Viktor Chanov

Viktor Chanov
Віктор Чанов
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Viktorovych Chanov; Віктор Вікторович Чанов
Date of birth	21 July 1959
Place of birth	Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	8 February 2017 (aged 57)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1978–1981	Shakhtar Donetsk
1982–1990	Dynamo Kyiv
1990–1993	Maccabi Haifa
1993–1994	→ Bnei Yehuda (loan)
1994–1995	CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv
Total
International career
1982–1990	USSR
Managerial career
1995–1996	CSKA-Borysfen (assistant)
1996	CSKA-Borysfen
2006–2007	Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Soviet Union
FIFA U-20 World Cup
UEFA European Under-18 Championship
UEFA European U-18 Championships
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Viktorovych Chanov (

USSR, Chanov played mainly for Dynamo Kyiv

.

Club career

Chanov was born in

Dynamo Kyiv.^[4] He transferred to Dynamo to compete for the number 1 jersey with Mykhaylo Mykhaylov

, another goalkeeper of massive potential.

Initially, the moustached Chanov ousted Mikhailov and forced his way also into the

Valery Lobanovsky

to persist with him. Dynamo Kyiv won the cup that year and Mikhailov was instrumental in the success.

In 1986, Lobanovsky had decisions to make on the goalkeeping front. Chanov was selected as the first-choice goalkeeper and was in goal as Dynamo lifted the

European Cup Winners Cup, defeating Atlético Madrid 3–0 in Lyon. He played with an injured hand in the final. Chanov played 202 games for Dynamo.^[5]

Israel

In 1990, Chanov played out his last season Dynamo Kyiv and moved to spend his remaining days in Israel with

Maccabi Netanya. Chanov was immediately successful in goal, breaking a club record of four clean sheets in his first four matches. He won a league and cup double in his first season and later added the Israeli cup.^[6]

International career

In the summer of 1986 Chanov travelled to Mexico for the World Cup Finals with the USSR squad, again as back-up for Dasaev. He made a solitary appearance against Canada in a "dead rubber" match at the end of the first-round stage.

He was yet again a reserve for the USSR at

Euro 1988 in West Germany, appearing once as a 69th-minute substitute against the Republic of Ireland after Dasaev was injured while making a challenge on Tony Galvin

.