Leonid Buryak
Leonid Yosipovich Buryak is a Ukrainian football coach, and a former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.Career
Buryak was born in Odessa, in the Soviet Union. He was a midfielder for the USSR national football team. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.
Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager. As a player, he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukrainian national football team.
In 1979 Buryak played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.Awards
