Which club has never been coached by Valery Lobanovsky? Lobanovsky Valery Vasilievich, biography, life story, creativity, writers, life history. Beginning of a coaching career

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Lobanovsky, Valery Vasilievich. Attack.

Pupil of Kyiv Youth Sports School No. 1 and FSM. The first coach is Nikolai Chaika.

He played in the teams Dynamo Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR (1957–1964), Chernomorets Odessa, Ukrainian SSR (1965–1966) and Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR (1967–1968).

USSR champion: 1961.

Played 2 matches for the USSR national team.

(Played 2 matches for the USSR Olympic team. * )

Head coach club "Dnepr" Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (1968–1973). Head coach of the Dynamo club Kyiv, Ukraine (1973–1982, 1984–1990, 1996). Head coach of the USSR national team (1975–1976, 1982–1983, 1986–1990). Head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team (1990–1992). Head coach of the Kuwait national team (1994–1996). Head coach of the Ukrainian national team (2000–2002).

Honored Coach of the USSR (1975).

Knight of the UEFA Ruby Order of Merit (2002).

LEFT AS I LIVED: UNDEFEATED

No one, of course, imagined that the inquisitive boy, who in his post-war childhood became interested in a game that was more like fun than a serious activity, would turn out to be a great football player and an outstanding coach of our time. Valery studied very well at school, read a lot, but spent all his free time on the football field. His shoes were on fire, he smashed balls to pieces, and boards on the fence, which turned into an improvised “gate,” flew off after his blows. Valery Lobanovsky's older brother, Evgeny, nailed down the torn boards, and his mother, Alexandra Maksimovna, a housewife who looked after the family, threatened that soccer ball will cut it into small pieces, and burn the shoes turned into boots in the stove. It is clear that the threats remained threats: the Lobanovsky family saw that football had become an integral part of Valery’s life and contributed to his harmonious development. His father, Vasily Mikhailovich, who worked at a mill, and Evgeniy, who then worked his way up from a thermal power engineer to the director of an institute, encouraged Valery to play football and attended matches with his participation.

Valery Lobanovsky graduated from school with a silver medal, and then just as successfully from the Polytechnic Institute. Universities with such a profile for football players have been rare at all times. Once in the Soviet Union, during the period of another football-related “reform”, which, unsurprisingly, bordered on stupidity, the country’s sports authorities made a decision that prohibited coaches who did not have a physical education education from working with the teams of the highest and first leagues of the USSR championship. The only specialist who did not have such an education was Valery Lobanovsky, who by that time had become the “number one” coach in Soviet football. The decision was immediately “forgotten.”

In 1952, Valery Lobanovsky began studying in football school No. 1, where he was brought by children's coach Nikolai Chaika, who singled out a capable player in boys' battles. Three years later, Valery ended up at the Kyiv youth football school, and two years later he was invited to Dynamo Kiev. To begin with, of course, to the backup team of the best Ukrainian club.

Lobanovsky attracted spectators to the stands with his dribbling, ability to confuse the opponent, passes along the left flank and corners. Corners performed by the Kiev resident delighted audiences in Moscow, Tbilisi, Leningrad, Donetsk and Yerevan. And of course in Kyiv. The stands froze at first, and then roared when Lobanovsky approached the corner flag with the ball, placed the ball on the spot, ran up from a mathematically precise distance, and sent the ball from the corner of the field in such a way that it either suddenly “dipped” into the near corner of the goal, or flew to the far one. Often the jumping Oleg Bazilevich would fly out of the crowd of players in the penalty area and score beautiful goals from Lobanovsky’s passes.

Valery Lobanovsky's corners, which played a role on the way of Dynamo Kyiv to the first championship of a non-Moscow club in 1961, did not immediately become “signature” corners. First, there were calculations made on paper by a 22-year-old polytechnic student. Then - hundreds of corners taken per day: in the heat, mud, at the Kyiv training base, in other cities. Lobanovsky treated corners, as indeed absolutely everything he did and does in life, extremely thoroughly, carefully calculating every step.

Lobanovsky was lucky to have coaches who worked with him as a player - these were Vyacheslav Solovyov and Viktor Maslov in Dynamo Kiev, Oleg Oshenkov in Shakhtar Donetsk. In the mid-60s, the championship success of Solovyov, who included Valery Lobanovsky in the main team, was developed by the outstanding Soviet coach Viktor Maslov, a coach, as Lobanovsky says, from God. “His instinct for football innovations,” says Lobanovsky, “was amazing. He anticipated many tactical discoveries, as well as innovations in the training process, which we then enthusiastically adopted from abroad, forgetting that they also appeared here, but not "were understood and properly appreciated. This happened, for example, with the tactical formation of four midfielders. Maslov in Dynamo Kiev tested this system even before it was "sounded out" at the 1966 World Cup by the English."

Lobanovsky discussed with Maslov, who tried to assign the footballer functions on the field other than those he performed. The Kiev forward, without whom it seemed impossible to imagine Dynamo playing, was convinced that he was right, but over the years he realized that Maslov’s coaching correctness turned out to be much higher than his player’s correctness.

At the age of 29, Valery Lobanovsky began coaching the first league team "Dnepr" (Dnepropetrovsk), brought it to the major league and immediately took sixth place with it. The incredible qualitative leap of the young coach did not pass the attention of the responsible leaders in Kyiv, who were responsible for the best Ukrainian club - Dynamo. In October 1973, Lobanovsky was summoned to Kyiv. He believed that he was going to some regular meeting, and rejoiced at the opportunity to wander around his native autumn city, which he visited occasionally, on short visits, and which he missed, no matter where he was. “We have been following your work in Dnepropetrovsk for a long time and offer you to head Dynamo Kiev,” they told Lobanovsky. He called his former Dynamo partner, a like-minded person in coaching, Oleg Bazilevich, who was then working at Shakhtar Donetsk, and invited him to work together.

Only victories were always expected and demanded from Dynamo Kyiv. The tandem "Lobanovsky - Bazilevich", which existed for two and a half years, began to issue them immediately. The trainers strictly followed a specially developed methodology training process, radically changed the nature of game actions, leading a new direction in football.

In 1975, Dynamo Kiev became the first Soviet team to win the prestigious European Cup Winners' Cup and then the Super Cup, defeating Bayern Munich in both games. International Association sports press named Dynamo club the best sports team peace. Kyiv players, together with their coaches, formed the basis of the USSR national team. The team, not accustomed to defeats, was never forgiven for the relative failures of 1976: reaching “only” the quarterfinals of the European Cup, losing at the same stage in the European Championship for national teams to the future winners of the tournament - Czechoslovak football players and “only” third place at the Olympics. 76 in Montreal.

