Yozhef Sabo

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Yozhef Sabo
Full name	Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo
Date of birth	February 29, 1940 (1940-02-29) (age 68)
Place of birth	Ungvar, Hungary
Playing position	Vice-president, former Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1955 1957 1957–1959 1959–1969 1970 1971-1972	factory team Khimik Kalush Spartak Uzhhorod Dynamo Kyiv FC Zorya Luhansk Dynamo Moscow
National team
	USSR	40 (8)
Teams managed
1977 1978 1978–1979 1993-1997 1994 1996-1999 2004-2005 since 2000	FC Zorya Luhansk FC CSKA Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv (vice-president)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo (Ukrainian: Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; Hungarian: József Szabó) (born February 29, 1940 in Ungvár, Hungary) is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity.^{[citation needed]}

He born in Ungvár, Carpathian Ruthenia, one year after the region was re-occipied by Hungary from Czechoslovakia by First Vienna Award (the region was part of Austria-Hungary until 1918). After the World War II the city became Uzhhorod, part of Ukrainian SSR.

1 Playing Career
- 1.1 Club
- 1.2 International
2 Coaching Career
3 Awards and Achievments
- 3.1 Player
- 3.2 Coach
4 References

[edit] Playing Career

[edit] Club

Sabo made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969. A four-time USSR domestic champion, Sabo appeared in 315 games in the competition, scoring 49 goals.

[edit] International

Aside from being named one of the 33 best players in the USSR for five years, Sabo was capped 40 times for the USSR national side, while scoring 8 goals.

[edit] Coaching Career

However, Sabo became most famous for his coaching, coaching various sides in the late 70s (such as Zorya Luhansk in 1977 and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 1978-1979), he has coached Dynamo Kyiv numerous times (from 1993-1997 and 2004-2005, with breaks in between). He is also arguably the second-most successful coach of the Ukrainian national team, compiling 16 wins and 12 draws in 34 matches as coach of the side in 1994 and 1996-1999. On September 20, 2007 he was appointed as Dynamo Kyiv's manager after Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned. However, Sabo resigned in early November that year due to personal health problems.

[edit] Awards and Achievments

Competitor for the Soviet Union
Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Bronze	1972 Munich	Team competition

[edit] Player

USSR Championship: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968
USSR Cup: 1964, 1966
Participant of World Cup 1966
In the list of the 33 best players — 5 times (twice №1)

[edit] Coach

Ukrainian Championship: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Ukrainian Cup: 1996, 2005.

[edit] References

(Russian) RussiaTeam biography

v • d • e USSR squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup

1 Yashin • 2 Maslachenko • 3 Kotrikadze • 4 Dubinski • 5 Chokheli • 6 Ostrovskiy • 7 Maslyonkin • 8 Shesternyov • 9 Manoshin • 10 Netto • 11 Sabo • 12 Voronin • 13 Gusarov • 14 Ivanov • 15 Kanevski • 16 Mamykin • 17 Meskhi • 18 Metreveli • 19 Ponedelnik • 20 Serebryanikov • 21 Khusainov • 22 Chislenko • Coach: Kachalin

v • d • e USSR squad - 1966 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place

1 Yashin • 2 Serebryanikov • 3 Ostrovskiy • 4 Ponomarev • 5 Afonin • 6 Shesternyov • 7 Khurtsilava • 8 Sabo • 9 Getmanov • 10 Danilov • 11 Chislenko • 12 Voronin • 13 Korneyev • 14 Sichinava • 15 Khusainov • 16 Metreveli • 17 Porkujan • 18 Banishevskiy • 19 Malofeyev • 20 Markarov • 21 Kavazashvili • 22 Bannikov • Coach: Morozov

v • d • e Ukraine national football team – Managers

Prokopenko (1992) • Pavlov (1992^c) • Bazilevych (1993–1994) • Pavlov (1994^c) • Szabo (1994) • Koñkov (1995) • Szabo (1996–1999) • Lobanovsky (2000–2001) • Buriak (2002–2003) • Blokhin (2003–2007) Mykhailychenko (2008–present) (c) caretaker