Background
Igor Zhurakhovskyi was born in Kiev.
Igor Zhurakhovskyi was born in Kiev.
From his early years play football. The pupil football sports school №15 in Kiev. Besides football actively engaged in football freestyle.
Three times (2009, 2012, 2013) participated in national competitions Red Bulletin Street Style.
All three times was among the Top8. Since the season 2013/14 player of Football Club "Metallurg" (Zaporozhye).
September 12, 2013 he made his debut in the "Metallurg U-21" in the home match against Odessa "Chernomorets". In total, the "Metallurgist U-21" played in 12 games (1 goal) in the Ukrainian Championship among youth teams of the season 2013/14.
In the spring of 2014 began to train with the first team "Metallurg".
May 11, 2014 made his debut for the first team in the Premier League away match in the 29th round against Donetsk "Metallurg" (0: 2), coming on as substitute in the 82nd minute of the match. Before the start of the season 2014/15 for the first time took part in pre-season training camp of the basic structure. In preparation played 6 games (all in basis) against "Zarya" (Lugansk), "Hajduk" (Split, Croatia), "Rabotnicki" (Skopje, Macedonia), "Sarajevo" (Bosnia), "Domžale" (Slovenia ), "Triglav" (Kranj, Slovenia).
July 27, 2014, spent his first full official match, coming into the starting lineup, "Metallurg" the match of the 1st round of the Ukrainian Championship League 2014/15 season against "Shakhtar" (Donetsk) (0: 2).
January 21, 2015 scored his first goal for the first team Metallurg, in a friendly match against Football Club "Okzhetpes" (Kokshetau, Kazakhstan), at the training camp in Belek, Turkey. In early November 2014 was among the 24 players caused by Sergei Kovalets (head coach) at training camp "updated" the youth national team of Ukraine, which was officially announced on 6 November at the site of the Football Federation of Ukraine.
The first official game for the youth team of Ukraine played November 13, 2014 against the youth team of Turkey (2: 0). Apps and goals for the Ukraine U-21.