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Andrii Rusol

アンドリー・ルソル　/　あんどりー・るそる

Association football player from Ukraine

January 16, 1983 (age 43)　・　Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine

Kirovohrad Oblast
association football player

My Take

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.

Overview

Andriy Anatoliyovych Rusol (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Анато́лійович Ру́сол; born 16 January 1983) is a Ukrainian retired footballer who formerly played as a defender for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the Ukraine national team.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

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)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Boar
Origin: Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine
Blood type: Private
Height: 188 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

Order for Courage 3rd Class of Ukraine

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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

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