Yozhef Sabo
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo | ||
Date of birth | 29 February 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Ungvár, Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1957 | Khimik Kalush | ||
1957–1959 | Spartak Uzhhorod | 30 | (10) |
1959–1969 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 246 | (42) |
1970 | FC Zorya Luhansk | 27 | (6) |
1971–1972 | FC Dynamo Moscow | 44 | (3) |
International career | |||
1965–1968 | USSR | 40 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
1977 | FC Zorya Luhansk | ||
1978 | FC CSKA Kyiv | ||
1978–1979 | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | ||
1993–1997 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
1994 | Ukraine | ||
1996–1999 | Ukraine | ||
2004–2005 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
2000–2007 | Dynamo Kyiv (vice-president) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo (Ukrainian: Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; Hungarian: Szabó József; born 29 February 1940) is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian background.[1][2] He is baptized as a Greek-Catholic.[3]
Playing career
Club
Sabo made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969. A four-time USSR domestic champion, Sabo appeared in 315 games in the competition, scoring 49 goals.
International
Aside from being named one of the 33 best players in the USSR for five years, Sabo capped 40 times for the USSR national side, scoring 8 goals.
Coaching career
However, Sabo became most famous for his coaching, coaching various sides in the late 70s (such as Zorya Luhansk in 1977 and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 1978–1979), he has coached Dynamo Kyiv numerous times (from 1993–1997 and 2004–2005, with breaks in between). He is also arguably the second-most successful coach of the Ukrainian national team, compiling 16 wins and 12 draws in 34 matches as coach of the side in 1994 and 1996–1999. On 20 September 2007 he was appointed as Dynamo Kyiv's manager after Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned. However, Sabo resigned in early November that year due to personal health problems. He left Dynamo Kyiv by the end of 2007 and has no longer been involved with the club since that time.
Awards and achievements
Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Men’s Football | ||
1972 Munich | Team competition |
Player
- USSR Championship: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968
- USSR Cup: 1964, 1966
- Participant of World Cup 1966
- In the list of the 33 best players — 5 times (twice №1)
Coach
- Ukrainian Championship: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
- Ukrainian Cup: 1995-96, 2004-05.
References
External links
- Template:Uk icon Verbytsky, I. Yozhef Sabo: In Moscow I was constantly called fascist. UA-Football. 4 March 2015.
- Template:Ru icon Collection of articles and biography at the RussiaTeam
- Use dmy dates from October 2012
- 1940 births
- Living people
- People from Uzhhorod
- Soviet people of Hungarian descent
- Soviet footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- FC Kalush players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- FC Dynamo Moscow players
- FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players
- FC Zorya Luhansk players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- 1966 FIFA World Cup players
- Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union
- Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Soviet football managers
- Soviet Union international footballers
- FC Zorya Luhansk managers
- FC CSKA Kyiv managers
- FC Dnipro managers
- FC Dynamo Kyiv managers
- Olympic medalists in football
- Ukraine national football team managers
- Hungarians in Ukraine
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian football managers