Leonid Buryak

Leonid Buryak

Personal information
Full name	Leonid Yosipovich Buryak
Date of birth	(1953-07-10) 10 July 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth	Odesa, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1963–1966	Prodmash, Odesa
1966–1968	Sport School No. 6
1968–1971	FC Chornomorets Odesa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1972	Chornomorets Odesa	52	(9)
1973–1984	Dynamo Kyiv	304	(56)
1985–1986	Torpedo Moscow	37	(2)
1987–1988	Metalist	36	(4)
1988-1989	KPT-85		(2)
1990	VanPa[1]	12	(0)
International career
1974–1983	USSR	49	(8)
Managerial career
1988–1989	KPT-85
1990	VanPa
1991–1993	University of Evansville
1993	Nyva Ternopil
1994–1998	Chornomorets Odesa
1996–2000	Ukraine (assistant)
1999	Arsenal Tula
2002–2003	Ukraine
2005	Dynamo Kyiv
2005–2007	Dynamo Kyiv (sporting director)
2012	Oleksandriya
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Men's Football 1976 Montreal Team competition UEFA European U-23 Championships[2] Runner-up 1972 Europe
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (Ukrainian: Леонід Йосипович Буряк; born 10 July 1953) is a Ukrainian football coach, and a former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.

Buryak was born in Odesa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team.^[3][4] He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.^[5]

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager.^[6] As a player, he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukraine national football team.^[7][8][9]

In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.^[10]

In 2002, Leonid Buryak was appointed coach of the Ukraine national team. Making this choice, the Football Federation set the target for the new coach to get into the final part of the 2002 European Championship. The preparation for the main matches began with the defeat of the Japanese team in the first match for Buryak-coach.

As part of the qualifying tournament, the Ukrainian team managed to play with a score of 2-2 in Yerevan in the first match, then there was a significant victory over the Greek team. However, Buryak's team, which took the final third place in the qualifying round, failed to enter into the final part of the championship. Leonid Buryak left the national team.^[11]

• 1975 – 23rd^[12]

• 1981 – 3rd.

• Scored 103 goals during their professional career.^[13]

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

His father died early. Mother raised three children on her own.^[14]

He is married to Zhanna Vasiura, an rhythmic gymnast. They have two children - daughter Oksana and son Andrei.^[15]

• Leonid Buryak at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)