Kim Yevhenovych Fomin ( uk, Кім Євгенович Фомін, real name Akim Feofanovych Fomin; born in 1914 in
Balta
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,
Podolian Governorate – died in 1976 in
Odessa
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) was a
Soviet Ukrainian football
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player and coach. He is mentioned in a book of
Oleh Makarov
Oleh Oleksandrovych Makarov ( uk, Олег Олександрович Макаров, russian: Олег Александрович Макаров; July 26, 1929 – November 8, 1995) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player, coach, and sports wr ...
"Vratar" (1963).
Life
Born in Balta, the Fomini family moved to
Odessa
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before the
Bolshevik coup
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. In Odessa, Fomin lived near the ''
Kulykove Pole'' (English: Wader's Field) which was a center of the Odessa city football in the early 20th century.
After the Soviet occupation of Ukraine in 1920s, he was forced to change his name Akim Feofanovych to Kim Yevhenovych.
Football career
Until 1937 he played for the Odessa's local teams including
FC Dynamo Odessa
FC Dynamo Odesa is an amateur association football team from Odesa. It is widely believed that the club along with Pishchevik were predecessors of FC Chornomorets Odesa.
Overview
The club was established in 1926 based on local team Sparta Odes ...
finishing his career in
FC Traktor Kharkiv that year.
After the
World War II in 1945, Fomin became a head coach of the revived Pishchevik Odessa and with some breaks stayed with the club until 1955. After the club's relegation and its liquidation in 1950, in the 1951 Football Championship of Ukraine started out two teams from Odessa, Spartak and Metalurh and Kim Fomin was appointed a head coach of Metalurh. When in 1953 Metalurh was admitted to the Soviet Class B (later
Soviet First League) competitions, Fomin was replaced by a Muscovite coach
Aleksei Kostylev
Aleksei Nikolayevich Kostylev (russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ко́стылев; 1914 in Moscow – 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian football player and coach.
Career
During World War II Kostylev played for the Soviet FC S ...
. Fomin continued to coach a local football school in Odessa. He returned as a head coach of Pishchevik however couple of years later due to the poor performance of the club under Kostylev's leadership. In 1955 Metalurh was reorganized and in its place was reestablished Pishchevik, while couple of years later Metalurh Odessa restarted again in the Football Championship of Ukraine. During the mid season Fomin was replaced again with an Armenian specialist.
After Pishchevik, Fomin coached another Odessa club
SKA Odessa
SC Odesa is a former Ukrainian football team that appeared in 1992 following the reorganization of the Soviet SKA Odesa. The new city municipal team was located in Odesa, Ukraine and previously at one point was part of the Soviet Army sport sys ...
and later
Avanhard Zhovti Vody.
Notes
Further reading
*
Makarov, O.
Vratar (Goalie)'. "Radyanskyi pysmenyk". Kiev, 1963.
References
External links
SC Odessa Odessa Football.
Akim Fomin Odessa Football.
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1914 births
1976 deaths
People from Balta, Ukraine
People from Baltsky Uyezd
Soviet footballers
Ukrainian footballers
Soviet football managers
Ukrainian football managers
FC Dynamo Odesa players
FC Chornomorets Odesa managers
SC Odesa managers
FC Sirius Kryvyi Rih managers
Association footballers not categorized by position
Sportspeople from Odesa Oblast
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