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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych | ||
| Date of birth | (1938-07-06)6 July 1938 | ||
| Place of birth | Kyiv,Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Date of death | 16 October 2018(2018-10-16) (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Kyiv,Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1957–1966 | Dynamo Kyiv | 161 | (63) |
| 1966 | Chornomorets Odesa | 35 | (6) |
| 1967–1968 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 32 | (9) |
| Total | 228 | (78) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1969–1970 | Desna Chernihiv | ||
| 1971 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | ||
| 1972 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | ||
| 1972–1973 | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
| 1974–1976 | Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
| 1975–1976 | USSR (assistant) | ||
| 1977–1978 | Dinamo Minsk | ||
| 1979 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
| 1979 | USSR | ||
| 1980–1982 | CSKA Moscow | ||
| 1984 | Zorya Voroshilovhrad | ||
| 1985 | Ukrainian SSR junior team | ||
| 1986 | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
| 1987–1988 | Slavia Sofia | ||
| 1988–1989 | Bulgaria (consultant) | ||
| 1992–1994 | Ukraine | ||
| 1995–1996 | Kuwait (olympic) | ||
| 1997 | Al Kuwait Kaifan | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych (Ukrainian:Оле́г Петро́вич Базиле́вич; also: Bazilevich, Bazylewicz; 6 July 1938 – 16 October 2018[1]) was aUkrainianfootballer,coach, andsport administrator. He holds titles of theMaster of Sports of the USSR,Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, andMerited Coach of Ukraine.
Bazylevych played club football forDynamo Kyiv,Chornomorets Odesa andShakhtar Donetsk, winning theSoviet Top League with Dynamo Kyiv in 1961 and the USSR cup in 1964.[2] Bazylevych played for Dynamo Kyiv from 1957 to 1965 in 161 matches and scored 53 goals.[1]
This player was noted for his high speed, technique of ball possession and excellent play in the air. He is remembered for often locking himself in the far post of Valery Lobanovsky. The Bazylevych-Lobanovsky duo scored 11 of the team's 29 goals in the 1966 tournament.[3]
Following his playing career, Bazylevych became a manager. As a co-manager withValeriy Lobanovskyi Bazylevych won with Dynamo Kyiv the1974–75Cup Winners' Cup and the1975 European Super Cup (and a bronze medal with theSoviet Union Olympic football team at the1976 Summer Olympics).[1]
In 1977–1978 he was the head coach ofDinamo Minsk, and in 1979 ofPakhtakor Tashkent. He avoided theplane crash that killed most of the Pakhtakor squad on 11 August 1979 by traveling a day ahead of the team toSochi (to visit his wife and son staying there on vacation), intending to join the team the next day.
Bazylevych was fired from the position of the head coach of theUkraine main team in 1994 when his team managed to lose at home toLithuania 0:2 in its first game of official competitions. From 1998 to 2001 lead the FFU Committee that worked with national teams.[4]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
 Ukraine | 27 April 1993 | 7 September 1994 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 036.36 |
| Total | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 036.36 | ||
In January 2017, there were reports of Bazilevich's incurableParkinson's disease, with which Oleh fought for many years.[5]
On 16 October 2018, Oleh Bazylevych died in Kyiv. He was buried in the Central Avenue of theBaikove Cemetery.[6]
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