Volodymyr Bessonov
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Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov, also spell Vladimir Vasilijević Bessonov is a Ukrainian
football
manager and former player, he played for the USSR national football team
. The most recent team he was managing was Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League
.
i club Maccabi Haifa F.C.
in 1990–91. He was well known as a lightning quick full-back with a powerful shot. Bezsonov was attack- minded and scored a good return for a defender. He ended 27 goals in the 377 games that played for Dynamo.
from 1977 to 1990 and was included in three FIFA World Cup
squads. He also holds the record for the fifth highest appearances for the USSR national football team
. In the 1990 World Cup he was sent off against Argentina. His team ended up losing the match 2–0.
, but was sacked in Sep. 2010 following elimination from the UEFA Europa League and a number of poor results domestically.
. Together they have a daughter, Anna Bessonova
, who also competes internationally in rhythmic gymnastics, became world champion in 2007, and an olympic bronze medalist in 2008.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
manager and former player, he played for the USSR national football team
USSR national football team
The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...
. The most recent team he was managing was Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
.
Club
Bezsonov's career began in 1976 with Dynamo Kyiv. Here he spent most of his career, except for a short one-season stint in IsraelIsrael
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i club Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Maccabi Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football team from the city of Haifa, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club has won 12 championships, 5 State Cups and 4 Toto Cups...
in 1990–91. He was well known as a lightning quick full-back with a powerful shot. Bezsonov was attack- minded and scored a good return for a defender. He ended 27 goals in the 377 games that played for Dynamo.
International
Bezsonov won 79 caps and scored 4 goals for the USSR national football teamUSSR national football team
The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...
from 1977 to 1990 and was included in three FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
squads. He also holds the record for the fifth highest appearances for the USSR national football team
USSR national football team
The Soviet Union National Football Team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist after the break up of the Union...
. In the 1990 World Cup he was sent off against Argentina. His team ended up losing the match 2–0.
Coaching
Most recently, Bezsonov was the head coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier LeagueUkrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
, but was sacked in Sep. 2010 following elimination from the UEFA Europa League and a number of poor results domestically.
Personal life
Bezsonov is married to Viktoria Serkyh, a former two-time world champion in rhythmic gymnasticsRhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...
. Together they have a daughter, Anna Bessonova
Anna Bessonova
Anna Bessonova is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast who was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father is the Dynamo Kiev football player Vladimir Bessonov and her mother, Viktoria, was a two time world champion group rhythmic gymnast....
, who also competes internationally in rhythmic gymnastics, became world champion in 2007, and an olympic bronze medalist in 2008.
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... |
1976 (s) | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
| 9 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1976 (a) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1977 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |
| 1978 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 35 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1979 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 33 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1980 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 42 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 5 | |
| 1982 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 21 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1983 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 12 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1984 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 26 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1985 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| 34 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1986 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 1 | |
| 1987 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |
| 1988 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 21 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1989 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 8 | |
| 1990 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 8 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 277 | 27 | 47 | 8 | 39 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 374 | 40 | |
- Other - USSR Super Cup & USSR Federation Cup
- The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments
Individual Honours
- Ukrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the Year is an annual award given by the Ukrainskiy Football daily to the best professional Ukrainian footballer....
: winner 1989 - Ukrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the Year is an annual award given by the Ukrainskiy Football daily to the best professional Ukrainian footballer....
: 2nd place 1988 - Ukrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the YearUkrainian Footballer of the Year is an annual award given by the Ukrainskiy Football daily to the best professional Ukrainian footballer....
: 3rd place 1986 - Voted in the Soviet Unions "All time World Cup team" on planetworldcup.com above other great Full-backs such as Igor NettoIgor NettoIgor Aleksandrovich Netto was a footballer from the Soviet Union, considered one of the greatest Soviet players ever. He started out as a left defender but, due to his offensive mentality, dribbling and technical abilities turned into a dynamic central midfielder...
and Vasiliy RatsVasiliy RatsVasyl Karlovych Rats is a former Ukrainian football midfielder of Hungarian ethnicity. He participated in two World Cups with the USSR national team.-Club career:...
.
Club Honours
- USSR ChampionshipUSSR ChampionshipUSSR Championship* Soviet Top League - football competition.* Soviet Hockey League - Top league of Soviet hockey* Soviet Championship - rugby union competition.* USSR Chess Championship - chess competition....
: winner 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990 - USSR Cup: winner 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990
- USSR Super CupUSSR Super CupThe USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one or two legged playoff for the trophy. The competition never took off, as the Super Cup winner was only determined 7 times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It wasn't...
: winner 1980, 1985, 1986 - UEFA Cup Winners Cup: winner 1986
- Trofeo Santiago BernabéuTrofeo Santiago BernabéuThe Santiago Bernabéu Trophy or Santiago Bernabéu Cup is dedicated to the memory of long-time Real Madrid president Santiago Bernabéu. It is a friendly tournament organised each year by Real Madrid at the beginning of the season, somewhere around the end of August or the beginning of...
: winner 1986 - 1980 Summer Olympics1980 Summer OlympicsThe 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
: Bronze Medal. - 1988 Summer Olympics1988 Summer OlympicsThe 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...
: Gold Medal. - UEFA European Football ChampionshipUEFA European Football ChampionshipThe UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
: runner-up 1988. - USSR ChampionshipUSSR ChampionshipUSSR Championship* Soviet Top League - football competition.* Soviet Hockey League - Top league of Soviet hockey* Soviet Championship - rugby union competition.* USSR Chess Championship - chess competition....
: runner-up 1978, 1982, 1988 - USSR Super CupUSSR Super CupThe USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one or two legged playoff for the trophy. The competition never took off, as the Super Cup winner was only determined 7 times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It wasn't...
: runner-up 1977 - UEFA Super Cup: runner-up 1987
- WorldSoccer "Team of the World" in 1986: Part of the Dynamo Kyiv team that came 2nd.