Valery Goborov nasceu o 20 de janeiro de 1965 em Kherson, Kherson, Ukraine [ex-Soviet Union]. Morreu o 7 de setembro de 1989 em Moscow, Russia [ex-Soviet Union].
He was a Soviet basketball player and gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and was a champion of the USSR League (1988). He won a silver medal at Eurobasket 1987, in Athens, against Greece and bronze medalist of European championship (1989).
