Serghei Cleșcenco

Serghei Clescenco ( FIFA spelling Serghei Clescenco, Russian Сергей Викторович Клещенко / Sergei Kleschtschenko, born May 20, 1972 in Criuleni, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a retired Moldovan football player.

Club career

Cleşcencos career began in 1990 at his hometown club Zimbru Chisinau, for whom he played until 1995. Then he moved to the Eredivisie to the Go Ahead Eagles. After the team but descended into the 2nd league and in the following season, missing out on promotion, Clescenco returned to Zimbru Chisinau. In 1999 he moved to Israel for Maccabi Haifa, where he scored 22 goals in his first season. He keeps in Israel the record for the most goals scored by a foreign player in a season. A season later he was with his Israeli club champion. After two years with Maccabi he joined the league rivals Hapoel Tel Aviv. At the end of the season he won the League Cup with the club in Israel. In 2003 he moved after a short stopover in Russia to Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv. But in 2005 he returned to Russia to FK Sibir Novosibirsk, for whom he played for two years. From 2007 he was active for one season with the Russian third-division club FC Metallurg- Kuzbass Novokuznetsk. In February 2008, he ended his playing career.

National

Serghei Clescenco holds in the Moldovan national team's record for most international goals (11). His first international match, which was also the first international match of Moldova, he competed in 1991 against Georgia. His last in 2006 against Bosnia- Herzegovina