Vasyl Rats
Soviet and Hungarian association football player
Vasyl Karlovych Rats (Ukrainian: Василь Карлович Рац; Hungarian: Rácz László) (born 25 March 1961) is a Ukrainian former football midfielder. He participated in two World Cups and one European Championship with the Soviet Union national football team.
Club career
After the seventh grade (around age 14), Rats enrolled into a sports vocational school (boarding school) and later a sports university (both in Lviv). At the same time Rats was playing for Karpaty reserves. His first coach was Ernest Yust. Rats considered that it was difficult to gain adequate playtime along with such players like Susloparov, Bal, Brovarskyi, Dumanskyi, Dubrovnyi. So, when in 1979 a manager of Nyva Vinnytsia Ivan Terletskyi offered him to join, he agreed gladly and was happy to play at the third tier consistently rather than to remain a substitute at the top tier. In 1981 Rats was receiving invitations from Tashkent, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, but Terletskyi was not let him go by telling that those team are not for him. Soon there appeared a scout from Dynamo Kyiv and Rats was transferred out.
Rats had some difficulties at first to make the first team and was trying to return to Vinnytsia.
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