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Lobanovskyi is most famous for his spells managing FC Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national football team. Lobanovskyi established Dynamo as the most dominant club in Soviet football in the 1970s and 1980s, winning the Soviet Top League eight times and the Soviet Cup six times in 16 years.
Dec 12, 2023 · As a sign of his respect, Shevchenko always addressed his former coach by his ancestral patronymic name, but football history remembers him as Valeriy Lobanovskyi, a revolutionary sporting mind...
Nov 9, 2021 · A mathematician, a footballer, and very nearly a plumber, Valeriy Lobanovskyi was a leading light of the Soviet era and combined his intellectual interests with the love of the game.
Jul 17, 2019 · Two days after his death, UEFA held a minutes silence before the Champions League final in Glasgow, and Lobanovskyi was awarded the title 'Hero of Ukraine', the nation's highest accolade, with ...
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 30...
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.
May 13, 2002 · This is the profile site of the manager Valeriy Lobanovskyi. The site lists all clubs he coached and all clubs he played for.
Jan 29, 2018 · As pioneers in football go, few rank higher than Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Influencing the game’s greatest managers long after he began his 30-year odyssey on the touchline, his success with Dynamo Kyiv – who he led to two Cup Winners’ Cups, a UEFA Super Cup and 12 league titles over three stints – stands tall as the greatest in Ukrainian ...
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.
At the same time, however, some 1,200 miles east of Amsterdam, a Ukrainian coach by the name of Valeriy Lobanovskyi was preaching total football, but in a wholly 21 st Century way. Utilising science and statistical analysis, he was streets ahead of the Dutch masters.
