Vasiliy Rats

Football player infobox2
playername = Vasiliy Rats
fullname = Vasiliy (László) Karlovich Rats (Rácz)
height =
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1961|3|25|df=y
cityofbirth = Fanchikovo
countryofbirth = USSR
position = Defender
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1979
1980
1981-1989
1989
1990
1991-1993
clubs = FC Karpaty Lviv
Lokomotiv Vinnytsia
FC Dynamo Kyiv
RCD Espanyol
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Ferencvárosi TC
caps(goals) = 5 (0)

164 (22)
10 (0)
21 (2)
nationalyears = 1986-1990
nationalteam = USSR
nationalcaps(goals) = 47 (4)
manageryears = 2007
managerclubs = FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)

Vasilij Karlović Rats ( _uk. Василь Рац; Hungarian: Rácz László) (born 25 March, 1961 in Fanchikovo, Ukraine) is a former Ukrainian football midfielder of Hungarian ethnicity. He participated in two World Cups with the USSR national team.

Honours

* Soviet Top League winner: 1985, 1986, 1990.
* Soviet Cup winner: 1982, 1987, 1990.
* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner: 1986.
* UEFA Euro 1988 runner-up: 1988.

International career

Rats earned 47 caps and scored 4 goals for the USSR, from 1986 to 1990. He played in two World Cups, in 1986 and 1990. He became famous for scoring one of the most spectacular goals of the 1986 World Cup, a powerful 40 yard shot against France in a 1-1 draw in the first round: a headed clearance by France was picked up by Belanov and laid off to Rats, who on the first touch, belted the ball from several yards outside the area past French goalkeeper Joel Bats and into the top left hand corner of the net. During Euro 1988 his goal secured USSR a 1-0 victory in the group stage over eventual champions The Netherlands. USSR reached the final, but was unable to repeat their achievement in the group stage and lost 2-0 by goals of Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten.