Vul, Grigory Semenovich

Born April 25, 1937 in Gorlovka. There he began to play football under the supervision of his first coach Vasily Nikitin. While studying at school, he played for the adult team of a coke plant. In addition to football, he was fond of volleyball. Together with his fellow countryman Yuri Rozenko, he was invited to the youth team of the Ukrainian SSR in football, which was coached by Nikolai Makhinya ^{[1] [2]} .

After leaving school, on the advice of Yuri Rozenko, Grigory entered the Melitopol Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture , whose rector Dmitry Abramchev was a passionate football fan and assembled an excellent team within the walls of the university. As a student, Vul played for the Petrel high school team, in which he eventually became a captain. The student team won the right to represent the Soviet Union at the European Championship among students . Under the leadership of Peter Tischenko , the team took third place in the championship ^{[1] [2]} .

In 1959, Vul moved to Zaporozhye Metallurg . On the eve of the decision, in November 1958, during a friendly meeting with CSKA Moscow, the head coach of the Cossacks, Viktor Ponomarev, on the advice of his assistant Joseph Malkin, put the debutants Grigory Vul and Willie Tambovtsev at the heart of the team. The match ended in a draw (2: 2) (both goals were scored by Tambovtsev), after which both players received a residence permit in the team. However, the final question of the employment of football players was decided at the regional committee of the Communist Party ^[2] .

In the team, Vul became the main player. In his first season, he played in all games of the First League of the USSR ^[3] . The next season ended for the team victory in the tournament . In the transitional games with the Stalinist “ Miner ”, “Metallurg” was defeated and was unable to break into the Major League. The team finished the 1962 season in second place in its zone, however, in the final tournament Metallurg took sixth place. In 1967, Metallurg completed the season in second place, losing only to Kiev SKA , and in fourth place took fourth place.

In total, the Zaporozhye team Grigory spent eleven seasons, eight of them as captain ^[4] . In 2010, the website Football.ua included him in the list of the 50 best players of Metallurg, where he took eleventh place ^[5] . Vul has played more than three hundred matches and ranks third on this list in the list of Metallurg guards in history ^[6]

At the end of his career as a football player in 1972, he joined the children's coach at Zaporizhzhya Metallurg. Among his achievements, the victory of the pupils at the championship of the All-Union Council of the DSO of trade unions among the SDYUSHOR and training groups in 1981, the second place at the youth championship of the USSR in 1983, and in 1990, together with Vladimir Kochegarov, he led Metallurg to the USSR title among the SDYUSHOR. The young men who won the 1990 Allied Championship included Ilya Bliznyuk , Pavel Shkapenko , Igor Luchkevich , Sergey Zaitsev , Andrey Maksimenko , Vladimir Vanin and Sergey Klyuchik . Also, Grigory Vul prepared such football players as Oleg Lutkov , Alexander Nefyodov , Roman Bondarenko , Yuri Markin , Alexei Antyukhin and Sergey Tsygankov ^{[1] [2] [7] [8]} .

He also worked in Metallurg as a coach and team leader ^[2] . In 1974 he was the head coach of the Cossacks, but in this post did not achieve significant results. In the 1974 season, the team under his leadership won only one victory, tied twice and lost in eight meetings ^[9] . In the early summer of 1974 he was succeeded by Victor Fomin ^[2] .

In 1984, Vul brought Zaporozhye Torpedo into the Second League of the USSR . He worked with the team for three and a half years. From 1990 to 1991, he was the head of the Metallurg reserve group. In October 1993, he again became the head coach of Metallurg. He worked in this position for two months. The team under his leadership spent 13 games (seven defeats, three wins and a draw) ^[10] . In 1994, he became executive director of the women's Zaporizhzhya basketball club “ Kozachka-ZALK ” ^[2] . The team became the repeated champion of Ukraine , performed in European competitions, was the base team for the national team of Ukraine ^{[2] [11]} .

Died June 7, 2013 in Zaporozhye. Farewell took place at the Palace of Culture of Zaporizhzhya Aluminum Plant ^[4] . He was buried at the Osipenkovsky cemetery ^[2] . In May 2015, a basketball game in memory of Vul was held in Zaporozhye ^[12] .

Wife - Larisa Lavrentievna. He raised two sons - Igor and Oleg ^[4] .

Sources:

• Statistics - Profile of the site FootballFacts.ru

• Profile on the site ukr-footbal.org.ua (in Ukrainian)
• Profile on FootballFacts.ru