“Principles are not changed, principles are improved,” says Valery Lobanovsky, who has been among the best coaches in the world for several decades. Football Italy calls him "Colonel", Germany - "General". Military terminology only emphasizes the respect for the teams that, under the leadership of Lobanovsky, participate in the largest continental tournaments. His work is carefully monitored by his colleagues. Many Italian coaches can easily say that they have grown out of “Lobanovsky’s overcoat”. That's what they're talking about. In the late autumn of 1997, a large group of Russian coaches visited a number of Italian clubs for familiarization purposes. In Milan, Rome and Turin they watched the work of Milan, Roma, Juventus and asked questions. Marcello Lippi, who headed Juventus, remarked then: “Your interest in the direction of our training work is understandable, but at one time we learned a lot where you came from, paying serious attention to what you did in Dynamo Kiev and in the USSR national team Valery Lobanovsky.

A revolution in the minds of Italian specialists was made by two teams - Dynamo (Kyiv) in 1986, which won the second Cup Winners' Cup, and the Soviet team, which offered football world two years later, at the European Championships, a completely new high-quality round of total football took place. After the semi-final match between the USSR and Italy, which was convincingly won by Soviet football players who used pressure all over the field and very high speeds, Enzo Bearzot, who led the Italian national team to the world title in 1982, said in the dressing room of the USSR national team: “I was once again convinced that "that you are a great team. You play modern football at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The pressing that I saw today is a manifestation of the highest skill. The physical form of the Soviet players is the fruit of exceptional, excellent work." One of the most successful coaches of European football today, Fabio Capello, does not hide the fact that at one time, when he worked with the club’s youth teams, he spent a lot of time taking notes on the training process of the USSR national team led by Valery Lobanovsky, who came to Italy for a training camp.

“Measure seven times, cut once” - this proverb from Lobanovsky’s youth was transformed into the simplest formula, which he follows to this day: “You have to think.” His decisions always seem surprisingly accurate. They are imbued with logic, and it is not known what lies behind them: many hours of reflection or instant insight. One, however, is often closely related to the other. The thinking of Lobanovsky, who daily rethinks the “information Mont Blancs” - the press, conversations, television, visual observations - categorically does not allow anything related to “maybe”.

“Lobanovsky’s coaching rightness was much higher than our players’ rightness,” say now the Dynamo Kyiv players, who in 1975 moaned at training camps conducted using a completely new method.

Time puts everything in its place. Not one of the almost thirty Kyiv football players who played in Lobanovsky’s team and later became coaches utters a single unkind word to the teacher, who then seemed to them a monster who dreamed of squeezing all the juice out of them and tearing out all the veins.

Dynamo defender Mikhail Fomenko became one of the first players to take notes training sessions, came to the trainer’s room and asked Lobanovsky questions. This has never been done before among football players. Some were afraid of ridicule, some were simply embarrassed, some did not want to be suspected of trying to be known as sucking up to the coach.

In Kyiv, under Lobanovsky, “the dam collapsed.” Fomenko was followed by others. It’s not just and not so much a matter of notes, but a genuine interest in what Valery Lobanovsky and his like-minded people are doing.

The desire to understand, with the help of Lobanovsky and his methods of work, the intricacies of coaching was not a one-time action taken, it would seem, suddenly, under the influence of the results achieved by the football players of the mid-70s. Of those who gradually replaced them and also won a European prize 11 years later, another generation of coaches emerged.

Lobanovsky, by his own example, results, and ability to work highly professionally, managed to infect football players with the profession. “There is no coach without players” is the slogan of Lobanovsky, who for a long time was accompanied by the image of an exceptionally tough man who did not care about his players. He, however, did not expel a single player in his entire coaching life.

If we recall Gogol’s definition of Russian troubles, Valery Lobanovsky did not fight “roads,” but he had to fight a lot with “fools.” An academic coach, the doyen of today's European club coaching workshop, he does not change the chosen principles, improving them in the conditions of gaining invaluable experience. In the Soviet Union, Lobanovsky was actually declared a “heretic,” trying to force the teams he led to train “like everyone else,” and they demanded that they play “like everyone else.” From the chosen direction, based on a very serious scientific basis, Valery Lobanovsky, despite the persecution that often developed into real persecution in the Soviet press and from some now completely unknown Soviet sports and party leaders, did not retreat one iota. He was fired from the USSR national team with the wording “never again to involve V.V. Lobanovsky in working with national teams of the country,” including youth teams, but then they again turned to his candidacy because they understood that only with Lobanovsky they could achieve good results.

Having grown wiser with age, Lobanovsky is undoubtedly still one of the small group of those coaches in Europe and in the world who determine the process of development of modern football, if we talk about methods of conducting training work and games. His contribution to the development of world football is priceless. “A coach must study all his life,” says Lobanovsky. “If he has become callous and stopped learning, then he has stopped being a coach. Time cannot be deceived. It sets the accents. And it teaches, too.”

After he returned to Dynamo Kiev from the Middle East at the end of 1996, where he very successfully coached the national teams of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait (the Kuwaiti team under his leadership became third at the Asian Games - an unprecedented achievement until then), from Lobanovsky to Kyiv began to expect a miracle. He, who always maintained that miracles do not happen, in a short time made Dynamo Kiev an absolutely competitive team in Europe, “moving” it from the second hundred of the European rankings to fifth place, which it took at the end of the 1999/2000 season after “ Lazio (Italy), Bayern (Germany), Manchester United (England) and Barcelona (Spain).

Until his last return to Dynamo Kiev, Valery Lobanovsky never worked in conditions of market relations, a contract system, or a level of material incentives that was unimaginable in previous years that accompanied the players’ careers. But they did not become new for him, because back in Soviet times, taking away precious time from purely coaching activities, he was seriously involved in organizing issues football life in the country and constantly put forward new ideas that were rejected by the existing socio-political system as “harmful.”

Coaching achievements: USSR champion 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990; winner of the USSR Cup 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990; second prize-winner at the USSR championships 1976 (autumn), 1978, 1982, 1988; third prize-winner at the USSR championships 1979, 1989; champion of Ukraine 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001; winner of the Ukrainian Cup 1998, 1999, 2000; European vice-champion 1988; bronze medalist at the 1976 Olympics; winner of the Cup Winners' Cup 1975, 1986; winner of the European Super Cup 1975; 1999 Champions League semi-finalist; participant of the European Championship 1976; participant of the world championships 1982, 1986, 1990.

