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Leonid Buryak
Personal information
Full name Leonid Yosipovich Buryak
Date of birth (1953-07-10) 10 July 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth Odesa, Ukrainian SSR
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1963–1966 Prodmash, Odesa
1966–1968 Sport School No. 6
1968–1971 FC Chornomorets Odesa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1972 Chornomorets Odesa 52 (9)
1973–1984 Dynamo Kyiv 304 (56)
1985–1986 Torpedo Moscow 37 (2)
1987–1988 Metalist 36 (4)
1988-1989 KPT-85 (2)
1990 VanPa[1] 12 (0)
International career
1974–1983 USSR 49 (8)
Managerial career
1988–1989 KPT-85
1990 VanPa
1991–1993 University of Evansville
1993 Nyva Ternopil
1994–1998 Chornomorets Odesa
1996–2000 Ukraine (assistant)
1999 Arsenal Tula
2002–2003 Ukraine
2005 Dynamo Kyiv
2005–2007 Dynamo Kyiv (sporting director)
2012 Oleksandriya
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal Team competition
UEFA European U-23 Championships[2]
Runner-up 1972 Europe
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (Ukrainian: Леонід Йосипович Буряк; born 10 July 1953) is a Ukrainian football coach, and a former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.

Career

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Buryak was born in Odesa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team.[3][4] He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.[5]

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.[6] As a player, he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukraine national football team.[7][8][9]

In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[10]

Coach of Ukraine national team

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In 2002, Leonid Buryak was appointed coach of the Ukraine national team. Making this choice, the Football Federation set the target for the new coach to get into the final part of the 2002 European Championship. The preparation for the main matches began with the defeat of the Japanese team in the first match for Buryak-coach.

As part of the qualifying tournament, the Ukrainian team managed to play with a score of 2-2 in Yerevan in the first match, then there was a significant victory over the Greek team. However, Buryak's team, which took the final third place in the qualifying round, failed to enter into the final part of the championship. Leonid Buryak left the national team.[11]

Awards

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Ballon d'Or

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Soviet Footballer of the Year

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  • 1981 – 3rd.

Grigory Fedotov Club

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  • Scored 103 goals during their professional career.[13]

Statistics for Dynamo

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Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dynamo 1973 26 2 9 0 6 2 - - 41 4
1974 29 5 5 1 6 1 - - 40 7
1975 25 0 1 0 8 2 - - 34 2
1976 (s) 5 0 1 0 - - - - 6 0
1976 (a) 13 4 - - 8 3 - - 21 7
1977 26 5 2 0 2 0 1 0 31 5
1978 24 5 8 4 3 1 - - 35 10
1979 26 5 6 1 6 1 - - 38 7
1980 28 9 7 5 1 1 - - 36 15
1981 29 9 7 0 5 1 1 0 42 10
1982 21 3 2 1 4 2 - - 27 6
1983 28 6 1 0 2 0 - - 31 6
1984 24 3 2 0 - - - - 26 3
Total 304 56 51 12 51 14 2 0 408 82
  • The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Personal life

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His father died early. Mother raised three children on her own.[14]

He is married to Zhanna Vasiura, an rhythmic gymnast. They have two children - daughter Oksana and son Andrei.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Kasila, Markku; Vuorinen, Juha. Pelimiehet. Suomen Urheilumuseosäätiö. p. 33. ISBN 978-952-99075-9-5.
  2. ^ "RSSSF Results Archive". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ The Glasgow Herald
  4. ^ The Vancouver Sun
  5. ^ "Leonid Buryak Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Blackburn to sign Kiev defender". RTÉ Sport. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  7. ^ "Barclays Premier League". ESPN Soccernet. 20 December 2006. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  8. ^ "NESMACHNYI CLOSE TO ROVERS MOVE | Football Transfer News, Football News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats". Sportinglife.com. Retrieved 3 February 2011.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "Football | Internationals | Northern Ireland | McIlroy praises his young team". BBC News. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  10. ^ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
  11. ^ (ru)Виталий Орлов Одесские тренеры сборной Украины по футболу // Я - одессит, 26.08.2022
  12. ^ Группа "Блестящие". 15 украинских футболистов, претендовавших на "Золотой мяч" - Трибуна-Л - Блоги - Tribuna.com
  13. ^ Леонід Буряк: одесит у Клубі імені Григорія Федотова, Одеські-інфо, 14.02.2022 (in Ukrainian)
  14. ^ "Интервью из прошлого. Леонид Буряк: «С Блохиным понимали друг друга с полувзгляда»". Команда №1 (in Russian). Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  15. ^ "Леонид Буряк: домашний человек". football.ua. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
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