Ostap Volodymyrovych Savka (; 4 April 1947 – 10 August 2022) was a Ukrainian professional
footballer
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who played as
midfielder
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.
Career
Born in Drohobych, Savka began his football career in
Naftovyk in his native city. In the 1968–69 season, he played 26 matches for
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
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and transferred from there to
Karpaty Lviv, later becoming a captain of this club (in nine seasons in the team, he played 194 matches and scored 16 goals, played in the debut
European Cup campaign of Karpaty in 1970).
After the end of his career, Savka, whose last clubs were Kolos Nikopol and Krystal Kherson, worked as a children football trainer in the Youth Sportive School #4 in Lviv. Among his pupils were Ukrainian football players Oleh Tymchyshyn and Andriy Klymenko.
Savka died in Lviv on 10 August 2022, at the age of 75.
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1947 births
2022 deaths
Sportspeople from Drohobych
Soviet men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Soviet Top League players
Soviet First League players
Soviet Second League players
FC Halychyna Drohobych players
FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
FC Karpaty Lviv players
FC Sokil Lviv players
FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol players
FC Krystal Kherson players
20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen