From the point of view of today, the final of the European Championship in 1988 was kind of unique - for the USSR national team it was last championship Europe (then this great country collapsed and the national teams of Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics appeared on the football arena). It was the final of the two strongest European football teams- both the qualifying tournaments and the matches of the final round were played equally powerfully by the national teams of Holland and the USSR and deservedly reached the final.
By the will of fate, in the group stage of the championship, the teams destined to play the champion title are in the general group B. The USSR national team then turned out to be stronger, beating the Dutch with a score of 1: 0.
The final game for the gold medals of the 1988 European Championship was held on June 25, 1988 at the Munich Olympic Stadium (FRG) in the presence of more than 72 thousand spectators. Excellent football weather and the perfect work of the refereeing team from France under the leadership of Michel Vautreau ensured that the result of the match was as objective as possible.
USSR national team
The USSR national team played the final with the following composition:
- goalkeeper Rinat Dasaev (Spartak Moscow);
- defender Vagiz Khidiyatullin (Spartak Moscow);
- defender Anatoly Demyanenko (Dynamo Kyiv);
- defender Sergei Gotsmanov (Dynamo Minsk - on the 69th minute he was replaced by Sergei Baltacha (Dynamo Kiev));
- midfielder Sergei Aleinikov (Dynamo Minsk);
- midfielder Vasily Rat;
- midfielder Gennady Litovchenko;
- midfielder Alexander Zavarov;
- midfielder Oleksiy Mikhailichenko (all 4 from Dynamo Kyiv);
- forward Igor Belanov (Dynamo Kyiv);
- striker Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kiev - in the 72nd minute he was replaced by Viktor Pasulko (Spartak Moscow).
Match progress
In general, the match took place in a more or less tense and equal struggle. The USSR footballers (Gennady Litovchenko, Igor Belanov, Anatoly Demyanenko, etc.) during the match did not use a number of advantageous opportunities for scoring and scoring goals. At the same time, the leading players of the Netherlands national team (Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and others) distinguished themselves with very high skill, and were able to use some subtle tactical mistakes of the Soviet national team players and translate them into shots on goal, scoring goals. Ultimately, this predetermined the outcome of the match.
In the 32nd minute, a penalty kick was played dangerously by the Dutch. Dasaev Rinat in a throw hit the ball for a corner. A canopy followed, the defenders were able to repulse the ball, then the Dutch got the ball again, Marco van Basten, jumping from the left flank, addresses the ball to Ruud Gullit with his head, and he also hits the goal of Rinat Dasaev with his head. In this episode, the defenders of the USSR national team most likely made a mistake, who did not synchronously perform an artificial offside position, as a result of which Gullit scored a goal - 1: 0 in favor of the Netherlands (Holland).
In the 54th minute, Marco van Basten, in his brilliant style, from the summer, from the right flank at an acute angle shoots the gate of Dasaev - as a result, 2: 0 in favor of the Netherlands.
The Soviet national team did not accept defeat and made every possible attempt to turn the tide of this football game. At the 68th minute, the Dutch goalkeeper van Breeckelen knocks down Sergei Gotsmanov in the penalty area, at the very end line. Igor Belanov was instructed to hit the 11-meter, but he did not hit it very badly - in the center of the goal. The rival goalkeeper had no difficulty in parrying this blow.
In the remaining time, the Netherlands national team confidently brought the game to victory and, for the first time in its history, became the European football champion! Prior to that, she, only once (in 1976), climbed to the podium of the main European tournament, taking only 3rd place. After this match, the USSR national team had one gold medal (1960) and three silver medals (1964, 1972, 1988) of the European Football Championship.
The final score was - Holland 2: 0 USSR.
Here is such last game Soviet national team in the European Football Championship.
