Valeri Lobanovsky

Valeri Lobanovsky (* January 6, 1939, Kyiv - † May 13, 2002, Kiev) - Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach. Many mentor "Dynamo" (Kyiv), headed by twice won the Cup Winners' Cup. Three times was the USSR national team coach, which became Vice-European Champion 1988. Ukraine national team coach in 2000-2001. Master of Sports USSR. He was awarded the Soviet Order of the Badge of Honor and the Red Banner of Labor. Coach of the USSR and Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine.
Kids and gaming career
Born January 6, 1939 in Kiev in a family worker.
Education
Studied at the Kiev school № 319 (Chervonozoryany Avenue, 146). Now there plaque, and the institution Named Lobanovsky. Finished school with a silver medal. In 1956 he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, where frequent interruptions, and restoration akademvidpustkamy studied until 1964, when he wrote the request for allocations from the university. Then again received higher education - the Odessa Polytechnic Institute. [2] unusual fact remains that such an outstanding coach had higher physical education.
Player Career
Pupil of the school's football number 1 (from 1952) and youth football schools (FSHM) in Kiev (from 1955). First coach - Nikolai Chaika.
In 1957, 18-year-old striker was invited to dub "Dynamo" (Kyiv). After a period of the game for his debut back in the championship of the Soviet Union, May 29, 1959 in a match with CSK MO [3] He became famous ability to present extremely accurate pidkrucheni goals of the corner and penalty kicks (the so-called. "Banana kick"). On trainings vidpratsovuvav attacks of this type, using the Magnus effect. This ability Lobanovsky compared with the master of the then outstanding technical performance of this element as the Brazilian Didi - World Champion 1958, which is exemplary in this tournament and performed pidkrucheni "cut" belts and shocks. Partners noted the innovative thinking Valerie on the soccer field dribbling ability to apply what was unusual for such a high (187 cm) players. Often it is steep passageways Left Field ended someone in the exact middle of the field. Owned by a number of deceptive feint and movements. Well played head in the air.
From the 1960 season was full of the main player - he acted mostly on the left flank of the attack, which perfectly zihravsya with Valentin Troyanovsky. [4] That year Lobanovsky was the best scorer of the club, scoring 13 goals. In the 1961 season, "Dynamo" (Kyiv) was not Moscow's first-team champion, and striker had 10 goals in the championship.
Valery Lobanovsky invited to USSR, but then in the Soviet Union was a lot of attackers left the highest level (Michael Meshi, Anatoly Ilyin, Halimzyan Husayn), so kievlyanin played only two matches (against Austria and Poland). He spent two games with Soviet Olympic team, where he was captain and acted in place of central striker. Playing career concluded in the Odessa Chornomorets "(1965-1966) and Shakhtar Donetsk (1967-1968, in 1968 he was captain).
All the player Valery Lobanovsky had 253 matches in the championship of the USSR in the highest league in 1971 and scored a goal (in Dynamo Kyiv - under 144 matches and 42 naked in Odessa Chornomorets - 59 and 15, at Shakhtar Donetsk - 50 14).
Coaching
"Dnipro" (1968-1973)
First team to 29-year-old mentor was Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, where he started working in the second half of 1968. This season the club won third place in its second group of sub class "A" (the second group of class "A" - the then first league title) and the next two years, also finished in the top three.
1971 team won the tournament in its subgroup. In the final group of four winners of its subgroups dnipryany took second place (first held two team) and went to the Premier League. The team was not "stellar", but was part of class performers (goalkeeper Leonid plica, midfielders Roman Shneyderman, Anatoly Pilipchuk, Stanislav Yevsyeyenko and forwards Victor Romaniuk and former player of Dynamo and Chornomorets Valery Porkuyan). In the year among the strongest debut of the "Dnepr" under Valery Lobanovsky took very high, as the rookie sixth place, ahead of many strong teams, for instance, Moscow Dynamo and Spartak.
Getting started in "Dinamo" (1973-1974)

After such a successful work in Dnepropetrovsk was invited to lead Dynamo Kyiv. Valery Lobanovsky in October 1973 replaced as head coach Alexander Sevidova. Helper's new mentor was the former partner of Dynamo Bazylevych Oleg, who after a career coach Shakhtar (Donetsk).
