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.
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vasyl Karlovych Rats | ||
Date of birth | (1961-03-25) 25 March 1961 (age 61) | ||
Place of birth | Fanchykovo, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1979 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 5 | (0) |
1980–1981 | Lokomotiv Vinnytsia | ? | (4) |
1981–1989 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 164 | (22) |
1989 | RCD Espanyol | 10 | (0) |
1990 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 21 | (2) |
1991–1993 | Ferencvárosi TC | 7 | (1) |
National team | |||
1986–1990 | USSR | 47 | (4) |
Teams managed | |||
2007 | FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
2011 | Obolon Kyiv | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Rats played several seasons with FC Dynamo Kyiv, where he won the Soviet Top League three times.[1]
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.
Soviet Union squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup | ||
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Soviet Union squad – UEFA Euro 1988 runners-up | ||
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Soviet Union squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup | ||
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