Photo: Илья Хохлов / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Serhiy Nazarenko interests me as a figure whose meaning outgrew football. As an attacking midfielder and winger he built his name at Dnipro and Tavriya, clubs that no longer exist, which gives his record a strangely elegiac quality. But the detail that stays with me is the Order for Courage, an honor that points to something beyond the pitch and toward his country in a hard hour. I respect players who carry both technical craft and personal backbone, and Nazarenko seems to hold both. Teams can be dissolved and erased, yet the road a man actually walked cannot be. He is worth remembering.
Overview
Serhiy Yuriyovych Nazarenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Юрійович Назаренко; born 16 February 1980) is a Ukrainian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger. He is known for having played as a midfielder for now-defunct Ukrainian football club Dnipro, its farm clubs Dnipro-2 and Dnipro-3, as well as Crimea-based Tavriya.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Serhiy Nazarenko
- Name (Japanese)
- セルゲイ・ナザレンコ
- Reading
- せるげい・なざれんこ
- Born
- February 16, 1980 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Monkey
- Origin
- Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 176 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
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
Association football player — see all → · Association football coach — see all → · More people from Ukraine →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.