Leonid_Buryak
Leonid Buryak
Ukrainian footballer and coach
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 | (1953-07-10) 10 July 1953 (age 70) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Odesa, Ukrainian SSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 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
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Buryak was born in Odesa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team.[3][4] He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.[5]
Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.[6] 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.[7][8][9]
In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[10]
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.[11]
Ballon d'Or
Soviet Footballer of the Year
- 1981 – 3rd.
Grigory Fedotov Club
- Scored 103 goals during their professional career.[13]
| 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
His father died early. Mother raised three children on her own.[14]
He is married to Zhanna Vasyura, an artistic gymnast. They have two children - daughter Oksana and son Andrei.[15]
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- "RSSSF Results Archive". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- "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.[permanent dead link]
- "Football | Internationals | Northern Ireland | McIlroy praises his young team". BBC News. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- "Интервью из прошлого. Леонид Буряк: «С Блохиным понимали друг друга с полувзгляда»". Команда №1 (in Russian). Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- "Леонид Буряк: домашний человек". football.ua. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- Leonid Buryak at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
