Valeriy Lobanovskyi
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Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit
Lobanovskyi in 1985
Lobanovskyi (left) in Eindhoven in 1975 together with the manager of PSV Ben van Gelde
Lobanovskyi's burial location and monument at Baikove cemetery in Kyiv
In the 1975–76 European Cup games against Saint-Étienne, Dynamo's formation featured no proper centre-forward, as strikers Blokhin and Onyshchenko constantly played on the flanks, with midfielders Leonid Buryak, Viktor Kolotov and Volodymyr Veremeyev exploiting the central space as deep-lying forwards, anticipating the false nine position.
FC Dynamo Kyiv
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Football Club Dynamo Kyiv, also known as Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kiev, or simply Dynamo, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sp
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
…Ukrainians following a nationwide poll that saw around 2.5 million people casting their votes. Lobanovskyi is most famous for his spells managing FC Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national football team. Lobanovskyi established Dynamo as the most dominant club in Soviet football in the 1970s and 1980s, winning the…
Dynamo Kyiv in 1928
Poster of the return match (in Ukrainian Cyrillic / German Latin)
Dynamo playing against Juventus in a friendly game in Turin, 16 June 1967