Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Personal information
Full name	Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi
Date of birth	6 January 1939
Place of birth	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	13 May 2002 (aged 63)
Place of death	Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Playing position	Striker (retired)
Senior career*
National team
Teams managed
1969-1973; 1974-1990; 1975-1976; 1982-1983; 1986-1990; 1990-1993; 1994-1996; 1997-2002; 2000-2001	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk; Dynamo Kyiv; Soviet Union; Soviet Union; Soviet Union; United Arab Emirates; Kuwait; Dynamo Kyiv; Ukraine
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Valeriy Lobanovskyi (6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was a Ukrainian football player turned manager. He played for Soviet Union national team. He died after a stroke and brain surgery.

Club career statistics

When the goalkeeper was too far from the closest bar, Lobanovskyi scored a goal right from the corner
When the goalkeeper was too close to the closest bar, Lobanovskyi sent the ball to the further bar, where Oleh Bazylevych scored a goal
Lobanovskyi (left) in Eindhoven in 1975 together with the manager of PSV Ben van Gelde
Автограф Валерія Лобановського поданий на вкладному листку книги Кубок, полный надежд. – Киев: Здоров'я, 1975.
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.
Portrait of Valeriy Lobanovskyi on the banner of Dynamo Kyiv's fans, 2 March 2008
Lobanovskyi on a 2019 stamp of Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine ribbon bar
Order of Merit 2nd Class of Ukraine

↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Valeriy Lobanovskiy". www.national-football-teams.com.

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