Volodymyr Muntyan
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan | ||
| Date of birth | 14 September 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Kotovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FFU staff | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965–1977 | Dynamo Kyiv | 302 | (57) |
| National team | |||
| 1968–1976 | USSR | 49 | (7) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1980–1982 | SKA Kyiv | ||
| 1986–1988 | COSFAP Antananarivo | ||
| 1992–1994 | Ukraine Olympic team | ||
| 1995–1997 | Guinea | ||
| 1998 | Cherkasy | ||
| 1999 | Orion Kyiv | ||
| 2000 | Tavriya Simferopol | ||
| 2001 | Obolon Kyiv | ||
| 2002 | Alania Vladikavkaz | ||
| 2003–2004 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | ||
| 2004–2005 | Vorskla Poltava | ||
| 2008 | Ukraine U-21(interim) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan (Ukrainian: Володимир Мунтян, Russian: Владимир Мунтян, Romanian: Vladimir Muntean), (born 14 September 1946, Kotovsk, USSR, was a renowned Soviet midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to ever represent Dynamo Kyiv and Soviet Union. He is also the only player apart from Oleg Blokhin (his team-mate in the 1970s) who has won 7 Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan was also a professional football player. He is both Romanian and Armenian background.
A son of a factory worker and a nurse, Muntyan became interested in acrobatics and competed successfully in Kiev's city-wide competition, winning accolades in his age category. His family eventually relocated to live near a professional soccer grounds in Kiev, where young Muntyan and his friends would hang out, acting as ball boys to the elders. While once juggling a ball, he was approached by a soldier, who asked him if he was interested in taking up football as a sport. Muntyan said yes and was taken to Mikhail Korsunskiy, who was a famous local children's coach at the time. He quickly recognised Muntyan's potential.
Due to the boy's natural talent, he was included in Kiev’s youth team with people like Semen Altman and Anatoly Byshovets (both coaches now). After a Spartakiada match between the Kiev and Moscow teams, which Kiev won, Dynamo Kyiv youth coach Mykhaylo Koman offered young Muntyan to come to a training session with the senior team the next day at 11:00. The young boy turned up outside the ground, but was so scared to see his idols Valery Lobanovsky, Andriy Biba, that he hid behind a tree and didn't make the team bus. However his friend Anatoly Byshovets helped him to get over the fear and eventually he turned up to a training session.
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