Top facts about Oleksandr Zinchenko

was born on December 15, 1996 in Radomyshl, Ukraine and he is a professional football player who currently plays for

and

as a midfielder.

Zinchenko is an attacking midfielder who can actually also play as a wingback, making him a very versatile choice for his manager Pep Guardiola.

Zinchenko’s journey from the humble beginnings of his local football academy to the summit of English football has been interesting for everyone.

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The followings are some lesser-known facts about Oleksandr Zinchenko:

Zinchenko started from Youth Sporitve School Karpatiya of his native Radomyshl and his first coach was Serhiy Boretskyi.

Oleksandr Zinchenko early life

He was born in the winter of 1996 in Ukraine and lived his early years with his father, Volodymyr and his mother whose name is unknown. Despite the fact that

Oleksandr Zinchenko age

is 25, he is married.

The first fact about Oleksandr Zinchenko

is that he is the only child of this family probably because his parents didn’t come from a wealthy family and had normal jobs with normal salaries.

Oleksande’s childhood best friend was one of the reasons that he started to play football and he was in love with it. He started playing with the ball and became a fast and skilled player. At the age of 8, he was called to play for the local football team, Karpatiya Radomyshl which was the first step in his career.

Oleksandr Zinchenko parents

love him so much and he met them every time he gets a chance. Judging based on the nice pictures that Oleksande posts on the internet, he loves to take his parents out for dinner maybe for thanking them and showing that he is grateful for the things that they have done for him.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko twin brother

Manchester City defender Oleksandr Zinchenko has discussed what it's like to be constantly mistaken for one of his teammates.

Zinchenko admitted that he is getting the most attention for being the spitting image of City superstar

. Among interesting

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is that he looks pretty much like Kevin De Bruyne.

“Everyone calls me 'Kev'. When I'm getting the bus, the fans are shouting 'Kev, can I have a picture?' Then I turn and they're like ‘Oh, it's not Kevin’.

From afar maybe we look like twins, but when we are together, I don't think so. I am more beautiful than him, definitely,” Zinchenko said.

While the two footballers look alike, they are having massively different seasons. De Bruyne has been City's star out player, scoring seven times and racking up a massive 18 assists, while Zinchenko has struggled for being on the pitch since suffering a knee injury.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko personal life

As mentioned before, Oleksandr was the only child of his family and he lived in the town that he was born in with his parents until they moved to Ufa, Russia. There is no information about his siblings and we don’t know that if he has any brother or sister.

Oleksandr Zinchenko love story is among the noticeable facts about

Oleksandr Zinchenko personal life

. We know that Oleksandr is in love with the beautiful Ukrainian journalist, Vlada Sedan. The pictures that Vlada posted on her Instagram page made us sure that they are a couple but they didn’t talk about it for a while.

They met each other and fell in love when Vlada was interviewing him as her client and the relationship began. We weren’t sure about how serious this relationship was until the day that Oleksandr kissed his girlfriend in the live TV while she was interviewing him.

It was after Ukraine won the game against

in the Euro 2020 qualifying tournaments. This couple made their relationship stronger. They got married on August 2020 and became the most famous couple in Ukraine.

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wife

Vlada is a professional football reporter and had interviewed some of the greatest football players like

and of course Oleksandr. She drew some attention to herself after criticizing Pep Guardiola's tactics which she believed was the reason that Manchester City lost to Lyon.

“Perhaps I have no right to say this, perhaps Zinchenko will forbid me. But to put it mildly, and in order not to swear, this is completely Guardiola's fault. At such a crucial moment, making such an experimental tactic for Man City is a bummer. I have no right to criticize, but why play three central defenders when the players themselves take their heads.

I simply have no words, because to have such a line-up… look what players play at Man City, what a bench. Literally few clubs in the world can boast such reserves.” Vlada said on her You Tube channel.

Because of her criticism Oleksandr had to speak and clear a few things about it. “Although my wife is a journalist, she is also a fan. During the season she was travelling with us for all away and home games because she is a massive City fan.

