Ivan Ordets

Ivan Ordets (Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Ордець; born 8 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for German club VfL Bochum on loan from Russian club Dynamo Moscow. He is a former Ukraine national team player.

Club Career

Ordets started playing football at school age. He went on trial to Shakhtar Donetsk on 2 September 2002 and after two stages of selection he was enrolled in the group of Petro Ponomarenko. In the youth football league of Ukraine as a member of Shakhtar, he played 76 matches and scored 9 goals, but did not become champion of Ukraine: once he was a silver medalist (2007) and three times a bronze medalist (2006, 2008, 2009).

In the youth championship of Ukraine, he played 75 matches and scored 8 goals. In 2012, he became champion of Ukraine among reserves (in 2010, he was vice-champion).

In 2011, as part of a group of Donetsk talents, under the guidance of a youth coach, Valery Yaremchenko, he moved to Illichivets Mariupol. But the first attempt to gain a foothold in the main team of the Premier League club failed and Ordets returned to Shakhtar. But at the beginning of 2013, again going on loan, he noticeably improved the quality of the game and earned the trust of the new head coach Mykola Pavlov.

He made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League on 2 March 2013 in the match against Metalurh Zaporizhia. He scored his first goal on 12 April 2013 against Volyn Lutsk. In the 2013–14 season, he played 27 matches in the Ukrainian Premier League without substitutions with a total of 2430 minutes played – more than anyone else on the team.

At the end of 2013, he was among the 33 best Ukrainian football players according to the Komanda newspaper.

In the summer of 2014 he returned to Shakhtar.

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