Vasyl Rats

Vasily Raz (Ukrainian Василь Карлович Рац, Russian Василий Карлович Рац; born March 25, 1961 in Fantschykowo, Transcarpathian Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a retired Soviet football player and football coach of Hungarian descent.

Vasily Raz began his career as a football player in 1979 at Karpaty Lviv, in 1981 he played for Dynamo Kiev. This team won the left midfielder in 1985 and 1986 the Soviet Championship and 1982 and 1987 the Soviet Cup. In the 1985/86 season he won with his team the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Raz moved in the spring of 1989 to Espanyol Barcelona and completed eleven games for this club in the Spanish Primera Division. After the descent of Espanyol but he returned in the summer of the same year for the time being returned to Dynamo Kiev. In 1990, he was with Dynamo again Soviet champion and cup winner.

For the Soviet national Raz played 47 times and scored four goals. He participated in the World Championships in 1986 and 1990 and reached at the European Championship in 1988 with the Soviet team the final against the winning team of the Netherlands ( 0:2 ).

At the beginning of 1991, Raz to Hungary to Ferencvaros Budapest. Due to a stroke he suffered in early 1991, however, he was only in the 1991/92 season for use again and could only seven games for Ferencvaros contest.

After the end of his active career Raz worked as a businessman. In the season 1996/97 he was a member of the coaching staff of Ferencvaros. In the fall of 2007, he was briefly assistant József Szabó at Dynamo Kiev.