Hryhoriy Batych

Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych (Ukrainian: Григорій Іванович Батич, Russian: Григорий Иванович Батич, Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych; 08 February 1958 – 24 November 2008) was a Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.

Hryhoriy Batych
Personal information
Full name Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych
Date of birth (1958-02-08)8 February 1958
Place of birth Karaganda, Kazakh SSR
Date of death 24 November 2008(2008-11-24) (aged 50)[1][2]
Place of death Lviv, Ukraine
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1969–1972 Sports school Karaganda
1972–1975 Sports school 4 Lviv
1975–1977 Karpaty Lviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1981 FC Karpaty Lviv 117 (26)
1982–1983 FC Nistru Kishinev 66 (30)
1984 SKA Karpaty Lvov 35 (7)
1986 FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi 39 (9)
1987 FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 45 (10)
1988 FC Avanhard Zhydachiv
1989 FC Karpaty Lviv 22 (3)
1990 FC Zaria Balti 5 (0)
National team
1977 USSR youth
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He capped for USSR youth team at 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Hryhoriy Batych was born in a family of a deported Ukrainian Insurgent Army militant Ivan Batih[3] whose name during deportation was butchered by a NKVD officials to Batich (adopted to Ukrainian as Batych). So it was left as such afterwards when the family returned to Lviv in 1972.

Honours
Karpaty Lviv
Soviet Union youth

References
  1. World champion out of Karaganda (Чемпион Мира из Караганды). Novosti Kazakhstanskogo futbola. 23 January 2010
  2. Hryhoriy Batych passed away (Не стало Григорія Батича). UA-Football. 25 November 2008
  3. Father was imprisoned for UPA (Батько сидів за УПА). FC Karpaty Lviv. 13 February 2008


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