In the video you can see her emotions straight after the game and she gave an opinion like all fans do because she wanted us to do better. We totally understand now that she shouldn't post it on social media because she is my wife.

But she was not trying to make a journalist's opinion on the manager. She was simply reacting to the disappointment as a fan. I'm writing right now from my wedding and instead of enjoying that unbelievable moment I have to do this because I can't skip it and leave it like that. I hope you understand,” Oleksandr wrote.

Vlada Sedan is a social media person and has more than 285k followers on her Instagram page. She posts beautiful pictures of herself on the travels that she makes and pictures of Oleksandr and herself as a couple.

Living in another country with different cultures at young age made Oleksandr a different person. the difference in European and Russian culture was so strange for him in that time that he still talks about it in his interviews. “In Holland everyone can have a sauna together – both women and men – and everyone is naked. For us it’s very strange.

In Ukraine and Russia, it’s not possible. It’s strange when you see the son, maybe seven, his mum, his grandmother, grandfather – all together naked. It’s about mentality – that’s what I mean, I’m still learning about it every day.” He said.

Since the 25-year-old player just got married he doesn’t have any children yet or at least we don’t know anything about any children. Judging by the pictures that Oleksandr and Vlada share and show how much they love each other, we expect to hear about this news anytime soon.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko Club Career

Among interesting

facts about Oleksandr Zinchenko

is that his journey began 16 years ago in a small town in northern Ukraine and he ended up at the summit of English football, Manchester City.

Karpatiya Radomyshl and FC Monolit Illichivsk

As another fact about Oleksandr Zinchenko, it should be mentioned that his career began at a very young age. He joined the Karpatiya Radomyshl when he was 8 and with the help of his coach Serhiy Boretskyi. After for years playing for the Karpatiya Radomyshl he joined another Ukrainian club named FC Monolit Illichivsk and that was the years that he improved his skills and became a professional player.

Shakhtar Donetsk

In the year 2010, Oleksandr joined the Ukraine’s biggest club,

in which he wanted to play for the first team but things weren’t like what he wanted.

“Had two years left on my contract and they told me I had to continue with them but not to play in the first team. My dream was to play in the first team,” he said years later in an interview.

The club didn’t want him to play for the senior team and they blocked his way from getting to that point and that made him to be disappointed at himself even though he was the young club’s captain. But the problems with the team didn’t stop there.

They made him to sign a deal which was a deal that he didn’t like. “They said if I don’t sign, then I won’t play for them, even for their youth team which I managed. So far about . four months, I was depressed. I just attended every training session but didn’t play.

I was on my own exile,” He said about that deal. The fight kept going on and on until Oleksande’s parents decided to migrate to Ufa, a city in Russia, and ended Oleksande’s career with this team.

FC Ufa

As an interesting

fact about Oleksandr Zinchenko

, it should be mentioned that after leaving the Shakhtar Donetsk, he couldn’t join any club for 5 or 6 months because of some legal problems with his former team. “Before Ufa I was without a team for five or six months.

It was a difficult situation because at that moment I had a contract with Shakhtar Donetsk but it was very dangerous in Ukraine. That’s why my parents moved. I just trained every day by myself on the streets of Moscow. Then my manager found me

.

So, I went for pre-season with them in Italy. Everything was good and after pre-season I was in Kazan and they told me I had to wait a little bit and then we can sign a contract.

At that moment I still had one and a half years on my contract at Shakhtar.

I was there for four months without anything, just training because I could not play. I got tired of this situation and told them I cannot listen to the same words from you every day.” He said about those times.

After that time, he joined

, a Russian club which gave Oleksandr the opportunity to play in the

for the first time in his career.

After a few months playing for Ufa, he became the most talented player of the team and his plays introduced him to the biggest clubs in the world. He appeared in 33 Ufa’s games and scored 2 goals for the team.

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Manchester City

In the year 2016, Oleksande joined the European football club, Manchester city with a £ 1.7 million fee. Since the club is full of great talents, Oleksande agreed to play for

which is a club in Netherlands, as a loan player and stayed there for the 2016 – 2017 season which PSV finished as the third team.

