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THE WONDER OF VALERIY

MANAGERIAL MASTERMIND
GARRY WHITE GOES BACK IN TIME TO RECALL THE EXPLOITS OF LEGENDARY FORMER DYNAMO KYIV AND SOVIET UNITED BOSS VALERIY LOBANOVSKYI

sO, Valeriy Lobanovskyi. I wonder if his mates called him Val? Nah, probably not. But still, his first name was more reminiscent of one of the old ladies at my Nan’s lunchtime bingo club than an actual football manager. Forgive the spelling, but you couldn’t imagine Valeriy Clough or Valeriy Robson, could you?
It gave us kids a laugh, though. The Serbian name ‘Slobodan’ did something similar around the same ...

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