Yuri Vernidub: good footballer and successful coach

The destroyer of stereotypes ... The unique person ... Yuri Vernidub (photo below), who is now training Lugansk "Zaryu", proved that "Dawn" can show competitive football and win against the unbeaten for her before Donetsk "Shakhtar".

Who is Vernidub Yuri?

The uniqueness of this person is that he can very well motivate his team. Football players have repeatedly noted that during the break between the halves the "Zarya" locker room is the focus of an emotional charge.

Yury Nikolayevich was born in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir on January 22, 1966. Since early childhood I was fond of football, so I went to the football section at the club "Spartak" (Zhitomir). In his school years, Yuri Vernidub decided that he would try his hand at professional sports and, as you and I can see, was not mistaken in his choice.

Career player in the USSR Championship

The playing career of Yuri Nikolaevich Vernidub was quite long. The first professional experience he received in Zhitomir "Spartacus" in 1983-1984. In the second league of the USSR championship he played 68 games, in which he scored 5 goals to the opponents' goal. For the next 2 years, there is no information in either domestic or foreign sources. At this time, Vernidub, most likely, served in the army. Many Soviet football players were able to combine their career with a service in the Red Army (there were army football clubs). The pupil of Zhytomyr football had no such option.

In 1987, the player appeared in the Nikopol "Kolos". In this team, he could not stay long, after only 33 bouts. As a football player, Yuri Vernidub was talented enough, so he was noticed by the scouts of the Dnipro and invited to Dnepropetrovsk. It's hard to say why, but the team (two-time champion of the USSR) did not make it play. In the track record of Vernadub as a football player, there are no games for the Dnipro (even in the team of the backup team). Realizing that he needs a practice game and sit on the spot there is no sense, during the season the Zhytomyr guy moves to the team of the second league of the USSR Championship "Prykarpattya" (Ivano-Frankivsk). In an original Western Ukrainian team, athletes of this level were worth their weight in gold. Coming to the team during the season, the midfielder / defender managed to play 21 matches.

Restlessness and a desire to constantly develop - it's all Yuri Vernidub. The football player already in 1989 goes on increase in Zaporozhye "Metallurgist". Present chance he used.

What did Yuri Vernidub remember (biography) in the 1990s?

For the team, which, unfortunately, for all Ukrainian football fans does not exist, Yuri played 116 matches, in which he scored 5 goals. In the years of hyperinflation, the football player decided to try the legionary bread and went to Germany. For "Chemnitz" (the base and double) had 26 fights (1 goal). After 2 years in the German league, a pupil of Zhytomyr football returns to his native city of Zaporozhye. But not in "Metallurg", but in "Torpedo" (by the way, this club has long been absent from the football arena of Ukraine). From 1994 to the end of 1996, he played 76 games for Avtozavodtsev and sent 11 goals to the opponents' goal.

And what's next? Completion of the career, strangely enough, became its peak. Yes, "Zenith" in the late 1990s did not shine, but it was always respected in the football community's name. Speaking modern language - a brand. Three years, from 1997 to 2000, the Ukrainian legionary was the captain of "Zenith". In the asset of Vernidub 84 games and 2 goals in the composition of the St. Petersburg team. By the way, in Ukraine, the Ukrainian footballer received a small European cup experience. In 1999, Zenit played 2 games in the UEFA Cup, and in 2000 the Ukrainian took part in one of the fights of the Intertoto Cup.

Yuri Vernidub: coaching philosophy

Immediately after the end of the player's career, the former captain of "Zenith" begins a new stage of the sport life - coaching everyday life. For a long time, there were no special successes. Everything changed in 2011, when he was invited to the meeting by the president of the Lugansk "Zarya" Eugene Geller, who liked his coaching ideas.

And what about them? First, command discipline. Every player should try to insure their partners when they leave their positions. It is a combination of intellectual football. He believes that the attack must go through a short or medium pass, avoiding long casts.

The main point that Geller liked in Vernadub - he can find a psychological approach to any player. The combination of all these qualities of the coach brings the success of the current "Zarya" in conditions so difficult for her, when the team can not play due to the political and military situation before the native fans.