Valery Petrovich Samofalov ( ukr. Valeriy Petrovich Samofalov ; May 25, 1956 , Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet and Ukrainian football player , who played in the positions of defender and midfielder . Master of Sports of the USSR . At the end of his playing career, he worked as a coach.
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| Full name | Valery Petrovich Samofalov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Was born | May 25, 1956 (63 years) Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | defender , midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Pupil of the Kiev Dynamo School. First coach - Alexander Leonidov . At the age of 15, he played in the Kiev Championship for Spartak , under the leadership of Abram Lerman . He spent the season of 1975 in Avtomobiliste in Zhytomyr, but did not play a single game in the championship. In the autumn of 1975, on the recommendation of Lerman, he joined the Kirovograd “Star” , in which he played until 1982, when he was called up to the army. He served in SKA Kiev, who was coached by Vladimir Muntian , but did not play a single game for the army team. Finished playing the 1982 season in Kolta, Poltava, and the following year he returned to the Star. He played for Kirovohrad before 1990, after which he ended his professional career. In total for the "Star" spent 552 matches and scored 72 goals, which is a club record. In the 1993/1994 season, he played in the amateur championship of Ukraine for Znamensky Lokomotiv , and in 1996 played one match in the amateur cup of Ukraine for Kirovograd Burevestnik-Elbrus.
The last 2 seasons of appearances in Zvezda has been the playing coach of the club. After completing his playing career, he was appointed to the position of head of the Kirovograd team. In 1993, after the resignation of Nikolai Fedorenko , for some time he served as head coach of Kirovohrad. Later, after changing the leadership of the club, he left the team.
During performances in the "Stars" graduated from Kirovograd Pedagogical Institute. A. Pushkin . He worked as a trainer-methodologist in Kirovograd sports school named. V. Verkholantsev, and then - the head of physical education in Kirovograd musical school.
Links
- Living legends. Valery Samofalov . ua.tribuna.com .
- Profile on the website of the Ukrainian Football Association (ukr.)
- Profile on FootballFacts.ru
- Player Profile (in Ukrainian) . "History and statistics of Ukrainian football . " The appeal date is November 5, 2015.