Achievements
[edit] World Championships
bronze medalist (4th place) of the 1966 World Championship (coach - N.P. Morozov)
[edit] European Championships
European champion 1960 (coach - G.D. Kachalin)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1964 (coach - K. I. Beskov)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1972 (coach - Ponomarev A.S.)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1988 (coach - V.V. Lobanovsky)
[edit] Olympic Games
Olympic champion in 1956 (coach - Kachalin G. D.)
Olympic champion in 1988 (coach - A. Byshovets)
bronze medalist of the 1972 Olympic Games (coach - Ponomarev A.S.)
bronze medalist of the 1976 Olympic Games (coach - V.V. Lobanovsky)
bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympic Games (coach - K. I. Beskov)
[edit] First steps
The USSR national team in 1924 After a long break associated with the military actions of the First World War, the Great October Socialist Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the Russian national team was convened in 1923 under the banner of the RSFSR national team. Then the team played 3 matches in Europe against the national teams of Estonia, Norway and Sweden, winning in each (total score 9: 5). The national team of an all-Union scale was first convened at the end of 1924 for its first match against the ambitious and solid national team of Turkey, which was played on November 16, 1924 in Moscow and ended with the victory of the Soviet footballers - 3: 0.
Over the next eleven years (1925-1935), the USSR national team played more than 40 international matches, of which only 4 were at home. In most of these matches, the rivals of the Soviet team were various national teams of Turkey and the teams of the German Workers' Sports Union, which was part of the Red Sports International (16 matches each). Also matches were played with a number of Scandinavian and Austrian clubs and working teams, the national teams of Latvia and Norway. The overall result of all these meetings is more than 32 wins (the number of meetings with Latvian teams remains unknown), 5 draws and 2 defeats. The best scorers of the national team were Mikhail Butusov and Fyodor Selin.
The USSR national football team suffered the first defeat in its history in 1927 in Dresden from the Vienna working team - 1: 3, although in the return match it took revenge.
A great contribution to the development of Soviet football was made by the Turkish national team, which became the main sparring partner of the USSR national team, despite the obstacles created by FIFA officials. The fact is that the USSR was not represented by its federation in FIFA, which forbade its members (Turkey was a member of FIFA) to play with teams from other confederations and unions, and the USSR represented their opponent, the Red Sports International. Therefore, in order to continue the meetings with the USSR team, the Turkish federation exhibited its national team under the names of the type “Team of People's Houses of Turkey”. In general, the USSR national team turned out to be stronger than its Turkish rivals (11 wins, 4 draws, 1 defeat). Interestingly, in matches with various clubs from the USSR, the Turkish national team turned out to be even more unlucky, being defeated by almost every one of them, even representatives of the lower leagues.
In 1928-1929, the USSR national team was not convened.
[edit] Beginning of official appearances
The USSR joined FIFA a year after the end of World War II, on June 25, 1946.
Meanwhile, the break in the games of the national team was 17 years (1935-1952). This pause was caused not only by the active participation of the USSR in World War II, but also by the beginning of the USSR championship in football in 1936: the strength of Soviet football was tested in matches of the country's strongest clubs. Dynamo (Moscow), Dynamo (Tbilisi), CDSA and Spartak (Moscow) in 1937 held a series of meetings with the Basque team, which won all matches, losing only to Spartak. Also widely known is the post-war voyage of Moscow Dynamo, reinforced by footballers from other Soviet clubs, to Great Britain, during which 4 matches were played with the founders of football (2 wins, 2 draws).
[edit] xv summer olympics in Helsinki 1952
The participation of the Soviet football team in the Olympic football tournament in Helsinki became known in the summer of 1951, but the team began to be recreated only in January 1952. The preparation of the national team was entrusted to the experienced and most authoritative Soviet coach at that time, Boris Arkadiev. Also, the coaching staff included Yevgeny Eliseev, Mikhail Butusov and Grigory Fedotov, who were later replaced by Mikhail Yakushin. On January 15, 1952, 36 footballers arrived at the disposal of the coaches, who first trained in Moscow, and on March 4 went to the Dynamo Black Sea base in Leselidze, where during the month they held a number of control meetings with the country's best club teams, after which they decided keep the top 24 players.
