Oleh Bazylevych

Oleh Bazylevych
Personal information
Full name	Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych
Date of birth	6 July 1938
Place of birth	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death	16 October 2018 (aged 80)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1957–1966	Dynamo Kyiv
1966	Chornomorets Odesa
1967–1968	Shakhtar Donetsk
Total
Managerial career
1969–1970	Desna Chernihiv
1971	Shakhtar Kadiivka
1972	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
1972–1973	Shakhtar Donetsk
1974–1976	Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
1975–1976	USSR (assistant)
1977–1978	Dinamo Minsk
1979	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1979	USSR
1980–1982	CSKA Moscow
1984	Zorya Voroshilovhrad
1985	Ukrainian SSR junior team
1986	Shakhtar Donetsk
1987–1988	Slavia Sofia
1988–1989	Bulgaria (consultant)
1992–1994	Ukraine
1995–1996	Kuwait (olympic)
1997	Al Kuwait Kaifan
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych (Ukrainian: Оле́г Петро́вич Базиле́вич; also: Bazilevich, Bazylewicz; 6 July 1938 – 16 October 2018^[1]) was a Ukrainian footballer,coach, and sport administrator. He holds titles of the Master of Sports of the USSR, Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, and Merited Coach of Ukraine.

Career

Bazylevych played club football for Dynamo Kyiv, Chornomorets Odesa and Shakhtar Donetsk, winning the Soviet Top League with Dynamo Kyiv in 1961 and the USSR cup in 1964.^[2] Bazylevych played for Dynamo Kyiv from 1957 to 1965 in 161 matches and scored 53 goals.^[1]

This player was noted for his high speed, technique of ball possession and excellent play in the air. He is remembered for often locking himself in the far post of Valery Lobanovsky. The Bazylevych-Lobanovsky duo scored 11 of the team's 29 goals in the 1966 tournament.^[3]

Following his playing career, Bazylevych became a manager. As a co-manager with Valeriy Lobanovskyi Bazylevych won with Dynamo Kyiv the 1974–75 Cup Winners' Cup and the 1975 European Super Cup (and a bronze medal with the Soviet Union Olympic football team at the 1976 Summer Olympics).^[1]

Bazylevych was fired from the position of the head coach of the Ukraine main team in 1994 when his team managed to lose at home to Lithuania 0:2 in its first game of official competitions. From 1998 to 2001 lead the FFU Committee that worked with national teams.^[4]