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Serhiy Tretyak

Serhiy Tretyak is a retired Ukrainian footballer who played for Beitar Jerusalem and later coached its youth teams.

born 1963Defender for Beitar Jerusalem3 Israeli league titlesCoaching Beitar Jerusalem youth teams

Born: 7 September 1963, Kherson
Occupation: association football player

Serhiy Tretyak was born in 1963 in Kherson

Serhiy Tretyak was born on 7 September 1963 in Kherson. He played mainly as a defender.

He made his professional debut in 1982 with SKA Odessa in the Soviet First League. In 1983 he played for the Ukrainian SSR team at the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. With Chornomorets Odesa he won the USSR Federation Cup in 1990.

In 1992 he moved to Israel and signed a 6-year contract with Beitar Jerusalem, where fans called him Tik-Tak. He won 3 league titles with the club, including one in his first season, and also won the Toto Cup. He ended his playing career at Hakoah Ramat Gan in 2001.

His requests for Israeli citizenship were rejected in 2001, and he was naturalized in 2003. He then coached Beitar Jerusalem youth teams and was an assistant coach of the senior team from 2006 to 2009, working under Yitzhak Shum. In 2014 he became coach of Beitar Nordia Jerusalem, where his son Artyom also played.