Valery Lobanovsky's students include: famous football players, like Rudakov, Troshkin, Fomenko, Reshko, Matvienko, Veremeev, Kolotov, Muntyan, Buryak, Konkov, Onishchenko, Blokhin, Chanov, Luzhny, Baltacha, Bal, Demyanenko, Bessonov, Zavarov, Yakovenko, Yevtushenko, Mikhailichenko, Belanov, Yuran, Kanchelskis, Shovkovsky, Golovko, Vashchuk, Gusin, Kaladze, Belkevich, Khatskevich, Rebrov, Shevchenko.

International United Biographical Center

THE ERA OF LOBANOVSKY

Now you can poison your soul to your heart’s content with idle conversations about the fact that it was not at all necessary for him, a hypertensive patient, to fly on a hot day on May 7 to the Ukrainian championship game in Zaporozhye. Moreover, in recent years he often did not fly to Dynamo’s more important European Cup matches due to health problems.

You won't get anything back. Before my eyes are television footage of the tragedy of the great coach: here he is, gathering his remaining strength, standing for a long, long time in front of the open door of the ambulance, which has taxied straight to the coach’s bench - his workplace. Then, with a colossal effort, he takes a step to hide in the belly of a minibus with red crosses on the sides...

A few days later, when the outcome of the fight for the life of Valery Lobanovsky in the intensive care unit of the Zaporozhye Center for Extreme Medicine did not yet seem fatal, at another stadium, in Kiev, Dynamo players came out to a performance before the championship game with Tavriya in T-shirts with a portrait of the coach, and the fans hung a huge poster-spell: “Vasilich, we need you!”

Alas, the Almighty did not want to hear them.

On the evening of May 13, despite all the efforts of the best Ukrainian doctors, Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky left forever. With him, an entire football era passed away, which, in the vast space now boringly called post-Soviet, should rightly bear his name. The name of a Footballer and Coach, whose selfless service to the Game has become a huge layer of our lives, our common culture.

No one has ever been indifferent to the playing career of the famous left winger of Dynamo Kiev in the 50s and 60s (Lobanovsky’s “dry sheet”, which allowed him to score goals directly from the corners, entered football textbooks), and even more so to Lobanovsky’s coaching creativity .

Lobanovsky the football player won the first championship medals for Dynamo Kyiv in 1961. Lobanovsky the coach made his club a phenomenon on the European stage.

“Lobanovsky’s football” probably had equal numbers of friends and enemies. If you like, the famous English proverb “The most beautiful thing in football is the score on the scoreboard” can be considered a figurative formulation of his coaching credo.

He was the first in our then still large and united country to transfer the “game of millions” to the rails of football science, and the hands of our football clock to European time. He was the first to challenge traditional approaches to the educational and training process, in which quantitative indicators (the slogan “Today is more than yesterday, and tomorrow is more than today” was popular at that time in all spheres of life, including football) gave way to quality characteristics.

Unlike most of my partners in the star Kiev “Dynamo” of the seventies, I joined the Kyiv team from the Donetsk “Shakhtar” as a fully developed player, even recruited to the USSR national team,” said one of the strongest Soviet football players of his time, Anatoly Konkov. “That’s why I didn’t have to go through the Dynamo double, but learned Lobanovsky’s science right away at the highest level of training - in the first team. I must admit that his football was noticeably different from what I had played before. The gaming models that he proposed were interesting to us, and most importantly, when strictly transferred from tablets in the classroom to tactical training on the field, they were effective.

Lobanovsky's training loads, which were sometimes legendary, and his strict disciplinary requirements for football players are like two sides of the same coin.

In practice, the situation was like this: if the player did not keep himself within the behavioral framework outlined by Lobanovsky, then he had too little chance to cope with the loads that the mentor offered.

There are no ideal teams with 11 stars playing at the same time. Depending on the talent given by God, some are given delicate, jewelery work in the field, while others are given preparatory, rough work. But both are equally necessary. Lobanovsky knew how to achieve results when players with very modest capabilities appeared on the field next to outstanding players, who, however, were used to the maximum.

If you try to summarize Lobanovsky’s merits, then it would be most correct to reduce them to one capacious word - organizer, says Mikhail Koman, who once worked as an assistant to the great coach for more than ten years. - Organizer in the broadest sense - the educational and training process, games, team life. He always knew what he wanted and accurately correlated the potential of his opponent with the capabilities of his team. This was his coaching power, which allowed him to win.

Not a single coach of ours can compare with Lobanovsky in terms of sporting achievements. But not a single coach of ours has had so many scars on his heart from merciless, often unfair criticism.

What have they accused him of? In excessive rationalism. In unbridled worship of His Majesty the Result. In using the "on-site model". Finally, in the unspectacular nature of Dynamo football. And when he really got excited, he ironically answered his ill-wishers: they say, I have no idea what this thing is - “spectacular” football.

He was lying, of course. Knew it perfectly well. Therefore, the priority was not just the result, but the outstanding result, which can only be achieved by an outstanding game. A game that will be unforgettable for entire generations of fans. And now let someone refute it by recalling the victories of Lobanovsky the coach in Soviet times: eight triumphs in the USSR championships, six cup titles, two Cup Winners' Cups and the European Super Cup! Plus Olympic bronze in 1976 (officially considered a failure at that time!) and silver in the European Championship in 1988 with the Union team, which in those years was synonymous with Dynamo Kiev.

A well-known fact, one might say, almost a textbook one: the famous Italian specialist Marcello Lippi (the same one who recently won another championship title with Juventus) never hesitates to remember how he once listened to a lecture by Lobanovsky, who was invited to a coaching seminar in Italy. According to the observations of Oleg Bazilevich, Lobanovsky’s closest associate and co-author of European Cup victories in the 70s, our coaches, most likely, are not burdened with such memories, because they live in full agreement with the postulate about the role of the prophet in their homeland...

I received further proof of this recently when, by fate, I met another famous Italian mentor, Nevio Scala. We talked at the Spanish training camp of Shakhtar Donetsk, talking, as they say, about all sorts of different things. And you should have seen how the Italian immediately perked up at the mention of Lobanovsky’s name! “You can’t help but admire this great coach,” said Skala. “Thanks to Lobanovsky, Ukrainian football has a worthy history. We know very well what he did at Dynamo Kiev, we learned a lot from him.” Like this: they learned from him... And we?

