Biography
Kuznetsov Oleg Vladimirovich - Soviet and Ukrainian football player. At the end of the last century, he was considered one of the best defenders of Soviet football. Without this player, it was difficult to present the defense line of the USSR national team and Kiev "Dynamo".
It was forced to complete the player due to the injury of the back. Friends and colleagues describe an athlete as a person's volitional, demanding and hard. But just these qualities and helped Kuznetsov achieve such high results in sports.
Childhood and youth
The future athlete was born on March 22, 1963 in German Magdeburg in the Military Family. After moving to Chernigov, the father of the football player quit from the army and settled to work as an engineer at the local radios. Oleg's mother worked as an engineer at a construction and project institute, from where he retired.
Since childhood, Oleg Kuznetsov was fond of playing football, but the parents wanted the Son to become a military, like his father. Mother persistently convinced Oleg to enter the military school, and fascinating the football from the head. After some time, the guy managed to talk to his father and convince him that the military career was not suitable for him. Together, they explained the mother that the game in football Son is much nursing of the Military School.
In school, Oleg learned well. He successfully graduated from 10 classes. In his certificate - only four and five. Despite the fact that Oleg devoted to football all his free time, serious plans associated with this sport, he did not have. There were only dreams. He graduated from Chernihiv Sports School, but the chances that he was invited to the local team were minimal.
Some time, Oleg played the plant of the plant. And only then he was lucky to replenish the ranks of the professional team, which wore the proud name "Desna". He at that time was only 17 years old. It was the limit of dreams for Oleg. At that time, all team players seemed to him by the gods, albeit a local scale.
Football
From such victories, Oleg Vladimirovich's sports career began. In the team athlete spent two seasons. After that, he wanted to get into the youth team of Ukraine. In 1982, the "Desna" ranked second in the Ukrainian zone of the second league. Thanks to the successful season and the active participation of Oleg during the games, Valery Lobanovsky was noticed. It was he who took the guy to Kiev "Dynamo".
The athlete got the role of the front defender. Oleg's debut in the part of Dynamo took place in Odessa, where Kievans won with a score of 2: 1. Kuznetsov was distinguished by high height (182 cm), rampant energy and stiffness in martial arts. All these qualities did not evenly help Kuznetsov lead the team to victory.
Next, the player's player has developed rapidly. In 1986, Kuznetsov Oleg Vladimirovich became part of the USSR national team.
And in 1990, the athlete moved to Scotland, where he began to speak for the Rangers football club. Already in the first game for the team, he was recognized as the best player. So the debut of Kuznetsov in Scotland was a success. But in the second match there was an unexpected - he got a push in his back, fell on his knee and broke the bundles. This season for Kuznetsova ended.
After rehabilitation, almost the entire next season it was on the field. But in 1994 he began to speak for the Israeli Club "Makcabi". In fact, he was invited to this team specifically under the Champions League, but the club did not pass the qualification. Therefore, next year he returned to Ukraine and began to play for CSKA-Borisphen.
The decision on the completion of the game career athlete adopted in the offseason 1995/1996. Such a turn of events was due to the aggravated injury of the back.
After the end of the game activity of Kuznetsov Oleg Vladimirovich became coach. First, the Kiev CSKA coached, then Dynamo. In 2002 he was appointed head coach of the Ukrainian national team. In 2008, he was an assistant to the head coach of FC Moscow Oleg Blokhin, with whom they worked together with the National Team of Ukraine.
In 2010, he returned to Ukraine and began to train youthful national teams.
Personal life
He married Kuznetsov Oleg Vladimirovich in 1985. His chosen was the Ukrainian athlete of Alla Borisenko. In an interview, the football player said that their wedding coincided with time when the country struggled for sobriety. Of course, he heard of "dry law", but no Kuznetsov suggested that he would be allowed to put champagne on the wedding table with such work. Kuznetsov turned not one official threshold. Lobanovsky's coach was not at the celebration, but in the registry office he began to congratulate newlyweds. There, and warned his ward: "Look, Oleg, so that everything was fine in the evening."
Despite the taboo, alcohol was still on the holiday. Vodka was overflowing into bottles from mineral water, and champagne - jugs. But, according to the athlete, they felt like schoolchildren who are hiding from teachers with a cigarette around the corner.
Due to the permanent football fees, Oleg did not work out a lot of time to give family. All household duties assumed his wife. She brought up their daughter Catherine, who was born in 1987.
Despite permanent employment, the spouses managed to preserve the warm relationship. And although Katya's daughter was brought up in a sports family, she chose a different way for himself. After school, Catherine entered the Kiev National University of Theater, Karpenko-Karog's television. The daughter of the Athlete Ekaterina Kuznetsova became the actress. She is known to the public on the role of the waitress Alexandra Bubnova in the TV series "Kitchen". For 2018, in its film surface more than thirty works.
In 2014, Oleg's daughter married the actor Yevgeny Pronin, with whom they met in Kiev on the set of the series "Hearts will not be ordered." True, Oleg Vladimirovich, and his spouse was originally against this marriage. After all, lovers lived in different countries.
The intuition of parents did not fail. After 9 months, the couple broke up - the spouses divorced because of political disagreements.
Oleg Vladimirovich with his wife Alla live in Ukraine. The Athlete's family considers this country to be their homeland.
Oleg Kuznetsov now
Today, Oleg Vladimirovich Kuznetsov continues its coaching activities. He is the head coach of the Junior Ukrainian team of Ukraine U-17 - team, which consists of players up to 17 years. Under his leadership, the team successfully participated in the EURO-2018 Elite Round. This is the last qualifying stage before entering the final part of the European Championship.
In March 2018, the coach fell into the scandalous situation. By decision of UEFA, the Ukrainian U-17 team was disqualified, and the Football Federation of Ukraine was fined by € 2 thousand. The coaching staff mistaken on the field of disqualified players. As a result of the U-17 national team in the game with Serbia, a technical defeat was counted (0: 3), although the match ended the victory of Ukrainians with a score of 2: 1. Because of the occurred team, Kuznetsova did not go to the euro, although he deservedly won a ticket to the tournament.
Oleg Vladimirovich earned a reprimand for the improper level of control over the actions of subordinates in the coaching headquarters, and he also ordered to form a new coaching staff. But the football players paid a prize for participating in the euro in full size, since there were no guilt in the tournament.
In 2018, Oleg Kuznetsov celebrated his 55th anniversary. And although the footballer has no "instagram", hundreds of congratulations received his daughter Katya in his account. The girl promised to subscribers that all these warm words would definitely transfer all these warm words.
Awards
- 1985, 1986, 1990 - Champion of the USSR
- 1985, 1987, 1990 - Winner of the USSR Cup
- 1987 - UEFA Champions Cup semi-finalist
- 1992, 1993, 1994 - Champion of Scotland
- 1993 - Cup owner of Scotland