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Oleh Luzhny 
Personal information Full name Oleh Romanovych Luzhny Date of birth 5 August 1968 Place of birth Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Playing position Defender Club information Current club Dynamo Kyiv Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1985–1988 Torpedo Lutsk 88 (1) 1988 SKA Karpaty Lviv 29 (0) 1989–1999 Dynamo Kyiv 253 (13) 1999–2003 Arsenal 75 (0) 2003–2004 Wolverhampton Wanderers 6 (0) 2005 Venta (player-manager) 9 (0) Total 460 (14) National team 1989–1990 USSR 8 (0) 1992–2003 Ukraine 52 (0) Teams managed 2005 Venta (player-manager) 2006– Dynamo Kyiv (assistant manager) 2007, 2010 Dynamo Kyiv (interim manager) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Oleh Romanovych Luzhny (Ukrainian: Олег Романович Лужний, born 5 August 1968 in Lviv) is a retired Ukrainian footballer and former interim manager of FC Dynamo Kyiv. His name is alternatively Romanised as Oleg Luzhny.
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Club career
Dynamo Kyiv
Luzhny first played for Ukrainian clubs Torpedo Lutsk (1985–88) and SKA Karpaty Lviv (1988). He signed for Dynamo Kyiv in 1989 and became a regular at right back, winning the USSR domestic double in 1990 and seven consecutive Ukrainian league titles between 1993 and 1999. He was the captain of Dynamo Kyiv's Champions League sides that defeated FC Barcelona 3–0 at home and 4–0 away in the group stage of the 1997–98 season and eliminated holders Real Madrid 3–1 on aggregate in the quarter finals en route to the semi-finals in 1998–99.
Arsenal
Luzhny signed for English club Arsenal in the summer of 1999 after impressing manager Arsène Wenger in Kyiv's clashes with Arsenal in the Champions League. He was signed as cover for Lee Dixon, although he was unable to fully displace the England international. While never a regular starter with the Gunners (the young Spanish-Cameroonian Lauren was signed a year later as Dixon's long-term replacement), Luzhny still played 110 matches in four years at the club, either at right back or, less frequently, at centre back, and even captained the team once in the League Cup.[1] In the 2001–02 season he won a double (the FA Premier League and the FA Cup) with Arsenal. His last match for the Gunners was the 2003 FA Cup Final (which Arsenal won, beating Southampton 1–0), one of Luzhny's best performances for the club.[2]
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Luzhny signed for newly-promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer of 2003. He spent a single season there, but only made ten appearances for the side and was released by Wolves in the summer of 2004 following their relegation from the Premier League.
International career
On the international stage, Luzhny made his debut at the age of 20 for the Soviet Union in 1989, winning eight caps but missing the 1990 World Cup because of injury. After the USSR's dissolution, Luzhny went on to play for Ukraine, playing 52 times for his country between 1992 and 2003, although his side never reached a tournament finals, losing three times in the play-offs.
Luzhny captained the national side a record 39 times and achieved immense personal recognition in his country. In December 2000 he was voted into the Ukrainian 'Team of the Century' according to a poll by The Ukrainsky Futbol weekly.[5] Luzhny received the fourth biggest number of votes, behind only to Oleg Blokhin, Andriy Shevchenko and Anatoly Demyanenko.
Managerial career
Luzhny had a brief spell at Latvian side FK Venta as player-coach in 2005, but left the club after it ran into financial problems. He has now retired from playing and in June 2006 became assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv.
Luzhny was named interim manager of Dynamo Kyiv on 5 November 2007 after the resignation of Yozhef Sabo. He led the club to three league wins in three matches, including a 2–1 home victory against perennial rivals Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as into the semifinals of the Ukrainian Cup. However, during the same period Dynamo suffered heavy Champions League defeats away at Manchester United and Sporting Lisbon and at home to Roma.
On 8 December 2007 Dynamo Kyiv unveiled a new permanent manager, Yuri Semin, and a few days later it was announced that Luzhny would continue as an assistant coach under the new manager.
On 1 October 2010 he was again named as interim manager of Dynamo Kyiv after the resignation of Valery Gazzaev. The first match was lost 2–0 to Shakhtar Donetsk at Donbass Arena. After the 19th round match against PFC Sevastopol Luzhny informed the fans that he will not return after the winter break. He was replaced by Yuri Semin on 24 December 2010.
Honours
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Winner:
- USSR Premier League: 1989–90
- USSR Cup: 1990
- Ukrainian Premier League: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99
- Ukrainian Cup: 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999
Arsenal F.C.