However, the matter is probably not only in the special mentality of our coaches, which, due to the “competitive” nature of their profession, allows inflated self-esteem as a matter of course. Some people who worked side by side with Lobanovsky argue that, by and large, his experience, even if summarized in a thousand lectures by the master, would still be unique. How unique a brilliant artist, writer, composer, artist is in his work...

They say that his coaching genius lay primarily in his ability to clearly and intelligibly explain to a football player what was required of him. That is why the “Lobanovsky system”, which was based on the impeccable functional training of the players, only worked for him with the proper efficiency. Only Lobanovsky was able to achieve the level of dedication of each individual football player and the team as a whole that was required to achieve specific purpose. Any other coach, if he had a chance to work from Lobanovsky’s notes, would not have done anything like that. Which, in fact, was confirmed in the mid-80s by the unsuccessful Kiev experience of another famous mentor, who was a like-minded person of the Ukrainian master in the most fundamental issues of team preparation.

“Yes, Valery Vasilyevich’s training was not all sugar,” confirms midfielder of Dynamo and the USSR national team of the 80s Pavel Yakovenko. - However, his exactingness was combined with another valuable quality: Lobanovsky never tired of explaining to the players why all this had to be suffered and endured. Explain in such a way that it was impossible not to believe him.

Contrary to popular ideas about Lobanovsky’s coaching harshness in his claims to football players, he never demanded the impossible from the players. And this was fundamentally different Kyiv coach from many other famous mentors who sometimes preferred to get their way from football players through I can’t.

In this sense, Lobanovsky was probably likened to a sculptor who does nothing but remove the excess from a block of stone. Having carefully looked at the young football player, the master categorically forbade him to do what he did worst, but focused on developing the player’s strongest qualities.

If we remember now what a wonderful galaxy of world-class stars - from Oleg Blokhin to Andrei Shevchenko - Lobanovsky sculpted in this way, then calling him a “football Michelangelo” would not be an exaggeration at all. Associations with the Renaissance era, to which the brilliant Italian belonged, are even stronger when you think about the invaluable contribution that Lobanovsky made to the revival of Ukrainian football in last years own life.

Lobanovsky’s strict football, mathematically verified to the smallest detail, was, of course, to a large extent a projection of his human essence, the make-up of his soul and character, and the standards of behavior that he meticulously observed. Being the most popular person in his country, he never lived for show, did not let anyone into his personal life, in which the great football teacher was lucky enough to be a loving husband, a caring father, and twice a grandfather.

Therefore, probably, the idea of ​​Lobanovsky as a “cracker” was transferred by people’s rumors to his relationships with the players. Although in fact it was just another legend that had nothing to do with reality.

Despite all the outward severity, he treated us very warmly as human beings, like children,” recalls one of the best midfielders in Soviet football, Vladimir Bessonov, who played for Dynamo under Lobanovsky for almost a decade and a half. “We even called him “dad” behind his back—doesn’t that mean anything?

Quite freely paraphrasing the classic, many of the great coach’s students have the right to say that they owe all the best in themselves to Lobanovsky. I think that no coach in the world, except him, the Kyiv master, had so many wards who, after finishing their playing career, under the influence of Lobanovsky, remained in football forever.

Indicative in this sense, for example, is the fate of Alexander Zavarov, who before meeting Lobanovsky was considered “unyielding”, risking depriving our football player of a rare natural talent, and leaving himself outside of big football.

We are structured in such a way that sometimes we are not able to immediately appreciate even gifts of fate that are rare in their generosity,” once shared the best football player of the USSR in 1986, Alexander Zavarov, who now works in France as the head coach of the Nancy youth team. - Now it’s hard for me to even imagine what would have happened to me if Valery Vasilyevich had not insisted on my transfer to Dynamo from Zorya Luhansk, which I initially refused. The meeting with Lobanovsky changed a lot in my mind and allowed me to look at football as the main thing in life. Only at Dynamo and only with Lobanovsky was I able to understand: if you really want to, you can achieve a lot. I wanted.

Zavarov, if you remember, turned out to be the first Soviet football player to join the European superclub - the Italian Juventus. Back then it was still rumored that Lobanovsky himself was supposed to go along the same route. But apparently it didn’t work out.

But here is the testimony of another outstanding football player - Igor Belanov, who played for Lobanovsky in the same years as Zavarov.

This seemingly reserved person, even a little detached from everything that was happening around him, had the amazing ability with one well-timed phrase to restore peace of mind to someone who needed it, or to put an arrogant insolent person in his place, recalled the best football player in Europe in 1986 in an interview with SE of the year. “You, Igor, are a capable guy,” said Valery Vasilyevich, noticing my hesitation. “Speed ​​is given to you by nature, and everything else depends on your professional attitude to the matter.” And I tried very hard to live up to the master’s hopes.

By the way, today in the families of Zavarov and Belanov there are boys growing up, whom the fathers, without saying a word, called Valera. Of course, you understand in honor of whom...

I’m not lying at all, I’m not lying at all when I say that I owe Lobanovsky everything I have in this life: a good name in football, financial independence, championship titles, even, if you like, family happiness,” Leonid Buryak once admitted, who at the end of last year took over the baton from the master as head coach of the Ukrainian national team. - Because without Lobanovsky there would not have been that Dynamo Kyiv that delighted the football world in the 70s, which means nothing would have happened...

When Dynamo Kyiv won their second Cup Winners' Cup in 1986, they decided to give Lobanovsky a song. It was called "Red Sunflower". The words were written by a great and faithful friend of the team, poet Yuri Rybchinsky, the music was written by Igor Pokladok, and the goalkeeper Mikhail Mikhailov, who picked up the guitar, was entrusted to perform the song at the Dynamo celebration evening. There were these words in that song: “Autumn is showered with gold on your pets, adding silver to your gray hair...” Agree: it’s hardly possible to write something like that about “cracker”...

Like an epic hero, he sat on the hard coaching bench, which is sometimes compared to the electric chair, for exactly thirty years and three years. And all this time he managed to remain surprisingly modern, today!

Therefore, while paying tribute to Lobanovsky’s glorious Soviet past, it still seems to me that the uniqueness of his coaching talent has manifested itself with particular force now, in the “new era”.

