Yozhef Sabo

József Szabó [ jo ː ʒɛf sɒbo ː ] (Ukrainian Йожеф Йожефович Сабо / Joschef Joschefowytsch Sabo, Russian Йожеф Йожефович Сабо / Joschef Joschefowitsch Sabo; * February 29, 1940 in Ungvár / Uzhhorod, Carpathian Ukraine, Hungary ) is a retired Soviet football player and Hungarian- Ukrainian coach.

Szabó is counted among the best Soviet midfielders, he won with his hometown club Dynamo Kiev in the 1960s, four Soviet championships and with the Soviet national team bronze medal at the football tournament of the Summer Olympics in 1972. Since the end of the USSR was Szabó several times coach of Dynamo Kiev and the Ukrainian national football team, but resigned in early November 2007 back from his last engagement as coach Dynamos attacked because of his health.

Player

Szabó began his career as a player in 1957 at the unterklassigen club " Chimik Kalush ", but moved in his debut year for at least second-rate club Spartak from his hometown, before moving to Dynamo Kiev in 1959. He won with Kiev in ten years the championship four times and twice the Cup of the USSR. In 1970 he played for one year at Zorya Woroschylowhrad before he trailed off at Dynamo Moscow 1971/72 its active time; in his last year he could Dynamo Moscow to lead as captain in the final of the Cup Winners' Cup, but that was almost lost.

Szabó played 40 times for the selection of the USSR, and nine times for the Olympic team in the country, thereby pass him nine goals. During the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, he was in the squad but had no use, at the 1966 World Cup, he was a regular player with the team fourth in the 1972 Olympics he won a bronze medal.

Coach

After his playing career began in the 1970s, a career as a coach. In 1977, he trained briefly the first division Sorja Woroschylowhrad, the year after the third division SKA Kiev, but took over in the same year, the first division club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, but whose descent he could not avoid and when he got him in the second division in danger of relegation, dismissed. Then Szabó interrupted his coaching career until the fall of the USSR. He became coach of Dynamo Kiev, where he stayed with brief interruptions until 1997 1993. Under Szabó's management of the club was in each year of Ukrainian masters. In addition, he was in 1994 and as of 1996 coach of the Ukrainian national team, but because they failed him in the qualifying playoffs to both the 1998 World Cup and the Euro 2000, the Ukrainian Association dismissed him in 1999. Simultaneously he Vice President of Dynamo Kiev had become and also took over as coach several times: as 2004/ 05 and in the fall of 2007, but in the latter occasion he resigned after just eight weeks back as a coach because of significant health problems..