous as the most effective assistant, and later entered the top of the scorers.
Footballer statistics attracted the attention of European agents. They began to chase the fact that Andrei will go to the French championship or to the English Premier League, but in August 2017, the Ukrainian signed a contract with the German Borussia (Dortmund). Player transfer bypassed a team of € 25 million.
Another playing for the Kiev "Dynamo", Andrei became interested in watching the matches of the English championship, enjoying it to the proceedible level. In 2018, he himself fell into the Premier League, becoming a player of the club "West Ham United." The team from Stratford paid for a football player £ 22 million, signing a 4-year contract with him.
Yarmolenko started in a new team rather tearing, however, the injury of Achille tendons prevented to wake all over the power in the first season. Andrei was left without football for 9 months, returning to service only in the fall of 2019.
Personal life
The history of his love athlete told in an interview. With the future wife, Inna Andrey met in Kiev on an open disco in the hydropar. He came to a pretty girl and invited to dance. She was older than the guy for 2 years, worked at the entertainment complex and in parallel studied at a specialist in international relations and diplomacy.
Six months after the meeting, Yarmolenko introduced his beloved with his parents who took a girl with open arms. But the mother of Inna looked at Yermolenko wary, experiencing that he was not seriously tuned towards her daughter. The guy really did not make an offer for a long time: 4 years the couple lived together before going to the registry office.
Andrei and Inna married in 2011, at the same time married in the Mikhailovsky Church.
First lived in Kiev, then moved to London. Yarmolenko loves homemade kitchen, especially Ukrainian dishes. The spouse is pamping her husband with borsch, meat in French, Lazagne, but she does not always have time for culinary experiments. At first she worked as director of the American Charitable Foundation, and then switched to raising children.
In May 2013, the pair was born first-mentioned Ivan, 2 years later, Danil appeared. On October 25, 2020, Andrei became the Father for the third time, having accepted the son of Maxim from the hands of his wife. The football player does not act from personal life and is divided by family photos and news on the "Instagram" page.
Andrei Yarmolenko now
Andrei continues to play for "West Ham", receiving a salary of € 7.1 million per year. The British counted that a football player with an increase in 189 cm and weighing 81 kg will be effective in the role of an attacker midfielder. In January 2021, in the 1/16 finals of the Cup of England, he finally scored a goal in the second half, for the first time since September 2020. Yarmolenko still seeks to perform a large amount of work on the field, but the transferred injury has reduced its effectiveness.In the spring of 2021, Andrei received a challenge to the Ukrainian team, but could not help the team because of the next injury.
Achievements
- 2008, 2010-2012, 2017 - Silver winner of the Championship of Ukraine with Dynamo (Kiev)
- 2009, 2015, 2016 - Champion of Ukraine with Dynamo (Kiev)
- 2009, 2011, 2016 - owner of the Super Cup of Ukraine with Dynamo (Kiev)
- 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017 - the best scorer of the Ukrainian Cup
- 2011 - the best young football player of Ukraine
- 2013 - Bronze medalist of the championship of Ukraine with Dynamo (Kiev)
- 2012, 2014 - football player of the year in Ukraine (according to the newspaper "Team")
- 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 - Football Player of the Year in Ukraine (according to the publication "Ukrainian Football")
- 2014, 2015 - owner of the Cup of Ukraine with Dynamo (Kiev)
- 2015 - Athlete of the Year in Ukraine
- 2015, 2016 - the best player of the championship of Ukraine in the season
- 2017 - the best scorer of the championship of Ukraine
- The best assistant in the history of the Ukrainian team