The future famous Ukrainian football player Sergey Sergeyevich Kucherenko was born in early January 1984. His father is an athlete. Also involved in football, coaching, Sergei Kucherenko Sr. The son spent a significant part of his playing time in teams led by his father.
Becoming
From childhood, Sergey attended football sections, in particular, he studied at the Chernomorets sports and youth school in Odessa. The boy was brought there by his father, who worked as a coach at the school. It was Sergei Petrovich who saw in his son a talent for team games.
In 2001, Sergei Jr. joined the Portovik team. But in official matches the team did not play, was on the bench. After some time, I moved to the Nikolaev team, it was with her that Kucherenko’s adult career began.
The debut official meeting was the game in September 2002. Then the young talent was noticed and invited to the South Ukrainian team “Olympia”, playing in the second league of the Championship of Ukraine. For her in the period from 2002 to 2003. the young man spent 32 matches.
New season
In 2004, Sergei Kucherenko Sr. was invited to lead Podillia, a team that played in the first league of the division. There he took his son. The location of the team was in the city of Khmelnitsky, where both of them had to move.
Sergei played for the “Podillia” three seasons. It was in this team that his gift manifested. Being one of the main midfielders, Kucherenko increasingly went out on the field and help out his team.
After 2 years, Kucherenko Sr. left the post of coach of Podillia. Spartacus from Ivano-Frankivsk became his new wards. Sergei Petrovich took several players from the Khmelnitsky team with him. Among them was the son. But here, neither one nor the other managed to stay for a long time.
