page_title: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
section_title: International career
hierarchical_section_title: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk / International career
caption_attribution_description: Български: Анатолий Александрович Тимошчук (на украински: Анато́лій Олекса́ндрович Тимощу́к) е украински футболист, национал. В момента играе за ФК Байерн Мюнхен. Един от най-добрите опорни халфове в Европа. Снимка от контролата България - Украйна, 14-11-2012 г.English: Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk (born 30 March 1979 in Lutsk) is a Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.
context_page_description: Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk is a Ukrainian football coach and a former midfielder, currently an assistant coach with Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg. He is also a former captain of the Ukraine national team before retiring from international football in 2016. During his playing career, he was "a deep-lying midfielder who is comfortable on the ball and capable of ferocious long-range shooting".
  Tymoshchuk began his professional career with his local Volyn Lutsk. He moved to play for Ukrainian giants Shakhtar Donetsk, which he captained and won the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup and Ukrainian Super Cup titles with. In 2008, Tymoshchuk won the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup as captain of Zenit Saint Petersburg. He also won a Russian Premier League and Russian Super Cup title. After joining German club Bayern Munich, Tymoshchuk won the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the DFB-Supercup titles. With Bayern, he also won the UEFA Champions League in 2013 and finished as runners-up in 2010 and 2012.
  Tymoshchuk is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of Shakhtar Donetsk and Zenit Saint Petersburg, captaining both sides to championship titles.
context_section_description: Since his debut in 2000, Tymoshchuk has become a key member of the Ukraine national team. He gained recognition for his performance during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in which Ukraine reached the quarter-finals, being named man of the match in Ukraine's victory over Tunisia. Tymoshchuk has been described as one of the catalysts for Ukraine's first World Cup appearance. In 2009, he won Cyprus International Football Tournaments.
  On 11 October 2010, in a friendly match against Brazil, Tymoshchuk became the second Ukraine player to earn 100 caps, after Andriy Shevchenko, who reached the milestone in a friendly against Canada just two days prior.
  On 20 December 2011, Tymoshchuk was named the best footballer in the history of Ukraine; he finished first in a nationwide poll to determine the key individuals in the Ukrainian game since the nation's independence in 1991. After Shevchenko's retirement in 2012, Tymoshchuk inherited the captaincy of the team.
  He is the most capped Ukrainian player with 144 appearances as of 29 June 2016. In August 2016, Tymoshchuk officially retired from his international career.
caption: Tymoshchuk playing for Ukraine against Bulgaria in 2012
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