Ernest Yust (, ; 1927–1992) was a Soviet and Hungarian football player and later Soviet coach.

Overview

Native of Užhorod,

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, Yust started his football career in the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

after it annexed territories of Czechoslovakia following the 1938

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which included the city of Užhorod/Ungvar. From 1940 to 1946 played for Ungvari AC (УАК) (Ungvar, today

Uzhhorod Uzhhorod (, ; , ; , ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality on the Uzh, Uzh River in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistan ...

), 1947/1948 and 1959/1960 for Spartak Uzhgorod, from 1949 to 1958 — for

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

. With Dynamo Kyiv he won

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in 1954 and silver medal in USSR Championship in 1952. In Soviet Premier League played 123 matches, scored 1 goal. In 1956 Yust played couple of games for

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at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. He was of the most prominent coaches in Karpaty Lviv's history — he won

in 1969, played in

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, and brought Karpaty to

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

, where it finished 4th two times - 1976 (spring) and 1976 (autumn) - that has been the biggest achievement in Karpaty' history.

Titles

As player

: 1954 ( Dinamo Kiev)

As head coach (manager)

: 1969 ( Karpaty Lviv)

Legacy

Starting from 2000, the Lviv Association of Football ( Lviv Oblast Football Federation) organizes an annual competition named "Memorial Ernesta Yusta".ПЛЕЙ-ОФ МЕМОРІАЛУ ЮСТА-2023
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