Winner:
Runner-up:
USSR Under-21- European Under-21 Championship: 1990
Personal Honours
- Best Newcomer of the USSR Premier League: 1989–90
- Most matches for Ukraine as a captain
- Ukrainian Team of the Century (poll by Ukrainsky Futbol)[5]: 2000
Statistics
Club
Season Club League Cup Europe Other Total Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Torpedo Lutsk 1985 13 0 0 0 0 0 - - 13 0 1986 34 0 0 0 0 0 - - 34 0 1987 30 0 ? ? 0 0 - - ? ? 1988 11 1 0 0 0 0 - - 11 1 Total 88 1 ? ? 0 0 - - ? ? Karpaty Lviv 1988 29 0 0 0 0 0 - - 29 0 Total 29 0 0 0 0 0 - - 29 0 Dynamo Kyiv 1989 27 0 7 0 5 0 2 0 41 0 1990 12 0 1 0 2 0 - - 15 0 1991 28 0 2 0 9 0 - - 39 0 1992 13 2 3 0 3 0 - - 19 2 1992–93 26 3 7 1 2 0 - - 35 4 1993–94 34 1 4 0 6 0 - - 44 1 1994–95 24 4 5 0 6 0 - - 35 4 1995–96 24 1 5 0 1 0 - - 30 1 1996–97 28 2 1 0 2 0 - - 31 2 1997–98 16 0 4 0 9 0 - - 29 0 1998–99 21 0 3 0 13 0 - - 37 0 Total 253 13 42 1 58 0 2 0 355 14 Arsenal 1999-00 21 0 1 0 6 0 3 0 31 0 2000–01 19 0 2 0 8 0 - - 29 0 2001–02 18 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 26 0 2002–03 17 0 2 0 4 0 1 0 24 0 Total 75 0 9 0 21 0 5 0 110 0 Wolverhampton 2003–04 6 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 10 0 Total 6 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 10 0 FK Venta
(player-coach)2005 9 0 0 0 0 0 - - 9 0 Total 9 0 0 0 0 0 – – 9 0 Career total 460 14 ? ? 79 0 9 0 ? ? - Other – National Super Cup, League Cup & USSR Federation Cup
International
National team Season Apps Goals USSR 1989 5 0 1990 3 0 Total 8 0 Ukraine 1992 1 0 1993 0 0 1994 5 0 1995 6 0 1996 4 0 1997 6 0 1998 3 0 1999 8 0 2000 5 0 2001 8 0 2002 3 0 2003 3 0 Total 52 0 Career total 60 0 References
- ^ "Luzhny at last shows fans his animal magic". The Guardian. UK. 11 January 2003. http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,872617,00.html. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ^ "Luzhny looks to Charlton". BBC Sport. 2 June 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/2956838.stm. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ^ DynamoMania.com – "Динамо" – "Днепр" 1:3. Фоторепортаж. Часть I
- ^ In Russia, Ukraine, and other post Soviet states people congratulate each other by simply announcing With Birthday, without stating whether or not it should be happy.
- ^ a b "Best Ukrainian players of the XX century". UkrainianSoccer.net. 29 December 2000. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929123307/http://www.ukrainiansoccer.net/news/news_article.asp?ID=6318. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
External links
- Oleh Luzhny career stats at Soccerbase
- Ukrainian Team of the Century (poll by Ukrainsky Futbol)
- Profile on website Football Ukraine
FC Dynamo Kyiv – managers Tovarskyi (1936–37) · Fomin (1938) · Pechenyi (1939–40) · Butusov (1940–41) · Makhynya (1944–45) · Korchebokov (1945–46) · Apukhtin (1946) · Shchehodskyi (1947) · Butusov (1947) · Sushkov (1948) · Okun (1949) · Fomin (1950) · Oshenkov (1951–56) · Shylovskyi (1957–58) · Oshenkov (1959) · Solovyov (1959–62) · Terentyev (1963) · Maslov (1964–70) · Sevidov (1971–73) · Lobanovsky (1973–82) · Bazylevych (1974–76) · Morozov (1983–84) · Lobanovsky (1984–90) · Puzach (1991–92) · Sabo (1992) · Fomenko (1993) · Sabo (1994) · Onyshchenko (1995) · Pavlov (1995) · Sabo (1995–96) · Lobanovsky (1997–2002) · Mykhaylychenko (2002–04) · Sabo (2004–05) · Buryak (2005) · Demyanenko (2005–07) · Sabo (2007) · Luzhny (2007) · Syomin (2007–09) · Gazzaev (2009–10) · Luzhny (2010) · Syomin (2010–)
Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Lviv
- Soviet footballers
- Soviet Union international footballers
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- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Latvia
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- Premier League players
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- FC Dynamo Kyiv managers
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Ukrainian Premier League football managers
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