Volodymyr Petrovych Dykyi (15 February 1962 – 28 July 2021) was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional

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player and coach.

Career

Native of mining city of

Chervonohrad Sheptytskyi (, ), formerly Chervonohrad (, ), historically Krystynopol, is a historical mining town and the administrative center of Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sheptytskyi urban hromada, o ...

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, Volodymyr Dykyi is the all-time goalscoring leader of

FC Volyn Lutsk FC Volyn Lutsk ( ) was a Ukrainian association football, football club based in Lutsk. Since its establishment in 1960, the club became the only major (professional) football club within Volyn Oblast and uncontested leader of football in the reg ...

. His professional career Dykyi started out in

FC Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. In 2020–21 the club was reorganized and changed owner. During that period there existed two clubs with the same name, one at professional level competitio ...

in 1979. It was the season when Karpaty led by Ishtvan Sekech won the

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and were promoted to premiers.Фінансовий директор, таксист, викладач фізкультури: "атомні" Карпати-1979 – як склалися їхні долі?
football24.ua. 29 January 2020 Around that time Dykyi was invited to the Soviet Union youth team and participated in the 1979 Friendship Games (international annual multi-sport games among socialist countries) – 5 games, 1 goal as well as the 1980 UEFA Youth (U-18) tournament (Soviet Union was eliminated by Yugoslavia) – 2 games. After the Lviv team was merged with local army team, in 1982 Dykyi moved to Kharkiv where he spent a season before returning back to the united SKA-Karpaty, with which stayed until 1985. In mid 1980s Dykyi hoped couple of teams before ending up in

, with which he stayed until 1996 and playing almost 300 matches at professional level.

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