Kim Fomin

Kim Yevhenovych Fomin (Ukrainian: Кім Євгенович Фомін, real name Akim Feofanovych Fomin; born in 1914 in Balta, Podolian Governorate – died in 1976 in Odessa) was a Soviet Ukrainian football player and coach. He is mentioned in a book of Oleh Makarov "Vratar" (1963).


Kim Fomin
Personal information
Full name Kim Yevhenovych Fomin
Date of birth 1914
Place of birth Balta, Podolian Governorate, Imperial Russia
Date of death 1976
Place of death Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
FC Zirka
1930s FC Dynamo Odessa 26
1937 FC Traktor Kharkiv 141
Teams managed
1945 FC Pishchevik Odessa
1947–1950 FC Pishchevik Odessa
1951–1952 FC Metalurh Odessa
1953–1954 FSM[lower-alpha 1] Odessa
1955 FC Pishchevik Odessa
1956–1957 SKA Odessa
1960–1961 FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody (assistant)
1963[1] SKA Odessa
1963–1964 FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Life

Born in Balta, the Fomini family moved to Odessa before the Bolshevik coup. In Odessa, Fomin lived near the Kulykove Pole (English: Wader's Field) which was a center of the Odessa city football in the early 20th century.

After the Soviet occupation of Ukraine in 1920s, he was forced to change his name Akim Feofanovych to Kim Yevhenovych.

Football career

Until 1937 he played for the Odessa's local teams including FC Dynamo Odessa finishing his career in FC Traktor Kharkiv that year.

After the World War II in 1945, Fomin became a head coach of the revived Pishchevik Odessa and with some breaks stayed with the club until 1955. After the club's relegation and its liquidation in 1950, in the 1951 Football Championship of Ukraine started out two teams from Odessa, Spartak and Metalurh and Kim Fomin was appointed a head coach of Metalurh. When in 1953 Metalurh was admitted to the Soviet Class B (later Soviet First League) competitions, Fomin was replaced by a Muscovite coach Aleksei Kostylev. Fomin continued to coach a local football school in Odessa. He returned as a head coach of Pishchevik however couple of years later due to the poor performance of the club under Kostylev's leadership. In 1955 Metalurh was reorganized and in its place was reestablished Pishchevik, while couple of years later Metalurh Odessa restarted again in the Football Championship of Ukraine. During the mid season Fomin was replaced again with an Armenian specialist.

After Pishchevik, Fomin coached another Odessa club SKA Odessa and later Avanhard Zhovti Vody.

Notes
  1. "Futbolnaya Shkola Molodezhi" – Football School of Youth

Further reading

References
  1. 1963 season of SC Odesa. Odessa football
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