Anatoliy Molotay (footballer)

Anatoliy Mykolayovych Molotay (Ukrainian: Анатолій Миколайович Молотай; 1 November 1937 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet-Ukrainian professional football coach and player.

Anatoliy Molotay
Personal information
Full name Anatoliy Mykolayovych Molotay
Date of birth (1937-11-01)1 November 1937
Place of birth Proskuriv, Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death 7 September 2022(2022-09-07) (aged 84)
Place of death Ukraine
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Lokomotyv Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957 Oktyabrskiy Raion Kyiv
1958–1962 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 84 (3)
1962 Kolhospnyk Cherkasy ? (1)
1963–1964 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 67 (3)
Managerial career
Dynamo Kyiv (academy)
1973–1974 Bukovyna Chernivtsi (assistant)
1974–1976 Bukovyna Chernivtsi
1977 SKA Kiev (assistant)
1979–1980 Dnipro Cherkasy
1983–1986 Dynamo Irpin (assistant)
1987 Dynamo Irpin
1989–1991 Blyskavka Baryshivka
1992 Hirnyk Hirne
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Molotay was a product of an old Kyivan club Lokomotyv.

At 20 Molotay was representing the team of Oktyabrskyi Raion of the Kyiv City (later known as SC Temp Kyiv) at republican competitions of KFK.

In 1958 on the initiative of the director of Southwestern Railway Petro Kryvonos, in Vinnytsia was established another Lokomotyv club and Molotay became one of the first players of the club, with which he stayed until 1964. In 1962 he also defended colors of Kolhospnyk Cherkasy. Molotay was forced into early retirement due to a bad injury.[1]

After retirement, Molotay was invited to coach junior players at the Dynamo's Kyiv academy. Later in 1970s he became a manager of several third-tier football clubs such as Bukovyna and Kolhospnyk. In 1983 along with Viktor Kanevsky Molotay stood at the creation of a new FC Dynamo Irpin out of the Kyivan suburbs.

Soon after Ukraine gained its independence, Molotay became a match inspector for the Football Federation of Ukraine (today Ukrainian Association of Football).[2]

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