Former record-breaking footballer Volodymyr Muntyan dies

Volodymyr Muntyan, a native of Podilsk, Odesa region, a footballer, former player and coach of Dynamo, who became the USSR champion seven times, which is a record for Soviet football, died of an illness in Kyiv.

This was reported by the Ukrainian Football Association.

Volodymyr Muntyan was a Soviet football player, a master dribbler, and later a football coach. He twice won the USSR Cup, won the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, and participated in the 1970 World Cup.

After his career as a player, he coached Ukrainian and foreign football clubs, and under his leadership, the Guinea national team made it to the final of the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations. He worked as a senior coach of the youth team of Dynamo Kyiv. Since March 2014, he has been the president of the public organization Veterans of Dynamo Kyiv Football Club.

As a player, he graduated from the Institute of Physical Education and the Faculty of Law of Kyiv State University, and then completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of International Relations.

In 1986-1988, he worked in Madagascar. Coaching the COSFAP club (Antananarivo), he led it to the championship title in 1988.

In 1992-1994, he was the head coach of the Ukrainian youth national team. In 1994, together with Mykola Pavlov, he served as the head coach of the national team of Ukraine. In 1995-1997 he coached the national team of Guinea. From 1998 to 2005 he coached various clubs in Ukraine. In 2008 he acted as head coach of the youth national team of Ukraine.

Chairman of the Committee of National Teams of the Football Federation of Ukraine. Since April 2007 - President of the Association of Football Veterans of Ukraine.

He is a holder of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise and a full holder of the Order of Merit, all of which he received during the time of independent Ukraine.

Кирило Бойко