Orest Kuzyk

Orest Kuzyk (Ukrainian: Орест Тарасович Кузик; born 17 May 1995) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a winger who plays for Pafos.[1]

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Tarasovych and the family name is Kuzyk.
Orest Kuzyk
Personal information
Full name Orest Tarasovych Kuzyk
Date of birth (1995-05-17) 17 May 1995
Place of birth Lviv, Ukraine
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Pafos
Number 17
Youth career
2001–2010 Karpaty Lviv
2011–2012 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2016 Dynamo Kyiv 0 (0)
2015–2016 → Hoverla Uzhhorod (loan) 24 (2)
2016–2018 Stal Kamianske 37 (8)
2018–2020 PAS Giannina 7 (0)
2019 → Dnipro-1 (loan) 11 (4)
2019–2020 → Desna Chernihiv (loan) 20 (1)
2020– Pafos 9 (1)
National team
2010–2011 Ukraine-16 4 (0)
2010–2011 Ukraine-17 4 (0)
2015–2016 Ukraine-20 2 (0)
2016 Ukraine-21 5 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 October 2020

Career

Kuzyk is a product of the FC Karpaty Lviv and FC Dynamo youth sportive schools. His first trainers were Mykola Dudarenko (in FC Karpaty) and Oleksiy Drotsenko and Yuriy Len (in FC Dynamo).[2]

FC Hoverla Uzhhorod

He spent his career in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and in July 2015 went on loan to Hoverla Uzhhorod in the Ukrainian Premier League. Kuzyk made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League for FC Hoverla Uzhhorod in a match against FC Vorskla Poltava, entraining in the second half-time on 25 July 2015.[3]

FC Stal Kamianske

From 2016–2018 Kuzyk joined Stal Kamianske, and he made 37 caps and eight goals. He played also in the reserve team in the season 2016–17 he scored 7 goals.

PAS Giannina F.C.

On 8 June 2018, PAS Giannina the main team of Ioannina, officially announced the signing of 23-year-old Ukrainian winger Orest Kuzyk, who was recently released from FC Stal Kamianske. Kuzyk signed three-season contract with experienced manager Giannis Petrakis' team.[4] Kuzyk was often left out of the squad during the first half of the Super League season. He made seven appearances across all competitions without scoring.

SC Dnipro-1 (loan)

On 14 January 2018, he was loaned out to SC Dnipro-1.[1] He made 11 appearances and scored four goals in the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League, contributed to promote the team into Ukrainian Premier League. He won also the award as Best Player in March 2019 becoming the second player of SC Dnipro-1 who earned the award.[5][6]

FC Desna Chernihiv (loan)

On 14 July 2019, he was loaned again to Desna Chernihiv for one year until the july 2020.[7][8] With the club of Chernihiv, he started playing more regularly comparing with the last two years and he played 21 matches scoring 1 goal in Ukrainian Premier League against FC Oleksandriya in the season 2019–20 in the away victory of 0-3 for Desna Chernihiv[9][10]He made his contribution for the Quarterfinal of the Ukrainian Cup in the season 2019-20 and for the Qualification for the Play-Off of the Championship round table of the Premier League in the season 2019–20 and with the club was promoted for the Europa League third qualifying round.[11] In summer 2020 few clubs from Ukrainian Premier League and Cypriot First Division showed interest in Desna's player on loan from PAS Giannina.[12][13][14][15]At the end the club of Desna Chernihiv want offer him a new contract but the owner club, PAS Giannina wasn't agree.[16]

Pafos

In September 2020, Orest Kuzyk left PAS Giannina and signed a three-year contract with Cyprus' Pafos in Cypriot First Division.[17][18][19][20]On 22 October 2020 he scored his first goal in Cypriot First Division for the season 2020–21 against Karmiotissa FC.[21]

International career

In 2015 he joined in the Ukraine-20 and made two appearances. In 2016 in Ukraine-21, he made five appearances and scored one goal.

Honours

SC Dnipro-1

individual

References
  1. "Στη Ντνίπρο ο Κούζικ". 15 January 2019.
  2. Орест Тарасович Кузык (in Russian). Official FC Dynamo Kyiv Site. 2015-07-29.
  3. "Archived copy" Ліга Парі-Матч. 2 тур. Матч № 8 25.07.2015. (in Ukrainian). Official UPL Site. 2015-07-29. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2015-07-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Ανακοίνωσε Κιούζικ ο ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα. www.sport24.gr. 2018-06-09.
  5. "Orest Kuzyk won the award of March 2019 |". www.pfl.ua. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  6. "Орест Кузык - лучший игрок марта в Первой лиге |". UA-Football. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. "Орест Кузик - гравець ФК Десна". 14 July 2019.
  8. "Δανεικός και πάλι ο Κούζικ". 17 July 2019.
  9. "Orest Kuzyk scored against FC Oleksandriya | Referee report". Ukrainian Premier League. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  10. "Orest Kuzyk statistics with FC Desna Chernihiv | Referee report". www.globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  11. "Orest Kuzyk was promoted for the Europa League third qualifying round with FC Desna". thetimeshub.in. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  12. "Orest Kuzyk | Referee report". www.footboom.com. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  13. "Orest Kuzyk | Referee report". www.sport.ua. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  14. "Orest Kuzyk |". www.euro.com.ua. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  15. "Orest Kuzyk |". www.gazzetta.gr. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  16. "Орест Кузик: «Яннина» хотела одну сумму, «Десна» готова была заплатить другую – не договорились»". www.ua.tribuna.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  17. "Орест Кузик |". www.sportanalytic.com. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  18. "Кузык перешел в кипрский Пафос". www.sportarena.com. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  19. "Кузык перешел в кипрский Пафос". www.sportime.sigmalive.com. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  20. "OREST KUZYK JOINS PAFOS FC". www.pafosfc.com.cy. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  21. "PAFOS F.C. - KARMIOTISSA POLEMIDION 3-0". www.cfa.com.cy. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  22. Orest Kuzyk at Soccerway
  23. "Orest Kuzyk won the award of March 2019 |". www.pfl.ua. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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