Andrij Bal

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Andrij Bal (2011)

Andrij Bal ( Ukrainian Андрій Михайлович Баль , born January 16, 1958 in Rosdil , Lviv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † August 9, 2014 in Kiev ) was a Soviet football player and Ukrainian football coach.

Career

Andrij Bal started his football career in 1976 in the first team of Karpaty Lviv . With this team he was promoted to the highest Soviet league in 1979. In 1981 Bal moved to Dynamo Kiev ; with Dynamo he was four times Soviet champion, three times runner-up and four times Soviet cup winner between 1981 and 1990 . In the 1985/86 season he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with his team .

In 1977 Andrij Bal won the Junior World Championships in Tunisia with the Soviet team . For the Soviet national team he played a total of 20 times between 1981 and 1989 and scored one goal. He took part in the World Championships in Spain in 1982 and in Mexico in 1986 .

At the beginning of 1991 Bal moved to Israel, first to Maccabi Tel Aviv , then at the beginning of the 1991/92 season to Bne Jehuda Tel Aviv . In Israel, Bal also began his career as a coach; Among other things, he was assistant coach at Maccabi Haifa and head coach at Maccabi Herzlia .

After a time as an assistant coach at Dynamo Kiev , Bal was head coach of Vorskla Poltava from 2001 to 2003 . Since 2003, Bal was Oleh Blochin's assistant in the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team and took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

After Bal was again Blochin's assistant coach at FK Moscow from 2007 to 2009 , he took over the team from Chornomorez Odessa at the beginning of the 2009/10 season , but was dismissed during the season due to unsuccessfulness. Since the beginning of 2011, Bal was back on the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team.

Andrij Bal died at the age of 56 in Kiev during an old man's football game as a result of a blood clot and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Andrij Bal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.ffu.org.ua/ukr/teams/teams_main/a_teams/
  2. timesofindia.indiatimes.com: Former Dynamo Kiev midfielder Andrei Bal dies article from August 9, 2014 (English)
  3. Andrij Bal was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery on gordonua.com on August 10, 2014; accessed on 1 Wed 2017 (Russian)