Vasyl Rats

Vasyl Rats
Personal information
Full name	Vasyl Karlovych Rats
Date of birth	25 March 1961 (age 60)
Place of birth	Fanchikove, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1979	FC Karpaty Lviv
1980–1981	Lokomotiv Vinnytsia
1981–1989	FC Dynamo Kyiv
1989	RCD Espanyol
1990	FC Dynamo Kyiv
1991–1993	Ferencvárosi TC
National team
1986–1990	USSR
Teams managed
2007	FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
2011	Obolon Kyiv
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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.

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[]

Soviet Top League: 1985, 1986, 1990
Soviet Cup: 1982, 1987, 1990
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1986
UEFA Euro 1988 Runner-up: 1988

References[]

^ "Rats Vasiliy Karlovich". KLISF. Retrieved 26 August 2009.^{[dead link]}
^ Arnhold, Matthias (2 April 2006). "Vasiliy Karlovich Rats – International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2009.

[1] "Rats Vasiliy Karlovich". KLISF. Retrieved 26 August 2009.^{[dead link]}

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

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