Hryhoriy Batych
Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych (Ukrainian: Григорій Іванович Батич, Russian: Григорий Иванович Батич, Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych; 8 February 1958 – 24 November 2008) was a Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych | ||
| Date of birth | 8 February 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Karaganda, Kazakh SSR | ||
| Date of death | 24 November 2008 (aged 50)[1][2] | ||
| Place of death | Lviv, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1969–1972 | Sports school Karaganda | ||
| 1972–1975 | Sports school 4 Lviv | ||
| 1975–1977 | Karpaty Lviv | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1977–1981 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 117 | (26) |
| 1982–1983 | FC Nistru Kishinev | 66 | (30) |
| 1984 | SKA Karpaty Lvov | 35 | (7) |
| 1986 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 39 | (9) |
| 1987 | FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 45 | (10) |
| 1988 | FC Avanhard Zhydachiv | ||
| 1989 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 22 | (3) |
| 1990 | FC Zaria Balti | 5 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1977 | USSR youth | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
He capped for USSR youth team at 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Hryhoriy Batych was born in a family of a deported Ukrainian Insurgent Army militant Ivan Batih[3] whose name during deportation was butchered by a NKVD officials to Batich (adopted to Ukrainian as Batych). So it was left as such afterwards when the family returned to Lviv in 1972.
Honours
- Karpaty Lviv
- Soviet Union youth
References
- World champion out of Karaganda (Чемпион Мира из Караганды). Novosti Kazakhstanskogo futbola. 23 January 2010
- Hryhoriy Batych passed away (Не стало Григорія Батича). UA-Football. 25 November 2008
- Father was imprisoned for UPA (Батько сидів за УПА). FC Karpaty Lviv. 13 February 2008
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