Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (born 10 July 1953 in Odessa

Odessa

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) is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 coach

Coach (sport)

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 and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.

Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder

Midfielder

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 for the USSR national football team

USSR national football team

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, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

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, at which he won a bronze medal

Bronze medal

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.

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager. As a player he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd

Pavel Nedved

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 or Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane

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 had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukrainian national football team.

Statistics for Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...	1973	26	2	9	0	6	2
	41	4
	1974	29	5	5	1	6	1
	40	7
	1975	25	0	1	0	8	2
	34	2
	1976 (s)	5	0
5	0
1976 (a)	13	4	1	0	8	3
22	7
1977	26	5	2	0	2	0	1	0	31	5
1978	24	5	8	4	3	1
35	10
1979	26	5	6	1	6	1
38	7
1980	28	9	7	5	1	1
36	15
1981	29	9	7	0	5	1	1	0	42	10
1982	21	3	2	1	4	2
27	6
1983	28	6	1	0	2	0
31	6
1984	24	3	2	0
26	3
Total		304	56	51	12	51	14	2	0	408	82

• Other - USSR Super Cup

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players