In the 2017 – 2018 season he played with his team since Benjamin Mendy was injured. His first game for the team was on October 24, 2017 against

in the EFL cup. his first premier league game was on December 13, 2017 against

in which Manchester City won with a 4-0 result.

Five days after his first premier league game, Oleksandr scored the winning penalty kick in the game against

and made the Manchester City to go to the semi-finals of the EFL cup. The next season, he was still playing for the Manchester City and made his first premier league game in the 2018 – 2019 season against

. His first game in the EFL cup was a good one which they had won 3-0 against

.

He scored his first goal for the team on January 9, 2019 in the game against

in the EFL cup’s semi-finals. This season however had some bad surprises for Oleksandr. He had a knee injury which required a heavy knee surgery and as his coach, Pep Guardiola said he had to stop playing for 5 or 6 weeks.

After a few weeks, he made his first game after the knee surgery against

and fortunately nothing happened to his knee in that game and he fully recovered from the surgery.

At the year 2020 he made a deal with the team to play for four more years at the Manchester City so if nothing goes wrong, we will see Oleksandr in the Manchester City in the next four season.

To this day, he played 74 games (including 2020 – 2021 season so far) for the Manchester City and scored two goals so that is a good reason for Manchester City to hold on to Oleksandr until 2024.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko International career

Oleksandr first international game was at the UEFA Euro 2016 qualification on October 12, 2015 against

. His first goal for the national team was in a friendly game on May 29, 2016 against

which the team won 4-3.

In that game he broke a record and became the youngest Ukrainian player who scored an international goal at the age of 19. The record that hasn’t been beaten for 20 years which was held by Andriy Shevchenko.

He also scored 4 more international goals in the next four years in the games against

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, and

. He also played 35 games for the Ukraine national team in his 5-year international career.

He was also invited to the national team for the Euro 2016 tournaments but Ukraine got eliminated after losing to

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Oleksandr Zinchenko body measurement

As a professional football player, body measurements are very important. That’s why we are going to discuss about

Oleksandr Zinchenko body measurements

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Footballers at the highest levels have plenty of reasons to take their shirts off and show off impressive six packs. They even risk a yellow card by stripping off their jerseys as a goal celebration. As a conclusion, the 25-year-old height is 1.75 m and his weight is 61 kg, which makes him a healthy player.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko social media

Talking about

Oleksandr Zinchenko social media

, it is noteworthy that he is a well-known figure on different social platforms. He has more than a million followers on his Instagram page

(

).

As another interesting fact about Oleksandr Zinchenko, it should be mentioned that he posts pictures of his personal life and the people he works with or is friend with. One of the beautiful pictures that he posted was the moment that he was proposing to Vlada with a huge pile of roses behind them. “The most important YES in my life,” he wrote on the caption.

There are more pictures of Oleksandr and his wife on their Instagram pages. There is a nice picture of both of them kissing each other on a car in Hollywood, California. Also there are more pictures of their travel to the United State.

You can find his page and see the pictures for yourself. He also posts pictures of his parents and the time that they spend together in restaurants that Oleksandr takes them to, as said before.

There is a nice picture of Oleksandr with his mother and father and his two grandfathers on a sunny day. Judging by these pictures, his family gather together a lot.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko net worth and salary

Regarding Oleksandr Zinchenko net worth and salary, it should be mentioned that after signing a contract with the Manchester City in 2016,

Oleksandr Zinchenko salary

is € 250,000 per year, meaning that he earns €683 per day

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and €28 (£25) per hour!

As an analogy, an average worker in the UK has to work for a year to earn the money that Zinchenko makes in a month. So, up to this day,

Oleksandr Zinchenko net worth

is € 650,000 and his current market value is € 9.4 million (£8.3 Million).

As the final fact about Oleksandr Zinchenko, it is worth mentioning that although Zinchenko makes a great amount of money in comparison to the other football players of his age, he prefers the simple life and drives ordinary cars.

There is no information about where he lives and what his house is like, but we guess that his house is not one of those expensive mansions other famous football players own.

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