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| Full name | Vasyl Karlovych Rats | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1961-03-25)25 March 1961 (age 64) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fanchykovo,Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | LDUFK Lviv | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980–1981 | Lokomotiv Vinnytsia | 39 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981–1989 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 164 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989 | RCD Espanyol | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 21 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Ferencvárosi TC | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Ukrainian SSR | ||||||||||||||||
| USSR U-21 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 1986 | USSR Olympic | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | USSR 'B' | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1990 | USSR | 47 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Ferencvárosi TC (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Obolon Kyiv (U-21) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Obolon Kyiv | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Vasyl Karlovych Rats (Ukrainian:Василь Карлович Рац;Hungarian:Rácz László) (born 25 March 1961) is a Ukrainian formerfootballmidfielder. He participated in twoWorld Cups with theSoviet Union national football team.
After the seventh grade (around age 14), Rats enrolled into a sports vocational school (boarding school) and later asports university (both in Lviv).[1] At the same time Rats was playing forKarpaty reserves. His first coach wasErnest Yust.[1] Rats considered that it was difficult to gain adequate playtime along with such players likeSusloparov,Bal,Brovarskyi,Dumanskyi, Dubrovnyi. So, when in 1979 a manager ofNyva Vinnytsia Ivan Terletskyi offered him to join, he agreed gladly and was happy to play at the third tier consistently rather than to remain a substitute at the top tier.[1] In 1981 Rats was receiving invitations from Tashkent, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, but Terletskyi was not let him go by telling that those team are not for him.[1] Soon there appeared a scout from Dynamo Kyiv and Rats was transferred out.[1]
Rats had some difficulties at first to make the first team and was trying to return to Vinnytsia. He finally made his debut at theSoviet Top League on 8 November 1981 in away game against Dynamo Moscow which the Kyiv team lost, but the team already secured the championship title.[1] In 1983Valeriy Lobanovskyi was replaced byYuriy Morozov and Rats only played one match for the first team and was thinking to leave the club. Around that time a manager ofSpartak MoscowKonstantin Beskov offered him to move to Spartak and Rats was about to do so, but Lobanovskyi who just returned talked him out of it by saying that he may also stay on bench at the new club.[1] Also in convincing Rats to stay in Kyiv, a native ofZakarpattia OblastMykhaylo Koman played an important role.[1]
Rats played several seasons withFC Dynamo Kyiv, where he won theSoviet Top League four times.[2]
The most notable was the1986 season when Dynamo Kyiv managed to out-play Dynamo Moscow which then was coached byEduard Malofeyev. The goal of Rats in Moscow in last 15 minutes of play tied the game and at home the Kyiv team beat Muscovites 2-1.[1]
Before moving to Ferencvaros in 1991, Rats had a medical emergency when his whole left side of body became incapacitated. He eventually spoke about his condition to the Hungarian club administration, and they helped out with medical treatment and Rats was ready for the season.[1]
Rats earned 47 caps and scored 4 goals for theUSSR, from 1986 to 1990.[3] He played in two World Cups, in 1986 and 1990. In the 1986 World Cup he scored a goal with a 27-meter shot againstFrance in a 1–1 draw in the first round: a headed clearance byFrance was picked up byIhor Belanov and laid off to Rats, who on the first touch, struck the ball powerfully from several yards outside the area past French goalkeeperJoël Bats and into the top right corner of the net. DuringEuro 1988 his goal securedUSSR a 1–0 victory in the group stage over eventual championsThe Netherlands.USSR reached the final, but were unable to repeat their achievement in the group stage and lost 2–0.
Vasyl Rats grew up as a Hungarian-speaking person in the Soviet Union and experienced some difficulties integrating into the Russian culture which dominated in theUkrainian SSR. In interview with Dmytro Gordon Vasyl Rats said thatAndriy Bal who was a native of Lviv region helped him with integration intoFC Dynamo Kyiv.
Vasyl Rats was married to a daughter ofIshtvan Sekech.
Andriy Bal gave Rats the nickname "Klyushka" (bandy).[1] Rats was a fan of French footballerMichel Platini.[1]
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 Vasyl Rats. «visiting Dmytro Gordon» onYouTube // У гостях у Дмитра Гордона. — 2015. — 1/2. (in Russian) |
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