In preparation for the Olympics, the Soviet national team was convened under the banner of the Moscow and CDSA national teams, since the long (more than three months) training camp could raise suspicions in the IOC about whether the team was made up of amateurs. According to the then Olympic rules participation in the Olympic Games of professional athletes was prohibited, which is why the sports managers of the USSR decided to resort to conspiracy. In May, the team played 9 test matches with the national teams of Bulgaria (played as the national team of Sofia), Hungary, Poland, Finland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. In the very first match on May 11, 1952 in Moscow, the USSR national team lost to Poland (0: 1), but then revenge was taken (2: 1). The overall result of control matches - 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat (goal difference - 16: 6 in favor of the USSR).
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Boris Arkadiev
Coach: Mikhail Yakushin
Goalkeepers
1 Leonid Ivanov 07.25.1921 Zenit Leningrad 3; 9
2 Vladimir Nikanorov 07/14/1917 CDSA
19 Vladimir Margania 08.02.1928 Dynamo Tbilisi
Defenders
3 Konstantin Krizhevsky 02/20/1926 Air Force Moscow 3
4 Anatoly Bashashkin 02/23/1924 CDSA 3
5 Yuri Nyrkov 07/29/1924 CDSA 3
7 Augustin Pagola Gomez 11/18/1922 Torpedo Moscow
6 Vladimir Zyablikov 07/05/1925 Dynamo Moscow
Midfielders
8 Alexander Petrov 27.09.1925 CDSA 3 1
10 Igor Netto 09/01/1930 Spartak Moscow 3
9 Giorgi Antadze 09/06/1920 Dynamo Tbilisi
Forwards
12 Vasily Trofimov 17.01.1919 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
14 Alexander Tenyagin 08.22.1927 Dynamo Moscow 1
20 Vsevolod Bobrov 12/01/1922 Air Force Moscow 3 5
16 Avtandil Gogoberidze 08/03/1922 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
11 Anatoly Ilyin 27.06.1931 Spartak Moscow 1
17 Friedrich Maryutin 10/07/1924 Zenit Leningrad 1
15 Konstantin Beskov 18.11.1920 Dynamo Moscow 2
18 Avtandil Chkuaseli 31.12.1931 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
13 Valentin Nikolaev 08.16.1921 CDSA 2
[edit] Final tournament
The first official match was the meeting in the 1/16 finals of the XV Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the Bulgarian national team on July 15, 1952. During regular time, the score was never opened, so they had to play extra time, where, having conceded first, the Soviet players were able to recoup - 2: 1.
In the 1/8 finals, the FRY national team became the rival of the Soviet national team. In an enchanting match, losing on the move 1: 5, the USSR national team was able to achieve a combat draw - 5: 5. In a replay that took place a day later, the Soviet footballers, who gave their best in the first match, lost to the Yugoslavs 1: 3 and were eliminated from the further medal draw.
The country's top leadership regarded the performance of the football team as extremely unsatisfactory. Firstly, in light of the successes of other Soviet Olympians, who took the second overall team place in the unofficial team event. Secondly, the loss to the Yugoslav national team was a serious ideological blow to the entire country. Josip Broz Tito in 1948 virtually severed all diplomatic relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR, and this made the Balkan republic a political enemy of the Soviet Union. The defeat was perceived so critically that Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin himself took part in the "punishment" of the losing team. As a result, the CDSA team, which was represented at the tournament by only 5 out of 20 players and the head coach, was accused of “failure” (as the country's leadership assessed the performance of the national team) and disbanded, and Petrov, Arkadiev, Bashashkin, Nikolaev, Beskov and Kryzhevsky were forced to surrender certificates of masters of sports (Beskov, Nikolaev and Arkadiev were honored masters). It is interesting that Krizhevsky and Beskov did not play for CDSA at all.
