Soviet football player Bal Andrew: biography and achievements

Game number 1 in the world, with its inherentconservatism, is distinguished by a huge palette of a variety of styles. The school of Soviet football attracted primarily its own identity and versatility. The multinational state gave the football world a wide variety of different techniques. Georgian, Baltic, Russian and other teams played so unlike football that even an unsophisticated viewer could see differences in the stylistic manner of the game.

The top of this huge iceberg is eternalthe confrontation between the two flagships of Soviet football: Dynamo Kyiv and Spartak Moscow. These clubs were under the leadership of the masters of the domestic coaching department - Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky and Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov. Their wards invariably kept a high bar of sportsmanship. Great matches, professional players, brilliant attacks and goals scored - all this became part of the football history of our country.

One of the direct participants in those battles is AndreiMikhailovich Bal. This person has passed all the steps of sports career: from children's football at the level of the Youth Sports School to work in the coaching staff of the national team. What was the glory of Bal Andrew? Interesting facts are present in this person's biography. He went the hard way. His life was intense and interesting. It is about him that will be discussed in the article.

Bal Andrew: biography, childhood

Andrei Mikhailovich Bal was born in a smallthe village of Rozdol, located in the Lviv region. It happened on January 18, 1958. Already in his childhood he was left without a father and was brought up by his stepfather, Grigory Grigorievich. He became a native of little Andrei. Like any boy in those years, Bal spent his free time on the street. I played basketball, hockey, table tennis, but football was my main passion.

The democratic nature of the game, its universal accessibilityattracted adolescents in all corners of our country. Everybody played. This hobby was not spared by Bal. In his native village there was no specialized football section. The nearest one was eight kilometers from the house - in Novy Rozdol. It was there, at the local Sports School under the direction of Olesya Dmitrievich Mikhailovich, and took the first steps in the football field Bal Andrei, future star of Soviet football.

Sports boarding

After a while, lessons in the local Sports Schoolit became clear that a talented teenager needs to grow professionally. The level of the rural sports school Andrew Bal noticeably exceeded. And in 1970, when he was 12 years old, the teenager went to enter Kiev. He wanted to get into the Republican Sports Boarding School (RSCI). Despite the fact that he successfully passed all sports tests, the guy was not enrolled in the number of enrolled. Disappointment was so great that the young athlete was present with the idea of ​​finally quitting football. It will take several years, and the representatives of the RSWI will themselves call a teenager into their orphanage. But this time Andrew himself will refuse a proposal.

After an unsuccessful trip to Kiev, the guy another yearotzanimalsya in his native Youth. The following year, three sports boarding schools were opened on the territory of Ukraine, which significantly simplified the task of those entering. His choice was made by Bal on the basis of territorial features. Lviv sports boarding was much closer to home, relative to the other two, and Andrew, along with his younger brother Orestes, went to study there. The first coach of the brothers in the Lviv sports board was Fyodor Bushansky.

Debut in big football

A successful game talented young man at the levelThe sports boarding school did not go unnoticed. The coaches of the main Lviv team, the Carpathians, drew attention to it. At the age of 16, Bal Andrew was enrolled in the second squad. However, according to existing age restrictions, the guy could not play for the duplicating team yet. The coaches went to the trick. And the first time Andrei acted under a strange name in the double "Carpathian". The official debut under his own name was held later: in 1975. At that time, the duplicating team "Carpathians" was headed by Ernest Edvinovich Just.

Junior team of the USSR

Success at the club level appreciated by trainersJunior team of the Union. The head of this team was the famous forward of Spartak Moscow Sergey Salnikov. It was he who first attracted a talented young man to the games for the national team. The team became the European Junior Champion of 1976. Ahead was the following test: the first Junior World Championships, which was held in 1977 in Tunisia. By the time the team was headed by two coaches: S. Korshunov and S. Masyagin. The team captain became Andrei Bal.

Having taken the first place in the group stage, ourteam in the semifinals met with Uruguayans. Hard match did not reveal the winner in the main and additional time. And in the penalty shootout, our players were stronger. The national team was waiting for the final battle with the Mexicans. Teams alternately exchange hammered balls. And to the final whistle on the scoreboard was burning 2-2. Again, everything is a penalty. And it was necessary for this to happen that one of the blows was not implemented by our captain, Andrei Bal. Fortunately, the excellent game of the goalkeeper of the Soviet national team, Yuri Sivukha, makes the national team the world champion. This success brought the title of the master of sports of international class to a nineteen-year-old youth.

In the future, at the level of youth teams inAndrey has two more championship titles. Both times in the USSR national team, he became the winner in Europe. And if in 1980 he played with his peers, after 10 years, Bal was in the youth team, according to the existing regulations, which allowed him to claim two age players. Andrei was one of them, which allowed him to become the owner of another honorary trophy.

