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Baltacha offered Dynamo Kyiv a modern defensive profile for the 1980s: strong in duels, quick enough to defend space, and intelligent enough to survive in Lobanovskyi’s high-intensity collective structure. In the 1986 Cup Winners’ Cup-winning side, he fitted as a disciplined, technically solid defender rather than a pure destroyer.