Yukhym Konoplya

Yukhym Konoplya
Personal information
Full name	Yukhym Dmytrovych Konoplya
Date of birth	26 August 1999
Place of birth	Donetsk, Ukraine
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position(s)	Defender
Club information
Current team	Desna Chernihiv
Number	26
Youth career
2012–2017	Shakhtar Donetsk
Senior career*
National team‡
Men's football
Representing Ukraine
FIFA U-20 World Cup
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 July 2020; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 August 2019

Yukhym Konoplya (Ukrainian: Юхим Дмитрович Конопля; born 26 August 1999) is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays on loan for FC Desna Chernihiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Career

Born in the Donetsk Oblast, Konoplya is a product of the Shakhtar Donetsk youth sportive school system in his native city.

He made his début for FC Desna Chernihiv in the Ukrainian Premier League as a second-half substituted player in a winning home match against FC Vorskla Poltava on 3 August 2019.[1]Yukhym Konoplya with the club of Chernihiv qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round, for the first time in the history of the Club.[2]In summer 2020 the club FC Desna Chernihiv agreed to extend his contract for 1 year more [3]

Konoplya was a part of the Ukraine national under-20 football team that won the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played one of the key roles in Ukraine's success, appearing in 6 from all 7 of his team's matches and made a four-goal assists.

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