Oleg Luzhny
Luzhny in his assistant role at Dynamo Kyiv
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Oleh Romanovych Luzhny | ||
| Date of birth | 5 August 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
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Current team
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Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sports school "Karpaty" | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1988 | Torpedo Lutsk | 88 | (1) |
| 1988 | SKA Karpaty Lviv | 29 | (0) |
| 1989–1999 | Dynamo Kyiv | 253 | (13) |
| 1999–2003 | Arsenal | 75 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 6 | (0) |
| 2005 | Venta (player–manager) | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 460 | (14) | |
| National team | |||
| 1989–1990 | Soviet Union | 8 | (0) |
| 1992–2003 | Ukraine | 52 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005 | Venta (player–manager) | ||
| 2006–2012 | Dynamo Kyiv (assistant manager) | ||
| 2007 | Dynamo Kyiv (interim manager) | ||
| 2010 | Dynamo Kyiv (interim manager) | ||
| 2012–2013 | Tavriya Simferopol | ||
| 2016 | Karpaty Lviv | ||
| 2017– | Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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Oleh Romanovych Luzhny (Ukrainian: Олег Романович Лужний, born 5 August 1968) is a retired Ukrainian footballer who played as a right-back. His name is alternatively Romanised as Oleg Luzhny.
Luzhny is a product of the Karpaty sports school (coached by Yuriy Hdanskyi and Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi) and later studied at the Lviv State School of Physical Culture. He first played for Ukrainian clubs Torpedo Lutsk (1985–88) and SKA Karpaty Lviv (1988) in Soviet lower football leagues.
Luzhny signed for Dynamo Kyiv in 1989 and became a regular at right-back, winning the USSR domestic double in 1990 and seven consecutive Ukrainian league titles between 1993 and 1999. He was the captain of Dynamo Kyiv's Champions League sides that defeated FC Barcelona 3–0 at home and 4–0 away in the group stage of the 1997–98 season and eliminated holders Real Madrid 3–1 on aggregate in the quarter finals en route to the semi-finals in 1998–99.
Luzhny signed for English club Arsenal in the summer of 1999 after impressing manager Arsène Wenger in Kyiv's clashes with Arsenal in the Champions League. He was signed as cover for Lee Dixon, although he was unable to fully displace the England international. While never a regular starter with the Gunners (the young Cameroonian Lauren was signed a year later as Dixon's long-term replacement), Luzhny still played 110 matches in four years at the club, either at right-back or, less frequently, at centre-back, and even captained the team once in the League Cup. In the 2001–02 season he won a double (the FA Premier League and the FA Cup) with Arsenal. He contributed 18 league appearances as Arsenal won the 2001-02 FA Premier League. His last match for the Gunners was the 2003 FA Cup Final (which Arsenal won, beating Southampton 1–0), Luzhny's best performance for the club.
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