Leonid Buryak

Leonid Buryak

Personal information
Full name	Leonid Yosipovich Buryak
Date of birth	10 July 1953
Place of birth	Odessa, Soviet Union
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1963–1966	Prodmash, Odessa
1966–1968	Sport School No. 6
1968–1971	FC Chornomorets Odessa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1971–1972	Chornomorets Odessa	52	(9)
1973–1984	Dynamo Kyiv	304	(56)
1985–1986	Torpedo Moscow	37	(2)
1987–1988	Metalist	36	(4)
1988	KPT-85
National team
1974–1983	USSR	49	(8)
1979	Ukraine
Teams managed
1988–1989	KPT-85
1990	VanPa
1991–1993	University of Evansville
1993	Nyva Ternopil
1994–1998	Chornomorets Odessa
1996–2000	Ukraine (assistant)
1999	Arsenal Tula
2002–2003	Ukraine
2005	Dynamo Kyiv
2005–2007	Dynamo Kyiv (sportive director)
2012	PFC Oleksandriya
Honours Competitor for  Soviet Union Men’s Football 1976 Montreal Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (Ukrainian: Леонід Йосипович Буряк; born 10 July 1953 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.

Career

Buryak, who is Jewish,^[1] was a midfielder for the USSR national football team,^[2][3] and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.^[4][5]

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.^[6] As a player he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukrainian national football team.^[7][8][9]

In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.^[10]

Statistics for Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo	1973	26	2	9	0	6	2	-	-	41	4
	1974	29	5	5	1	6	1	-	-	40	7
	1975	25	0	1	0	8	2	-	-	34	2
	1976 (s)	5	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	6	0
	1976 (a)	13	4	-	-	8	3	-	-	21	7
	1977	26	5	2	0	2	0	1	0	31	5
	1978	24	5	8	4	3	1	-	-	35	10
	1979	26	5	6	1	6	1	-	-	38	7
	1980	28	9	7	5	1	1	-	-	36	15
	1981	29	9	7	0	5	1	1	0	42	10
	1982	21	3	2	1	4	2	-	-	27	6
	1983	28	6	1	0	2	0	-	-	31	6
	1984	24	3	2	0	-	-	-	-	26	3
Total		304	56	51	12	51	14	2	0	408	82

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Awards

Ballon d'Or

• 1975 – 23rd^[11]

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

References

1. Paul Yogi Mayer (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 0-85303-451-6. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NrdAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4882,2934011&dq=leonid-buryak&hl=en
3. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LaJlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XYwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1692,808980&dq=leonid-buryak&hl=en
4. "Leonid Buryak Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
5. Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
6. "Blackburn to sign Kiev defender". RTÉ Sport. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
7. "Barclays Premier League". ESPN Soccernet. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
8. "NESMACHNYI CLOSE TO ROVERS MOVE | Football Transfer News, Football News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, Stats". Sportinglife.com. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
9. "Football | Internationals | Northern Ireland | McIlroy praises his young team". BBC News. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
10. Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
11. http://ua.tribuna.com/tribuna/blogs/tribunal/11786.html