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Oleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Вікторович Яценко; born 24 February 1985 in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a retired Ukrainian football player. He currently worked Helios Kharkiv youth academy. He played as a defender in the sweeper position.
Club career
Yatsenko is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv youth system, and has featured 10 times for their senior team. He went on loan twice; first to Kharkiv in 2005, and in 2007 to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk for the spring half of the 2006–07 season. In July 2007 he signed a three-year contract with FC Chornomorets Odessa.
International career
He has represented Ukraine at all levels. He was a semi-finalist at the 2004 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, and played in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. He captained his team to a silver medal at the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. Yatsenko was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Ukraine squad as a replacement for the injured players Serhiy Fedorov and Vyacheslav Shevchuk.
He currently has one cap for the senior Ukraine national football team, in a 1–0 friendly win over Japan on 12 October 2005.
Yatsenko was awarded the Order For Courage by President Viktor Yushchenko for his participation in the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany.