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Valeriy Lobanovskyi

1939 - 2002

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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. 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. In 2002 he was awarded the Hero of Ukraine award (posthumously), his nation's highest honour, for his contribution to Ukrainian football. In 2008, Lobanovskyi was ranked 6th in Inter's list of the 100 Greatest 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valeriy Lobanovskyi is the 37th most popular coach (down from 21st in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 56th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Coach.

Valeriy Lobanovskyi is most famous for being the manager of Dynamo Kyiv, which he led to 13 Ukrainian league titles, six Soviet league titles, and three European Cup titles.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 37 out of 471. Before him are Ronald Koeman, Ernst Happel, Fatih Terim, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Michael Laudrup, and Dick Advocaat. After him are Otto Rehhagel, Bernd Schuster, Miroslav Blažević, Tito Vilanova, Marcelo Bielsa, and Luis de la Fuente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 38. Before him are George Lazenby, Junko Tabei, F. Murray Abraham, Sidney Altman, Clay Regazzoni, and Tzvetan Todorov. After him are Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Wes Craven, Jorge Sampaio, Ratko Janev, Ali MacGraw, and Richard Kiel. Among people deceased in 2002, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 30. Before him are Rod Steiger, Linda Lovelace, Alexander Prokhorov, Max Perutz, Victor Weisskopf, and Nándor Hidegkuti. After him are Ruth Handler, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geraldine of Albania, Choi Hong Hi, Robert Nozick, and Juan Alberto Schiaffino.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 98 out of 1,365. Before him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Karl Radek (1885), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Clarice Lispector (1920), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), and Reinhold Glière (1874). After him are John Demjanjuk (1920), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Roman Shukhevych (1907), and Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902).

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Among COACHES In Ukraine

Among coaches born in Ukraine, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 1. After him are Anatoliy Byshovets (1946), Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), and Sergei Semak (1976).

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