Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Hrusha | ||
Date of birth | 20 February 1994 | ||
Place of birth | VilbivneRivne Oblast, Ukraine | ,||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Obolon Kyiv | ||
Number | 25 | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2007 | Enerhetyk Netishyn | ||
2007–2008 | UFK-Karpaty Lviv | ||
2007–2011 | Shturm Kostopil | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013 | Burevisnyk Kremenets (amateurs) | ||
2014 | Velbivno (amateurs) | 14 | (1) |
2015–2016 | ODEK Orzhiv (amateurs) | 49 | (11) |
2017–2022 | Ahrobiznes Volochysk | 129 | (28) |
2022– | Obolon Kyiv | 35 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 March 2023 |
Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Hrusha (Ukrainian: Віталій Володимирович Груша; born 20 February 1994) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Obolon Kyiv.[1]
Hrusha is a product of several sports schools throughout western Ukraine including UFK-Karpaty Lviv. His first coach was Volodymyr Matyuk.
In 2013 Hrusha started to play for the Burevisnyk Kremenets in the regional competitions of Ternopil Oblast, later joined a team from his native village that participated in competitions of Rivne Oblast and in 2015 – ODEK Orzhiv. With ODEK Orzhiv he also played in the national amateur competitions. In the spring of 2017 Hrusha joined Ahrobiznes Volochysk, with which he became national champion among amateurs.
He made his professional debut for Ahrobiznes Volochysk in the away match against Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk on 14 July 2017 in the Ukrainian Second League scoring a hat-trick in a 5–2 win.