Igor Dobrovolsky is a former Soviet and Russian footballer who has received the most recognition for games in the Moscow Dynamo and the USSR team. Since 2006 at the coaching work.
Dossier
Dobrovolsky Igor Ivanovich was born on August 27, 1967 in the village of Markovka, Razdelnyansky District, Odessa Region (Ukrainian SSR). Citizen of the USSR, Russia, Moldova. Height 179 cm, weight 69 kg. The playing position on the football field is a midfielder. Years of performance in big football - 1984-2005. Married. Has a wife Tatyana and two daughters.
Football career
As a football player, Igor Dobrovolsky played in the championships of seven different countries: the USSR, Russia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Moldova. He spent 313 matches in which he scored 85 goals.
- 1984-1985 - Nistru (Chisinau);
- 1986-1990, 1993-1994 - Dynamo (Moscow);
- 1990 - Genoa (Italy);
- 1991 - Castellon (Spain);
- 1992 - Servette (Switzerland);
- 1993 - Marseille (France);
- 1994-1995 - Atletico (Spain);
- 1996-1999 - “Fortune” (Germany);
- 2004-2005 - “Tiligul-Tiras” (Moldova).
National team
Igor Dobrovolsky played for four different national teams from 1986 to 1998. He played 61 matches, scored 18 goals.
- 1986-1988 - Olympic team of the USSR;
- 1986-1991 - National Team of the USSR;
- 1992 - CIS national team;
- 1992-1998 - Russian team.
Stages of the football path
Igor Dobrovolsky refers to the galaxy of players of the "lost generation". His best football years fell on the troubled times of the Soviet and post-Soviet period (the collapse of the country and the USSR championship, conflicts and scandals, the depressing state of the economic and political situation, the outflow of the best players to foreign clubs).
In the second half of the 80s, a young generation of talented players appeared in Soviet football, who, by and large, were not able to fully become football stars for various reasons. Some were injured (Juran, Morozov, Kolyvanov), others hurried to sign a contract with mediocre foreign teams (Nikiforov, Onopko, Radchenko). And only a few managed to prove themselves in the 90s, speaking at the highest European level (Mostovoy, Karpin, Kanchelskis, Mikhaylichenko).
The most talented player of the era of Gorbachev perestroika was Igor Dobrovolsky, who had reached the status of Olympic champion, footballer of the USSR national team, player of the main team of Dynamo Moscow by the age of 19. However, everything is in order.
After graduating from Tiraspol youth sports school, Igor played for two seasons in the leading team of Moldova “Nistru” (27 matches, 13 goals scored). The bright game of the young midfielder could not go unnoticed by representatives of the best clubs of the Soviet Union. It is worth noting here that in those days any footballer, like any citizen of the USSR, had to serve the due term in the armed forces of the country. For the player, this was usually a performance in one of the many Dynamo or army teams. Igor chose Dynamo metropolitan, although he was viewed in the best club in the capital of Ukraine. It was rumored that Valery Vasilievich Lobanovsky himself was actively interested in him.
So, since 1986 Igor Dobrovolsky is a Dynamo footballer (Moscow). From 1986 to 1990, he played 124 matches for the team, scoring 27 goals. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, like most leading Soviet football players, Igor went to perform in Europe, accepting an offer from the modest Italian club Genoa. By the way, there was information about the possibility of the player moving to the Greek Olympiacos, which was then coached by Oleg Blokhin. But this remained at the rumor level.
Due to the mismatch of the deadline for applying for participation in the Italian Championship, Igor Dobrovolsky was leased to the Spanish Castellon team. Here he played one season (14 matches, 3 goals). The owners of “Genoa” were in no hurry to return the player to their squad, and Igor spent the 1991/92 season at the Swiss club “Servette” (23 games, 15 goals). Only after that he got the opportunity to perform in the Italian “Serie A”. After playing four championship matches, he was injured, recovered for a long time, missed the preparatory period and lost his place in the first team, having failed to compete with the Brazilian Branko, Czech Skuhrava and Dutchman Vant Shipu.
The next, French, stage of Igor Dobrovolsky’s football career turned out to be controversial. On the one hand, he, together with the Marseille team, became the winner of the Champions League, won the French championship, on the other - a player who defended the honor of the club in only eight fights. At the end of the season, Igor returns to Dynamo Moscow. Here he spent a good two seasons of 1993-94 (31 matches, 9 goals), went at his own expense as a tourist to the World Cup in the United States.
Naturally, the player who appeared in Europe could not remain without proposals from representatives of football clubs of the Old World. Soon he concludes a contract with the Spanish team Atletico. In this club, he played 19 fights.
Since 1996 Igor Dobrovolsky is a football player of the Fortuna club, a representative of the Bundesliga. The first season in the German championship was unsuccessful. As a result of the competition, the team dropped in class. The next two years, Igor played in the lower division. During this period, the football player increasingly began to pursue injuries. Despite the advantageous offers from Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Munich-1860, he decided to complete.
He scored his last goal as a playing coach of the Moldavian club Tiligul-Tiras. It was here that ended the controversial career of a bright representative of the golden generation of Russian football players who played in the dashing 90s of the last century.
Trophies and Achievements
Igor Dobrovolsky is a football player whose main trophies were won by games for the national team. In 1988, he becomes the winner of the Olympics in Seoul, two years later he won the gold medals of the European Championship among youth teams. The club career was at its peak when winning the Champions League and the championship of France (1993) in the “Marseille”.
Dobrovolsky Igor Ivanovich - Honored Master of Sports, Knight of the Order of the Badge of Honor, the best football player of the Soviet Union in 1990, participant in the 1990 World Cup, European Championship 1992, 1996. He was four times on the list of “33 best football players of the season in the USSR” and once to the list of “33 best football players of the championship of Russia”.
Coaching career
Igor Dobrovolsky began coaching in 2005 at the Tiligul-Tiras club. In 2006-2009 he coached the national team of Moldova. In the period from 2010 to 2013 he worked as the head coach in the Dacia team. After a short period of work in the Veris and Sakhalin clubs, Dobrovolsky returned to the Dacia team again, but after two matches of the Moldova Championship he left the club.
What did Igor Dobrovolsky remember for football fans? Some will remember him for his appearances for the USSR national team, others will honor him as the first post-Soviet player to win the Champions League, and others as a soccer player promoting the Snickers chocolate bar.