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Taras Volodymyrovych Mykhalyk (Ukrainian: Тарас Володимирович Михалик; born 28 October 1983 in Lyubeshiv, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian football defender for FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national football team. He is a versatile player, having professionally played at every position except goalkeeper.[1]
[edit] Club careerTaras Mikhalik is a product of the football youth system of his native Volyn region, where he was a forward.[1] The 18-year-old Mikhalik joined the Ukrainian First League club CSKA Kyiv in 2001. He established himself into the starting line-up of the squad, playing 89 matches in the four seasons that he was there. He also managed to net 10 goals.[2] [edit] Dynamo KyivUkrainian giants Dynamo Kyiv bought Mikhalik in the 2005-06 season. He was almost immediately loaned off to Zakarpattia Uzhhorod. Mikhalik came back to Dynamo in January 2006. The head coach at the time, Anatoliy Demyanenko recognized the player's great potential, but Mikhalik constantly struggled to break through to the starting line-up of the team. When he did play, he was used as a central midfielder.[1] On July 10, 2007, Taras Mikhalik saved Dynamo, scoring two goals in the 2007 Ukrainian Super Cup, which ended up being a 2:2 draw. After the penalty shootout, Dynamo won 4:2.[3] When Russian coach Yuri Semin took over Dynamo in December 2007, he began to make sweeping reforms. These included reforming the defense and not depending so much on long passes. During this process, Semin had Mikhalik eventually switch entirely to defense. By the time of the 2008 Channel One Cup in Israel, which Dynamo won, Mikhalik played the entire competition as a central defender.[4] During the winter transfer season of 2008-09, Mikhalik was linked with the Serie A team A.C. Milan and even nicknamed the "Ukrainian Gattuso" due to his impressive performances in Dynamo Kyiv and internationally.[5][6] Taras Mikhalik renewed his contract with Dynamo Kyiv, which was due to expire at the end of 2010, in November 2008. His new contract is to last five years, ending in 2013. After three years in Dynamo, the player has earned the team's trust enough to have even been the captain on several occasions.[1] On April 6, 2009 Mikhalik suffered a meniscus injury after a challenge from Metalurh Donetsk midfielder Velizar Dimitrov in the Ukrainian Premier League, which ended the player's season early.[7] Не recovered from this injury in October 2009. [edit] International careerTaras Mikhalik was a member of the Ukrainian Under-21 National football team that finished as runners-up in the UEFA U-21 Championship 2006. He was in the main squad in Oleksiy Mykhailychenko's squad even up to the final, which Ukraine lost to the Netherlands 3-0.[8] Mykhalyk received his first senior national team call-up in a match against Azerbaijan on August 15, 2006. [edit] Personal lifeTaras Mikhalik is not single, which he confirmed in a recent interview, stating that he spends much of spare time with his girlfriend. He also stated that on the winter breaks his favorite pastime is hunting, while in the summer he prefers to go fishing.[9] [edit] Honours[edit] Dynamo Kyiv
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