Denis Viktorovich Oleynik is a famous Ukrainian footballer playing as a forward. He was attracted to games for the national team of Ukraine in 2010-2015. Since 2018 he has been playing in the Finnish club SIK.
Biography
The future footballer was born in June 1987 on the sixteenth in the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye. From an early age he loved active games, was an athletic and active child. But despite his various hobbies, football has always been in the first place for him. Of course, the parents tried to send their son to the local football section. However, there was no place for Denis in the Zaporozhye academies. But he was admitted to one of the academies in the city of Chernivtsi. The first mentor of the footballer was Yuri Rudolfovich Kraft, a fairly well-known specialist in Ukraine.
Professional career
In the early 2000s, Oleiniki moved to Kiev, and in a new place Denis went to the academy of FC "Smena-Obolon". The bright performances of the talented striker attracted the attention of the breeders of the Dynamo football club, one of the best in the country. Already in 2002, Oleinik moved to the Dynamo youth team.
In 2004, Denis received his first professional contract. In the same year, the player was sent to the reserve club "Dynamo-3", where he played a whole season. From the next year, Oleinik went up for promotion and was transferred to Dynamo-2, in which he played for two seasons. In the same period, he made his debut for the main team. The first appearance in the main team took place in October 2006 in the match against Kharkiv.
In 2007, the player went to "Oilman-Ukrnafta" on a leasehold basis. Denis did not stay in the new place, having played half the season, he returned to his native club. But already with the start of the new season, he was again sent on loan. After the season in Kiev "Arsenal" Oleinik was put up for sale. The promising striker attracted the attention of Metalist Kharkiv, and since 2009 Denis has continued his career in Kharkiv.
For three seasons, he entered the field 68 times and scored 20 goals. In October 2010, the striker scored his first hat-trick in his career.
In 2011 he moved to FC Dnipro, but three years later he quarreled with the management and left the team. From 2014 to 2016 he played for the football club Vitesse from the Netherlands. Later there were Ukrainian clubs "Helios" and "Desna". From 2018 to this day he has been playing for the Finnish club SIK.
National team
For the first time, Oleinik was called up to the Ukrainian national team in the spring of 2010. For five years in the team, he entered the field twelve times, but during this time he could not score a single goal.
Personal life and family
The famous footballer was married. In 2016, his wife Zoryana filed for divorce, after which she accused Denis of domestic violence and the court made a rather strict decision: from now on, Denis has no right to approach his ex-wife and children closer than a hundred meters. Oleinik has three children: 2 sons and a daughter.
