--- title: "\"I Don't Want to Keep Working Like This\": Leonid Buryak Recalled How Chornomorets Won Silver and Beat Dynamo" description: "In an interview with Sport RBC.UA, Leonid Buryak recalled his work with Odesa's Chornomorets in 1994–1998: two championship silvers, victories over Dynamo, and his departure due to financial problems." date: 2026-09-23T08:46:00.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/leonid-buryak-chornomorets-silver-dynamo tags: [leonid-buryak, chernomorec-odesa, ukrainian-football, dynamo-kyiv, football-interview] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # "I Don't Want to Keep Working Like This": Leonid Buryak Recalled How Chornomorets Won Silver and Beat Dynamo ![Leonid Buriak in an interview recalling Chornomorets' silver season and their win over Dynamo](https://xab.info/media/2026/09/23/leonid-buryak-chernomorec-serebro-dinamo/leonid-buryak-chernomorec-serebro-dinamo-1.webp) ## 🎯 Key Points - Buryak worked at Chornomorets from 1994 to 1998; during this time the team twice became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian championship and beat Kyiv's Dynamo. - The coach links his departure from the club not with sporting results but with the deterioration of the financial situation and the lack of normal training conditions. - After Chornomorets, Buryak coached the Ukraine national team (2002–2003) and Kyiv's Dynamo (2005, about two months). Legendary Ukrainian footballer and coach Leonid Buryak, in an exclusive interview with Sport RBC.UA, spoke about his period working with Odesa's Chornomorets in the early 1990s. According to him, it was precisely then that the team managed to believe in its own strengths and start competing with the country's strongest clubs, which became a turning point for Odesa football and its fans. ### Two Silvers and Belief in the Team Buryak emphasizes that the main achievement of his work was not so much a specific place in the standings as a psychological shift within the squad. "We managed to convince the players that 'Chornomorets' could compete with the best. The team twice became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian championship and beat Kyiv's Dynamo. For Odesa, this was very important – people again believed in the team, and many fans came to the stadium," the coach recalls. He worked with Chornomorets from 1994 to 1998, and during this period the team finished in second place in the Ukrainian championship twice in a row. ### Finances as the Main Obstacle However, according to Buryak, over time the club's financial situation began to deteriorate, and this directly affected the quality of preparation. The coach explains that without basic conditions it is impossible to demand maximum results from the players: "Footballers need to be paid salaries and bonuses, the team needs travel, food, medicines, a proper base. When all of this is missing, a coach can no longer demand maximum results from the players." ### Why Buryak Left It was precisely the accumulated organizational and financial problems, and not the sporting results, that became the reason for his departure. "At some point I realized that I don't want to keep working like this," Buryak admits. In his own words, in the absence of normal working and training conditions, it was impossible to continue his coaching career under such circumstances. ### The Path After Chornomorets After leaving the Odesa club in 1998, Buryak continued his coaching career in other roles. In 2002–2003 he headed the Ukraine national team, with which he failed to qualify for the final stage of Euro 2004. In 2005 he also briefly led Kyiv's Dynamo, however he worked with the team for only about two months. Thus, the experience at Chornomorets remains one of the brightest and most successful episodes of his coaching path. Buryak's recollections allow us to look at one of the key periods in the development of Ukrainian football through the eyes of a person who was at its center: an era when regional clubs could compete on equal terms with Kyiv's giants, and success depended not only on tactics but also on the financial stability of the club. ## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification - ["I Don't Want to Keep Working Like This": Leonid Buryak Explained Why He Left Chornomorets](https://sport.rbc.ua/ukr/football/tak-dali-pratsyuvati-hochu-leonid-buryak-1790152267.html) - Основной источник: период работы 1994–1998, два серебра, победы над «Динамо», цитаты о финансах и уходе. - [Leonid Buryak: "I Lived in a Happy Football Era"](https://sport.rbc.ua/ukr/football/leonid-buryak-ya-zhiv-shchasliviy-futbolniy-1790110889.html) - Основной источник: период работы 1994–1998, два серебра, победы над «Динамо», цитаты о финансах и уходе. - [Leonid Buryak: I Always Supported Aliyev and Milyevsky](https://www.sovsport.ru/football/news/582034-leonid-burjak-ja-vsegda-podderzhival-alieva-i-milevskogo) - Сопутствующий материал о позиции Буряка по игрокам; не содержит противоречий по датам и фактам статьи. ## ❓ FAQ ### Q: How many years did Leonid Buryak coach Chornomorets? **A:** According to the coach himself, he worked with Odesa's Chornomorets from 1994 to 1998. ### Q: What results did the team achieve under Buryak? **A:** The team twice became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian championship and beat Kyiv's Dynamo. ### Q: Why did Buryak leave Chornomorets? **A:** The coach links his departure with the deterioration of the club's financial situation and the lack of normal training conditions, rather than with sporting results.