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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1946-09-14)14 September 1946 (age 79) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kotovsk,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | FFU staff | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Dynamo Kyiv | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1965–1977 | Dynamo Kyiv | 302 | (57) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980 | SKA Kyiv | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1976 | USSR | 49 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1982 | SKA Kyiv | ||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | COSFAP Antananarivo | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Ukraine Olympic team | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Guinea | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Cherkasy | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Orion Kyiv | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Tavriya Simferopol | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Obolon Kyiv | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Alania Vladikavkaz | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Vorskla Poltava | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Ukraine U21 (interim) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan (Ukrainian:Володимир Федорович Мунтян,Russian:Владимир Фёдорович Мунтян,Romanian:Vladimir Muntean; born 14 September 1946) is aSoviet andUkrainianmidfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to ever representDynamo Kyiv andSoviet Union. He is also the only player apart fromOleg Blokhin (his teammate in the 1970s) who has won 7Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan is also a former professional football player.
A son of an ethnicRomanian plant worker and a Ukrainiannurse,[citation needed] Muntyan became interested inacrobatics and competed successfully in Kyiv's citywide competition, winning accolades in his age category. His family eventually relocated to live near a professional soccer grounds in Kyiv, where young Muntyan and his friends would hang out, acting asball boys to the elders. While once juggling a ball, he was approached by asoldier, who asked him if he was interested in taking upfootball as asport. Muntyan said yes and was taken to Mikhail Korsunsky, who was a famous local children's coach at the time. He quickly recognised Muntyan's potential.
Due to the boy's natural talent, he was included inKyiv's youth team with people likeSemen Altman andAnatoly Byshovets (bothcoaches now). After aSpartakiada match between theKyiv andMoscow teams, which Kyiv won,Dynamo Kyiv youth coachMykhaylo Koman offered young Muntyan to come to a training session with the senior team the next day at 11:00. The young boy turned up outside the ground, but was so scared to see his idolsValery Lobanovsky,Andriy Biba, that he hid behind a tree and didn't make the team bus. However his friendAnatoly Byshovets helped him to get over the fear and eventually he turned up to a training session.
Muntyan joined theDynamo Kyiv team as a 15-year-old, when the main team coach wasVictor Maslov. Despite weighing only 60 kg (9.5stones) and being only 170 cm in height, he was encouraged to play and his skills were further enhanced by the training. When five of then current squad left to join 1966Soviet football team for theWorld Cup,Dynamo Kyiv managed to win a double (championship and the cup) with Muntyan stepping in from the reserves as one of the main players.
Volodymyr Muntyan is the son of a Red Army veteran who fought in theWinter War (Soviet-Finnish War), theEastern Front of World War II, and theSoviet–Japanese War.[2] His father, Fedir Muntyanu, had 11 brothers.[2] When Fedir Muntyanu received his passport, he declared himself Russian.[3] Only when Volodymyr was 14 or 15, he became aware that his father was actually fromMoldova.[3] The mother of Volodymyr is Russian from theVoronezh Oblast.[3] In the Soviet times there existed a popular anecdote about Muntyan's ancestry speculating that he may be of Armenian origin.[2]
The father of Volodymyr worked as a fitter at a local asphalt concrete plant.[2]
By the time Volodymyr started to go to school, his family had already moved to Kyiv.[2] During his time at school, he was interested in several types of sports such as volleyball, basketball, skiing, and ice skating.[2] Moreover, Muntyan became even more involved in acrobatics, becoming the Kyiv city champion among student athletes at the age of 10 and receiving the adult-grade 3rd degreeGTO standards in acrobatics.[2] At that time, he never thought that he would drop out of acrobatics and become a football player.[2] Soon, his family received a bigger apartment granted by the factory where his father worked.[2] It happened so that the place was close to the SKA stadium (todayCSK ZSU Stadium) and far away from where he practiced acrobatics.[2] The young Muntyan started to spend more time at the stadium, where there was more football practice.[2]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 1965 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1966 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 8 | |
| 1967 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | |
| 1968 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5 | |
| 1969 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 10 | |
| 1970 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3 | |
| 1971 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 6 | |
| 1972 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 39 | 11 | |
| 1973 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 8 | |
| 1974 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 34 | 6 | |
| 1975 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 33 | 2 | |
| 1976 (s) | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | |
| 1976 (a) | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 2 | |
| 1977 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | |
| Total | 302 | 57 | 34 | 7 | 35 | 6 | 371 | 70 | |
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