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Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Soviet and Ukrainian football player and legendary manager known for his innovative coaching methods.

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Valeriy Lobanovskyi is best known for Revolutionizing football tactics and leading Dynamo Kyiv to multiple Soviet and European titles. On Dead or Alive, Valeriy Lobanovskyi is listed in the World Cup Soccer Legends and Sports Legends categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Valeriy Lobanovskyi is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Revolutionizing football tactics and leading Dynamo Kyiv to multiple Soviet and European titles.
Listed under: World Cup Soccer Legends and Sports Legends

About Valeriy Lobanovskyi

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 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 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. In 1975 his Dynamo Kyiv team became the first side from the Soviet Union to win a major European trophy when they beat Hungarian side Ferencváros in the final of the Cup Winners' Cup. During the tournament, Dynamo Kyiv won eight games out of nine, resulting in a winning percentage of 88.88% – a record that stood for 45 years encompassing all of the major European club football competitions. Lobanovskyi and his team repeated their Cup Winners' Cup success in 1986, beating Atletico Madrid in the final. In both 1975 and 1986, two of Dynamo's players (Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov respectively) were also awarded the Ballon d'Or under his tutelage.

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