Igor Dobrovolsky: football player and coach

Igor Dobrovolsky is a former Soviet and Russian football player, who received the most recognition in the games in the Moscow "Dynamo" and the USSR team. Since 2006 on coaching.

Dossier

Dobrovolsky Igor Ivanovich was born on August 27, 1967 in the village of Markovka in the Razdelny district of the Odessa region (USSR). Citizen of the USSR, Russia, Moldova. Height 179 cm, weight 69 kg. Playing position on the football field - midfielder. The years of playing in big football are 1984-2005. He is married. She has a wife Tatyana and two daughters.

Career football player

As a football player, Igor Dobrovolsky played in the championships of seven different countries: the USSR, Russia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Moldova. He played 313 matches in which he scored 85 goals.

• 1984-1985 - "Nistru" (Chisinau);
• 1986-1990, 1993-1994 - "Dynamo" (Moscow);
• 1990 - Genoa (Italy);
• 1991 - Castellón (Spain);
• 1992 - Servette (Switzerland);
• 1993 - Marseille (France);
• 1994-1995 - "Atletico" (Spain);
• 1996-1999 - Fortuna (Germany);
• 2004-2005 - "Tiligul-Tiras" (Moldova).

National team

For four different national teams Igor Dobrovolsky performed from 1986 to 1998. He played 61 games, scoring 18 goals.

• 1986-1988 - Olympic team of the USSR;
• 1986-1991 - National team of the USSR;
• 1992 - National team of the CIS;
• 1992-1998 - Russian national team.

Stages of football path

Igor Dobrovolsky refers to a pleiad of football players of the "lost generation". His best football years fell on the troubled times of the Soviet and post-Soviet period (the collapse of the country and the USSR championship, conflicts and scandals, the depressing state of the economic and political situation, the outflow of the best players to foreign clubs).

In the second half of the 1980s, a young generation of talented players appeared in Soviet football, which by and large could not fully become football stars for various reasons. Some people broke their injuries (Yuran, Morozov, Kolyvanov), others hurried to sign a contract with medium-sized foreign teams (Nikiforov, Onopko, Radchenko). And only a few managed to prove themselves in the 90s, speaking at the highest European level (Mostova, Karpin, Kanchelskis, Mikhailichenko).

The most talented player of Gorbachev's perestroika era was Igor Dobrovolsky, who by 19 years had achieved the status of Olympic champion, football player of the USSR national team, a player of the Moscow Dynamo Moscow. However, everything is in order.

Having graduated from the Tiraspol children's and youth sports school, Igor spent two seasons in the leading team of Moldova "Nistru" (27 matches, 13 goals scored). The bright play of the young midfielder could not go unnoticed by representatives of the best clubs of the Soviet Union. Here it is worth noting that at that time any football player, like every citizen of the USSR, had to serve his time in the armed forces of the country. For a player, this was usually a performance in one of the many Dynamo or army teams. Igor chose the capital "Dynamo", although it was seen in the best club in the Ukrainian capital. It was said that Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky was actively interested in him.

So, since 1986, Igor Dobrovolsky - a footballer "Dynamo" (Moscow). From 1986 to 1990, he played for the team 124 duel, scored 27 goals. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, like most of the leading Soviet players, Igor left to perform in Europe, having accepted an offer from the modest Italian club Genoa. By the way, there was information about the possibility of transferring the player to the Greek "Olympiakos", which at that time coached Oleg Blokhin. But this remained at the level of rumors.

Due to the inconsistency of the application for participation in the championship of Italy, Igor Dobrovolsky was leased to the Spanish team "Castellón". Here he played one season (14 matches, 3 goals). The owners of "Genoa" did not hurry to return the player to their squad, and Igor spent the season 1991/92 in the Swiss club "Servette" (23 games, 15 goals). Only after that he got an opportunity to perform in the Italian "Serie A". Having played four matches of the championship, he was injured, recovered for a long time, missed the preparatory period and lost his place in the starting lineup, failing to compete with Brazilian Branko, Czech Skuhrava and Dutchman Vant Shipu.

The next, French, stage football career Igor Dobrovolsky turned controversial. On the one hand, he, along with the team "Marseille" won the Champions League, won the French championship, on the other - a player who defended the honor of the club in only eight duels. At the end of the season Igor returns to the Moscow "Dynamo". Here he spent quite good two seasons 1993-94 years (31 match, 9 goals), traveled at his own expense as a tourist at the World Cup in the US.

Naturally, the player, lit up in Europe, could not remain without proposals from representatives of football clubs of the Old World. Soon he concludes a contract with the Spanish team "Atletico". In this club, he played 19 fights.

Since 1996, Igor Dobrovolsky - football player of the club "Fortuna", representative of the Bundesliga. The first season in the German championship was unsuccessful. As a result of the competition, the team dropped in the class. The next two years, Igor played in the lowest division. In this period, the player increasingly began to pursue injuries. Despite the profitable offers from Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Munich-1860, he decided to conclude.

He scored his last goal as a playing coach of the Moldovan club "Tiligul-Tiras". Here, the controversial career of a bright representative of the golden generation of Russian footballers who performed in the dashing 90-ies of the last century ended.

Trophies and achievements

Igor Dobrovolsky is a football player, whose main trophies were won by games for the national team of the country. In 1988 he became the winner of the Olympics in Seoul, two years later he won the gold medals of the European Championship among the youth teams. Club career was at the peak with the win of the Champions League and the championship of France (1993) in the "Marcel".

Dobrovolsky Igor Ivanovich - Honored Master of Sports, Knight of the Order of the Badge of Honor, the best football player of the Soviet Union in 1990, participant of the World Cup 1990, European Championship 1992, 1996. He was listed four times in the list of "33 best players of the season in the USSR" and once In the list of "33 best players of the championship of Russia".

Coach career

Coaching Igor Dobrovolsky began in 2005 in the club "Tiligul-Tiras". In 2006-2009, he coached the national team of Moldova. In the period from 2010 to 2013 he worked as head coach in the team "Dacia". After a brief period of work in the clubs "Veris" and "Sakhalin" Dobrovolsky returned again to the team "Dacia", but after two matches of the championship of Moldova he left the club.

What did Igor Dobrovolsky remember about football fans? Some of them will remember the performance for the national team of the USSR, others will honor the first post-Soviet player who won the Champions League, the third - as a football player advertising a chocolate bar "Snickers".