Former Ukrainian midfielder Alexander Yakovenko joined the team of the television channel Football.

The 31-year-old midfielder has not been at the professional level for two years, ending his career at an early age.

As it became known, now Yakovenko turned to television experts and will work on the channels Football 1 and Football 2.

"Channels Football 1 / Football 2 work very professionally, as for me, no worse than the European analogues. For me, this is something new, I'm curious. I hope I will not disappoint anyone, "Yakovenko said..

During his career, Alexnadr played for such clubs as Anderlecht, Standard and Genk in Belgium, two seasons belonged to Fiorentina, visited Holland in Den Haag, and completed his career in Kiev Dynamo.

Recall that earlier the expert of the television channel Football became the Brazilian coach Gilmar.