Anatoliy Ivanovych Volobuyev ( uk, Анатолій Іванович Волобуєв; born 16 June 1953) is a Ukrainian former
football
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player, and a head-coach of couple Ukrainian teams in the
Premier
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and
First leagues. He holds a record for the most games managed a club in
Persha Liha (Ukrainian First League).
Playing career
Volobyuev started to play football back in 1964. His first coach was Mykola Haribov.
His playing career began in 1969 when he was training with the main city team (Kommunarets). It was until the next year when he was actively involved in the team playing for it in Class B (Soviet Second League) competitions. In 1971 when Class B was phasing away, Volobuyev moved to
Shakhtar Kadiyivka. His military obligation, he served by playing in
SKA Kiev in 1973–1975.
In 1976 Volobuyev joined the newly formed football team Kolos Mezhyrich (near Pavlohrad) which represented the local collective farm named after the
22nd Party Congress. After few seasons he moved to the
Georgian SSR where he played for teams from western Georgia. In 1983 at age of 30, Volobuyev was forced to retire due to his injury of
meniscus
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*Meniscus (liquid)
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.
Coaching career
Soon after his retirement Volobuyev became physical fitness (physical culture) instructor at the "Kommunarskstroy" (a Soviet "trust" company).
In 1983, in Alchevsk (at that time Kommunarsk) was created second football team (after Kommunarets) Budivelnyk (Stroitel).
In 1986 Volobuyev graduated the
University of Luhansk as a teacher of physical fitness. In 1989 the original factory team Kommunarets of
Alchevsk Metallurgical Complex
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It was founded in 1895 as a metallurgical plant of the ...
was disbanded and the factory adopted Stroitel which changed its name to Stal.
For most of his career, Volobuyev was involved with
Stal Alchevsk
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...
from 1988.
He led the team from city competitions to a professional football club which reached the
Ukrainian Premier League.
Before spending a season as manager of
Zorya Luhansk
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in the
Ukrainian Premier League Volobuyev held the position of Vice-President of the
Professional Football League of Ukraine
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in 2005.
He was hired back as head coach of Stal Alchevsk in November 2009.
Political career
In 2010 Volobuyev was elected to the
Luhansk Oblast Council (from the Alchevsk electoral district).
References
External links
Profile at Zorya web-site
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1953 births
Living people
People from Alchevsk
University of Luhansk alumni
Soviet men's footballers
Footballers from Luhansk Oblast
Men's association football forwards
FC Kosmos Pavlohrad players
FC Stakhanov players
NK Veres Rivne players
FC Stal Alchevsk players
SKA Kiev players
Dinamo Zugdidi players
Soviet football managers
Ukrainian football managers
Ukrainian Premier League managers
FC Stal Alchevsk managers
FC Zorya Luhansk managers
Professional Football League of Ukraine