Volodymyr Muntyan

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Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx; born 14 September 1946) is a Soviet and Ukrainian midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to ever represent Dynamo Kyiv and Soviet Union. He is also the only player apart from Oleg Blokhin (his teammate in the 1970s) who has won 7 Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan is also a former professional football player.

Early life

A son of an ethnic Romanian plant worker and a Ukrainian nurse,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Muntyan became interested in acrobatics and competed successfully in Kyiv's citywide competition, winning accolades in his age category. His family eventually relocated to live near a professional soccer grounds in Kyiv, where young Muntyan and his friends would hang out, acting as ball boys to the elders. While once juggling a ball, he was approached by a soldier, who asked him if he was interested in taking up football as a sport. Muntyan said yes and was taken to Mikhail Korsunsky, who was a famous local children's coach at the time. He quickly recognised Muntyan's potential.

Career

Youth years

Due to the boy's natural talent, he was included in Kyiv's youth team with people like Semen Altman and Anatoly Byshovets (both coaches now). After a Spartakiada match between the Kyiv and Moscow teams, which Kyiv won, Dynamo Kyiv youth coach Mykhaylo Koman offered young Muntyan to come to a training session with the senior team the next day at 11:00. The young boy turned up outside the ground, but was so scared to see his idols Valery Lobanovsky, Andriy Biba, that he hid behind a tree and didn't make the team bus. However his friend Anatoly Byshovets helped him to get over the fear and eventually he turned up to a training session.

Early career

Muntyan joined the Dynamo Kyiv team as a 15-year-old, when the main team coach was Victor Maslov. Despite weighing only 60 kg (9.5 stones) and being only 170 cm in height, he was encouraged to play and his skills were further enhanced by the training. When five of then current squad left to join 1966 Soviet football team for the World Cup, Dynamo Kyiv managed to win a double (championship and the cup) with Muntyan stepping in from the reserves as one of the main players.

Personal life

Volodymyr Muntyan is the son of a Red Army veteran who fought in the Winter War (Soviet-Finnish War), the Eastern Front of World War II, and the Soviet–Japanese War.[1] His father, Fedir Muntyanu, had 11 brothers.[1] When Fedir Muntyanu received his passport, he declared himself Russian.[2] Only when Volodymyr was 14 or 15, he became aware that his father was actually from Moldova.[2] The mother of Volodymyr is Russian from the Voronezh Oblast.[2] In the Soviet times there existed a popular anecdote about Muntyan's ancestry speculating that he may be of Armenian origin.[1]

The father of Volodymyr worked as a fitter at a local asphalt concrete plant.[1]

By the time Volodymyr started to go to school, his family had already moved to Kyiv.[1] During his time at school, he was interested in several types of sports such as volleyball, basketball, skiing, and ice skating.[1] Moreover, Muntyan became even more involved in acrobatics, becoming the Kyiv city champion among student athletes at the age of 10 and receiving the adult-grade 3rd degree GTO standards in acrobatics.[1] At that time, he never thought that he would drop out of acrobatics and become a football player.[1] Soon, his family received a bigger apartment granted by the factory where his father worked.[1] It happened so that the place was close to the SKA stadium (today CSK ZSU Stadium) and far away from where he practiced acrobatics.[1] The young Muntyan started to spend more time at the stadium, where there was more football practice.[1]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dynamo Kyiv 1965 3 0 4 0 0 0 7 0
1966 26 8 2 0 0 0 28 8
1967 19 4 1 0 0 0 20 4
1968 36 5 0 0 0 0 36 5
1969 27 6 3 2 4 2 34 10
1970 25 3 2 0 0 0 27 3
1971 18 6 2 0 0 0 20 6
1972 30 9 3 1 6 1 39 11
1973 28 6 9 2 5 0 42 8
1974 22 2 4 2 8 2 34 6
1975 29 2 0 0 4 0 33 2
1976 (s) 10 3 1 0 0 0 11 3
1976 (a) 13 1 0 0 8 1 21 2
1977 16 2 3 0 0 0 19 2
Total 302 57 34 7 35 6 371 70
  • The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Honours

Dynamo Kyiv

Soviet Union

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Конфлікт з Лобановським, смертельна аварія і робота на Мадагаскарі. Історія Володимира Мунтяна. ua.tribuna.com.
  2. ↑ a b c "Меня заклял африканский шаман". Правила жизни легендарного "динамовца" Владимира Мунтяна. football24.ua. 14 September 2018
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