Today he is 55!
- When I was 19 we won the Soviet Top League. I just wanted to play football and achieve a lot.
- You were a very versatile player as you could play as defender of halfback or midfielder good enough…
- Lobanovskyi was criticized for making me play on different positions. But as for me that meant that I was more skillful than players who could act only on one particular position.
- But did you want to play as striker more?
- I wouldn’t say so. I could also play as defender. My only aim was to be useful for my team.
- Lobanovskyi said once: “Bessonov does more than he’s able to”.
- That’s because he was able to make players do impossible things.
- Doctors state that you had about 80 injuries during your career!
- I never tried to avoid collisions. That’s why I have so many scars…In 1986 I even had a fracture of the third and fourth cervical vertebrae.
Happy anniversary, Volodymyr!
