Vitaliy Kosovskyi

Vitaliy Kosovskyi
Personal information
Full name	Vitaliy Vladyslavovych Kosovskyi
Date of birth	11 August 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Ostroh, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Vorskla Poltava (U21 manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1991	Podillya Khmelnytskyi
1991–1994	Nyva Vinnytsia
1994–2003	Dynamo Kyiv
1997–2003	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv
Total
International career
1996–2000	Ukraine
Managerial career
2012–2017	Dynamo Kyiv (youth)
2017–2018	Dynamo Kyiv (U19 assistant)
2019	Vorskla Poltava (U21)
2019	Vorskla Poltava
2019–	Vorskla Poltava (U21)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vitaliy Vladyslavovych Kosovskyi (Ukrainian: Віталій Владиславович Косовський; born 11 August 1973) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv and a Ukraine national team.

Early life

Born in Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, his first steps in football Kosovskyi started when he went to the first grade of school as it happened to be that near the school was also located a children-youth sports school.^[1] Kosovskyi explained that his father worked as a driver in Netishyn^[1] which is located in neighboring Khmelnytskyi Oblast. When in Netishyn started to be built the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant, in 1984 Netishyn was granted the status of city and around that time the Kosovskyi family received a new apartment to which they moved.^[1]

Club career

Kosovskyi is notable for representing Dynamo Kyiv in the late 1990s alongside Serhii Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko, usually playing the starting left winger. Kosovskyi's career was cut short in the early 2000s by numerous injuries, which prevented his numerous comeback attempts. Following a nine-year career with Dynamo, Kosovsky retired in 2003 to be a scout for Dynamo Kyiv.^{[citation needed]}