October 20, 1973 in Lviv game against Karpaty Lobanovsky first team led Dynamo to the field in the ranks of head coach. Basic time expired "dry" draw (0:0), and penalties, which this season has been the responsibility in case of a tie, won Kiev. That season Dynamo finished in 2 nd place. In 1974, Kiev made double - the Soviet Union won the Cup championship and the country. In the "33 best list was 8" Dinamo ", 7 of them - at number 1.
In January 1974 Lobanovsky joined former partner with Dynamo Oleg Bazilevich. This tandem worked until the end of 1976. Both coaches have equal rights, although Bazylevych was, above all, outstanding theoretician and Lobanovsky organized training process. [5] Since 1974, he went to the Staff Anatoly Puzach. After the 1974 season, the press characterized the style of Dynamo led by new coaches is very positive and critical of rationalism, the reluctance to play attacking football away (so called. "Destination model" - the game from defense to obtain a draw) and for the actions of team at intermediate speeds. But the good results achieved - in 1974, Kiev won the championship and won the USSR Cup. Shaping team that could compete with the strongest teams in Europe. At the gate stood Yevgeny Rudakov, in the defense played Reshko Stephan, Mikhail Fomenko, Vladimir Troshkin. In the mid-line were, in particular, Vladimir Muntean, young Leonid Buriak, quickly and Vladimir prohresuvav Veryemyeyev. Together with Oleg Blokhin has acted on the edge Vladimir Onishchenko.
Tandem-Lobanovsky Bazylevych understood that in modern football can not do without precise calculation loads of players. Dynamo started to cooperate with Anatoliy Zelentsovym - scientists from the theory of physical education department of the Kiev Institute of Physical Education. Zelentsov developed a precise system of calculating the training process, mathematical modeling of physical pressure on players and later headed the scientific laboratory Dynamo, which the people called "center Zelentsova.
Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup (1975)
In 1975, Dynamo Kyiv earned the Soviet club football history in his first European prize - Cup Winners Cup and Super League.
In the first three rounds of the Cup Winners' Cup overcome Bulgarian CSKA Kiev, Eintracht Frankfurt (Frankfurt), where he performed the famous Turkish and Juergen Hrabovski "Bursaspor. Semifinal rival Dynamo became PSV (Eindhoven) - Dutch champion-1975, comprising performed several well-known players. Kiev game ended 3:0 defeat of guests. Repeated play of whisker Dinamo lost - 1:2.
In the finals, held May 14, 1975 in Basel, the team won the Hungarian Lobanovsky "Ferencvaros" - 3:0. Reserve did Vladimir Onishchenko, one goal scored Oleg Blokhin. Hungarian football at that time had long outlived its best years.
In the autumn of the same 1975 dvomatch (confrontation of two games) with the European Champions Cup Winners German "Bavaria" brought the Soviet players confident "dry" victory in Munich 1:0 and 2:0 in Kiev. Dinamo managed perehraty club, which was the base for the world champion team in 1974 and West Germany had the stars of European football Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer, George Shvartsenbeka and Gerd Muller. All three goals in these games held Oleg Blokhin, who at the end of the year "France Football European Footballer of the best recognized and awarded" Golden Ball "(I was present in the classification of Leonid Buriak - he divided 23-26 seats). In 1975 the club record set by Valery Lobanovsky Soviet "list of top 33": 12 of them proved to the residents, eight of them were at number 1. FC-Cup Winners' Cup winners awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports USSR.
The first arrival in the USSR and the end of the 70's (1976-1982)
Valery V appointed coach of the USSR team that the previous, 1974 started very unsuccessful European Championship qualifying games in 1976, Ireland lost 3:0. Kiev Dynamo, whose high game form was undoubtedly become a basic club team.
Lobanovsky was an advocate of the introduction of "Autumn-Spring", which more suited for the club, which plays in the European competitions. "Dinamo" had to include a training period in early spring to prepare for the crucial stages of international competitions, which ended this spring, and the Soviet championship started in April. When the Soviet team gaining optimal form (summer-autumn), the European Cups only begun. For the new season of football officials decided to divide 1976 by 2 separate championships. The entire calendar was pidkoryhovano the interests Dynamo (Kyiv) and "team of". The leaders of Kiev helped to purposefully prepare for final matches of the European Champions Cup, European Championships and 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Dynamo most games spring 1976 championship held napivzapasnym composition - Kiev USSR were the foundation and preparing for important matches of Euro Cup "Saint Etyennom. 2:0 in their own field, 0:2 after the main time away and missed the ball on the 22 th minute. extra time. French pass failed.
