Yevhen Lemeshko (Ukrainian: Євген Пилипович Лемешко; 11 December 1930 – 2 June 2016) was a Ukrainian football player and coach[1] as well as chairman of the Council of Veteran Footballers.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yevhen Pylypovych Lemeshko | ||
| Date of birth | 11 December 1930 | ||
| Place of birth | Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Date of death | 2 June 2016 (aged 85) | ||
| Place of death | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1949 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | ||
| 1950 | Lokomotyv Kharkiv | ||
| 1950–1958 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
| 1959 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | ||
| 1959–1960 | Shakhtar Stalino | ||
| International career | |||
| 1956 | Ukraine | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1960–1966 | FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | ||
| 1967 | Karpaty Lviv | ||
| 1968–1970 | FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | ||
| 1971–1974 | FC Sudobudivnyk Mykolaiv | ||
| 1977–1988 | Metalist Kharkiv | ||
| 1989–1993 | FC Torpedo Zaporizhia | ||
| 1993 | Metalist Kharkiv | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
editLemeshko started his football career as a player for FC Dynamo Kyiv, but due to an injury he continued his football career as a coach.
International career
editIn 1956 Lemeshko played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[2]
Coaching career
editIn 1980, Lemeshko became a Merited Coach of Ukraine.
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||||
| Podillia | 1961 | 1965 | 199 | 77 | 51 | 71 | 38.7 | |||||
| Karpaty | July 1966 | August 1967 [3][4] | 47 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 40.4 | |||||
| Desna | August 1967 | December 1967 [5] | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 54.5 | |||||
| Podillia | 1968 | 1970 | 136 | 55 | 42 | 39 | 40.4 | |||||
| MFC Mykolaiv | 1971 | 1974 | 189 | 101 | 47 | 41 | 53.4 | |||||
| Krystal | March 1976 [6] | December 1976 | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 36.8 | |||||
| Metalist | January 1977 | December 1988 | 521 | 227 | 136 | 158 | 43.6 | |||||
| Torpedo Zap | June 1989 | 23 April 1993 [7] [8] | 175 | 78 | 41 | 56 | 44.6 | |||||
| Podillia | 1 May 1993 | 30 June 1993 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 41.7 | |||||
| Metalist | 1 August 1993 | December 1993 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 21.1 | |||||
| Total | 1,347 | 586 | 354 | 407 | 43.5 | |||||||
Death
editLemeshko died on 2 June 2016 at the age of 85.[9]
Personal information
editLemeshko was a father-in-law of Oleh Protasov.[citation needed]
Honors
editCoach
editSudnobudivnyk
- Champion of Ukraine: 1974
Metalist Kharkiv
- Champion of Ukraine: 1978
- Champion USSR: 1981
- USSR Cup: 1983, 1988
Torpedo Zaporizhia
- Champion of Ukraine: 1990
References
edit- ^ a b Yevhen Lemeshko at WorldFootball.net
- ^ Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- ^ Євгену Лемешку виповнилось вісімдесят!
- ^ «Разговор с прошлым»: Евгений Лемешко
- ^ 1963-1969
- ^ Херсонский футбол: от истоков до наших дней
- ^ "Торпедо" (Запорожье) - "Металлург" (Запорожье) 1:3 (0:3)
- ^ "Торпедо" (Запорожье) - "Карпаты" (Львов) 3:2 (1:1)
- ^ Yevhen LEMESHKO has passed away
External links
edit- (in Russian) Lemeshko only five years younger than Metalist (Obozrevatel, 14 December 2005)
- (in Russian) Brief profile at klisf
- (in Ukrainian) History of Karpaty Lviv
- (in Ukrainian) Interview to the Ukrainian daily "Den" (23 July 1998)
- Lemeshko runs out of the coach seats as his team Metalist scored the winning goal and became the 1988 Soviet Cup holder (video) on YouTube
- (in Russian) Interview of Volodymyr Danylyuk when he's mentioning Lemeshko as the coach of Karpaty (Sport-glavred, 29 July 2010)
- (in Russian) Interview of Volodymyr Linke (Metlaist's all-time top scorer) who talks about Lemeshko (27 March 2008)
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