SI.com · Jul 17, 2019
Valeriy Lobanovskyi: The Soviet Scientist's All-Time Best XI
Valeriy Lobanovskyi is number 23 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next five weeks. You can find Jack Speding's Lobanovskyi career overview here.
Once a heating engineer in Kiev, the great Valeriy Lobanovskyi was a true innovator in the use of sports science in football.
Growing up in the Soviet Union, he was brought up with the idea that the greatest force is the team, rather than any individual, and that was perfectly clear if you watched any of his matches throughout his career.