When this name sounds, Kiev is immediately remembered"Dynamo" of the nineties of the twentieth century. One of the best teams in the former Soviet Union at that time. And before the eyes, Oleg Luzhny certainly appears - the defender and the captain.
Carier start
If we talk about the formation of such a football player,like Oleg Romanovich Luzhny, his biography begins as standard. He was born in Lviv on August 5, 1968. His parents, especially his mother, loved football, so he started practicing from childhood in the Karpaty Children and Youth Sports School. He did not stand out among his peers with a special talent, but he amazed even experienced coaches with his capacity for work. It was the hard work on himself that enabled him to progress rapidly.
After graduating from the local school of physicalculture since 1985 begins to speak for the team of the neighboring regional center - Lutsk "Torpedo". These speeches lasted three years, until the time of recruitment to the army. After that, Luzhny Oleg Romanovich in 1988 moved to Lviv SKA. Having given the debt to the homeland, one could think about continuing a football career. Therefore, the next step was the transition to the best club of Ukraine at that time - Dynamo Kyiv.
Star period
Since 1989, he appears in Dynamo and immediatelywins a place at the heart of the club in the place of the right-back. In the first season in the highest league of Soviet football, he becomes the best newcomer to the USSR championship. And in 1991 he received the honorary title "Master of Sports of International Class". But Luzhny Oleg Romanovich never received the “Honored Master of Sports” due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Dynamo team (Kiev) starts to compete in the Ukrainian Championship, and since the 1992/93 season. consistently remains the best. And Oleg Luzhny deserves the captain's armband of the club.
It was during his time as captain of Dynamo Kyiv.achieved the greatest success in the European arena, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League in the 1998/99 season. Many Western clubs have shown interest in an extraordinary player before, but it was after this season that a new football started for him - Oleg Luzhny switched to Arsenal in London.
After Dynamo
They took Luzhny as a substitute for the English player.Team Lee Dixon. But either the age affected (after all, the player was already over thirty), or the bet was made on another player, but our footballer withdrew in the main squad irregularly. Although for four years in the London club Luzhny Oleg Romanovich played on the field in one hundred and ten games and rightfully won the championship, the national cup and three second places.
On one of his last matches in the Arsenal, he led the team to the field as a captain.
Finished his English career Puddle playerWolverhampton in the 2003/04 season, playing ten matches for this club. And despite the rather contradictory results, Luzhny Oleg Romanovich is considered the best player in the post-Soviet space in the English championship.
After the UK, he went to Latvia, where he became a playing coach for the Venta team.
Team game
Oleg Luzhniy debut for the national team thenThe Soviet Union took place at the age of twenty. He played eight games for the USSR national team, but could not go to the 1990 World Cup due to injury. But the day before he won the European Youth Championship. After the USSR collapsed, Luzhny Oleg Romanovich began to play for the Ukrainian team, making his debut in her first match in 1992.
Finished playing in 2003, almostsimultaneously with the completion of the performances for Arsenal. But during this time, the team could not make it to any major tournament, almost always stopping a step away from it. Therefore, the number of games is not very large. In total, Luzhny played 52 matches for the Ukrainian team, in which he was the team captain 39 times. This indicator is a record for the team and is unlikely to be broken in the near future.
Coach career
Having received the practice of playing coach in Latvianteam, Luzhny Oleg Romanovich returned to Dynamo Kyiv, where he began working as an assistant coach. During the period from 2006 to 2012, I was twice the acting head coach, but I could not get a permanent place at the head of the club. He began his own club career in 2012 in Tavria Simferopol. But at the end of the season, the team took the lowest position in all the years of playing in the Ukrainian championship, so Luzhny was forced to leave the club. Since January 2016, Luzhny Oleg Romanovich has headed the team of his hometown Karpaty.
Whatever his coaching career may be, formost fans, he will be remembered as one of the best defenders of Dynamo Kyiv in its history. No wonder he is a member of the symbolic team of the club of all times, only slightly behind on the points more famous Oleg Blokhin, Andrey Shevchenko and Anatoly Demyanenko.