Kyiv club in 1970 and 1980 was able to use powerful "administrative resources" - passionate fans of Dynamo was the first secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, Vladimir Shcherbytsky. One indication of whether the telephone call Shcherbytsky could lead to Kyiv any player from teams all over the USSR. The Soviet Union boasted similar effects unless CSKA (Moscow), which "verbuvav" talented players with recruitment notice to "pass" military service in the club.
Tournament selection group at the European Championship in the Soviet players won in the quarterfinals but lost to future champions - Czechoslovakia. The only priority was the Olympic tournament. But there Lobanovsky team was unable to achieve success. After a modest first three places at the Olympics in 1976 the Soviet leadership sent a football "Flathead" resign.
In summer 1976 the team began the destruction of certain conflicts of players (Munteanu, Troshkin and Matvienko) with coaches. After the championship went Lobanovsky assistant Oleg Bazilevich. DF remaining.
In the 1978 season "dynamics" were second in 1979 - third. Completed performances goalie Yevgeny Rudakov. Player "rebels" have given to other teams (Matvienko and Troshkin to Dnipro, Muntean dohravav in Kyiv SKA). Talented team came to a quick left defender Anatoliy Demyanenko, mostly stock entrenched universal Vladimir Bessonova, the middle line were Veryemyeyev Vladimir and Leonid Buriak, and played in the attack and Vadim Yevtushenko Oleg Blokhin, who since 1972 has annually recognized the best striker left the country . Dynamo became the champion in 1980 and 1981, and leadership Soviet football returns to the post Lobanovsky mentor team in 1982 (after playing dim Soviet Union in World Cup 1982).
Way to the top (1982-1990)
Team was closest to the exit in the European Championship final tournament in 1984. Before the final round of the Soviet Union ahead of Portugal on one point and the last game between these teams was held in Lisbon. The team Lobanovsky zadovilnala even a draw but it was not reached. Fate decided the match penalty, implemented Portuguese Zhordau end a half. Valery V again suspended from work with the national team.
Meanwhile, "Dinamo" in the 1983 season coaching Leningrad specialist Yuri Morozov. Team game lacked collective zihranosti often sport mode violation occurred among players. July was the lowest place from spring 1976, when he played in the championship semi-"double". In 1984 Valery Lobanovsky returned to Dynamo. The team experienced a clear slowdown - there were many injured, coaches in the last games released youth. 10 position and the USSR Cup defeat in the first 14 years without Eurocups left Kiev.
Valeriy saw mistakes and knew how to correct them. The team supported the mentor and began to prepare for the new season. With the Dynamo went Leonid Buriak, invited attack on the edge forward Chornomorets Igor Belanov. The team started the season very strongly. "Only a miracle can prevent Dinamo Kiev not become champions" - said in autumn 1985 the first known in the past, soccer Eduard Streltsov. Kiev team won the "double" - and won the championship and Cup of the USSR.
1986. Lobanovsky - the second best coach the world

In the spring of 1986 benefit people of another Cup Winners' Cup - in the final tournament wards Lobanovsky defeated Madrid Atletico "3:0. Before the 1986 World Cup in Mexico for the third time appointed head coach of Valeriy Naumenko Lobanovsky.
With 11 players starting at the world championships in August represented a Dynamo. Team in their first game has not left one stone upon another in defense of Hungary - 6:0, 1:1 then played a draw with the French champions of Europe. Third team match held napivzapasnym staff won an outsider in Canada - 2:0. Journalists called the Soviet team a championship discoveries - acute combinational game in the best speeds and just missed a goal in 3 matches.
1 / 8 final against Belgium became a referee mistakes of history and spectacular extra time. Final Score - 3:4 (GET-trick Belanov) and departure from the tournament. After the World Cup British journal Vorld soccer named Dynamo second best team after the world champions - Argentina's national team, and Valery Lobanovsky classified into 2 positions among coaches (behind the Belgians Ki Tisa). Dynamo won the championship of the country in 1986, was named best player of the USSR Alexander Zavarova the best player in Europe - Igor Belanov.
