Evgeny Kucherevsky

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Evgeny Kucherevsky
Personal information
Full name	Evgeny Mefodyevich Kucherevsky
Date of birth	6 August 1941
Place of birth	Kherson, Ukraine
Club information
Current club	Deceased
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1958-1961 1962-1965 1965-1970	Spartak Kherson SCA Odessa Sudostroitel Nikolaev	? (?) ? (?) ? (?)
Teams managed
1981-1983 1984-1985 1987-1992 1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1996 1997-1999 2000 2000-2001 2001-2005	Kolos Nikopol Evis Nikolaev Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Étoile Sportive du Sahel Russia national under-21 football team Russia national olympic football team SC Mykolaiv Arsenal Tula Rotor Volgograd Torpedo-ZIL Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Evgeny Mefodyevich Kucherevsky (Russian: Евгений Мефодьевич Кучеревский) (6 August 1941 - 26 August 2006) was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most famous for his spells managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which, under his helm, won the Soviet Championship in 1988, took 2nd place twice in 1987 and 1989, as well as the USSR Cup in 1989. Dnipro's recent success in the first half of the 2000s is mostly attributed to his coaching as well.

On August 26, 2006, Kucherevsky's Mercedes-Benz suffered a head-on collision with a KAMAZ truck. The much respected coach died an hour and half later in a hospital, without regaining consciousness.

Upon Kucherevsky's funeral, the Dnipropetrovsk mayor, Ivan Kulichenko, announced the plan to name one of the city streets to the celebrated coach.

[edit] References

• (Russian)/(Ukrainian) Aleksey Dospekhov, The creator of Dnipropetrovs phenomenon died, Kommersant, August 28, 2006, reprinted at Korrespondent.net in Russian and in Ukrainian.
• (Russian) Ivan Krasikov, Aleksey Dospekhov, A man who did not like to concede (obituary), Kommersant, August 25, 2006
• (Russian) Ivan Krasikov, The street in Dnipropetrovsk will be named to Kucherevsky, Kommersant, August 28, 2006