Vasyl Kardash
Date of birth: 14 January 1973
National team: Ukraine
Clubs: FC Karpaty Lviv, FC Skala Striy, Maccabi Haifa FC, FC Chornomorets Odesa, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Arsenal Kyiv
A creative central midfield player, Vasyl Kardash is probably best remembered as a member of the FC Dynamo Kyiv side that reached the semi-finals of the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League before losing 4-3 on aggregate to FC Bayern München.
Having established himself with spells at Skala Striy, Karpaty, Maccabi Haifa and Chornomorets, he joined Dynamo in 1996 after breaking into the national team. He won four league titles under coach Valeriy Lobanovskiy but serious knee injuries were to hamper his career. He joined Dynamo's Kiev rivals Arsenal in 2003 and retired at the end of the 2005/06 season after just 29 league appearances.
• Famous footballers/coaches
Dominique Rocheteau - FRA - Étaules, Saintes, AS Saint-Etienne, Paris Saint-Germain FC, Toulouse FC - 1955
Georgi Dimitrov - BUL - PFC CSKA Sofia - 1959
Edin Mujcin - BIH - NK Dinamo Zagreb (twice), JEF United, NK Kamen Ingrad, NK Lokomotiva - 1970
Bert Konterman - NED - , SC Rouveen, FC Zwolle, SC Cambuur Leeuwaarden, Willem II, Feyenoord, Rangers FC, SBV Vitesse - 1971
Rastislav Michalík - SVK - FC Slovan Liberec, AC Sparta Praha, Kayserispor, SV Ried, FC Spartak Trnava - 1974
• Other anniversaries
Suren Abrahamyan (ARM) - 1947
Teitur Thordárson (ISL) - 1952
George Cain (ENG) - 1956
Nikolai Metelski (BLR) - 1957
Paul Harrison (ENG) - 1958
Paul Vosper (ENG) - 1958
Georg Dardenne (GER) - 1959
Yuriy Rudinskiy (UKR) - 1962
Martin Iseli (SUI) - 1964
Ivan Pokorny (CZE) - 1967
Igor Terekhov (UKR) - 1967
Igor Satchi (MDA) - 1972
• Matches
1995 European Futsal final tournament, final
Spain 5-3 Russia
Vista Alegre, Cordoba
The first European national team tournament was held in Spain in January 1996, just prior to the competition receiving championship status from the UEFA Executive Committee. Qualifying for the 1995 UEFA tournament for five-a-side football involved 17 participants, with the top two teams from each of the qualifying round groups advancing to the finals. The hosts ran out eventual winners, defeating Russia 5-3 in the final, with Vincentin Martínez chipping in with four goals.