Yuriy Virt

Yuriy Mykolayovych Virt (Ukrainian: Юрій Миколайович Вірт; born 4 May 1974 in Lviv, Ukraine) is a retired Ukrainian football goalkeeper and current manager of FC Veres Rivne.

Yuriy Virt
Personal information
Full name Yury Mykolayovych Virt
Date of birth (1974-05-04) 4 May 1974
Place of birth Lviv, Soviet Union
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Veres Rivne (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1995 Skala Stryi 72 (0)
1995–1997 Lviv 65 (0)
1997–1999 Metalurh Donetsk 40 (0)
1999–2002 Shakhtar Donetsk 64 (0)
2002–2003 Metalurh Donetsk 15 (0)
2003–2004 Borysfen Boryspil 13 (0)
2004–2007 Metalurh Donetsk 47 (0)
2007–2012 Shakhtar Donetsk 2 (0)
Total 318 (0)
National team
2001 Ukraine 2 (0)
Teams managed
2012–2013 Metalurh Donetsk (U19 assistant)
2013–2015 Metalurh Donetsk (U21 assistant)
2015–2016 Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk (assistant)
2017 Veres Rivne (assistant)
2017 Veres Rivne (caretaker)
2017 Veres Rivne
2018 Rukh Vynnyky
2019– Veres Rivne
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

He played over 100 games for Metalurh Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League. In the beginning of 1990s he also played for number of clubs from Lviv Oblast such as FC Skala Stryi and the first FC Lviv city team.

In September 2001 he played two games for the Ukraine national football team earning clean sheets wins in both of them against Belarus and Armenia.

After retiring from playing career, Virt worked for Ukrainian Premier League club Metalurh Donetsk as a goalkeeper coach. Since 2017, he coached as a manager FC Veres Rivne and FC Rukh Vynnyky. In June 2019, he was once again appointed as manager of Veres Rivne.[1]

References

  1. "Юрій ВІРТ очолив рівненський "Верес"!" [Yuriy Virt will manage Veres Rivne!]. nkveres.club (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 June 2019.


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