After working for several years with the national teams of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, he returned to Ukraine at the end of 1996. He returned to lead Dynamo again and restore the European authority of the famous club, which had been shaken in the early stages of “independence”.

We started working with him like hell,” testifies the best Ukrainian football player in 1997 and 1999, Sergei Rebrov, who now plays for Tottenham in London. - But not because they just wanted to please him and not lose his place in the lineup, but first of all because Lobanovsky very quickly converted us into his football faith. Surprisingly, with all the previous Dynamo coaches, I couldn’t give my best. The mere presence of Lobanovsky at the edge of the field was enough for me. It was like some kind of magic: you catch his gaze on you from the bench - and you continue to run, even if you have no strength left.

A year after Lobanovsky’s second coming, his new Dynamo team “ran” to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and after another season they stopped just one step from the final.

Some people then thought that the money of Grigory Surkis and his business partners, plus the best selection of players in Ukraine, were “to blame” for the metamorphosis that happened. However, Surkis invested his money and soul into Dynamo before, and almost no one knew Shevchenko, Rebrov, Luzhny, Shovkovsky, Vashchuk in Europe. While Lobanovsky was not around, he revived not only Dynamo, but in many ways the entire Ukrainian football.

True, during his lifetime he never allowed anyone to approach the championship throne in Ukraine.

He left as he lived: undefeated.

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National team head coach career:

The life and career of the outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and long-term mentor of Dynamo Valery Lobanovsky

One of the greatest mentors of Soviet football was born in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine in 1939, on January 6, in the family of an ordinary housewife and a mill worker.

early years

As a child, Valery Lobanovsky, like all boys of his age, was a nimble and restless boy. Everything was interesting to him, he was fond of many games, but especially loved football. It seemed to everyone that this was just a children's game that Valery got carried away for fun. However, no one could have imagined that such fun would later develop into a sports career and worldwide fame. This is exactly how the football star Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky was born.

Evgeniy, the elder brother of Valery Lobanovsky, like his father, always supported young football player in his aspirations, and his mother, Alexandra Maksimovna, often scolded the little prankster Valery. She often got angry and jokingly said that one day she would tear the ball to shreds. Of course, the mother never moved from words to actions. She understood perfectly well that football was part of the life of the future football player Lobanovsky, it contributed to the further development of Valery.

At school, Valery Lobanovsky Jr. was a successful student, after Kyiv school No. 319 will be named after Lobanovsky and a memorial plaque will be installed. Then the football player continued his studies at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, where he was expelled at his own request and entered the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, where he received his higher education.

On the way to a career...

Kiev Football School No. 1 and Youth Football School laid the foundation football career famous football player Valery Lobanovsky.

In 1995, Lobanovsky was included in the reserve team of the Dynamo Kyiv team. Valery's debut came in the match against Central sports club Ministry of Defense, held as part of the Championship Soviet Union. As a player of the Kyiv club, Valery always knew how to attract the attention of the viewer, especially with his ability to completely confuse his opponent. He did this very skillfully, while passing along the left flank. With this, the football player won the hearts of the public in many cities. At the beginning of the game, the audience froze enthusiastically, in anticipation. But as soon as Valery found himself with the ball near the corner flag, the stands began to roar, everyone at that moment understood that now was the time for a signature feint, with the help of which Lobanovsky would score a goal. Such tricks of the football player helped him reach the pinnacle of fame. However, his corner feints were unfinished, but thanks to a lot of calculations and training, they still became ideal. In 1960, the footballer became a 100% Dynamo starter. This year has become significant for the player, not only by getting into the main team, Valery is earning his status top scorer club, because he managed to score thirteen goals.

In 1961, the Kiev team became champions and went down in history as the first Ukrainian team to achieve the championship. Valery, who plays as a striker, stood out with ten goals scored in the championship.

Valery Lobanovsky managed to play in two matches of the Soviet Union national team against the national teams of Poland and Austria, and also played two matches in the Olympic team of the Soviet Union, but in the role of captain. In the period from 65-66 he played for the Odessa Chernomorets, in 67-68 he defended the honor of the Donetsk "", where in 68 he played as a captain. As a Shakhtar player, he ends his playing career.

Valery was always happy with his coaches. He worked with V. Solovyov and V. Maslov. However, the football player often developed controversial situations with Maslov, because the coach wanted to change the football player’s functions in the game, but Valery could not agree with this. Only after a while Valery finally realized that he was wrong.

V. Lobanovsky participated in many championships. He had the opportunity to play in matches, the number of which exceeded more than two hundred and fifty. In which he scored more than seventy goals. Football player Valery Lobanovsky was so talented that he once entered the list of “33 best football players” in the country.

The beginning of Valery Lobanovsky's coaching career.

At the age of 29, Valery changed his career as a football player to a career as a coach and became the coach of the Dnepropetrovsk team “Dnepr”. He gave this team a path to the major leagues, where they took sixth place. He was immediately noticed as a talented coach and in 1973 he was asked to visit Kyiv. Then Valery didn’t even think about how his life would change, because he firmly decided that he was going to a simple meeting. However, he was offered to head the club where it all began - Dynamo.

Since 1974, he has become the permanent coach of Dynamo for seventeen years. With the arrival of the new coach, only victories were expected from the Dynamo team. And this was reality, Lobanovsky kept the team strict, paying due attention to the training processes.

Thus, the first team to win the European Cup Winners' Cup twice (75-86) was the Dynamo team. She also received the European Super Cup in ’75. The team became the eight-time champion of the Soviet Union and won the Soviet Union Cup six times. “Dynamo” is the best football team in the world, the press said. However, after a brilliant career, there were failures. In 1976, Dynamo could only reach the quarterfinals. The team was never forgiven for this.

Lobanovsky was the coach of the Soviet Union national team three times. He led the team to third place olympic games in ’76 and to first places in the World Championship subgroup in ’86 and ’88.

In 1990, Valery Lobanovsky took the position of national coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. As a mentor of the Arab team, Valery achieves best result in the history of the team - fourth place in the Asian Cup. Since 1994 he was the coach of the Kuwait national team.

In 1997, Valery returned to his home club Dynamo. Thanks to the efforts of the coach, the Kiev team returns to the number best teams European football. From 2000-2002, Lobanovsky acted as a coach of the Ukrainian national team; with his guidance, the team reached the playoffs of the 2002 World Championship, but lost to the German team.

