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Dynamo Kyiv
Ukrainian football team
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Dynamo Kyiv, Ukrainian professional football (soccer) team located in Kyiv. Dynamo Kyiv was one of the strongest teams in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) and is, along with Shakhtar Donetsk, one of the dominant teams in the Ukrainian league. In 1923 a system of sports and physical education clubs and societies was instituted in the Soviet Union. These were called Dynamo (or Dinamo), from the Greek word meaning “power” or “power in movement.” The Dynamo in Kyiv was formed in 1927 and played its first game on June 17, 1928, against another Dynamo, from Odesa. Kyiv ...(100 of 309 words)