The management of the Kyiv football club Dynamo has decided to appoint Igor Kostyuk as the team’s head coach, according to the Dynamo FC press service.
“Igor Volodymyrovych is a talented coach who has been working at our club for many years. He has trained more than one generation of talented young players, many of whom now play at the highest level in Europe’s top leagues. He knows Dynamo’s young players well and is not afraid to trust young players who have already proven themselves at the first team level. He is a coach who knows how to find the right approach to players,” club president Igor Surkis is quoted as saying on the club’s website.
The club’s management has complete confidence in Kostyuk and believes that he is capable of leading the team to its rightful place in Ukrainian and European football.
As reported, on November 28, the management of Kyiv’s Dynamo decided to dismiss the entire coaching staff of the team, headed by Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, from their duties, according to an official statement by the capital club on the Dynamo website. Shovkovskyi and the team were dismissed after the team’s unsatisfactory results in recent matches.
Igor Kostyuk was appointed acting head coach of the Kyiv giants.
Oleksandr Shovkovskyi has been appointed acting head coach of FC Dynamo Kyiv, and will prepare the team for the next matches in the Ukrainian championship.
According to Dynamo’s press service, Emil Karas, Oleh Husyev, and Mykhailo Mykhailov will also work on Shovkovsky’s coaching staff.
Shovkovskyi made his debut with Dynamo Kyiv in March 1994 and became the champion of Ukraine and the team’s main goalkeeper. In October 2016, he received his coaching license, but on December 12, 2016, he announced his retirement. On September 4, 2018, he became an assistant to the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Andriy Shevchenko. 1
On January 10, 2023, Shovkovskyi returned to Dynamo as an assistant head coach. In April 2023, he was appointed acting head coach of the team, for the period of recovery after Mircea Lucescu’s surgery.
As reported, on November 3, Mircea Lucescu resigned as head coach of Dynamo Kyiv and announced his retirement at a press conference after the match against Shakhtar Donetsk.
Romanian specialist Mircea Lucescu has become the new head coach of the football club Dynamo (Kiev), the club’s official website reported on Thursday.
He has taken office of the coach of the capital team, which became vacant after the dismissal of the previous head coach of Dynamo Oleksiy Mykhailychenko and his coaching staff on July 20.