Family of a famous trainer

A reliable support for the coach has always been his wife, Adelaide, who lived with him in perfect harmony all her life. Adelaide has a lawyer's education, but for the fourth decade she has been working on the “home front”. The wife does everything to ensure that her husband remains in good health, despite all the difficulties of his profession. Together, the couple raised a beautiful daughter, Svetlana. She gave her parents two grandchildren: Bogdan and Ksenia.

Valery Vasilievich Lobanovsky - Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach. Long-term mentor" Dynamo" (Kyiv), at the helm of which he won the Cup Winners' Cup twice. Three times he was the coach of the USSR national team, with which he became the European vice-champion in 1988. Valery Lobanovsky was the coach of the Ukrainian national team in 2000-2001. Master of Sports of the USSR. Awarded the Soviet Orders of the Badge of Honor and the Red Flag of Labor. Honored coach of the USSR and Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine.

Talented in everything, Valery has been interested in football since childhood. I got carried away, as children should - with all my mind, with all my heart, and spent hours in the yard with a ball. At the same time, unlike other guys, he also managed to study well at school and read a lot. Parents, of course, did not like their son’s football hobby; they did not yet know that childhood fun would develop into the meaning of his life for Valery and make him a first-class football player and an outstanding coach! Over time, mother Alexandra Vasilievna and father Vasily Mikhailovich realized that football began to occupy an integral part of their son’s life, and that it did not interfere, but, on the contrary, helped Valery’s development.

Having secured the support of his parents, Valery Vasilyevich graduated from school with ease and a silver medal, and then from the Polytechnic Institute. Already there the guy managed to amaze his fellow students with his mental abilities coupled with the athletic component. At that time, Lob, as his fellow students called him, was already training at Dynamo Kiev, where he was brought by Viktor Chaika, his first coach, who recognized the extraordinary talent in an ordinary boy. In 1957, Valery was already in full dust for "Dynamo" Kyiv, although he’s still playing for the youth team, but he’s already hitting the base.

Lobanovsky has never been known for his speed, but this did not stop him from showing enchanting football. He tied the ball to his leg like a rope, for which he received the nickname of the fans “Cord”. And his deadly twisting shots and corners, which, by the way, he practiced until exhaustion back in college, more than once baffled goalkeepers of different teams.

Lobanovsky's first success as a player came in 1961. "Dynamo" Kyiv became the champion of the USSR. Success was associated only with the appearance of Valery in the team. Then they took the Kubos of the country, and then... something unimaginably incomprehensible happened: Lobanovsky and Maslov, who coached at that time "Dynamo", found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades.

Maslov was an adherent of defensive tactics, despite merciless criticism. (Once a photograph appeared in the newspaper of four Dynamo players putting pressure on an opponent dribbling the ball; the text was more than categorical: "This football we do not need!" ) This tactic bore fruit - in the period from 1966 to 1968 " Dynamo" won medals at the Union Championship three times. But... already without Lobanovsky.

At what moment did Valery find himself in "Shakhtar", which at that time there were not enough stars from the sky. And in 1968, when Maslov and "Dynamo" won another championship, 29-year-old Lobanovsky ended up with Shakhtar in 11th place and, unexpectedly for everyone, left football. He stated that "I'm fed up with anti-football" .

But Lobanovsky’s genius could not stay away from football for a long time, and again, unexpectedly for everyone, he began to coach "Dnieper" from the First League. Moreover, it was precisely the anti-football that he criticized as a player who began to preach. "To attack, you first need to leave your opponent without the ball., - said the young mentor "Dnepr". - It makes more sense that eleven players will do this better than five... The most important thing in football is not what kind of player is with the ball, but what he does when he is NOT in possession of the ball... Football player high level consists of one percent talent and ninety-nine percent hard labor." .

Lobanovsky’s success is associated with one more person - Anatoly Zelentsov. He, being an academician, was simply obsessed with football. And it was from the Lobanovsky-Zelentsov tandem that ideas were born, without which today’s football is simply unthinkable! " When I was a player, coaches had a much harder time, - Lobanovsky said repeatedly. - The football player could challenge any remark of the mentor, there were no video replays, and it was almost impossible to prove anyone was right. At Dynamo, the morning after the match, a sheet with digital characteristics of the actions of each player is posted, and you can have a substantive conversation..."

To paraphrase Lobanosky’s words, we can say that they were the first to propose and apply the method of computer observation of the player both in the game itself and in the training process. And success did not take long to arrive - already in 1971 Lobanovsky brought out " Dnieper" to the Major League, and two years later he headed the Kiev " Dynamo". The young coach immediately awaited triumph - he won the championship and the Union Cup. And in 1975, the whole world started talking about Lobanovsky - the people of Kiev won the Cup Winners' Cup, becoming the first Soviet club to conquer such a peak.

Valery Lobanovsky's students include such famous football players as Rudakov, Troshkin, Fomenko, Reshko, Matvienko, Veremeev, Kolotov, Muntyan, Buryak, Konkov, Onishchenko, Blokhin, Chanov, Luzhny, Baltacha, Bal, Demyanenko, Bessonov, Zavarov, Yakovenko , Yevtushenko, Mikhailichenko, Belanov, Yuran, Kanchelskis, Shovkovsky, Golovko, Vashchuk, Gusin, Kaladze, Belkevich, Khatskevich, Rebrov, Shevchenko.

On May 7, 2002, Valery Lobanovsky became ill during another championship game with " Metallurgist". The coach was diagnosed with a stroke, from which he never recovered... His heart stopped on May 13, 2002 at 20:35. The Champions League final, which was played 2 days later, began with a minute of silence.

