SOCCER PLAYER

Mykhaylo Fomenko

1948 - 2024

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Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Фоменко; 19 September 1948 – 29 April 2024) was a Ukrainian football player and coach. As a player, he was capped 24 times for the Soviet Union, and, as a head coach, became the second ever manager – after Oleh Blokhin – to take the Ukraine national team to an international finals tournament, reaching UEFA Euro 2016. Fomenko was famous for his coaching in Dynamo Kyiv, winning its first Ukrainian gold medals for the club, first Ukrainian Cup for the club and most notably, defeating Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League tournament. Barcelona, under Johan Cruyff and with such star players as Ronald Koeman and Pep Guardiola, ended up to be finalist of that UEFA Champions League season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Mykhaylo Fomenko is the 1,327th most popular soccer player (up from 1,526th in 2024), the 442nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 526th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mykhaylo Fomenko ranks 1,327 out of 21,273. Before him are Julián Álvarez, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Walter Mazzarri, Saeed Al-Owairan, Željko Perušić, and Antony. After him are Silvio Marzolini, Hiroshi Ninomiya, Emilio Recoba, Jon Dahl Tomasson, Raoul Lambert, and Tommy Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Mykhaylo Fomenko ranks 284. Before him are Patty Pravo, Viktor Afanasyev, Mizengo Pinda, Ludwig Scotty, Davíð Oddsson, and Shakin' Stevens. After him are Kim Hwang-sik, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jean-Pierre Adams, Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, and Pinchas Zukerman. Among people deceased in 2024, Mykhaylo Fomenko ranks 211. Before him are Carl Andre, Bernard Chiarelli, Daniel Williams, Dallas Long, Saleh al-Arouri, and Wolfgang Rihm. After him are James Kottak, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Eugenio Dal Corso, Stefan Abadzhiev, Breyten Breytenbach, and Nabil Elaraby.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mykhaylo Fomenko ranks 442 out of 1,365. Before him are Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849), Boris Iofan (1891), Nonna Mordyukova (1925), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930). After him are Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Mykola Pymonenko (1862), Liya Akhedzhakova (1938), and Roman Rudenko (1907).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among soccer players born in Ukraine, Mykhaylo Fomenko ranks 6. Before him are Oleg Blokhin (1952), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Igor Belanov (1960), Géza Kalocsay (1913), and Oleh Protasov (1964). After him are Yozhef Sabo (1940), Serhiy Rebrov (1974), Oleksandr Zavarov (1961), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), and Anatoliy Konkov (1949).

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