Place of birth Kiev, USSR Name Andriy Biba Playing position Role Football player | Years Team Position Midfielder | |
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Full name Andriy Andriyovych Biba Date of birth (1937-08-10) 10 August 1937 (age 78) Similar People Viktor Serebryanikov, Turjancsik Vaszil, Volodymyr Muntyan, Yozhef Sabo | ||
Andriy Andriyovych (or Andrei Andreyevich) Biba (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Биба; Ukrainian: Андрій Андрійович Біба) (born 10 August 1937 in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.
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Biba is acknowledged as one of the greatest attacking midfielders Eastern Europe has ever produced. As Guardian journalist Jonathan Wilson explains, he functioned as 'Bobby Charlton did in Alf Ramsey's England side' as an advanced attacking midfielder moving the ball around the attacking third with a howitzer shot. He enjoyed a starring role in the Dynamo Kiev team of Victor Maslov.
International career
Biba played his only game for the USSR on 4 July 1965 in a friendly against Brazil starring Pelé.
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