Journalist Semen Sluchevskyi commented on today's date in the history of "Dynamo" on his Facebook page.
Valery Lobanovskyi"TODAY'S DATE...
...one very important match in the history of national football. On September 9, 1975, the first match in the competition for the UEFA Super Cup took place in Munich between the winners of the Champions Cup "Bavaria" and the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup "Dynamo Kyiv". Dynamo won with a score of 1:0. Oleg Blokhin scored the only goal in the 67th minute.
Team composition: "Bavaria": Mayer, Horsmann, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer, Dürnberger (Roth, 46), Kapelmann, Zobel, Weiss, Rummenigge, Muller, Wunder.
"Dynamo": Rudakov, Damin, Fomenko, Reshko, Zuev, Buryak, Konkov, Kolotov, Slobodian, Troshkin, Blokhin.
5 world champions of 1974 played in the ranks of "Bayern": Mayer, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer, Müller, Kapelmann + future European champion, two-time winner of the "Golden Ball" in Rummenigge. To be fair, we note that one more world champion was injured and did not play - the long-term president of "Bayern" Hennes.
4 leading football players could not participate in the "Dynamo" team: Matvienko, Muntyan, Onishchenko, Veremeev.
Few people know that Dynamo coaches Lobanovskyi and Bazilevich called the country's party-state authorities "to the very top" before the game and, knowing the power of the opponent's players, as well as their own personnel problems, offered to abandon the matches with "Bavaria". The arguments of the party leadership were simple: "It is unacceptable for Soviet athletes to lose to the "revanchists" from West Germany.
Lobanovsky and Bazilevich insisted to the "bosses" of the USSR on playing with the Germans, who guaranteed them victory on the pledge of... their party tickets. It is very risky for the trainers themselves, because those who remained a member of the CPSU at that time received a "wolf ticket" for a further career in exchange," Sluchevsky wrote.
