Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi 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 See more

Lobanovskyi was a graduate of the Kyiv Football School No. 1 and the Football School of Youth in Kyiv (first coach — Mykola Chayka).
At the age of 18, Lobanovskyi was invited to the B-squad of Dynamo Kyiv, the most prominent See more

Lobanovskyi had to deal with health issues since 1988, when he suffered his first heart attack. Having come back from the Middle East in 1996, Lobanovskyi looked in a visibly worse shape. He suffered a second heart attack in the autumn of 2001, which required surgery. In … See more

Valeriy Lobanovskyi was born on 6 January 1939 in Kyiv. His father was a factory worker, while his mother was a housewife. He studied at the Kyiv school No.319 (now Valeriy … See more

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1968–1973)
A year after retiring as a player Lobanovskyi was named the manager of FC Dnipro … See more

Along with Rinus Michels, Lobanovskyi is recognized for being the inventor of the major football playing style known as "Total Football" … See more

Lobanovskyi placed emphasis on the collective or "the system". He said "A system does not guarantee success, but it gives a much better chance of success than making it up as … See more