Vasyl Rats
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vasyl Karlovych Rats | ||
| Date of birth | 25 March 1961 | ||
| Place of birth |
Fanchikove, Vynohradiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 5 | (0) |
| 1980–1981 | Lokomotiv Vinnytsia | ? | (4) |
| 1981–1989 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 164 | (22) |
| 1989 | RCD Espanyol | 10 | (0) |
| 1990 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 21 | (2) |
| 1991–1993 | Ferencvárosi TC | 7 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 1986–1990 | USSR | 47 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2007 | FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | Obolon Kyiv | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vasyl Karlovych Rats (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-hu) (born 25 March 1961) is a former Ukrainian football midfielder of Hungarian ethnicity. He participated in two World Cups with the Soviet Union national football team.
Club career
Rats played several seasons with FC Dynamo Kyiv, where he won the Soviet Top League three times.[1]
International career
Rats earned 47 caps and scored 4 goals for the USSR, from 1986 to 1990.[2] He played in two World Cups, in 1986 and 1990. In the 1986 World Cup he scored a goal with a 27-meter shot against France in a 1–1 draw in the first round: a headed clearance by France was picked up by Ihor Belanov and laid off to Rats, who on the first touch, struck the ball powerfully from several yards outside the area past French goalkeeper Joël Bats and into the top left corner of the net. During Euro 1988 his goal secured USSR a 1–0 victory in the group stage over eventual champions The Netherlands. USSR reached the final, but were unable to repeat their achievement in the group stage and lost 2–0.
Honours
- Soviet Top League: 1985, 1986, 1990
- Soviet Cup: 1982, 1987, 1990
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1986
- UEFA Euro 1988 Runner-up: 1988
References
- ^ "Rats Vasiliy Karlovich". KLISF. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
- ^ Arnhold, Matthias (2 April 2006). "Vasiliy Karlovich Rats – International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
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- Use dmy dates from September 2011
- 1961 births
- Living people
- People from Vynohradiv Raion
- Ukrainian people of Hungarian descent
- Soviet footballers
- Soviet expatriate footballers
- Ukrainian footballers
- Ukrainian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Hungary
- Ukrainian football managers
- FC Nyva Vinnytsia players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- FC Karpaty Lviv players
- La Liga players
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- Ferencvárosi TC footballers
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- UEFA Euro 1988 players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- Soviet Union international footballers
- Ukrainian Premier League managers
- Soviet expatriates in Spain
- Soviet expatriates in Hungary
- Ukrainian expatriates in Spain
- Ukrainian expatriates in Hungary
- Ukrainian emigrants to Hungary
- FC Obolon Kyiv managers
- Soviet people of Hungarian descent