Rod Dyachenko

Rod Dyachenko
Personal information
Full name	Rodion Sergeyevich Dyachenko
Date of birth	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
2002–2005	UNLV Rebels
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2008	D.C. United
2009	Minnesota Thunder
2010	Real Maryland Monarchs
2011	Samut Songkhram
2012–2013	Pattaya United
2014	Samut Songkhram
2015	Putrajaya SPA
2016	Than Quang Ninh
2017	Ho Chi Minh City
2017	Than Quang Ninh
2018	Can Tho FC
2019	Than Quang Ninh
	*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

Youth and college

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

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

D.C. United

Major League Soccer Supporter's Shield: 2007
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: 2008

Than Quang Ninh

Vietnamese Cup: 2016

References

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

External links

KL SPA player profile Archived 2016-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
Minnesota Thunder bio^{[permanent dead link]}
Baltimore Blast bio Archived 2017-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
MLS player profile^{[permanent dead link]}

[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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