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😎 П’єр Мунгенге - гравець “Динамо”!
🤝 Підписали контракт із 18-річним французьким нападником П’єром Мунгенге. Угода з терміном дії 3 роки набуде чинності 1 липня.
Вітаємо П’єра в динамівській родині та бажаємо якнайбільше перемог та трофеїв у біло-синій футболці 🤍💙
Зустрічайте нову форму ФК "Динамо" Київ сезону 2026/27 від New Balance ⚪️🔵
Домашній комплект, натхненний клубною спадщиною. Виїзний – присвячений 40-річчю легендарної перемоги у Кубку володарів кубків 1986 року.
Нова форма. Ті самі цінності. Та сама мета.
Matviy Ponomarenko - 16 goals in just 1395 minutes for Dynamo Kyiv this season.
A player who impressed me a lot during his youth years enjoyed his big breakthrough in Ukraine.
A superb forward I can’t wait to see tested in one of Europe’s top 5 leagues soon. 🇺🇦💎
Most Champions League matches without winning the trophy 🏆
🥇Dynamo Kyiv: 265
🥈Arsenal: 240🎵Second again Ole Ole🎵
🥉Galatasaray: 203
4️⃣ Anderlecht: 200
5️⃣ Athletic Madrid: 196
6️⃣ Olympiacos: 196
7️⃣ Rangers: 185
What a time to be alive 🥳🥳🥳
Having now read this article- it is absolutely diabolical. This fraudster has manufactured his position to be that of an unwavering Ukrainian patriot- EVEN in 2014. Don’t give him a platform for historical revisionism
Valeriy Lobanovskyi of Dynamo Kyiv.
If you see a Dynamo Kyiv team that beat Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate across two Champions league team, He was the Coach.
Many People don’t know that man with 30 Trophies he’s the Father of what we do in Modern Football today. Almost Everything we do today came from his system, he was way ahead of his time.
He was a mathematician that treated football like Science. Lobanovskyi is credited for bringing a scientific and analytical approach and strong emphasis on physical fitness and diet to the game. Many people recognized Lobanovskyi as the first person to bring science into football, at the time when most managers used basic attributes in their training process. He brought an accurate system of calculation of the training process and mathematical modeling of physical load for players.
He worked with a fellow Scientist, Anatoly Zelentsov and turned training data into a data driven system, just like we use it now
Think Extensive statistical analysis (shots, passes, tackles, errors, etc.—basically an early version of modern analytics and xG thinking).
He also used Mathematical modelling of physical loads and player performance.
He used Computerised testing for fitness and optimisation.
Tactically, he was a pioneer of Total Football the same one football is gradually evolving to today (around the same time as Rinus Michels in the Netherlands). His teams featured fluid, interchangeable positions any outfield player could take over any role. What made him special was that he believed football was about the collective before the individual. Players weren’t separated into rigid roles. Defenders attacked, attackers pressed, midfielders rotated constantly. His teams played with coordinated pressing and terrifying transitions years before modern gegenpressing became mainstream.
What’s funny is that some of the things we call “modern football” were already visible in Lobanovskyi’s teams:
coordinated pressing
vertical transitions
athletic intensity
positional fluidity
tactical automatisms
collective defending
data-driven preparation
He also built three different world-class Dynamo Kyiv teams a decade or more apart, proving his methods weren’t dependent on one golden generation. He also coached three Ballon d'Or winners Oleh Blokhin, Igor Belanov and Andriy Shevchenko across different Era.
A good way to describe him is this, he helped turn football from a game of improvisation into a game of systems. That’s why coaches, tacticians, and football historians speak about him with enormous respect.
He doesn’t get much mention because he did all these away from the western media spotlight.
Dynamo Kyiv have released a video today on the 99th anniversary of their founding building up to 100 years of the club next year
Expect plenty of historical tributes over the next 12 months harking back to the glory years, titles, 🇪🇺 trophies & Ballon D’Ors
📹: @DynamoKyiv
Valeriy Lobanovskyi and Andriy Shevchenko together before a Dynamo Kyiv game in the late 1990s. The second picture shows Shevchenko dedicating his 2004 Ballon d'Or award to his former coach who died on this day in 2002.
🤍💙 99 років "Динамо" Київ
13 травня 1927 року розпочалася історія клубу, який став символом українського футболу та гордістю для поколінь уболівальників ⚪️🔵
Разом – крізь перемоги, випробування та роки історії.
З 99-річчям!
🏆 40 років перемозі у фіналі Кубка володарів Кубків УЄФА
2 травня 1986 року, обігравши в фіналі мадридський "Атлетико" з рахунком 3:0, київське "Динамо" вдруге в історії клубу завоювало Кубок володарів кубків європейських країн.
🫂 Наші вітання зіркам тієї команди-зірки!
Here is Andriy Yarmolenko’s 121st UPL goal to WIN the thriller in Kryvyi Rih!
His side were 4-1 down
Then he came on and helped his side to a 5-6 victory!
He scored a brace and here’s his BACKHEEL winner!
📹: UPL TV