However, some footballers from the disbanded national team were still able to win Olympic gold: Igor Netto, Anatoly Bashashkin and Anatoly Ilyin won the 1956 Summer Olympics football tournament in Melbourne, and Vsevolod Bobrov in the same 1956 won the hockey tournament of the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampa ...
[edit] XVI Summer Olympics in Melbourne 1956
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
After the defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, the USSR national team gathered again only in 1954. Thus, the team did not take part in the games of the Swiss world championship, and the next major tournament for it was to be the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. However, football in the country did not stand still. In 1953, the Soviet Union was attended by famous European football teams: the Viennese "Rapid", "Djurgarden" from Stockholm, the Hungarian club "Doge", as well as the national teams of Finland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The aforementioned teams played with the USSR club teams.
In 1954, 4 more European football teams visited Moscow: Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland. Of these, the last two were opposed by the Moscow team, which in terms of composition can be equated to the main team of the country.
4 matches with the Poles and Bulgarians (2 each), which took place in early August, did not give a definite answer about the state of Soviet football - 1 victory, 1 draw and 2 defeats with a total score of 4: 5, however, they made it possible to determine the main ways of the team's development and pointed out its advantages and disadvantages, which were taken into account in the games of the first team.
On September 8, a meeting with the Swedish team took place, which ended in a real defeat of the Scandinavian squad - 7: 0. On September 19, in Leningrad, the city team quite unexpectedly played with the main team of the country in a draw - 1: 1. On September 26, one of the best teams in the world at that time, the Hungarian national team (the current Olympic champion, the silver medalist of the World Championship that took place two months earlier), led by the top scorer of the last world forum, Sandor Kocis and the legendary Ferenc Puskas, arrived in Moscow, but the Soviet team did not get lost against its background. In the 14th minute, Salnikov opened the scoring, and on the 59th, Kochish scored the return goal, setting the final result of the meeting - 1: 1. With this match, the USSR national team proved its worth and loudly announced its claims to the highest awards in world football. Also, new young and promising footballers: Lev Yashin, Nikita Simonyan and Sergey Salnikov.
At the beginning of 1955, the USSR national team under the leadership of Gabriel Kachalin went on an intense sports tour across India. In 17 matches with teams of different importance (from amateur teams to the first team), a 100% result was achieved with a total score of 100: 4. The debutant Eduard Streltsov became the best scorer of the USSR national team - 15 goals. In the only return match, played on September 16 in Moscow, the national team set their record for scoring in one match, beating the Indian national team - 11: 1.
The team paid return visits to Stockholm and Budapest. Both matches were played according to scenarios similar to last year's: Sweden was defeated again - 6: 0, and Puskas saved Hungary from defeat in the last minutes - 1: 1.
The most serious rival in 1955 for the Soviet team was the FRG national team, which at that time was the reigning world champion. In Moscow, for a friendly match on August 21, she arrived in a weakened composition, which, according to the official version, was due to an epidemic of jaundice, however, even in such a composition, the Bundestim was a very formidable force. The coach of the team - Sepp Gerberger - remained the same and made thorough preparations for this match. The game itself turned out to be very entertaining: losing by the 52nd minute 1: 2, the USSR national team was able to snatch the victory - 3: 2.
Back in 1955, a friendly match with a strong French national team took place in Moscow - 2: 2.
Having defeated the Danish national team (at home and away) with a total score of 10: 3 in two friendly matches, the national team now had to solve the problem of reaching the final tournament of the Olympics. The rival in the qualifying games was the Israeli national team. The level of the teams became clear after the first, Moscow match, which ended with the victory of the USSR - 5: 0, and the return match in Tel Aviv turned into an empty formality - 1: 2, the defeat of Israel.
