He later played in football competitions of the Kyiv city garrison for some military detachment team which served as a farm-team of Dynamo.

[4] Kanevskyi participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, about which he stated that it was of lower level in comparison to the UEFA Euro 1996 in England.

[4] Among the brightest highlights Kanevskyi mentioned about his meeting with Pelé, receiving a good monetary bonus and traveling back to Moscow by way of Paris.

[4] Kanevskyi explained that he had a chronic condition since 1957, gallstones in the liver, and was regularly visiting a sanatorium in Karlovy Vary.

[4] After deciding to coach, Kanevskyi was advised to change his patronymic name Izarailyovych as it was not "blending with a policy of the CPSU and the Soviet state.

[4] In 1973 FC Pakhtakor Tashkent gained promotion to the Soviet Top League and Kanevskyi received the honorary title of Merited Coach of Uzbekistan (Uzbek SSR).

[4] Yet when the federation still would not grant him the title of Merited Coach of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR), Kanevskyi decided to act.

[4] In about two weeks he was called to the chief of OVIR (Office for Visas and Registration) along with the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs who announced that he wouldn't leave as he did not have sufficient degree of kinship.

In historical materials commemorating the first big victories of Dynamo Kyiv, the Kanevskyi surname was not mentioned as he never captained in the club nor being on the Soviet team's roster at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

[4] For a few years he was without a job, but later with his brother worked in construction at first building the Palace of Culture in Chernihiv Oblast and later in Moscow a cooperative house.

[4] Kanevskyi only waited four months after filing his request and on 15 November 1988 he and his wife left the country, traveling to New York through Austria and Italy.

[4] After arrival in the United States, Kanevskyi was able to find a job as a coach at a sports school in New York held by Russian emigrants, where he headed the football department.

[4] Kanevskyi also mentioned that even after being the Dynamos' captain for six years and winning one season, he was the only one who did not receive the title of Merited Master of Sports.