Andriy Bal

Andriy Mykhailovych Bal (Ukrainian: Андрій Михайлович Баль, Russian: Андрей Михайлович Баль, Andrey Mikhaylovich Bal; 16 January 1958 – 9 August 2014) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.

Andriy Bal

Personal information
Full name	Andriy Mykhailovych Bal
Date of birth	(1958-01-16)16 January 1958
Place of birth	Rozdil, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death	9 August 2014(2014-08-09) (aged 56)
Place of death	Kyiv,[1] Ukraine
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1971-1975	Sports boarding school (Lviv)
1975-1977	Karpaty (reserve)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1980	Karpaty Lviv	134	(12)
1981–1990	Dynamo Kyiv	240	(11)
1991	Maccabi Tel Aviv	28	(4)
1991–1993	Bnei Yehuda	62	(3)
International career
1981–1989	USSR	20	(1)
Managerial career
1993–1998	Maccabi Haifa (assistant)
1998–1999	Maccabi Herzliya
1999–2000	Hakoah Ramat Gan
2000–2001	Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
2001–2003	Vorskla Poltava
2003–2007	Ukraine (assistant)
2007–2009	FC Moscow (assistant)
2009–2010	Chornomorets Odesa
2011–2012	Ukraine (assistant)
2012	Ukraine (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bal has played for the USSR national football team 20 times,^[2] and scored 1 goal.,^[2] a 20-meter strike in the game against Brazil at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

Bal died at 8 August 2014 during a football match of veteran teams as a result of a blood clot.^[2]

Honours

As player

Dynamo Kyiv

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1986^[3]
• Soviet Top League: 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990^[3]
• Soviet Cup: 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990^[3]

Karpaty Lviv

• Soviet First League: 1979 ^[4]

Bnei Yehuda

• Toto Cup: 1992^[4]

Soviet Union U21

• U-21 UEFA Championship: 1980, 1990^[3]

Soviet Union U20

• U-20 FIFA World Cup: 1977^[3]

Soviet Union U19

• U-19 UEFA Championship: 1976^[3]

As coach

Maccabi Haifa

• Israeli Championship: 1993–94^[4]