The dress rehearsal before the voyage to Australia were matches with opponents already familiar to the team: France, Germany and Hungary. On September 15, in Hannover, a slight superiority over the Germans was confirmed - 2: 1, on September 23 the Hungarians still prevailed over the Soviet footballers in Moscow - 1: 0, and on October 24 in Paris, the French in an equal fight inflicted the second defeat for the USSR national team in the last month ...
In early November, a few weeks before the start of the final tournament of the Olympics, the team made a long flight from Moscow to Australia, thus leaving themselves time for acclimatization and preparation. Before the first official meeting, on November 15, a test match was held with the Australian national team, made up of amateurs, in which the Soviet footballers did not give any doubts about their skills, having won 16: 2 (Streltsov and Isaev scored 3 goals, Valentin Ivanov and Tatushin scored two goals) , Paramonov, Ryzhkin and Netto). It is curious that after the break, the USSR was losing 1-0.
[edit] Team composition
Coach: Nikolay Gulyaev
Reward
Goalkeepers
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 2 (-1) 4; 2 *
2 Boris Razinsky 07/12/1933 CDSA 1
Defenders
3 Nikolay Tishchenko 10.12.1926 Spartak Moscow 2 4
4 Anatoly Bashashkin 02/23/1924 CDSA 2 5 *
5 Mikhail Ogonkov 24.06.1932 Spartak Moscow 1 3 *
6 Boris Kuznetsov 07/14/1928 Dynamo Moscow 1 3 *
9 Anatoly Maslenkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 2 *
20 Anatoly Porkhunov ??. ??. 1928 CDSA
Midfielders
7 Alexey Paramonov 02/21/1925 Spartak Moscow 2 2
8 Igor Netto 09/01/1930 Spartak Moscow 1 5 1 *
10 Jozsef Betza 06.11.1929 CDSA 1
Forwards
out.t. Ivan Moser 21.12.1933 Spartak Moscow 1
11 Boris Tatushin 03/31/1933 Spartak Moscow 2 (2) 5 1 *
12 Anatoly Isaev 14.07.1932 Spartak Moscow 1 3 1 *
13 Nikita Simonyan 10/12/1926 Spartak Moscow 2 (2) 1 *
14 Sergey Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 2 4 2 *
15 Anatoly Ilyin 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 2 (1) 2 1 *
16 Valentin Ivanov 19.11.1934 Torpedo Moscow 1 (2) 3 1
17 Eduard Streltsov 21.07.1937 Torpedo Moscow 4 2
18 Vladimir Ryzhkin 29.12.1930 Dynamo Moscow 3
19 Yuri Belyaev 04/02/1934 CDSA
Gold medals were awarded to only eleven players who took part directly in the final match.
[edit] Final tournament
The first meeting with the participation of the USSR national team in the framework of the official tournament, held according to the Olympic elimination system, took place on November 24, at 12:00 (it was the opening match of the football tournament). The rival of the Soviet team was the united team of Germany, made up of budding West German professionals. The head coach of the Germans chose defensive tactics for his charges, but taking advantage of the superiority in the class and the accumulated experience, the Soviet national team was able to distinguish themselves twice, through the efforts of Isaev (23) and Streltsov (86). Khabig's goal in the 89th minute was a goal of prestige. It is interesting that the coach of the German national team recognized the performance of his team as good, that is, he appreciated a decent game with the USSR national team no worse than winning medals.
The next rival of the Soviet national team was the Indonesian national team. A few months before the Olympics, the Indonesians toured the Soviet Union, where they were beaten by many clubs from the lower leagues, which is why they were not perceived as serious contenders. At home, Soviet athletes swore an oath to the country's sports leadership that they would win all the Olympics matches, but they managed to win gold medals, breaking it.
The Indonesian national team played very indoor football, using a 9-1 formation, plus a great goalkeeper - Maulvi Saelan. In the match, played on November 29, 68 shots were made on the Indonesians' goal in 120 minutes, 27 corners were taken into their penalty area, but the goal did not happen. At the end of the meeting, the Indonesians carried out their only attack: Danue went 1 to 2 to the gate, circled Bashashkin, deceived Yashin and missed. The draw was 0: 0, and a replay was scheduled for December 1.
