Anatoliy Tymoshchuk

Anatoly Tymoschuk (2008)

Anatoly Olexandrowytsch Tymoschuk (Ukrainian Анатолій Олександрович Тимощук, scientific transliteration Anatoly Tymoščuk, FIFA notation after engl transcription. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, born March 30, 1979 in Lutsk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian football player and since November 2010 most-capped player in the Ukraine.

Career

Clubs

Beginnings in the Ukraine

Tymoschuk attended the Youth Sports School of Lutsk and the sports boarding team Kiev in his youth. He moved with sixteen years Volyn Lutsk. In March 1998 he moved to Shakhtar Donetsk and left the club in late February 2007. During this time he won two awards were given and he won six titles.

Switch to Zenit St. Petersburg

For the transfer fee of 15.1 million euros - the highest ever paid by a club from the successor states of the Soviet Union - Tymoschuk moved to Russia for Zenit Saint Petersburg and signed there on 28 February 2007, a four-year contract. With his club he won two titles: At the end of the season (November 11 ), he won the Russian Championship - the first in 23 years for the club - and on 14 May 2008, the final of the UEFA Cup with a 2-0 win against Rangers.

FC Bayern Munich

Tymoschuk, the already partially understood and spoke German, joined the 2009/10 season for an estimated 11 million euros to Bayern Munich. He signed a contract for three years until 2012. Since the Russian league at that time was still in rhythm and thus began 14 March 2009, he played until 15 June 2009 continued for Zenit St. Petersburg and moved only after his two-week vacation to FC Bayern Munich.

His league debut came on 8 August 2009 ( Matchday 1 ) in the away match against TSG Hoffenheim when he came on in the 81st minute for Mark van Bommel. With the deficit to 4-1 at Juventus in the final group match of the Champions League on 8 December 2009 scored his first competitive goal Tymoschuk for Bayern. In his first season, he completed 21 games in the league and four in the DFB Cup. In both competitions Tymoschuk won with his team the title. His good performance in the second leg of the semifinal of the Champions League away to Olympique Lyon helped Bayern to the final. In the final, which they lost 0-2 against Inter Milan, however, he did not play.

On 16 October 2010 at the Bundesliga match against Hannover 96 Tymoschuk was the first time after a long time in the starting lineup. He represented the injured Daniel van Buyten. On 29 October 2010 (10th Round ) in a 4-2 victory in the home match against SC Freiburg, he scored his first Bundesliga goal. Less than a month later, on 27 November (14th Round ), he scored in a 4-1 success at home to Eintracht Frankfurt his first " double ".

27 September 2011 Tymoschuk came to his 100th European match when he was a substitute in the Champions League group match against Manchester City in the 83rd minute for Bastian Schweinsteiger. In the season 2011/12 he was inducted into eleven Champions League games, including the final against Chelsea, he was 120 minutes on the field and experienced the unfortunate defeat on penalties at close quarters. Also in the league and the Cup was only the second place for Bayern in the 2011/12 season.

Beginning in May 2013 confirmed Tymoschuk to leave Bayern Munich at end of season. In his last season at Bayern, he won the treble of UEFA Champions League, German Cup and DFB-Pokal.

In his time at Bayern Munich Tymoschuk rarely got beyond the role of a complement player, yielded during operations in the defensive midfield or central defense, but mostly solid performances from. Overall, he played in the four years in Munich 86 Bundesliga games ( 4 goals), 29 Champions League games (1 goal ) and 15 times in the DFB Cup.

Return to Zenit St. Petersburg

On June 2, 2013 Tymoschuk announced that he will return to his former club Zenit St. Petersburg.

National

Tymoschuk plays since 2000 for the national team of his country and was in its more than 100 international matches on 17 February 2004 in the Test match against Georgia with a 2-1 winning goal in the 90th minute for the first time successfully as a scorer. As a regular player, he was appointed by the Ukrainian coach Oleh Blokhin in the 23-man squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In this tournament, he advanced with the team to the quarter- final, which they lost 0-3 to Italy. On 11 October 2010 he made ​​the 0-2 against Brazil his 100th game and moved so that the same with most capped player Andriy Shevchenko. Since 17 November 2010 he has been the sole most capped player. On 8 February 2011 he surpassed his 102 countries play the Oleh Blokhin also prepared for the Soviet Union's official record.

Achievements

Shakhtar Donetsk

  • Ukrainian Champion: 2002, 2005, 2006
  • Ukrainian Cup winners: 2001, 2002, 2004
  • Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005

Zenit St Petersburg

  • UEFA Cup winners: 2008
  • UEFA Super Cup: 2008
  • Champion of Russia: 2007
  • Russian Supercup: 2008

FC Bayern Munich

  • UEFA Champions League winner: 2013
  • German champion: 2010, 2013
  • DFB Cup: 2010, 2013
  • DFL - Supercup Winner: 2010, 2012

Awards

  • Footballer of the Year in Ukraine 2002, 2006, 2007

Others

Tymoschuk wore during the affiliation to Shakhtar Donetsk and Zenit St Petersburg as captain, the original Armband Lothar Matthäus in the national colors of black, red and gold, who wore this during the World Cup 1994. Tymoschuk got this as a gift from his co- coach of Donetsk, after Matthew called his idol.

Tymoschuk is married and has two children.

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