Football player Oleg Luzhny: biography

Luzhny Oleg Romanovich - football player, coach, who can be proud of his homeland. It is about this remarkable person that the article will be discussed.

Becoming a player and a coach

Soviet, and later Ukrainian athlete, coach Oleg Romanovich Luzhny was born on August 5, 1968 in the city of Lviv. As a player, he spent most of his career defending the colors of Kiev's Dynamo. He acted as a right-back. He was one of those who created a whole series of sensational victories in Kiev in the Champions League, held in the second half of the nineties.

Carier start

The debut of the young defender in the national team of the USSR took place at the age of 20. Later, he spent 8 matches in the national team's shirt. These games occurred in the period from 1989 to 1990. But, unfortunately, the football player Oleg Luzhny was forced to miss the world football championship due to injury, which was held in Italy in 1990. After the end of the Soviet Union, Luzhny joined the national team of Ukraine and held more than fifty matches for it. But in the composition of this team he did not manage to break into the final tournament of world and European championships. Ukrainian football players were eliminated three times during the play-off qualifying rounds. It should be noted that for a long time Oleg Luzhny had the honor to withdraw the national team to the football field in the rank of the team captain.

London Period

In the summer of 1999, the player put his signature under an agreement with one of the leading English clubs - London's Arsenal. Oleg pleasantly surprised his game head coach, "Gunners" Arsene Wenger. This happened in the games of his now-former team against the Londoners in the Champions League tournament. Then the people of Kiev in full-time confrontation achieved victory with a total score of 4: 2. Accepting the proposal of the management of the English club, he signed a 3-year contract, and he was given a T-shirt with the 22nd number.

For the first year of his performance in the illustrious club Oleg Luzhny achieved good results. He played 30 matches, twice received a warning and was once deleted during the match. He became the silver medalist of the championship of England and played in the final match of the UEFA Cup, where his team lost to the Turkish "Galatasaray". In addition, Luzhny came out on the field and in two games of the Champions League.

In the next season, he went out on the green lawn both in the starting lineup and then replacing the other players. He could play and more often, but quite frequent injuries and already solid by football standards, the age was felt. 38 matches were played in the national championship, a couple in the League Cup plus to this - European cup matches. In general, for the season more than fifty matches are scored, which is a serious test for any player. "Arsenal" again finished in second place in the championship of England, conceding forward the team, "Manchester United", and became a finalist of the national Cup.

Season 01/02 was the most successful for Oleg Luzhny as part of the London club. The Gunners finally won the English football championship. In addition, having won the final game of the English Cup of fellow countrymen from "Chelsea", they won the cup. Thus, the wards of Arsene Wenger made a kind of "golden double". It is noteworthy that in one of the matches Luzhny in the absence of other experienced players in the club was the captain of the team. In 2002, the contract expired Ukrainian football player, but the management team offered to extend it for another year.

In the past 12 months, spent at the Arsenal, he participated in 17 games in the Premier League, receiving 3 warnings. The Londoners took their second place, which was already habitual, again passing to the top of the table the club from Manchester.

The last match of Luzhny was the final fight of the FA Cup, in which his club played against Southampton. Superbly having spent all match, Oleg has been awarded a rank of the player of a match and on the right with a command has lifted above a head a national cup. His career in one of the strongest clubs not only in England, but also in Europe was completed on a positive note.

Completion of the player's career

Despite several proposals from mid-league clubs of the English league, Oleg Luzhny went to play in Lithuania, where he completed his playing career. As a football player later admitted himself, he could have been at quite a high level for several more years.

He had one of the best careers among Ukrainians in the English Premier League. In addition to winning the above mentioned trophies, he was recognized several times as the defender of the month and included in the top ten defenders at the end of the season. In general, he perfectly played his time in England, but came there already quite mature master of the leather ball. Now, if he had been invited for 2-3 years earlier, victories and trophies would certainly have been greater.

Coaching career stage

What about this stage in the life of a football player tells us the biography? Oleg Luzhny in May 2006 began to perform the duties of assistant head coach, "Dinamo" from the Ukrainian capital. In the period from November to December 2007, he temporarily supervised the team. After the appointment in early 2008, the new head coach returned to perform his basic duties in the team. Later, he again had to take over the reins of the management team, and he did it with his own skill and confidence.

Here is such an intense and interesting life in the favorite of many fans of football - Oleg Romanovich Luzhny. Young people have someone to be proud of and with whom to take an example!