Vadym Dobizha

Vadym Dmytrovych Dobizha (Ukrainian: Вадим Дмитрович Добіжа; 26 February 1941 – 29 January 2023) was a Ukrainian football coach and player. He managed Sillamäe Kalev among other clubs.

Vadym Dobizha

Personal information
Full name	Vadym Dmytrovych Dobizha
Date of birth	(1941-02-26)26 February 1941
Place of birth	Spat, Simferopol Raion, Russian SFSR, USSR
Date of death	29 January 2023(2023-01-29) (aged 81)
Place of death	Sillamäe, Estonia
Youth career
	Trud Voroshylovhrad
	Trudovi Rezervy Luhansk
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Admiralteyets Leningrad
	SKA Leningrad
	Dynamo Leningrad
Managerial career
1968–1970	Zorya Voroshylovhrad (youth)
1970–1971	Vahonobudivnyk Stakhanov (assistant)
1971	Khimik Sieverodonetsk (assistant)
1972–1979	Ukrainian SSR (assistant)
1980–1981	Zorya Voroshylovhrad
1986–1988	Zorya Voroshylovhrad
1991–1992	Khimik Sieverodonetsk
1997	Zorya-2 Luhansk
1998–2000	Zorya Luhansk
2000–2001	Zorya Luhansk (assistant)
2002	Volga Tver
2006–2009	Sillamäe Kalev
2010–2014	Sillamäe Kalev (reserves)
2010	Kohtla-Järve FC Lootus
2014	Sillamäe Kalev
2017	Sillamäe Kalev
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Born in the Crimean ASSR in family of military pilot just before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, during the war soon after his father's death, with his mother he moved to Luhansk.

Dobizha died in Sillamäe, Estonia on 29 January 2023, at the age of 81.^[1]