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Ivan Saenko
Personal information
Full name	Ivan Ivanovich Saenko
Date of birth	17 October 1983 (1983-10-17) (age 26)
Place of birth	Maslovka, Voronezh Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Spartak Moscow
Number	10
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001 2002 2002–2005 2005–2008 2008–	Karlsruhe Fakel Voronezh Karlsruhe Nuremberg Spartak Moscow	002 0(0) 013 0(4) 084 (21) 083 (18) 021 0(1)
National team2
2006–2008	Russia	013 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20:02, 24 October 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Ivan Ivanovich Saenko (Russian: Иван Иванович Саенко; born 17 October 1983 in Maslovka) is a Russian professional football striker who currently plays for Spartak Moscow and the Russian national team.

Club career

In August 2008, Saenko moved to Spartak Moscow due to his unwillingness to play in the second division after Nuremberg's relegation. He missed the second half of the 2009 season due to injuries.

International career

After finished second in qualifying group stage with Russia U-21 at the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, Saenko received first senior call up against Croatia on 6 September 2006 and as unused bench. He made his debut one month later against Estonia on 11 October 2006 as last minutes substitution.

He was called up to Russia's UEFA Euro 2008 squad and was a second half substitute in both their second match against Greece in Salzburg and third match against Sweden in Innsbruck, but started the quarter-final against the Netherlands in Basel and the semi-final against Spain in Vienna.

Honours

• 2007: DFB-Pokal winner with Nuremberg
• 2008: UEFA European Football Championship semi-finalist with Russia

External links

• bundesliga.de (German)
• fcn.de (German)
• Career, statistic, goals (German)

Russia squad – UEFA Euro 2008 semi-finalists 1 Akinfeev • 2 V. Berezutski • 3 Yanbayev • 4 Ignashevich • 5 A. Berezutski • 6 Adamov • 7 Torbinski • 8 Kolodin • 9 Saenko • 10 Arshavin • 11 Semak • 12 Gabulov • 13 Ivanov • 14 Shirokov • 15 Bilyaletdinov • 16 Malafeev • 17 Zyryanov • 18 Zhirkov • 19 Pavlyuchenko • 20 Semshov • 21 Sychev • 22 Anyukov • 23 Bystrov • Coach: Hiddink