Anatoliy Ivanovych Volobuyev (; born 16 June 1953) is a Ukrainian former

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player, and a head-coach of couple Ukrainian teams in the

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and First leagues. He holds a record for the most games managed a club in

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(Ukrainian First League).

Playing career

Volobyuev started to play football back in 1964. His first coach was Mykola Haribov. His playing career began in 1969 when he was training with the main city team (Kommunarets). It was until the next year when he was actively involved in the team playing for it in Class B (Soviet Second League) competitions. In 1971 when Class B was phasing away, Volobuyev moved to Shakhtar Kadiyivka. His military obligation, he served by playing in SKA Kiev in 1973–1975. In 1976 Volobuyev joined the newly formed football team Kolos Mezhyrich (near Pavlohrad) which represented the local collective farm named after the 22nd Party Congress. After few seasons he moved to the

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where he played for teams from western Georgia. In 1983 at age of 30, Volobuyev was forced to retire due to his injury of

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Coaching career

Soon after his retirement Volobuyev became physical fitness (physical culture) instructor at the "Kommunarskstroy" (a Soviet "trust" company). In 1983, in Alchevsk (at that time Kommunarsk) was created second football team (after Kommunarets) Budivelnyk (Stroitel). In 1986 Volobuyev graduated the

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as a teacher of physical fitness. In 1989 the original factory team Kommunarets of

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was disbanded and the factory adopted Stroitel which changed its name to Stal. For most of his career, Volobuyev was involved with

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from 1988. He led the team from city competitions to a professional football club which reached the

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. Before spending a season as manager of

Zorya Luhansk FC Zorya Luhansk ( ) is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk was based in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine. However, due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the team currently plays its games at Slavutych-Arena in Zaporizhzhia. The modern club as a ...

in the

Volobuyev held the position of Vice-President of the

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in 2005. He was hired back as head coach of Stal Alchevsk in November 2009.

Political career

In 2010 Volobuyev was elected to the Luhansk Oblast Council (from the Alchevsk electoral district).

References

External links

Profile at Zorya web-site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Volobuyev, Anatoliy 1953 births Living people Sportspeople from Alchevsk University of Luhansk alumni Soviet men's footballers Footballers from Luhansk Oblast Men's association football forwards FC Kosmos Pavlohrad players FC Stakhanov players NK Veres Rivne players FC Stal Alchevsk players SKA Kiev players Dinamo Zugdidi players Soviet football managers Ukrainian football managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Ukrainian First League managers FC Stal Alchevsk managers FC Zorya Luhansk managers Professional Football League of Ukraine