Game Lobanovsky pupils in European competitions, USSR Championship and World Cup confirmed humorous expression that was popular in the nation then:
Team of USSR - a Dynamo Kyiv, relaxed players from other clubs
Vice-Championship of Europe 1988. Political experience coach. Travel abroad

But already next season - 1987, "Dinamo" held indirectly and finished performances in the USSR championship for 6 seats. Critics hanyly mentor to Kiev for his distrust of young guys who serve in youth teams, Dynamo and try again to put the burden of the season on a dozen key experienced players.
In the qualifying round of Euro 1988 to the Soviet Union in Paris surprisingly confident team won one of the leaders of European football France - 2:0. As a result, the Soviet team won the competition in the qualifying group, ahead of Frenchmen.
"Silver" at the European Championship in 1988 was the highest achievement level of Soviet football teams since 1972. As two years before (World Cup 1986) Valery V. made a bet on proven their own players. In the first game of the Soviet team Merited Holland - 1:0, then tied with the Irish and won the confidence of England - 3:1. Lobanovsky team semifinal opponent was a strong Italian team, but it was obihrano vsuhu with rahunokm 2:0.
The final was a repeat of the first game, because the Dutch were again rival. It was a star team, the strongest since the "total football" shown oranye World Cup-1974. The most famous of the team was to Kumano trio of Frank Rijkaard and Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit. After 30 minutes the benefits of Soviet football game vyrivnyalas account opened and Gullit. The second goal journalists called "fantastic" and "unique" - almost zero angle on the right side door van Basten tossed Rinat Dasay.
From 11 conditionally "major" (those who have played most games) only three players not represented Dynamo Kyiv. The remaining eight were players in the team from the capital of Ukraine. Defenders Oleg Kuznetsov and Anatoly Demyanenko universal Vasily Rats mid football field - Gennady Litovchenko, Alexander Zavarov and Alexei Mikhailichenko and forwards Igor Belanov with Oleg Protasov.
After receiving the Cup of the Soviet Union and winning the championship in 1990, Valery Lobanovsky naytytulovanishym coach was in Soviet times: 8 championships (Boris and Mikhail Arkalyev Yakushyn won in 6) and 6 cups of the USSR (stilty it took Victor Maslov).
Valeriy first and last time put forward his candidacy in the state bodies in 1989 - the elections to the Kyiv city national-territorial district number 33. But the popularity of sports Lobanovsky allowed him to become only the third.
Lobanovsky worked in the team of "until 1990. Even before the Italian World Cup long-term mentor Dynamo team and said that whatever the outcome team in the tournament, he refuses to do further with the national team. Actually, the 1990 world championship team went for an ambitious failure of the USSR - departing after the group stage. After the tournament, DF went to work in the Middle East - the UAE and Kuwait, where trained teams of these countries.
Return to "Dynamo" (1996-2002)
In spring 1996 Valeri Lobanovsky agreed to return to Dynamo. Perform their duties coach began on 1 January 1997. Then came the club players who were the foundation team of Ukraine: Serhiy Rebrov, Alexander Golovko, Vladislav Vashchuk, Dmytro Mikhailenko, Vitaly Kosovo and Andriy Shevchenko. In 1997 the team won the championship in Ukraine in 1998 makes "double" - + Cup championship. Kyiv club for the first time in many years, comes so far in European competition, to 1 / 4 Champions League, which has given the Italian Juventus.
Season 1998/99 was even better, because people of not only repeated the victory in the championship and Cup of Ukraine, but were in the final step before the prestigious yevroturniru. In ranking Ukrainian played against Arsenal (London), the French "Lance" and Greek "Panathinaikos. Spanish quarterfinal opponent was Real Madrid. The match in Madrid ended draw 1:1. The second game "Dynamo" won the confidence - 2:0 (A. Shevchenko - twice).
In the semifinal "Dinamo" met with Bayern Munich. Again the first game had to go in Kiev. 80 000 hladachiv at the NSC "Olympic" has already began to hope for a good result (score 3:1 after 50 minutes. Meetings), Kiev played confidently, but Stefan does Effenberh score 2:3. At last, 90-minute fixed time Yanker still managed to equal the score.
