Andriy Voronin

Voronin at Euro 2012

Andriy Voronin (Ukrainian Андрій Вікторович Воронін, scientific transliteration Andriy Voronin Viktorovyč, Russian Андрей Викторович Воронин / Andrei Viktorovich Voronin, English transcription and spelling Andriy Voronin UEFA, also common Andrey Voronin, born July 21, 1979 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian football players.

Career

Clubs

Voronin played in the Youth for Chernomorets Odessa until he moved in 1995 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he graduated in 2000 nine games by the year. For his next club, the first FSV Mainz 05 (2000 to 2003), he was in the 2002/2003 season with 20 goals scorer in the Bundesliga 2. After Voronin stormed for the 1st FC Cologne (2003 to 2004) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2004 to 2007).

In February 2007, Voronin announced his move to the English Premier League club Liverpool. There he received a four-year contract until 2011. According to his convincing initial performances at the " Reds " to write him the title of second best Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko according to.

On 1 September 2008 Voronin was on loan from Liverpool until the end of the 2008/09 season at Hertha BSC. There he contributed significantly to the early 2009 temporary takeover of the standings at, among others, with eight goals in six consecutive league games. After the 2008 /09 Voronin returned to Liverpool as Hertha did not have the necessary funds by missing the Champions League, to buy it.

In January 2010, Voronin moved for three years to Dynamo Moscow, as he manager Rafael Benitez had few forces in Liverpool and saw no future. During the summer break 2012 Dynamo Moscow Voronin loaned for a year at Fortuna Dusseldorf. His competitive debut for the Fortuna he was in the 1-0 victory in the DFB Cup against Wacker Burghausen on 19 August 2012.

National

From 2002 to 2012 has been Voronin national team of Ukraine. Height of his national team career was participating in the Football World Cup 2006, at the Voronin in four of five games came into use, but not score. Reaching the quarter-finals, where the team failed to Italy, was the biggest success of the Ukrainian football history.

After the 2012 European Football Championship Voronin ended his career in the national team.

Awards

• Footballer of the Year in Ukraine 2011

Others

Voronin has three children and is married for the second time.