Andriy Annenkov
Andriy Mykhaylovych Annenkov (; ; born 21 January 1969) is a Ukrainian retired professional football international player and current manager. Club career. A native of Vinnytsia, Central Ukraine, Annenkov started his football career in one of the sports schools in Kursk, Russian Federation. In 1986 he started his professional career debuting for Russian Avangard Kursk in the Soviet third tier (Vtoraya Liga, Zona 5). Next year Annenkov moved to Smolensk where he served his military service by playing for local Army amateur squad of SKA MVO in competitions among KFK (collectives of physical culture). In 1988–1989 he played for the  local Army professional squad FC Iskra Smolensk in the Soviet third tier. In 1990 Annenkov was invited to FC Dynamo Kyiv playing in the Soviet Top League as well as their reserves in competitions for reserves. The same year Annenkov debuted for the clubs' continental competitions. With fall of the Soviet Union, Annenkov remained with Dynamo joining the Ukrainian Vyshcha Liha (top tier) and stayed with the club until mid season of 1994–1995 when he joined the recently created club from Boryspil that merged with Army team as CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv in the second tier. CSKA-Borysfen earned promotion in  1994–95 and Annenkov played for the club at top tier until in 1996 he got transferred to FC Dnipro. There was an attempt by Ihor Bakay to merge CSKA-Borysfen with Dnipro, but it failed. After short stay at Dnipro, in 1997 Annenkov returned to Russia playing for Kalmykia national team FC Uralan Elista at the Russian second tier. In 1998 he returned back to Ukraine playing for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih at the top level as well as their reserves at the third tier. In 1999 Annenkov again joined the Russian second tier FC Sokol Saratov, but later same  year he returned to Kyiv playing for former CSKA-Borysfen that dropped its hyphenated part and stayed with it until its transformation into FC Arsenal Kyiv in 2001. He also played few games for CSKA reserves at the second tier. Annenkov also managed to cap for CSKA Kyiv at the continental competitions. In 2002 he again went abroad playing for Kazakh Irtysh Pavlodar, but after half a season Annenkov returned to Ukraine joining the Boryspil club FC Borysfen Boryspil that was revived in 1997. Annenkov stayed in Boryspil club until his retirement in 2005. While playing for Boryspil team Annenkov  also capped for their organic reserve team as well as FC Systema-Borex Borodianka that for a season was the Boryspil's club farm team. International career. Annenkov had capped only one game for the Ukraine loosing a home friendly to Hungary on 26 August 1992 (1:2). Coaching career. His coaching career Annenkov started in 2007–2008 as an assistant for the third tier sides Knyazha (suburbs of Kyiv) and the revived Prykarpattia. In 2009 he joined the coaching staff of the Arsenal Kyiv sports school. He was appointed as manager of the resurrected Arsenal Kiev in February 2014 but resigned  after an unsuccessful start to a new season on 8 August 2015. In 2017 Annenkov was invited to coach the Dynamo-19 junior side where he served until 2021. During that period as an assistant coach of Oleksandr Petrakov helped the Ukraine junior team become world champions in 2019. In 2021 as an assistant to Yuriy Moroz, he joined the coaching staff of FC Chornomorets Odesa, but by the end of the calendar year he resigned along with Moroz. Since August of 2021 he is an assistant of Oleksandr Petrakov for the Ukraine national football team.