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Lobanovskiy Forever

  • June 2016
  • 1hr

    32mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Anton Azarov,

    Starring

    Carlo Ancelotti,

    Andriy Shevchenko,

    Michel Platini,

    Oleh Blokhin

    ...

    In 1975 Dynamo Kiev became the first Soviet team to win a major European trophy. The team’s rapid rise was remarkable and attributed to one man: Valeri Vasilievich Lobanovskyi. His technique as a manager is now the stuff of folklore - not least for his imposing a fitness regime so brutal that his players looked upon the matches themselves as relaxing.