Leonid Buryak - Biography

Leonid Yosipovich Buryak (born 10 July 1953 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.

Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder for the USSR national football team, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.

Buryak played for a number of teams in the Soviet Union, most notably for Dynamo Kyiv, of which he was also the sporting manager. As a player he had a tremendous impact on his team, similar to what Pavel Nedvěd or Zinedine Zidane had on theirs. Buryak has coached the Ukrainian national football team.

Statistics for Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo	1973	26	2	9	0	6	2	-	-	41	4
	1974	29	5	5	1	6	1	-	-	40	7
	1975	25	0	1	0	8	2	-	-	34	2
	1976 (s)	5	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	0
	1976 (a)	13	4	1	0	8	3	-	-	22	7
	1977	26	5	2	0	2	0	1	0	31	5
	1978	24	5	8	4	3	1	-	-	35	10
	1979	26	5	6	1	6	1	-	-	38	7
	1980	28	9	7	5	1	1	-	-	36	15
	1981	29	9	7	0	5	1	1	0	42	10
	1982	21	3	2	1	4	2	-	-	27	6
	1983	28	6	1	0	2	0	-	-	31	6
	1984	24	3	2	0	-	-	-	-	26	3
Total		304	56	51	12	51	14	2	0	408	82

Other - USSR Super Cup

The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Awards

Ballon d'Or

1975 – 23rd