Today, January 1, the legendary Dynamo Kyiv player Vadym Yevtushenko celebrates his birthday.
Vadim Anatolyevich Yevtushenko was born in the city of Pyatikhatki, Dnepropetrovsk region. An outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian football player, coach. He played as a striker for Dynamo Kiev in 1980-1988, having achieved the highest success in his playing career with the White-Blue team. He played 245 matches for Dynamo in the USSR championships and scored 59 goals. He became a four-time champion of the USSR (1980, 1981, 1985, 1986) and a three-time winner of the USSR Cup (1982, 1985, 1987) as part of Dynamo. In 1986, together with the team, he won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, scoring a goal in the final match, for which he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
Returning to his homeland after the Swedish period of his career, in 2008-2009. was a member of the coaching staff of Oleksiy Mikhailichenko in the national team of Ukraine, and then worked in the structure of Dynamo Kyiv. In 2014-2016 headed the Dynamo-2 team, and in 2019-2020. - assisted Alexei Mikhailichenko already in the first team of Kiev.
On behalf of Dynamo Kyiv, the club president Igor Surkis congratulated the hero of the day.
Dear Vadim Anatolyevich!
Please accept from all Dynamo players and from me personally the most sincere congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of a significant date - your 65th birthday.
From your birthday, a year begins, which, I hope, will become for all Ukrainians the year of Victory, peace, prosperity, unity and harmony.
Fans love and respect you as an outstanding footballer, a player with amazing, "Brazilian" technique, high speed and goal flair. You were one of the main "violins" of the outstanding ensemble of Valery Lobanovsky, which thundered throughout Europe in the 80s of the last century.
Your personal achievements are also extraordinary and are inscribed in golden letters in the history of our club and all domestic football. Multiple champion title and USSR cup trophy winner, scorer of the third goal in the final match of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup against the Spanish Atlético, which made the filled Stade de Gerland applaud... These moments of genuine football happiness will forever remain in the memory of the fans.
And colleagues, teammates and players who worked under your leadership respect you for your humanity and nobility, intelligence and decency, sincerity and goodwill.
On this festive day, I wish you, Vadim Anatolyevich, good health, family comfort, optimism and inexhaustible energy, as well as, of course, a peaceful sky and new achievements in life and coaching career!
Sincerely,
President of FC Dynamo Kyiv
Igor Surkis