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Rod Dyachenko

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Rod Dyachenko
Personal information
Full name Rodion Sergeyevich Dyachenko
Date of birth (1983-09-22) 22 September 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Georgiyevsk, Soviet Union
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 UNLV Rebels
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 D.C. United 41 (1)
2009 Minnesota Thunder 27 (2)
2010 Real Maryland Monarchs 6 (0)
2011 Samut Songkhram 1 (0)
2012–2013 Pattaya United 30 (8)
2014 Samut Songkhram 11 (0)
2015 Putrajaya SPA 10 (3)
2016 Than Quang Ninh 24 (12)
2017 Ho Chi Minh City 11 (4)
2017 Than Quang Ninh 12 (12)
2018 Can Tho FC 2 (0)
2019 Than Quang Ninh 21 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 October 2019

Rodion Sergeyevich Dyachenko (Родион Сергеевич Дьяченко; born 22 September 1983 in Georgiyevsk) is a Russian former footballer who played as a forward.

Career

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Youth and college

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Dyachenko was born in the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union prior to the breakup of the country in the early 1990s. After moving with his family to the United States as a child, Dyachenko attended Mountain View High School in Vancouver, Washington, played club soccer with West Villa Thunder, FC Portland and Westside Metros and played college soccer with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 2002 to 2005, scoring 23 goals in those four years.

Professional

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Dyachenko was selected in the third round (31st overall) in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft by D.C. United, but did not play regularly with the team in his first year in the league, He was selected in the 2006 MLS Expansion Draft by Toronto FC, but was re-acquired by D.C. in February 2007 in a trade for a first round pick in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, after he ran into difficulty obtaining permission to work in Canada:[1] Dyachenko holds a U.S. green card, allowing him to be counted as an American domestic player under MLS roster rules, but no passport from any country. Dyachenko was released by D.C. in January 2009 after playing 41 games and scoring one goal for the team.

On February 26, 2009, the Minnesota Thunder announced the signing of Dyachenko to a two-year contract.[2] He played 27 games and scored 2 goals for the team in his debut season, but along with the rest of the Minnesota Thunder team had his contract terminated in December 2009.

In November 2009 Dyachenko signed to play professional indoor soccer for Baltimore Blast in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 2009/10 USL-1 offseason.

Honors

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D.C. United

Than Quang Ninh

References

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  1. ^ Goff, Steve (1 February 2007). "Rod's Wild Ride". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Thunder sign Dyachenko, Costanzo". Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
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