"Oleg Bazilevich was not. A person without whom it is impossible to imagine the life of our country in the second half of the last century ".

"Together with a group of their peers, Oleg Bazilevich became the backbone of Dynamo Kyiv, which then, and, as it turned out, forever, became the undisputed leader of domestic football. They first became the champions of the USSR in 1961 ".

"Unfortunately, today there are not many who saw Bazilevich on the football field. And newsreel footage that reached us from those times is not able to convey the full depth of the talent that this attacker had, the filigree of his technique, the accuracy of his strikes and gears ".

"Coach Oleg Bazilevich together with Valery Lobanovsky created a dream team in Kiev, which in 1975 won the European football trophy. That Dynamo will forever remain a model for future generations.. Oleg Petrovich Bazilevich, one of his trainers, will also remain a model. ".

"All 80 years of his life he gave football, the talent for which he had since childhood. Oleg Bazilevich has always been a model for others, not only on the football field, but also in everyday life. In the days of the highest take-off, his trainer's thought was ahead of his time ".

"Thousands of boys who started playing football wanted to be like Bazilevich. Hundreds of coaches around the world tried to learn from his experience.. Thousands of people who knew Oleg Petrovich, took him as an example. The memory of Oleg Bazilevich will live for as long as football will last, which means forever, "said Surkis.

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