Yozhef Sabo

Infobox Football biography
playername= Yozhef Sabo
fullname = Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1940|2|29
cityofbirth = Ungvar
countryofbirth = Hungary
height =
currentclub = Vice-president of Dynamo Kyiv
position = former Midfielder
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1955 1957 1957–1959 1959–1969 1970 1971-1972
clubs = factory team Khimik Kalush Spartak Uzhhorod Dynamo Kyiv FC Zorya Luhansk Dynamo Moscow
caps(goals) =
nationalyears =
nationalteam = USSR
nationalcaps(goals) = 40 (8)
manageryears = 1977 1978 1978–1979 1993-1997 1994 1996-1999 2004-2005 since 2000
managerclubs = FC Zorya Luhansk FC CSKA Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv (vice-president)|

Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo ( _uk. Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; _hu. József Szabó) (born February 29, 1940 in Ungvár, Hungary) is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity.fact|date=April 2008

He born in Ungvár, Carpathian Ruthenia, one year after the region was re-occipied by Hungary from Czechoslovakia by First Vienna Award (the region was part of Austria-Hungary until 1918). After the World War II the city became Uzhhorod, part of Ukrainian SSR.

Playing career

Club

Sabo made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969. A four-time USSR domestic champion, Sabo appeared in 315 games in the competition, scoring 49 goals.

International

Aside from being named one of the 33 best players in the USSR for five years, Sabo was capped 40 times for the USSR national side, while scoring 8 goals.

Coaching career

However, Sabo became most famous for his coaching, coaching various sides in the late 70s (such as Zorya Luhansk in 1977 and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 1978-1979), he has coached Dynamo Kyiv numerous times (from 1993-1997 and 2004-2005, with breaks in between). He is also arguably the second-most successful coach of the Ukrainian national team, compiling 16 wins and 12 draws in 34 matches as coach of the side in 1994 and 1996-1999. On September 20, 2007 he was appointed as Dynamo Kyiv's manager after Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned. However, Sabo resigned in early November that year due to personal health problems.

Awards and Achievments

Player

*USSR Championship: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968
*USSR Cup: 1964, 1966
*Participant of World Cup 1966
*In the list of the 33 best players — 5 times (twice №1)

Coach

*Ukrainian Championship: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
*Ukrainian Cup: 1996, 2005.

References

* [http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/sabo.html RussiaTeam biography]