Andriy Bal

Andriy Bal (Ukrainian Андрій Михайлович Баль, Russian Андрей Михайлович Баль; born January 16, 1958 in Rosdil, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a retired Soviet football player and current football coach.

Andriy Bal started his career as a football player in 1976 in the first team of Karpaty Lviv, with this team he managed the 1979 promotion to the top Soviet league. In 1981, Bal moved to Dynamo Kiev, Dynamo, he was 1981-1990 Soviet champion four times, three times runner-up four times and Soviet Cup winner. In the season 1985/86 he won with his team the European Cup Winners' Cup.

In 1977, Andriy Bal won with the Soviet team's Junior World Championship in Tunisia. For the Soviet national team, he played 1981-1989 a total of 20 times and scored one goal. He took part in Spain and in Mexico in 1986 at the World Championships in 1982.

At the beginning of 1991, Bal to Israel, first for Maccabi Tel Aviv, at the beginning of the 1991/92 season then Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv. In Israel Bal began his career as a coach, among other things, he was an assistant coach at Maccabi Haifa and head coach at Maccabi Herzliya.

After a period as assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv Bal was from 2001 to 2003 Head Coach of the Vorskla Poltava. Since 2003, Bal was assistant Oleh Blokhin on the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team and participated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany in part.

After Bal 2007 to 2009 again was assistant coach Blokhin at FK Moscow, he took over at the start of the 2009/10 season the team of Chernomorets Odessa but has been dismissed during the season because of lack of success. Since early 2011, Bal again belongs to the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team.