Leonid Buryak
Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (Ukrainian: Леонід Йосипович Буряк; born 10 July 1953) is a Ukrainian football coach, and a former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.
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Full name | Leonid Yosipovich Buryak | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 10 July 1953 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Odessa, Ukrainian SSR | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
Playing position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
1963–1966 | Prodmash, Odessa | ||||||||||||
1966–1968 | Sport School No. 6 | ||||||||||||
1968–1971 | FC Chornomorets Odessa | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1971–1972 | Chornomorets Odessa | 52 | (9) | ||||||||||
1973–1984 | Dynamo Kyiv | 304 | (56) | ||||||||||
1985–1986 | Torpedo Moscow | 37 | (2) | ||||||||||
1987–1988 | Metalist | 36 | (4) | ||||||||||
1988 | KPT-85 | ||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1974–1983 | USSR | 49 | (8) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1988–1989 | KPT-85 | ||||||||||||
1990 | VanPa | ||||||||||||
1991–1993 | University of Evansville | ||||||||||||
1993 | Nyva Ternopil | ||||||||||||
1994–1998 | Chornomorets Odessa | ||||||||||||
1996–2000 | Ukraine (assistant) | ||||||||||||
1999 | Arsenal Tula | ||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Ukraine | ||||||||||||
2005 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Dynamo Kyiv (sportive director) | ||||||||||||
2012 | PFC Oleksandriya | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Career
Buryak was born in Odessa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team.[1][2] He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.[3]
Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.[4] 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 Ukrainian national football team.[5][6][7]
In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[8]
Statistics for Dynamo
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Super Cup | Total | |||||
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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
References
- The Glasgow Herald
- The Vancouver Sun
- "Leonid Buryak Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- "Blackburn to sign Kiev defender". RTÉ Sport. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- "Barclays Premier League". ESPN Soccernet. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- "NESMACHNYI CLOSE TO ROVERS MOVE | Football Transfer News, Football News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats". Sportinglife.com. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- "Football | Internationals | Northern Ireland | McIlroy praises his young team". BBC News. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- Группа «Блестящие». 15 украинских футболистов, претендовавших на «Золотой мяч» - Трибуна-Л - Блоги - Tribuna.com