Andriy Biba

Andriy Biba
Personal information
Full name Andriy Andriyovych Biba
Date of birth (1937-08-10) 10 August 1937
Place of birth Kiev, USSR
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
FShM Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957-1967 FC Dynamo Kyiv 247 (69)
1968-1969 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 74 (15)
1970 FC Desna Chernihiv
National team
1965 USSR 1 (0)
Teams managed
1972-1973 FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
1975-1976 SC Tavriya Simferopol (assistant)
1977-1978 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (assistant)
1980 FC Spartak Zhytomyr
1981 FC Vuhlyk Horlivka
1983 FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi
1986-1989 Naftovyk Okhtyrka
1993-1994 Naftovyk Okhtyrka
1994-1995 Naftovyk Okhtyrka
1995-1996 FC Khimik Zhytomyr
1997-present FC Dynamo Kyiv (scout)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Andriy Andriyovych (or Andrei Andreyevich) Biba (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Биба; Ukrainian: Андрій Андрійович Біба) (born 10 August 1937 in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.

Honours

Playmaker

Biba is acknowledged as one of the greatest attacking midfielders Eastern Europe has ever produced. As Guardian journalist Jonathan Wilson, explains he functioned as 'Bobby Charlton did in Alf Ramsey's England side'[1] as an advanced attacking midfielder moving the ball around the attacking third with a howitzer shot. He enjoyed a starring role in the Dynamo Kiev team of Victor Maslov.

International career

Biba played his only game for the USSR on 4 July 1965 in a friendly against Brazil starring Pelé.

References

  1. Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid (2008/Orion)

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