Mykhailo Ivanytsia (, born 8 August 1960) is a Ukrainian
professional
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football
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manager and former Soviet player.
Biography
Mykhailo Ivanytsia was born in a village Stavne,
Velykyi Bereznyi Raion
Velykyi Bereznyi Raion () was a raion of Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Velykyi Bereznyi. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Uzhhorod Raion on 18 July 2020 as ...
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 ...
.
In 1979 the head coach of
FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod ( ) was a Ukrainian professional football club based in Uzhhorod. Following the end of the 2015–16 season it was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League because of debts to (current and former) players.
Istvan Sandor invited Ivanytsia to the team of masters in the main squad. In 1980 Ivanytsia was drafted to armed forces as part of
compulsory military service
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in the
Soviet Union
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and served in the sports company in
Lviv
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, but later returned to the club. In 1982 he moved to
FC Frunzenets Sumy
FC Frunzenets-Liha-99 Sumy was a football club based in a city of Sumy in Ukraine. The club represented a mechanical engineering factory of the Frunze Science and Production Association in Sumy.
History
The club was founded in 1960 as ''FC Avanha ...
and already in
Sumy
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The city ...
Ivanytsia enrolled in a local economic faculty of the Sumy Institute of National Economy. Soon again he returned to Zakarpattia. In 1985 to 1988 he played for
FC Zirka Kirovohrad
FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi () is a Ukraine, Ukrainian amateur football club from Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, with its team currently playing in the Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship, Ukrainian Amateur League.
The club traces its history of ...
.
Due to injuries, Ivanytsia retired and accepted the offer to lead the "Trudovi Rezervy" sports school in
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 ...
Ukrainian Premier League
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Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...
including the 2008–09 season during which Ivanytsia performed as the head coach.
On 10 July 2020 Ivanytsia became a head coach of Hungarian amateur club Torpo.
Honours and achievements
; Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
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Ukrainian First League
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