Andrii Rusol

Rusol is the kind of defender I have a soft spot for: an unflashy 188 cm centre-back who anchored Dnipro and the Ukraine national team without ever chasing the spotlight. What grabs me, though, is the Order for Courage 3rd Class beside his name. That is not a football trophy, and it lends his whole story a weight that stat sheets cannot capture. Watching a man who once carried his country's flag on the pitch live through the years his nation has since endured, I find I cannot speak about him lightly. To me he embodies the understated reliability that good defending is really about.

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Name (English)

Andrii Rusol

Name (Japanese)

アンドリー・ルソル

Reading

あんどりー・るそる

Born

January 16, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

Awards & achievements

• Order for Courage 3rd Class of Ukraine

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy%20Rusol
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318182

Tags

• Kirovohrad Oblast
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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