Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych (Ukrainian: Григорій Іванович Батич, Russian: Григорий Иванович Батич, Hryhoriy Ivanovych Batych; 8 February 1958 – 24 November 2008) was a Ukrainian football midfielder and coach.
He capped for USSR youth team at 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Hryhoriy Batych was born in a family of a deported Ukrainian Insurgent Army militant Ivan Batih[3] whose name during deportation was butchered by a NKVD officials to Batich (adopted to Ukrainian as Batych). So it was left as such afterwards when the family returned to Lviv in 1972.
Honours
- Karpaty Lviv
- Soviet Union youth
References
- ^ World champion out of Karaganda (Чемпион Мира из Караганды). Novosti Kazakhstanskogo futbola. 23 January 2010
- ^ Hryhoriy Batych passed away (Не стало Григорія Батича). UA-Football. 25 November 2008
- ^ Father was imprisoned for UPA (Батько сидів за УПА) Archived 11 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. FC Karpaty Lviv. 13 February 2008
External links
- Hryhoriy Batych at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
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