Shevchenko Vitaliy Viktorovich - a famous Soviet football player, played for Dynamo Kyiv and Moscow Lokomotiv. Since the mid-eighties, he began coaching.
Biography
The future athlete was born in October 1951 on the second day in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. In the Soviet Union, from the mid-fifties, various sections and circles began to actively develop. The choice for little Vitali was actually determined in advance. His father, Viktor Nesterovich, was an honored Soviet footballer, and later a coach, wanted to see in his son the heir to family sports traditions.
Vitaliy himself loved football and went into this sport with great desire. After graduating from school, Shevchenko Jr. entered the Institute of Physical Culture in Kiev.
Professional career
Vitaliy began his football career in his native Baku, in the Neftchi Football Academy, famous throughout the USSR. In 1968, he made his debut as a player of the main team. For four years he spent 85 matches on the field, in which he scored 21 times in scoring an opponent. While studying at a Kiev university, he tried to play Dynamo, but somehow it did not work out. For the club from Kiev, he spent only seven games. A series of injuries, and then a medical error during an elementary operation to remove the appendix, almost put an end to Shevchenko’s career.
In 1975, he came to Odessa, where he was invited to play for the local Chernomorets. For seven years he played almost two hundred matches and each time his contribution to the team’s results was invaluable. In 1982, he went to Moscow, where he played the season for Lokomotiv. There he studied for a football coach at a Moscow school and continued his career as a mentor.
Coaching
From 1986 to 1992, Shevchenko served as team leader in the Moscow Lokomotiv, in fact, he served as the army "political commander." But in the late eighties, perestroika took place, not only national, but also ideological, the need for this post fell by itself.
In 1992, Shevchenko left for Bolivia, where he coached the local Bolivar, later he drove to several Israeli clubs at once and returned to his homeland only in 1996. He worked at Uralmash, Uralan, Gazovik-Gazprom and Saturn Ren-tv. Vitaly Shevchenko’s coaching career did not develop very well, and his last place of work was Rotor in 2010. After one season, he left the team and today does not train anyone.
