Mykola Kudrytsky

Mykola Ivanovych^[a] Kudritsky (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Кудрицький, Russian: Николай Иванович Кудрицкий; 6 October 1962, in Nikopol – 16 March 1994, in Ra'anana, Israel) was a Ukrainian professional football player.

Mykola Kudritsky
Микола Кудрицький

Personal information
Full name	Mykola Ivanovych Kudritsky
Date of birth	(1962-10-06)6 October 1962
Place of birth	Nikopol, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death	16 March 1994(1994-03-16) (aged 31)
Place of death	Ra'anana, Israel
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder/Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983	FC Kolos Nikopol	3	(0)
1984	FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	34	(18)
1984–1985	FC Kolos Nikopol	28	(7)
1985–1991	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	143	(29)
1991–1994	Bnei Yehuda	85	(51)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kudrytsky perished in a car crash on the road from Haifa to Tel-Aviv while heading back home early in the morning at 4 o'clock.^[1] He was ejected out of his car when it flipped. Kudrytskyi was returning to Tel-Aviv after meeting with players of the Ukraine national football team that a day before played a friendly match with the Israel national football team.

Honours

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

• Soviet Top League champion: 1988
• Soviet Top League runner-up: 1987, 1989
• USSR Super Cup winner: 1988
• Soviet Cup winner: 1989
• USSR Federation Cup winner: 1986, 1989
• USSR Federation Cup finalist: 1990

Notes

1. sometimes his patronymic name is written as Mykhailovych