Yevhen Lemeshko
Ukrainian football coach (1930–2016)
Yevhen Lemeshko (Ukrainian: Євген Пилипович Лемешко; 11 December 1929 – 2 June 2016) was a Ukrainian football coach. He was born in Mykolaiv. He was chairman of the Council of Veteran Footballers. He started his football career as a player for FC Dynamo Kyiv, but due to an injury he stopped playing and became a coach.
| 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 | ||
| National team | |||
| 1956 | Ukraine | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 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 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
In 1956 Lemeshko played two games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[2] In 1980 he became a Merited Coach of Ukraine.
Lemeshko died on 2 June 2016 in Kyiv, Ukraine from a stroke, aged 86.[3]
References
change- ↑ Yevhen Lemeshko at WorldFootball.net
- ↑ Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- ↑ Ушел из жизни Евгений Лемешко (in Ukrainian)
Other websites
change- (in Russian) Lemeshko only five years younger than Metalist (Obozrevatel, December 14, 2005) Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- (in Russian) Brief profile at klisf
- (in Ukrainian) History of Karpaty Lviv Archived 2016-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Ukrainian) Interview to the Ukrainian daily "Den" (July 23, 1998)
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