Ishtvan Jorovich Shandor ( hu, Sándor István; uk, Іштван Дьордьович Шандор; born 19 August 1944) is a Ukrainian former
football
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player and coach of Hungarian origin. He was awarded the honorary title of the
Master of Sports of the USSR.
Biography
He started playing football in his youth in his native
Zakarpattia Oblast. In 1966 he was invited to the
“Polissya” team (
Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...
). In 1970 he played for
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*Spartak (sports society), an international fitness and sports society that unites some countries of the former Soviet Union
In Russia
*FC Spartak Moscow, a football club
*FC Spartak Kostroma, a football club
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,
Sumy for a short time. After the end of his professional career as a football player, he was appointed as a coach of
Hoverla (Uzhhorod), which then played in the second league of the
USSR Football Championship (197? -1978).
He became an assistant of the second league team
Spartak (Ivano-Frankivsk) in 1979. In 1981 he was the head coach of Spartak, which was then called "
Prykarpattia
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" and played in the first league, served on the teams of
Bukovina (Chernivsky) (1982–1983),
Zakarpattia Uzhhorod (1984–1987) and
Zirka Kirovohrad (1988–1989).
After settling in
Hungary, he was the coach of
Nyíregyháza, Diósgyőr and then Stadler. He became a
MTK player observer in 1998. He led the BVSC team in the second half of the year. He has been leading the
Csongrád team since the summer of 1999.
He held this position until June 2001, when he became the coach of
Nyíregyháza again.
References
External links
1970. Класс «А». Вторая группа. 1 зона.(in Russian)
Кубок СССР 1981 год.(in Russian)
1944 births
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod managers
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi managers
FC Polissya Zhytomyr players
FC Spartak Sumy players
Soviet football managers
Ukrainian football managers
Diósgyőri VTK managers
Ukrainian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Hungary
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
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