Evgeny Shakhov - football player of the Ukrainian national team

Over the past few years, the level of Ukrainian football has fallen so low that most of the players that formed the backbone of the Premier League teams began to look for money abroad. One of these sportsmen is Yevgeny Shakhov. How was his football career? How did he end up in the Greek PAOK?

Because of the recent events in Ukraine, the funding of many Ukrainian clubs has decreased, this has led to the fact that many of them left foreign legionaries, some leading players began to look for more promising clubs for their career, and other previously glorified clubs completely disappeared from the football card Ukraine. What kind of player is Eugene Shakhov?

The beginning of the football career of the Ukrainian football player

Although Yevgeny Shakhov was born in the fall of 1990 in Dnepropetrovsk, he makes his first steps on the football field in the capital of Ukraine in the city of Kiev. Get football education Eugene was quite easy, since he was born in a football family. His father (also Eugene) spent sixteen years in big football and even became the USSR champion in football, along with the Dnepropetrovsk team "Dnepr", and after the football career the player continued his football life as a coach. So his son followed in his footsteps, also becoming a football player.

Young Zhenya Shakhov, at the age of fourteen, begins a performance for the Kiev youth team "Otradny", and a year later here in Kiev in "Shift Obolon". Zhenya plays in the midfield, at the end of 2005 he is invited to the youth squad of the Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro. Yevgeny Shakhov was considered one of the most talented football players of Ukraine of that time and was noticed by the coaches of the youth team of this country. In various youth teams he played about seventy matches and scored seventeen goals. The highest achievement of that time was the title of European Champions among boys under 19 in 2009.

Professional career of Evgeny Shakhov

In an adult football, the talented boy Zhenya Shakhov began to play pretty early. At the age of fifteen, he signs an agreement with the Dnepropetrovsk Dnipro. And spends, protecting the colors of this club, about a hundred matches. Twice in his career, Eugene goes on lease to Kiev's Arsenal, but in the same year returns to his native club. The successes of Eugene as a football player of the national team of Ukraine are much more modest, he played for the national team only three matches and scored one goal. Nevertheless, the current leadership of the Ukrainian team believes that Yevgeny Shakhov (football player) did not say his last word, and counts on him in the qualifying round of the 2018 Russian Football Championship in Russia.

Greek present Ukrainian footballer

In 2016, the situation in the Dnipropetrovsk "Dnepr" has deteriorated sharply, the club is leaving his coach Miron Markevich, and the players are reduced wages. Many of them face a wage arrears. The club is leaving the leading players. Greek PAOK acquires two players, "Dnepr", they became Matos and Eugene Shahov. The biography of the latter makes a sharp turn towards European football. In the season of 2016, the footballer spends eleven matches on the field, though not yet having scored a single goal.

The future of Eugene Shakhov

Of course, all eyes of any football player on the planet are chained to the 2018 mundial in Russia. There is no exception to Eugene Shakhov. Having the title of European champion among youth, Eugene wanted not only to participate in the world championship, but just like in 2009, to bring the title from this tournament. But in order to realize this dream, Yevgeny Shakhov together with the Ukrainian team should work hard to win one of the vouchers for this mundial.