Leonid Buryak
Personal information
Full name Leonid Yosipovich Buryak
Date of birth (1953-07-10) 10 July 1953
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 Kemin Pallo-Toveri 85 (2)
1990 Vantaan Pallo-70[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 (sportive director)
2012 PFC Oleksandriya
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Men’s Football
Bronze medal – third place 1976 MontrealTeam competition
*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

Buryak was born in Odesa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team.[2][3] He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.[4]

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.[5] 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.[6][7][8]

In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[9]

Coach of Ukraine national team

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.[10]

Awards

Ballon d'Or

Soviet Footballer of the Year

  • 1981 – 3rd.

Grigory Fedotov Club

  • Scored 103 goals during their professional career.[12]

Statistics for Dynamo

Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dynamo 1973 2629062--414
1974 2955161--407
1975 2501082--342
1976 (s) 5010----60
1976 (a) 134--83--217
1977 265202010315
1978 2458431--3510
1979 2656161--387
1980 2897511--3615
1981 2997051104210
1982 2132142--276
1983 2861020--316
1984 24320----263
Total 30456511251142040882
  • 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

His father died early. Mother raised three children on her own.[13]

He is married to Zhanna Vasyura, an artistic gymnast. They have two children - daughter Oksana and son Andrei.[14]

References

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