17 Facts About Valery Lobanovsky

Valery Lobanovsky was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Ruby and FIFA Order of Merit, the highest honour awarded by FIFA.

Valery Lobanovsky holds several managerial records in Soviet football, including most Soviet Top League titles, most Soviet Cup wins and most USSR Super Cup wins.

Valery Lobanovsky is one of four managers to win the Cup Winners' Cup twice, and one of two to accomplish the feat with the same team.

Valery Lobanovsky's father was a factory worker, while his mother was a housewife.

Valery Lobanovsky studied at the Kyiv school No 319, where a plaque commemorating Lobanovskyi is installed and the school itself has been renamed in his honor.

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Valery Lobanovsky had regularly been working on these shots during training sessions, using Magnus effect and his own calculations.

Valery Lobanovsky was mostly used as a left winger, where he formed a duo with Valentyn Troyanovskyi.

Valery Lobanovsky was regularly invited to the national team, but due to strong opposition was able to play only two international games, against Austria and Poland.

Valery Lobanovsky was asked to manage the side on the eve of the 1986 World Cup.

Valery Lobanovsky left Emirates due to a conflict with Emirates football federation and went on to spend the next two years managing the Kuwait national football team, before agreeing to return to Dynamo Kyiv in November 1996.

Valery Lobanovsky suffered a second heart attack in the autumn of 2001, which required surgery.

The nuance that Valery Lobanovsky considered the most interesting and important was that the efficiency of the subsystem will always be higher than the sum of the efficiencies of its individual elements.

Valery Lobanovsky had the ability to get the absolute best out of the players he worked with.

Valery Lobanovsky never yelled at us, nor he ever tried to 'sort things out' with anyone.

Valery Lobanovsky had Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko man-mark Holland's Ruud Gullit in the Euro 1988 final.

Valery Lobanovsky insisted that a player should be able to play in more than one position.

Valery Lobanovsky converted Aleksei Gerasimenko, originally a striker who had scored 46 goals in 71 games with FC Kuban Krasnodar, into a right midfielder, a right full-back, and even into a sweeper.