Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha | ||
| Date of birth | 17 February 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1988 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 245 | (6) |
| 1988–1990 | Ipswich Town | 28 | (1) |
| 1990–1993 | St Johnstone | 90 | (1) |
| 1993–1994 | Inverness Caledonian | ? | (?) |
| 1994–1995 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | 9 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1980–1988 | USSR | 45 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1993–1994 | Inverness Caledonian | ||
| 1994–1995 | Inverness Caledonian Thistle | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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| Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing  Soviet Union
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| Men's Football | ||
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1980 Moscow | Team Competition |
Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (Ukrainian: Сергій Павлович Балтача; born 17 February 1958 in Mariupol) is a former professional football player who won 45 full caps for the Soviet Union and made nearly 300 appearances for Dynamo Kiev.
Baltacha was developed by the famous coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi from Dynamo Kiev hero and one of the most respected football coaches of the 20th century. He was spotted by the Dynamo boss while still a teenager at the Kharkiv academy of footballing excellence which he had left home to attend at the age of 13
In 1979 Baltacha played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.
Baltacha was on the winning side in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1986, the Soviet Top League and Soviet Cup four times, and the Soviet Super Cup on three occasions. He also appeared in the FIFA World Cup in 1982, was a finalist in the European Championships in 1988 and won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
His later career was spent in England and Scotland, playing for Ipswich Town and St Johnstone. His debut for Ipswich (in which he scored) was the first time a Soviet international had played in the Football League. He also had a spell as player manager of Inverness Caledonian in the Scottish Highland Football League, and was with Caledonian when they amalgamated with Inverness Thistle and entered the Scottish Football League in 1994 as Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
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