Yozhef Sabo

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Competitor for Soviet Union
Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Bronze	1972 Munich	Team competition

Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo (Ukrainian: Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; Hungarian: Szabó József) (born February 29, 1940 in Uzhgorod, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity. Sabo made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969. A four-time USSR domestic champion, Sabo appeared in 315 games in the competition, scoring 49 goals. Aside from being named one of the 33 best players in the USSR for five years, Sabo was capped 40 times for the USSR national side, while scoring 8 goals. However, Sabo became most famous for his coaching, coaching various sides in the late 70s (such as Zorya Luhansk in 1977 and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 1978-1979), he has coached Dynamo Kyiv numerous times (from 1993-1997 and 2004-2005, with breaks in between). He is also arguably the second-most successful coach of the Ukrainian national team, compiling 16 wins and 12 draws in 34 matches as coach of the side in 1994 and 1996-1999.

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	USSR squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup
1 Yashin \| 2 Maslachenko \| 3 Kotrikadze \| 4 Dubinski \| 5 Chokheli \| 6 Ostrovskiy \| 7 Maslyonkin \| 8 Shesternyov \| 9 Manoshin \| 10 Netto \| 11 Sabo \| 12 Voronin \| 13 Gusarov \| 14 Ivanov \| 15 Kanevski \| 16 Mamykin \| 17 Meskhi \| 18 Metreveli \| 19 Ponedelnik \| 20 Serebryanikov \| 21 Khusainov \| 22 Chislenko \| Coach: Kachalin

	USSR squad - 1966 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 Yashin \| 2 Serebryanikov \| 3 Ostrovskiy \| 4 Ponomarev \| 5 Afonin \| 6 Shesternyov \| 7 Khurtsilava \| 8 Sabo \| 9 Getmanov \| 10 Danilov \| 11 Chislenko \| 12 Voronin \| 13 Korneyev \| 14 Sichinava \| 15 Khusainov \| 16 Metreveli \| 17 Porkujan \| 18 Banishevskiy \| 19 Malofeyev \| 20 Markarov \| 21 Kavazashvili \| 22 Bannikov \| Coach: Morozov