Leonid Burjak

Leonid Burjak
Burjak (2010)
Personnel
Surname	Leonid Josipowitsch Buryak
birthday	July 10, 1953
place of birth	Odessa ,  Soviet Union
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1972	Chornomorets Odessa	52 (9)
1973-1984	Dynamo Kiev	304 (57)
1985-1986	Torpedo Moscow	37 (2)
1987-1988	Metalist Kharkiv	36 (4)
1989	KePS Kemi
1990	Vantaan Pallo-70	12 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1974-1983	Soviet Union	49 (8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1993-1994	Nywa Ternopil
1994-1998	Chornomorets Odessa
2002-2003	Ukraine
2005	Dynamo Kiev
2012	PFK Oleksandrija
1 Only league games are given.

Leonid Josipowitsch Buryak ( Ukrainian Леонід Йосипович Буряк , Russian Леонид Иосифович Буряк ; born July 10, 1953 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet - Ukrainian football player and current football coach.

Player career

Buryak began his career as a football player in 1971 with Chornomorets Odessa , in 1973 he moved to Dynamo Kiev , the most successful team in Soviet football at the time. With Dynamo Kiev Buryak became Soviet champions in 1974 and 1975 and also won the Soviet Cup in 1974 . In the 1974/75 season, the dangerous midfielder also won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup with Dynamo .

In 1972 he played with the U-23 national team in the finals of the European Championship , in which the team from the USSR lost 2: 2 and 1: 3 to their peers from the ČSSR. Between 1972 and 1983 Buryak completed a total of 53 games for the Soviet national team and scored 10 goals. At the football tournament of the 1976 Olympics he won the bronze medal with the Soviet team and at the 1982 World Cup he was in the Soviet squad, but was not used during this tournament.

With Dynamo Kiev, Buryak was again Soviet champion in 1977, 1980 and 1981, and cup winners in 1978 and 1982. After the disappointing season for the team in 1984, he was forced to leave the team, Burjak had made a total of 304 appearances for Dynamo and scored 57 goals.

He continued his career at Torpedo Moscow , in 1987 he moved to Metalist Kharkiv and won the Soviet Cup again in 1988 with this team. At the end of 1988 Burjak moved to Finland to the club PS Kemi, from 1990 he played for Vantaan Palloseura.

Coaching career

Burjak began his coaching career in 1991 during a stay in the USA, until 1993 he coached the soccer team at Evansville University in the state of Indiana . At the end of 1993 he returned to Ukraine and initially coached Niwa Ternopil. From 1994 he was coach of Chornomorets Odessa and reached with this team in the 1994/95 and 1995/96 seasons in each case the second place in the Wyschtscha Liha .

After he briefly coached the Arsenal Tula team in the second highest Russian league, the 1st football division , in 1999, Buryak was the head coach of the national team of Ukraine from 2002 to 2003 . After qualifying for the 2004 European Championship was clearly missed, he had to give up this post and was replaced by Oleh Blochin . In June 2005 Burjak became head coach of Dynamo Kiev, but after he and his team had already failed in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League at FC Thun from Switzerland, he was dismissed in August 2005.

In 2012 he coached the Ukrainian first division club PFK Oleksandrija .

Awards

In 2004, 2013 and 2015 Buryak was awarded the Order of Merit of Ukraine.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Simon, Horst Friedemann, Wolf Hempel, Klaus Schlegel: European Championship, European Cup 76 ; Sportverlag Berlin 1976, license number 150 355/51/76, p. 227
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 28, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Biography at rusteam (russian)
• All games of the Ukrainian national team with Burjak as head coach (Ukrainian)