Life story
No one, of course, imagined that the inquisitive boy, who in his post-war childhood became interested in a game that was more like fun than a serious activity, would turn out to be a great football player and an outstanding coach of our time. Valery studied very well at school, read a lot, but spent all his free time on the football field. His shoes were on fire, he smashed balls to pieces, and boards on the fence, which turned into an improvised “gate,” flew off after his blows. Valery Lobanovsky's older brother, Evgeny, nailed down the torn boards, and his mother, Alexandra Maksimovna, a housewife who took care of the family, threatened to cut the soccer ball into small pieces and burn the shoes turned into boots in the stove. It is clear that the threats remained threats: the Lobanovsky family saw that football had become an integral integral part Valery’s life and contributed to his harmonious development. His father, Vasily Mikhailovich, who worked at a mill, and Evgeniy, who then worked his way up from a thermal power engineer to the director of an institute, encouraged Valery to play football and attended matches with his participation.
Valery Lobanovsky graduated from school with a silver medal, and then just as successfully from the Polytechnic Institute. Universities with such a profile for football players have been rare at all times. Once in the Soviet Union, during the period of another football-related “reform”, which, unsurprisingly, bordered on stupidity, the country’s sports authorities made a decision that prohibited coaches who did not have a physical education education from working with the teams of the highest and first leagues of the USSR championship. The only specialist who did not have such an education was Valery Lobanovsky, who by that time had become the “number one” coach in Soviet football. The decision was immediately “forgotten.”
In 1952, Valery Lobanovsky began training at football school ©1, where he was brought by children's coach Nikolai Chaika, who identified him as a capable player in boys' battles. Three years later, Valery ended up at the Kyiv youth football school, and two years later he was invited to Dynamo Kiev. To begin with, of course, to the backup team of the best Ukrainian club.
Lobanovsky attracted spectators to the stands with his dribbling, ability to confuse the opponent, passes along the left flank and corners. Corners performed by the Kiev resident delighted audiences in Moscow, Tbilisi, Leningrad, Donetsk and Yerevan. And of course in Kyiv. The stands froze at first, and then roared when Lobanovsky approached the corner flag with the ball, placed the ball on the spot, ran up from a mathematically precise distance, and sent the ball from the corner of the field in such a way that it either suddenly “dipped” into the near corner of the goal, or flew to the far one. Often the jumping Oleg Bazilevich would fly out of the crowd of players in the penalty area and score beautiful goals from Lobanovsky’s passes.
Valery Lobanovsky's corners, which played a role on the way of Dynamo Kyiv to the first championship of a non-Moscow club in 1961, did not immediately become “signature” corners. First, there were calculations made on paper by a 22-year-old polytechnic student. Then - hundreds of corners taken per day: in the heat, mud, at the Kyiv training base, in other cities. Lobanovsky treated corners, as indeed absolutely everything he did and does in life, extremely thoroughly, carefully calculating every step.
Lobanovsky was lucky to have coaches who worked with him as a player - these were Vyacheslav Solovyov and Viktor Maslov in Dynamo Kiev, Oleg Oshenkov in Shakhtar Donetsk. In the mid-60s, the championship success of Solovyov, who included Valery Lobanovsky in the main team, was developed by the outstanding Soviet coach Viktor Maslov, a coach, as Lobanovsky says, from God. “His instinct for football innovations,” says Lobanovsky, “was amazing. He anticipated many tactical discoveries, as well as innovations in the training process, which we then enthusiastically adopted from abroad, forgetting that they also appeared here, but not "were understood and properly appreciated. This happened, for example, with the tactical formation of four midfielders. Maslov in Dynamo Kiev tested this system even before it was "sounded out" at the 1966 World Cup by the English."
Lobanovsky discussed with Maslov, who tried to assign the footballer functions on the field other than those he performed. The Kiev forward, without whom it seemed impossible to imagine Dynamo playing, was convinced that he was right, but over the years he realized that Maslov’s coaching correctness turned out to be much higher than his player’s correctness.
As a football player, Lobanovsky played 253 matches in the championships of the Soviet Union, scoring 71 goals. From 1957 to 1964 he played for the Dynamo Kyiv team (144 matches, 42 goals), from 1965 to March 1967 for the Odessa Chernomorets (59 and 15), from March 1967 to July 1968- go for Shakhtar Donetsk (50 and 14). The USSR champion in 1961, Dynamo Kiev, then broke the long-term monopoly of Moscow clubs. Silver medalist at the 1960 national championship. Twice Lobanovsky was included in the list of “33 best football players” in the country (1960, 1962). He played two matches each in the first national team of the Soviet Union and Olympic team USSR, took part in the qualifying matches for the ’64 Olympics.
At the age of 29, Valery Lobanovsky began coaching the first league team "Dnepr" (Dnepropetrovsk), brought it to the major league and immediately took sixth place with it. The incredible qualitative leap of the young coach did not pass the attention of the responsible leaders in Kyiv, who were responsible for the best Ukrainian club - Dynamo. In October 1973, Lobanovsky was summoned to Kyiv. He believed that he was going to some regular meeting, and rejoiced at the opportunity to wander around his native autumn city, which he visited occasionally, on short visits, and which he missed, no matter where he was. “We have been following your work in Dnepropetrovsk for a long time and offer you to head Dynamo Kiev,” they told Lobanovsky. He called his former Dynamo partner, a like-minded person in coaching, Oleg Bazilevich, who was then working at Shakhtar Donetsk, and invited him to work together.
Only victories were always expected and demanded from Dynamo Kyiv. The tandem "Lobanovsky - Bazilevich", which existed for two and a half years, began to issue them immediately. The coaches strictly followed a specially developed methodology of the training process, radically changed the nature of game actions, and led a new direction in football.
In 1975, Dynamo Kiev became the first Soviet team to win the prestigious European Cup Winners' Cup and then the Super Cup, defeating Bayern Munich in both games. The International Sports Press Association named Dynamo the best sports team in the world. Kyiv players, together with their coaches, formed the basis of the USSR national team. The team, not accustomed to defeats, was never forgiven for the relative failures of 1976: reaching “only” the quarterfinals of the European Cup, losing at the same stage in the European Championship for national teams to the future winners of the tournament - Czechoslovak football players and “only” third place at the Olympics. 76 in Montreal.
“Principles are not changed, principles are improved,” says Valery Lobanovsky, who has been among the best coaches in the world for several decades. Football Italy calls him "Colonel", Germany - "General". Military terminology only emphasizes the respect for the teams that, under the leadership of Lobanovsky, participate in the largest continental tournaments. His work is carefully monitored by his colleagues. Many Italian coaches can easily say that they have grown out of “Lobanovsky’s overcoat”. That's what they're talking about. In the late autumn of 1997, a large group of Russian coaches visited a number of Italian clubs for familiarization purposes. In Milan, Rome and Turin they watched the work of Milan, Roma, Juventus and asked questions. Marcello Lippi, who headed Juventus, remarked then: “Your interest in the direction of our training work is understandable, but at one time we learned a lot where you came from, paying serious attention to what you did in Dynamo Kiev and in the USSR national team Valery Lobanovsky.
