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Today, May 13, marks the 18th anniversary of the death of legendary coach Valery Lobanovsky.
Lobanovsky’s former ward Igor Belanov on his Facebook page honored the memory of his mentor:
“On May 13, 2002, the heart of the Great Coach, my mentor, and probably my second father, my highly respected Persona Valery Vasilievich Lobanovsky, stopped beating. He left us when he was still young and could do a lot for our football. In those years, the club and the team began to show a good and effective game again, but fate decreed otherwise …
Emotions, strong feelings affected the Coach’s shaken health, who was used to giving himself up to work and team without a trace. 18 years have passed since our dear Valery Vasilyevich is not with us.
In recent years, his genius is increasingly recognized in the world. Every year, Lobanovsky’s last name is mentioned in the highest ratings of the best coaches of our time. This is how the world remembers it and a little differently remembered it.
For me, our Vasilich was strict, but fair, demanding and paternally attentive. My best years in soccer couldn’t have been like this if I hadn’t been lucky enough to get to my coach, and millions of our fans would never have experienced the strongest emotions of soccer in 1986 and 1988! (Those who remember the World Cup and the European Championship of those years will understand what I am talking about).
One can write and talk endlessly about Valery Vasilievich, the experts write about his professionalism and ingenious mathematical techniques, his relatives and we grateful students talk about his human qualities. The name of Lobanovsky in recent years has been increasingly heard among the moral authorities of our society. His genius is so undeniable that he can unite people of different ages and points of view.
I remember an example: in the winter of 2014, which was covered by protests in Kiev, bloody clashes took place in the vicinity of the Dynamo stadium. In those days, burned buildings and people died. And only the monument to the great Coach did not dare to contaminate.
Popular love turned out to be unlimited. I was very surprised by this story and often talk about it with my children, the eldest of whom I called Valéry in gratitude to my mentor and in his immortal honor … “
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