Shevchenko Vitaly Viktorovich - a famous Soviet footballer, played for Dynamo Kiev and Lokomotiv Moscow. Since the mid-eighties, he took up coaching work.
Biography
The future athlete was born in October 1951 on the second day in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. In the Soviet Union, from the mid-fifties, various sections and circles began to actively develop. The choice for little Vitaly was actually predetermined. His father, Viktor Nesterovich, an honored Soviet footballer, and later a coach, wanted to see in his son the heir to family sports traditions.
Vitaly himself loved football and went into this sport with great desire. After graduating from school, Shevchenko Jr. entered the Institute of Physical Education in the city of Kiev.
Professional career
Vitaly began his football career in his native Baku, in the football academy "Neftchi", famous throughout the USSR. In 1968 he made his debut as a regular player. In four years, he played 85 matches on the field, in which he scored 21 goals. While studying at a Kiev university, he tried to play for Dynamo, but somehow it did not work out. For the club from Kiev, he played only seven games. A series of injuries, and then a medical error during an elementary operation to remove the appendix almost put an end to Shevchenko's career.
In 1975 he came to Odessa, where he was invited to play for the local Chornomorets. For seven years, he played almost two hundred matches and each time his contribution to the team's results was invaluable. In 1982, he went to Moscow, where he played for the season for Lokomotiv. There he also studied to be a football coach at a Moscow school and continued his career as a mentor.
Coaching work
From 1986 to 1992, Shevchenko held the post of team chief in Moscow's Lokomotiv, in fact, he served as the army's political officer. But at the end of the eighties, there was a restructuring, not only national, but also ideological, the need for this position has disappeared by itself.
In 1992, Shevchenko left for Bolivia, where he was coached by the local Bolivar, later he drove to several Israeli clubs at once and returned to his homeland only in 1996. He worked at Uralmash, Uralan, Gazovik-Gazprom and Saturn Ren-tv. Vitaliy Shevchenko's coaching career was not going well and his last job was Rotor in 2010. After one season, he left the team and today does not coach anyone.
Personal life
The famous sportsman is married. He has a daughter, Tatiana, during her father's work in Bolivia, she met a local guy and eventually married him and stayed to live there. Tatyana had a daughter, Victoria, and a son, who was named after her grandfather Vitaly.