A revolution in the minds of Italian specialists was made by two teams - Dynamo (Kyiv) in 1986, which won the second Cup Winners' Cup, and the Soviet team, which offered the football world two years later at the European Championship a completely new high-quality round of total football. After the semi-final match between the USSR and Italy, which was convincingly won by Soviet football players who used pressure all over the field and very high speeds, Enzo Bearzot, who led the Italian national team to the world title in 1982, said in the dressing room of the USSR national team: “I was once again convinced that "that you are a great team. You play modern football at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The pressing that I saw today is a manifestation of the highest skill. The physical form of the Soviet players is the fruit of exceptional, excellent work." One of the most successful coaches of European football today, Fabio Capello, does not hide the fact that at one time, when he worked with the club’s youth teams, he spent a lot of time taking notes on the training process of the USSR national team led by Valery Lobanovsky, who came to Italy for a training camp.
“Measure seven times, cut once” - this proverb from Lobanovsky’s youth was transformed into the simplest formula, which he follows to this day: “You have to think.” His decisions always seem surprisingly accurate. They are imbued with logic, and it is not known what lies behind them: many hours of reflection or instant insight. One, however, is often closely related to the other. The thinking of Lobanovsky, who daily rethinks the “information Mont Blancs” - the press, conversations, television, visual observations - categorically does not allow anything related to “maybe”.
“Lobanovsky’s coaching rightness was much higher than our players’ rightness,” say now the Dynamo Kyiv players, who in 1975 moaned at training camps conducted using a completely new method.
Time puts everything in its place. Not one of the almost thirty Kyiv football players who played in Lobanovsky’s team and later became coaches utters a single unkind word to the teacher, who then seemed to them a monster who dreamed of squeezing all the juice out of them and tearing out all the veins.
Dynamo defender Mikhail Fomenko became one of the first players to take notes from training sessions, come to the coaching room and ask Lobanovsky questions. This has never been done before among football players. Some were afraid of ridicule, some were simply embarrassed, some did not want to be suspected of trying to be known as sucking up to the coach.
In Kyiv, under Lobanovsky, “the dam collapsed.” Fomenko was followed by others. It’s not just and not so much a matter of notes, but a genuine interest in what Valery Lobanovsky and his like-minded people are doing.
The desire to understand, with the help of Lobanovsky and his methods of work, the intricacies of coaching was not a one-time action taken, it would seem, suddenly, under the influence of the results achieved by the football players of the mid-70s. Of those who gradually replaced them and also won a European prize 11 years later, another generation of coaches emerged.
Lobanovsky, by his own example, results, and ability to work highly professionally, managed to infect football players with the profession. “There is no coach without players” is the slogan of Lobanovsky, who for a long time was accompanied by the image of an exceptionally tough man who did not care about his players. He, however, did not expel a single player in his entire coaching life.
If we recall Gogol’s definition of Russian troubles, Valery Lobanovsky did not fight “roads,” but he had to fight a lot with “fools.” An academic coach, the doyen of today's European club coaching workshop, he does not change the chosen principles, improving them in the conditions of gaining invaluable experience. In the Soviet Union, Lobanovsky was actually declared a “heretic,” trying to force the teams he led to train “like everyone else,” and they demanded that they play “like everyone else.” From the chosen direction, based on a very serious scientific basis, Valery Lobanovsky, despite the persecution that often developed into real persecution in the Soviet press and from some now completely unknown Soviet sports and party leaders, did not retreat one iota. He was fired from the USSR national team with the wording “never again to involve V.V. Lobanovsky in working with national teams of the country,” including youth teams, but then they again turned to his candidacy because they understood that only with Lobanovsky they could achieve good results.
Having grown wiser with age, Lobanovsky is undoubtedly still one of the small group of those coaches in Europe and in the world who determine the process of development of modern football, if we talk about methods of conducting training work and games. His contribution to the development of world football is priceless. “A coach must study all his life,” says Lobanovsky. “If he has become callous and stopped learning, then he has stopped being a coach. Time cannot be deceived. It sets the accents. And it teaches, too.”
After he returned to Dynamo Kiev from the Middle East at the end of 1996, where he very successfully coached the national teams of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait (the Kuwaiti team under his leadership became third at the Asian Games - an unprecedented achievement until then), from Lobanovsky to Kyiv began to expect a miracle. He, who always maintained that miracles do not happen, in a short time made Dynamo Kiev an absolutely competitive team in Europe, “moving” it from the second hundred of the European rankings to fifth place, which it took at the end of the 1999/2000 season after “ Lazio (Italy), Bayern (Germany), Manchester United (England) and Barcelona (Spain).
Until his last return to Dynamo Kiev, Valery Lobanovsky never worked in conditions of market relations, a contract system, or a level of material incentives that was unimaginable in previous years that accompanied the players’ careers. But they were not new to him, because back in Soviet times, taking away precious time from purely coaching activities, he seriously dealt with the organization of football life in the country and constantly put forward new ideas that were rejected by the existing socio-political system as “harmful” .
Under the leadership of Lobanovsky the coach, Dynamo Kiev won the USSR championship eight times (an unsurpassed result), became a silver medalist four times, bronze twice, won the USSR Cup six times, won the European Cup Winners' Cup twice, the Super Cup once, The club wins the Ukrainian championships for four years in a row. Lobanovsky led the USSR national team to silver at the 1988 European Championships and bronze at the 1976 Olympics. Under his leadership, the Soviet team competed at the 1986 and 1990 World Championships.
Valery Lobanovsky's students include such famous football players as Rudakov, Troshkin, Fomenko, Reshko, Matvienko, Veremeev, Kolotov, Muntyan, Buryak, Konkov, Onishchenko, Blokhin, Chanov, Luzhny, Baltacha, Bal, Demyanenko, Bessonov, Zavarov, Yakovenko , Yevtushenko, Mikhailichenko, Belanov, Yuran, Kanchelskis, Shovkovsky, Golovko, Vashchuk, Gusin, Kaladze, Belkevich, Khatskevich, Rebrov, Shevchenko.
Valery Lobanovsky has an exceptionally strong rear. All his life, his faithful assistant, his wife Adelaida Pankratievna, goes hand in hand with him. A lawyer by training, she has been working tirelessly on the “home front” for almost four decades now, day after day, together with her husband, experiencing all the difficulties of a coaching profession that is by no means conducive to good health. Their daughter Svetlana is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Kyiv University with a degree in teaching Russian for foreigners. The Lobanovskys have two grandchildren preschool age: Bogdan and Ksenia.