Bal Andrew: career in adult football

Successful play by Andrei Bal at the junior levelnational teams attracted the attention of the main club in Ukraine - Kiev "Dynamo". Personally, Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky was interested in the services of a talented advocate. However, realizing that playing at Dynamo at such a young age is almost impossible, Bal decides to stay in Lviv's Karpaty. In terms of acquiring gaming experience, this was the right decision. Having played 134 matches for three seasons with Karpat, Andrei managed to hit the opponents' gate 12 times. In 1980, Bal moved to Dynamo Kyiv, already a fairly mature player, really claiming a place in the first team.

Ukrainian Capital Club has become for AndrewMikhailovich truly native. It was a team in which he was able to fully realize his gaming ambitions. For 10 seasons spent with the people of Kiev, in the asset of a football player there were 240 games played with 11 goals scored. Four times Bal became the champion of the Soviet Union. And as many times won the USSR Cup. Speaking for Dynamo Kyiv, Andrei Mikhailovich began to get involved in the games in the national team of the country. In its composition, Bal spent 20 matches, taking part in two world championships (1982 and 1986). In these games, Andrew scored just one ball, but what a! At the 1982 World Championships in Spain, playing with Brazil, Bal Andrew (Dynamo) joined the attack and struck the gate of the Brazilian goalkeeper Valdir Perez with a powerful shot from forty meters away.

Winning the Cup Winners' Cup

One of the most significant victories at the club levelAndrei Bal's career can safely be considered the win of the Cup Winners' Cup - the second most important club tournament in European football. In the first round of Kiev was defeated by the Dutch “Utrecht”. Then came the victories over the Romanian and Austrian clubs. In the semifinals, the people of Kiev in the sum of two games pass the Czechoslovak team. And now, finally, the final ...

At the Lyon stadium "de Gerland", in the presence of45 000 spectators, in a duel, the Kyiv Dynamo and the Spanish Atletico met. Contrary to expectations, hard struggle in this match did not work. Dynamo turned out to be much stronger than their Spanish rivals, having won in the end with the score 3: 0. Andrew Bal throughout the tournament was the main defender of the Kiev club. And in the final match I spent 51 minutes of playing time on the field.

Foreign career

In the late 80s, due to the collapse of the USSR, things aredomestic football evolved not the best way. Began a massive outflow of leading players in foreign championships. This situation, as well as age, prompted the athlete to make a difficult decision. He left the national championship and left to complete his career in one of the European clubs.

Andrew Bal - a football player who for many yearsacquired an excellent professional reputation, had no problems with the proposal of the contract. The choice fell on the leading Israeli club - Maccabi. Andrei won back one season for him. This was followed by a transfer to another Israeli club, Bnei Yehuda, in which the athlete played two full seasons. As a result, after these events at the age of 35, Andrei Bal decided to end his career as a professional footballer.

First steps in the coaching field

At the end of a playing career in Bnei Yehuda,the team’s coach, Yuri Shpigel, offered Andrei to work with him as an assistant at the Maccabi club in Haifa. For five years, Bal worked as an assistant head coach. Already in 1995, he independently led the team. Further, the season followed in the role of the chief mentor of the Israeli club of the first division “Akuah”. The turbulent situation in the Middle East was not accompanied by fruitful coaching work. And Andrei Bal makes a decision to return home.

Return

Return to Ukraine passed throughKaunas. In January, Bal Andrei Mikhailovich headed the local Zalgiris. But a month later, the team changed the owner, who decided to refuse the services of the Ukrainian athlete. After returning to Kiev, Andrei Bal worked for a while as a coach - a breeder in his own Dynamo. But the desire to independently lead the team still prevailed.

Main coach

In June 2001, Andrei Bal takesinvitation leadership "Vorskla" and becomes the main mentor of this team. Two full seasons he spent at the helm of this club. But a huge number of various problems, primarily financial ones, did not allow Bali to fully realize his coaching potential. In August 2003, after a series of unsuccessful games, Andrei Mikhailovich left the team.

Coach of the national team

The most successful period in the history of the national team of Ukrainecame at a time when the team was headed by Oleg Blokhin. Becoming at the helm, he did not forget about the playmate for the Kiev Dynamo. Now Bal Andrew is an assistant to the sports director. The national team of Ukraine under the leadership of this duet made a real sensation at the 2006 World Championships, sensationally reaching the quarter-finals. In the future, the cooperation of two great players was continued in the football club "Moscow", in Odessa "Chernomorets". Here the roles have changed: Bal Andrew is the coach, and Oleg Blokhin is an assistant. There was also a return to the national team to participate in the European home championship and the position of a mentor in his own Dynamo Kyiv.

August 2014

In Kiev, passed the usual regular friendmatch veterans football. The stands filled as a tribute to those players who forged fame for Dynamo Kyiv in 1970-1980. Andrei Bal gives a pass to his teammate and unexpectedly falls. A heart…

How bitterly joked someone from his formercomrades: "The dream of a football player to die in boots". It happened in this case. A great football player has passed away, an excellent coach, Bal Andrew. The family of this wonderful person, friends, millions of fans could not believe that this happened ... Without a beloved husband and a loving father, the wife Svetlana and son Daniel remained. Andrei Balyu was only 56 years old ...