Myron Markevych

Myron Bohdanovych Markevych (Ukrainian: Миро́н Богда́нович Марке́вич; born February 1, 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former midfielder.

Myron Markevych
Personal information
Full name Myron Bohdanovych Markevych
Date of birth (1951-02-01) February 1, 1951
Place of birth Vynnyky, Lviv oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1972 Karpaty Lviv reserves
1973 SKA Lviv
1974 Spartak Ordzhonikidze
1976–1977 Torpedo Lutsk 59 (7)
Teams managed
1984–1987 Torpedo Lutsk
1988–1989 Podillya Khmelnytskyi
1990 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
1991–1992 Volyn Lutsk
1992–1995 Karpaty Lviv
1995 Podillya Khmelnytskyi
1996 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
1996–1998 Karpaty Lviv
1999–2001 Metalurh Zaporizhya
2001–2002 Karpaty Lviv
2002 Anzhi Makhachkala
2002–2004 Karpaty Lviv
2005–2014 Metalist Kharkiv
2010 Ukraine
2014–2016 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League[1] and the Ukrainian national football team.[2][3] He holds the record for coaching the most matches (500 as on August 15, 2011) in the Ukrainian Premier League.[4]

Career

Playing

He played as a midfielder for FC Karpaty Lviv (reserves), SCA Lviv, FC Spartak Ordzhinikidze, and FC Torpedo Lutsk.

Coaching

Graffiti. 2010

He graduated from the Institute of Physical Education (Lviv) and the Supreme school of coaches in Moscow in 1983. He has managed a number of teams, devoting most of his career to Karpaty Lviv and Metalist Kharkiv. He last served as manager of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Markevych was appointed head coach of Ukraine's national football team in early February 2010,[5] but left six months later,[3] submitting his resignation to the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) by fax on 21 August 2010. Initially, the legal department of FFU stated that such a document could only be submitted in its original form and the fax copy could not be accepted.[6][7] Ultimately, the FFU accepted his resignation and appointed Yuriy Kalitvintsev as caretaker manager.[8][9]

Personal information

He is fluent in English and Polish. He is married and is the father of two sons, Ostap Markevych and Yuriy Markevych.

Honours

Club

Karpaty Lviv
Metalist Kharkiv
Dnipro

References

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