Vasyl Rats

Vasyl Karlovych Rats (Ukrainian: Василь Карлович Рац; Hungarian: Rácz László) (born 25 March 1961) is a Ukrainian former football midfielder. He participated in two World Cups with the Soviet Union national football team.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Karlovych and the family name is Rats.
Vasyl Rats
Personal information
Full name Vasyl Karlovych Rats
Date of birth (1961-03-25) 25 March 1961
Place of birth Fanchikove, Vynohradiv Raion,
Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979 FC Karpaty Lviv 5 (0)
1980–1981 Lokomotiv Vinnytsia ? (4)
1981–1989 FC Dynamo Kyiv 164 (22)
1989 RCD Espanyol 10 (0)
1990 FC Dynamo Kyiv 21 (2)
1991–1993 Ferencvárosi TC 7 (1)
National team
1986–1990 USSR 47 (4)
Teams managed
2007 FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
2011 Obolon Kyiv
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Rats played several seasons with FC Dynamo Kyiv, where he won the Soviet Top League three times.[1]

International career

Rats earned 47 caps and scored 4 goals for the USSR, from 1986 to 1990.[2] He played in two World Cups, in 1986 and 1990. In the 1986 World Cup he scored a goal with a 27-meter shot against France in a 1–1 draw in the first round: a headed clearance by France was picked up by Ihor Belanov and laid off to Rats, who on the first touch, struck the ball powerfully from several yards outside the area past French goalkeeper Joël Bats and into the top left corner of the net. During Euro 1988 his goal secured USSR a 1–0 victory in the group stage over eventual champions The Netherlands. USSR reached the final, but were unable to repeat their achievement in the group stage and lost 2–0.

Honours

References
  1. "Rats Vasiliy Karlovich". KLISF. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
  2. Arnhold, Matthias (2 April 2006). "Vasiliy Karlovich Rats – International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
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