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Sergey Baltacha: photo, biography and family

A favorite of the Kiev public, a tenacious and unyielding defender, whose game legendary coach Valery Lobanovsky described as a simple and capacious word - reliability. These words can be described by Sergei Pavlovich Baltach - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

Sergey Baltacha - biography of the football player

He was born in the Ukrainian seaside town of Mariupol (formerly Zhdanov) on February 17, 1958. However, unlike most boys, he did not dream of becoming a sailor. Sergei attracted football, so his parents wrote him to the local children's team "Azovstal".
Later, he moved to Kharkov, to the local sportinternet. And already from there - to the famous club "Dynamo" from Kiev, who gave 12 years of his sports life.

During the performance in "Dynamo" (Kiev) Sergei Baltach became four times champion of the USSR and winner of the USSR Cup, winner of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1986. Also the career was successful as a player of the national team. First there was bronze at the 1980 Olympics, and after that, matches for the main team of the country also went. Injury received in the final match of the Cup Winners' Cup (Atletico Madrid), did not allow the player to go to the FM-86 in Mexico, where the national team of the Soviet Union was eliminated in the quarterfinals due to judicial errors. But in two years nothing prevented him from participating in the European Championship -88 and taking silver medals following the results of the championship.

Then there was a voyage to Foggy Albion, which can not be called quite successful, but after the end of his career, Sergei Pavlovich remained alive and working in England.

Career in Kiev Dynamo

For Kiev "Dynamo" Sergei Baltach debuted at a young 18-year-old age. However, the head coach threw the young man right into the very heat - he exposed the most fundamental confrontation with the Moscow "Spartak". And Sergei did not disappoint - the team won with a score of 3-0, and Baltacha with his skillful actions immediately retained a place in the main team.

For 12 years spent in Kiev, Baltacha spent 245 matches for the club at different levels, in which he managed to register 6 times. And four championship seasons - this is also a merit, no doubt, a talented football player. However, the peak of the player's career - the 1985/1986 season, when Sergei Pavlovich together with Dynamo won the USSR Championship and took the Cup Winners' Cup in 1986. Naturally, constantly speaking at a high level, Baltacha was involved in games for the national team, where he played 45 matches and scored 2 goals scored.

Sergey Baltacha - the first among the Varangians

In the late eighties the Iron Curtain began to rise, and Soviet players got the opportunity to test their strength in European championships. Naturally, the players were "Dynamo" (Kiev), who shone in European tournaments for the club and in the national team. Mikhailichenko, Zavarov, Blokhin, Bal, Bessonov, Belanov - many European grandees wanted to see them in their composition. Sergey Baltacha got into the field of view of foreign clubs - a football player formed and having sufficient experience of performances at a high level. In 1988 he was bought by the club of the English League "Ipswich Town". Career there is not entirely successful football player. Sergei Pavlovich spent for this English club 28 games in three seasons. In 1990, he moved to Scotland, where he completed his football career in 1994.

After a short wanderings around Scotland and Ukraine, as an assistant to the head coach of Baltach, he found his niche. Since 2001, he began to teach football to young players. He worked for 8 years at the Charlton Academy, then had a 4-year contract with Chelsea, but in 2012 he again returned to Charlton, whose academy he works to this day.

The tragedy of the family

The topic, which tries not to touch Sergei Baltach - daughter Elena. The wound from such a terrible loss has not yet healed, and can not, probably never.

A well-known tennis player, Elena Baltacha died of liver cancer on May 4, 2014, at the age of 31. The sports career of her daughter was magnificent: a lot of won titles, being in TOP-100 of the best tennis players of the world. After the termination of career Elena has married the former trainer. And a few months later the young family was struck by the news as a thunder - Elena is sick with cancer. The disease progressed very quickly, and two months later Elena Baltacha died.

The father was very worried about the daughter's departure, but life continues, and Sergei Baltacha found peace in his work. He was a fighter on the football field and remains so in life.

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