Today is a significant day for several famous personalities who have closely linked their lives with football.
Viktor TsygankovViktor Tsygankov (1997) - midfielder of the Ukrainian national team and Spanish Girona. Earlier he played for Dynamo Kyiv. He was born in the city of Nagariya in Israel in the family of football goalkeeper Vitaliy Tsygankov, who played at that time in the championship of this country. After the end of his father's career Tsygankov's family returned to his native Vinnitsa, where in the local Children's and Youth Sports School Viktor started to study football.
In November 2010, Ivan Terletsky invited Tsygankov to the Academy of Dynamo Kyiv. In parallel, Shakhtar Donetsk were interested in the player, but Viktor decided to go to the capital. In Dynamo Academy Tsygankov managed to play under Pavel Kikotya, Andriy Biba, Yuriy Yeskin and Oleksiy Drotsenko.
On 14 August 2016, at the age of 18, Tsygankov made his debut for the Dynamo first team in the Premier League match against Kamenskaya Stalya. Viktor came on the pitch on 77 minutes instead of Artyom Gromov at the score 1:0 in favour of the Steelers and helped the team to a 2:1 victory. The player made his debut in the Champions League on 13 September in the game against Napoli. Already in the next match in this tournament against Turkish "Besiktas" Viktor scored his first goal in European competitions, thus helping Dynamo to draw. Tsygankov scored his first goal in the Premier League against Olimpik Donetsk, becoming the 6th in the list of Dynamo's young scorers in the championships of Ukraine.
Also in October 2016, the coach of the national team of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko called Tsygankov for the matches of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers with Turkey and Kosovo, but after arriving at the camp of the national team with an injury, he was replaced by Oleksandr Karavaev in the application form. He made his debut for the national team in its next match on 12 November 2016 against Finland, which was held in Odessa.
John Heitinga (1983) - former defender of Ajax and the Netherlands national team. He has also played for such clubs as Hertha Berlin, Atletico Madrid and Everton Liverpool. As part of his national team is a bronze medallist at Euro 2004, as well as silver medallist at the last World Cup, which was held in South Africa. He played 87 matches in the national team and scored 7 goals.
Volodymyr Yezersky (1976) is a former Ukrainian footballer who played as a defender. During his career, Yezersky managed to play for many domestic clubs, including Dynamo Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro and Shakhtar Donetsk. As a member of the national team of Ukraine he took part in the World Championship in 2006, where he reached the quarter-finals. In total, Yezersky played 39 matches for the Ukrainian national team, in which he scored 2 goals. Currently, he works in Rotan's coaching staff at Oleksandriya.
