Koltun, Leonid Yakovlevich

Early years

Born on September 7, 1944 in Kharkov . He lived near the stadium "Dzerzhinets" (now called " Metalist "). From childhood I decided to become only a goalkeeper . In addition to football , he also enjoyed water polo and handball for some time (he also stood at the gate).

Football player career

In 1961 he was in the Avangard team. A few years later he began to be actively involved in the games of the youth national team of the USSR , played in several tournaments.

In 1965 he defended the gates of the Nikolaev Shipbuilder .

Since 1965, he played for the Kirovograd "Star" . In 1969, was spotted by Valery Lobanovsky and in May 1970 he moved to Dnipro . Koltun is the first player of Dnipro, who was called to the USSR national team . In 1974, Konstantin Beskov called him to the away match of the qualifying tournament of the European Championship against the national team of Ireland . He was in reserve, at the gate was Vladimir Pilguy from Moscow Dynamo .

Coaching Activity

In 1980 he began working as a trainer for Dnipro .

Leonid Koltun:

I think that working with Vladimir Yemts and Gennady Zhizdik are the best years of my life.

In 1990, a scandal erupted around the team. Dnipro's coach Yevgeny Kucherevsky, on the eve of the match, ended the quarter-final of the Champions Cup 1989/1990 against Benfica , which sold the leading players - Fierce , Shakhov and Cherednik . Koltun blamed him for it. In 1991 Koltun left Dnipro to Volgograd Rotor . He took with him Ledyakhov , Gerashchenko , Yarovenko and Gudimenko . The team won the USSR championship in the first league.

Koltun was invited to Poltava, but he worked there for 9 days. In Ternopil and Nikolaev, sponsors refused teams. He also worked for a short time in Zhytomyr. In 1995, he became the coach of the Metallurg team ( Zaporizhia ).

In 1996, Koltuna was invited to the Zenit coach Anatoly Byshovets . When he worked with the USSR national team (1990-1991), Koltun prepared for him goalkeepers for the Euro 1992 selection match against Italy . The match ended with a score of 0: 0.

In Zenit Koltun was a breeder in Ukraine. Invited to the team Popovich , Vernidub and Maksimyuk . “Zenith” footballers got it, by football standards, at very low prices. Vernidub cost 30 thousand dollars, Popovich - 70 thousand dollars.

When Byshovets led the Russian team in 1998, Koltun moved from Zenit to Zaporizhia-based Torpedo Club.

In 1999 he returned to the " Dnepr ". Then the team fought for survival.

In 2000 he worked in the Chinese club " Jiangsu Sainty " from the city of Nanjing .

In 2006, he became a consultant to Rotor , and in 2008, he became the sports director of the Sevastopol PFC ^[1] .

• Two-time USSR champion in football ( Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1983 , 1988 ).
• USSR Cup Winner ( Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1989 ).
• He led the team to the big leagues ( "Rotor" Volgograd 1991).
• He led the team to the big leagues ( "Evis" Nikolaev 1994 ).

• Weekly Football. Leonid Koltun. Profile
• “Newspaper in Ukrainian” No. 329 of 03/16/2007 Interview with Leonid Koltun (ukr.)
• Dnepropetrovsk news for 09/05/2013 Interview with Leonid Koltun (ukr.)