Leonid Buryak Sports manager

Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (Ukrainian: Леонід Йосипович Буряк) (born 10 July 1953 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player. Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder for the USSR national football team, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal. Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager. 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.

Personal facts

Leonid Buryak
Alias (AKA)Леонід Йосипович Буряк (Ukrainian)
Birth dateJuly 10, 1953
Birth place
Soviet Union , Odessa
Height (meters)1.82

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Football manager

club
University of Evansville
FC Arsenal Tula
Palloseura Kemi Kings
FC Nyva Ternopil
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Ukraine national football team
FC Chornomorets Odesa
position
Midfielder
teams
Soviet Union national football team
Odessa
Palloseura Kemi Kings
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Torpedo Moscow
FC Chornomorets Odesa
FC Metalist Kharkiv

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