Oleh Bazylevych


Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych was a Ukrainian footballer, football coach, and sport administrator. He holds titles of the Master of Sports of the USSR, Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, and Merited Coach of Ukraine.

Career

Bazylevych played club football for Dynamo Kyiv, Chornomorets Odessa and Shakhtar Donetsk, winning the Soviet Top League with Dynamo Kyiv in 1961. Bazylevych played for Dynamo Kyiv from 1957 to 1965 in 161 matches and scored 53 goals.
Following his playing career, Bazylevych became a manager. As a co-manager with Valeriy Lobanovskyi Bazylevych won with Dynamo Kyiv the 1974–75 Cup Winners' Cup and the 1975 European Super Cup.
Bazylevych was fired from the position of the head coach of the Ukraine main team in 1994 when his team managed to lose at home to Lithuania 0:2 in its first game of official competitions. From 1998 to 2001 lead the FFU Committee that worked with national teams.

Awards

In January 2017, there were reports of Bazilevich's incurable Parkinson's disease, with which Oleh fought for many years.
On October 16, 2018, Oleh Bazylevych died in Kiev. He was buried in the Central Avenue of the Baikove Cemetery.