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Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi (Ukrainian: Вале́рій Васи́льович Лобано́вський, pronounced [wɐˈlɛr⁽ʲ⁾ij lobɐˈnɔu̯sʲkɪj]; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager.
Nov 9, 2021 · The greatest coach in Russian and Ukrainian history is little known to casual fans elsewhere in Europe. But Lobanovskyi’s vision, methods, and tactics shape the game we watch today and he deserves to be remembered as one of the most important managers in modern football history.
May 28, 2020 · Lobanovskyi’s teams played in a style that was quintessentially Total Football. His Dynamo Kyiv side defended as a team, relying on aggressive pressing with the furthest forward player being the first line of defence.
Jul 17, 2019 · Valeriy Lobanovskyi is number 23 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next five weeks. The life and...
Jan 4, 2016 · Valeriy Lobanovskyi has long gone underappreciated but he put his mark on the sport, and his USSR team gave a strong contribution to the game. Lobanovskyi was always an intense, fierce coach and a strict disciplinarian aspiring to control every aspect of his players’ life both on and off field.
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 in Ruby (2002) and FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA.
May 14, 2002 · Valery Lobanovskiy, the former national coach of the Soviet Union and Ukraine, has died aged 63. Thirty years of success The man who led FC Dynamo Kyiv to all of their successes in the past...
