Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko (; 24 March 1963 – 14 December 2015) was a

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and

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player and Ukrainian coach.

Biography

Tyshchenko was born on 24 March 1963 in a small city of Horodok near

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. When Vadym was 12, he moved to

and enrolled in the Lviv sports boarding school (today Lviv Sports College). His first football coach was Fred Bushansky. Among his classmantes was Bohdan Samardak and many others. In the tenth grade Tyshchenko joined

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. He graduated the boarding school back 1981 and soon appeared in

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playing for the Second League team Nyva Vinnytsia that was coached by

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. In 1983 Nyva placed fifth in the Second League and Tyshchenko was approached by scouts of

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and joined the big club. In 1984 together with the team he visited the

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and got a $40 hair cut. Tyshchenko did not stayed in the club for long and after a year ran away. In 1985 as part of military obligation, he joined SKA Karpaty Lviv that played in the

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. Tyshchenko played for the club two full seasons in 77 games scoring 11 goals. Finally, in 1987 Kucherevsky, who noticed Tyshchenko when he played for Nyva, invited him to

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. In 1988 Tyshchenko became a champion of the Soviet Union playing for Dnipro. Yet already since 1987 Lobanovsky started to invite him for the

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. Tyshchenko however most of his time dedicated to the Soviet Union Olympic football team that won gold medals in

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. He did not play a single game in finals, but also received the

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. Tyshchenko had to miss most of the

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season and the 1988 European Championship (where Soviet team lost in the final) due to his injury of meniscus that he received on 12 March 1988 playing against

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. He was hospitalized to one of

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's hospitals. Tyshchenko however returned to

in 1989 and that season the club won the

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. He also was a candidate for the national team, but later did not make list for the finals in

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(

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). Tyshchenko stayed with Dnipro for another couple of years during which the

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fell apart and Vadym started to play in the Higher League of Ukraine where Dnipro won bronze medals against

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. In 1992 along with

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, he joined Hapoel Haifa F.C. in

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where he played another two season. Tyshchenko retired in 1994 after he was hospitalized again due to another foot injury already in

. During the hospitalization he experienced several surgeries during which had his hip and knee joints replaced. In summer of 1996 Tyshchenko returned to Dnipro where he was an assistant of

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. Since then with insignificant pauses, he stayed in the club for some 15 years as coaching staff.

Family

Tyshchenko was married for 27 years to his wife Svitlana. He was also survived by his daughter Kateryna and son Serhii.

Honours

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: 1988 (he was in the squad for the tournament, but did not play in any games) *

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winner: 1988 *

runner-up: 1987, 1990 *

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bronze: 1992 *

winner: 1989 * Top-33 players year-end list: twice

International career

Tyshchenko made his debut for

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on 29 August 1987 in a friendly against

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. He played in

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qualifiers, but was not selected for the squad for that tournament or for the

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