One of the most legendary Dinamo fans has passed away

Today, January 6, 2026, the legendary fan of Dynamo Kiev and Sokol Viktor “Iron” Zaglada passed away. He was 62 years old.

He was among those who made the first organized trip to support the Sokol hockey team in the USSR championship match against Moscow Spartak in 1980.

“I was still at school then,” another legendary Kiev fan, Vladimir “Beard” Almashin, who is no longer with us, said of Victor in his book “More than a Game”. – There were mainly students and high school students between the ages of 14-18 among us. Gradually a nucleus formed. On weekends we played football on Trukhanov Island, Pushkin Park or Hidropark. At first, there was no particular opposition from the authorities, but when the movement began to grow, it began to turn… At the end of 1978, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcreating a fans’ club to normalize the support process gradually matured in me. Five of us got together and developed a charter and regulations. The implementation of the project became possible only in 1986, after Chernobyl, when a decree bearing Gorbachev’s signature was issued on working with unofficial youth associations.”

Farewell to “Iron” will take place tomorrow, January 7, at 15.30 at the Baykovo cemetery (gathering near the central administrative building).