COACH

Valeriy Lobanovskyi

1939 - 2002

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Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi (Ukrainian: Вале́рій Васи́льович Лобано́вський, pronounced [wɐˈlɛr⁽ʲ⁾ij lobɐˈnɔu̯sʲkɪj]; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. 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 2002 he was awarded the Hero of Ukraine award (posthumously), his nation's highest honour, for his contribution to Ukrainian football. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeriy Lobanovskyi has received more than 489,177 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Valeriy Lobanovskyi is the 21st most popular coach (up from 26th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Coach.

Valeriy Lobanovskyi is most famous for being the manager of Dynamo Kyiv, which he led to 13 Ukrainian league titles, six Soviet league titles, and three European Cup titles.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 67.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COACHES

Among coaches, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 21 out of 471. Before him are Frank Rijkaard, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Marcello Lippi, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Joachim Löw, and Claudio Ranieri. After him are Sepp Maier, Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Arrigo Sacchi, Ronald Koeman, and Ernst Happel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 18. Before him are Giovanni Falcone, Giovanni Trapattoni, Harvey Keitel, Ada Yonath, Romano Prodi, and Zviad Gamsakhurdia. After him are Karel Gott, Margaret Atwood, Ralph Lauren, Peter Grünberg, George Lazenby, and Sonny Chiba. Among people deceased in 2002, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 14. Before him are John Rawls, Billy Wilder, Richard Harris, Vavá, Ruth Handler, and László Kubala. After him are Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Traudl Junge, Chuck Jones, James Coburn, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Ivan Illich.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 56 out of 1,365. Before him are Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Baal Shem Tov (1700), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884). After him are Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Petro Poroshenko (1965), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880).

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Among COACHES In Ukraine

Among coaches born in Ukraine, Valeriy Lobanovskyi ranks 1. After him are Anatoliy Byshovets (1946), Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), and Sergei Semak (1976).

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