"Throughout my career there were two failures that occurred is not known why two absolutely incredible match - 3:4 and 3:3 in Mexico with" Bavaria "..."
After 2 weeks the Germans managed to win with a minimum score - 1:0 and went to the finale. 22-year-old Andriy Shevchenko found the best striker Champions League 1998/99.
Management decided to try the Ukrainian football Lobanovsky rank in the national team coach. He took command of Jozsef Szabo, who won the selection for Euro 2000 second place but lost the play-off Slovenia. New mentors were a little harder, because he left work in Dynamo, so had to coach two teams simultaneously. However, this experience has Valeriy had years 1975-1976 and 1986-1990 from the USSR. Contenders in the group were not Grand: Poland, Norway, Belarus, Wales and Armenia. Before the games considered the favorite Norwegians - Participants at the latest World and Europe, the continent's best team in 1999 under the classification "France Football" [9].
Team shaky start already from the earliest game 1:3 home defeat of the Poles. "Staff" for a tour to the end secured the first place, and Ukrainian finished second. Die lifted our team in the playoffs with a team in Germany. Kiev draw 1:1 gave more chances for optimism, but the 1:4 defeat in Dortmund was cause for dismissal from the post of steering the DF team.
Last Days
First time serious heart problems have to coach in 1988 - since when all poyizdkok Lobanovsky tried to accompany his wife Adelaide. After returning from abroad could see that figure Lobanovsky is not as taut as before, because their coach had to facilitate the physical culture of the Middle East because of the peculiarities of climate and considerable age. The second stroke occurred in autumn 2001 - as a result of the coach moved the operation. In late 2001, all visiting Lobanovsky missed games Dynamo in the Champions League because of hypertension and banning doctors plane.
May 7, 2002 Lobanovsky became ill during a calendar championship game with the "steel" in Zaporizhia. Coach hospitalized with the diagnosis of stroke and surgery, but Valeri has not come to life. His heart stopped May 13, 2002 at 20:35. Champions League Final, which played over two days, began with a minute of silence. That summer Dynamo first time since 1992 was not the champion of Ukraine, giving Shakhtar on an item.
At a farewell ceremony with outstanding coach, held May 14, 2002 came many important persons: President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Anatoly Kinah, Medvedchuk and others. There were students and former wards Lobanovsky Andriy Shevchenko, Serhiy Rebrov Vladimir Muntean, Oleg Blokhin, Alexander Zavarov and Igor Belanov. Overall, say goodbye to a brilliant mentor came from 60 to 150 thousand people.
The funeral Baikove cemetery in Kiev. His tombstone is decorated with colonnades, where padded inscription in Russian "We live as long as we remember about (in the original:" We have to живы Since then, until we pomnyat)
Entry Valery V in 2008 the top ten "Great Ukrainian" can be perceived ambiguously by sharp Lobanovsky statements about the Ukrainian language, which he called "kurdupelnoyu. Ukrainian coach himself will not talk.
Author of the book "Nonestop Game "(Moscow, 1989).
Work and family
Lobanovsky talk from professionals about the family could be heard very rarely. Widow - Adelaide, a lawyer by profession, only child - daughter, Svetlana, a Russian philologist (graduated from Kyiv University). Football put it in the first place. A well-known case was when he headed the team of Ukraine on the eve of the game with Germany in late 2001 did not let on base "collection" Andrei Gusin, when the footballer's wife had birth.
Player
* USSR Champion: 1961
* USSR Cup: 1964
* The list of "33 best" - 2 times (twice at number 2: 1960 and 1962)
Coach
* USSR Champion (8): 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
* USSR Cup (6): 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1990
* Champion of Ukraine (5): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001
* Ukraine Cup (3): 1998, 1999, 2000
* Vice-Champion of Europe 1988
* Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1975 and 1986
* European Super Cup: 1975
* Coach National Team The World Cup: 1986 and 1990.
Awards
Awarded the Order of Merit, the second degree. Posthumously awarded the title "Hero of Ukraine" and Ruby Order UEFA contribution to football. In May 2002, his name appropriated Kiev stadium "Dynamo".