Biography
Victor Onopko distinguished himself and the talents of the game on the grass, and the abilities of the head. Athlete was appointed captain of Spartak and the national team. They say, not a single little thing eluded on the attention of the demanding Ukrainian. And the man tried to create a warm family atmosphere in the club "Red-White" - recorded the dates of the birth of all players and prepared for the holiday in advance. Sports fate of the football player consists of throwing from the club to the club. In the Victor's allory, about a dozen organizations, including foreign FC.Childhood and youth
Victor Rod from Lugansk. Born in the working family: Father worked on a machine-building plant, Mom worked immediately in the dining room. ONOPKO - Family more familiar: Victor has a sister Daria and the elder brother Sergey, who also made a player of a football player, became the vice-champion of Ukraine and held twice in his hands the native Country Cup twice.
The fact that the children have chosen a sports path is the merit of the Father. The head of the family was heard by an avid fan of the game on the grass, constantly told the sons of the ingenious football players of the past, devoted in the subtleties of skill. And very rejoiced that the heirs were gradually penetrated by this sport.
The 9-year-old Vitya went to "sign up for football" in the sports school "Zarya", rather than the Soviet Union. Alexander Zavarov, Sergey Yurak, Sergey Semaak, who spent in different years for the national team came out of her walls.
From the "Zari", the newly football player has come to the invitation to Dupetsk Shakhtar, the main team of Eastern Ukraine. It is noteworthy that still Vitya hesitated, whether to associate fate with football. In the interview, I admitted - only in Shakhtar, I realized that the game was able to become the meaning of his life.
Football
When it was time to give the duty to the homeland, a novice football player took the "army" "Dynamo". But in the youth composition, Kievans, due to injury, missed the whole season. Then he returned to his native Shakhtar. Mentor "Dynamo" Valery Lobanovsky wanted to keep his prospective defender, but he promised to return home to the still coach.
During the years of perestroika, the "miners" was distinguished by a strong, talented composition and could have been able to fight on the Union Championship. But the USSR ordered to live long. Athletes rushing, changing clubs and even national citizenship. So in the biography of onopko, serious changes began. Victor invited Oleg Romantsev to his wards in Moscow "Spartak".
The Ukrainian accepted the offer because he really wanted to go to the European Championship, which was planned in Sweden. But football circles did not understand the idea of Romanese. Lobanovsky's pupils owned other skills of games that have little in common with the strategy "Red-White".
However, the Spartak coach was not mistaken. High, strong (with an increase in 189 cm weighed 80 kg) Victor harmoniously fit into the team in the position of the support midfielder, in the very first season of the young man the "Football" magazine recognized the best Russian player. And soon put on the captain's bandage, showing brilliant organizational abilities.
Onopko played four seasons with "Spartakov". With nostalgia remembers those times. Says, the atmosphere reigned friendly, the team celebrated the birthdays of each player and traveled to picnics in nature.
After the Muscovites in 1995 were the winners in the six champions League games, a wave of proposals from European clubs fell on Victor. Favoro player wanted Atletico, Werder and even Chelsea. As a result, he found himself in the Spaniards in a modest "Real Oviedo," where he also rapidly became the leader of the team and its captain.
Here the football player scored little heads, however, as a central defender, coped with the assigned tasks perfectly. Twice awarded the magazine "Don Balon" the title of the best player of defense.
With the stay in the Spaniards, an unpleasant moment is connected: Victor did not receive a salary on the threshold of the new millennium, the debt was € 1.6 million, but still continued to sign contracts. "Oviedo" the football player was also remembered by the fact that for the first time in his career scored auto head.
"Neither in Shakhtar, nor in Spartak with me, nothing has happened to me," Victor said to journalists.In 2002, Riojo Valkano was taken to rent a player, where the coach was Fernando Vasquez. The club expects to remain in the elite division of the country, but never managed.
Onopko returned to his homeland, where he was immediately chosen to the hands of Spartak Alania. The transfer was declared the loud acquisition of 2003. In the Vladikavkaz club, Viktor received a T-shirt with a number 77, reading happy in Alanya - the previous owner Mikhail Ashventia during the second round of the championship scored seven heads. Victor helped to keep the team in the Premier League.
The last of the clubs, for which Victor Onopko played, became Ramensky "Saturn". In the spring of 2006, put the point in the game career.
A talented footballer turned out to be in demand from coaches of national teams. Victor lit up on three games for the Olympic team of the USSR, four matches played as part of the CIS team and went out on the field together with the football players of the Russian team, where he was again put on the captain's dressing. According to the last indicator, the athlete remained a record holder for a long time. In total, Victor scored seven goals for the Russian national team.
Fans will not forget the first international level games with onopko. In the European Championship (1992), the CIS team played a draw with the Germans, who at that time they wore the status of world champions, the European Dutch champions, but lost to weak Scots. Against the background of this strange championship, Victor distinguished himself that he had overwhelmed the famous Gulita Rouud. Dutchman told the press:
"In the game against the CIS team, I was under such a non-saturated attention of the Russian defender, which could not create anything interesting in the attack."Personal life
Victor has long been connected by the Uzami marriage. Natalia's wife is a master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics, the daughter of the famous Soviet football player and the arbitrator Viktor Zvyagintsev. Two children were born in the family, the son of Vitaly and the daughter of Eugene.
Zhenya from a young years is passionate about rhythmic gymnastics, and in 2010 he even performed at the Olympic Games in the Spanish national team.
In social networks, Victor is not active. Rare photos flashed with him on the official page of CSKA in "Instagram".
Victor Onopko now
After graduating from the game career, the defender turned into Viktor Savelievich, enrolling in the Russian Football Union. In parallel, he studied at the school of coaches, and in 2009 it was joined in the ranks of the headquarters of CSKA mentors. In the Army Club, Viktor Onopko is still working.
Before the World Cup World Championship, which was held in the summer of 2018 in Russia, CSKA coach, too, like many colleagues, shared with journalists expectations from games. According to Viktor Savelievich, in the national team, good players - Fedor Smolov, Alan Dzagoev, Alexander Golovin. Especially allocated the latter, believing that he has everything to express himself at the World Cup. And onopko was right.
"The most difficult for the Russian national team is to get out of the group, because the group stage is a mini-league. At the playoff stage, other factors are included in the game: physical training, moral forces and good luck, "Viktor Onopko stated in May.Awards
- Three-time champion of Russia
- 1992, 1994 - Cup of Russia
- 1993 - Commonwealth Champions Cup
- 2009 - Legend Cup