According to the rules of the competition, after a second draw, it was supposed to draw lots, why the victory for the Soviet team was very important. After analyzing the first meeting, it was decided to change the emphasis of the attack: instead of trying to hack the deep Indonesian defense with the help of beautiful combinations and strokes, which was very difficult, it was necessary to give preference to long-range shots so as not to enter someone else's penalty area, overflowing with defenders. Football psychology says that in matches with football dwarfs, which Indonesia has always been, an early goal is necessary, since by the end of the match an opponent of this class usually presses so hard against their goal, guarding a satisfying result (a draw) that it is almost impossible to score. Therefore, Anatoly Maslyonkin and Anatoly Ilyin were released on the field from the first minutes, who had a good long-range shot and were not afraid to take the end of the attack upon themselves. The changes in the game and tactics bore fruit, since by the 19th minute the Indonesians were losing 2: 0, and the USSR national team calmly brought this match to victory - 4: 0.
For the semifinal match with the Bulgarian national team, scheduled for December 5, the team came up far from being in the best condition, after an exhausting confrontation with Indonesia. In addition, during the match, two Soviet footballers were injured (Valentin Ivanov and Nikolai Tishchenko), and substitutions at that time were not envisaged by the rules. According to the scenario, the match turned out to be surprisingly similar to the scenario of the opposition of the same teams in the 1/16 finals of the previous Olympics. Just like 4 years ago, the main time of the match ended in a goalless draw, the Bulgarians also managed to come out ahead in extra time, the USSR national team, showing their character, were able to level the score first (Streltsov scored 8 minutes before the end), and then and set the final, winning score - 2: 1 (in the 116th minute, Tatushin scored).
The rival in the final, held on December 8, for the USSR national team was the national team of Yugoslavia, which blocked its path at the previous Olympics. The Yugoslavs themselves won silver in Helsinki. By the final match, the team's moral and physical fatigue became even more noticeable, because in the last 9 days before the final they played 3 difficult matches with a total duration of 330 minutes. The team needed fresh strength, and not so many players entered the field: Nikita Simonyan, Anatoly Isaev and Anatoly Ilyin. It was these players who created the only goal in the game: in the 48th minute, Isaev closed Ilyin's canopy from the right flank with his head.
This is how the Soviet team won its first award in international football.
[edit] 1958 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 6
The successes of the Soviet team at the Olympics in Melbourne and in friendly matches with the world's leading teams definitely spoke of the team's readiness to take part in the upcoming world championship in Sweden. The application was accepted, and the team got into the 6th UEFA qualifying group, composed, like the others, on a regional basis, which also included the teams already familiar to Soviet footballers: Poland and Finland.
On June 1, the first after the Olympic final, the control match of the USSR national team against the Romanian national team was held in Moscow. The team was still led by Gabriel Kachalin, the backbone of the team remained the same, from the debutants, only Yuri Voinov and German Apukhtin appeared on the field. The Romanians were in good shape and managed to take away a draw from the Soviet capital - 1: 1.
The next game was already official: on June 23 in Moscow, the Soviet national team played a qualifying match for the upcoming World Cup against the Polish national team. The match was very important for both teams, as it was clear to everyone that it was they who would play for the ticket to the world championship in European Group 6. The mood of both teams was really very high, so from the very first minutes a stubborn struggle began for the right to come out ahead. Three times the Poles shook the frame of Yashin's goal with crazy blows, but they could not endure any benefit from their activity. Fortune smiled on Soviet footballers already in the 9th minute: Tatushin made the Polish goalkeeper Shimkowiak make a mistake and opened the scoring. In the second half, the game was already under the dictation of the owners, a whole hail of balls hit the Poles' goal. At the 52nd minute, clouds thickened over the Luzhniki Stadium, and it occurred to someone to turn on the lights, and after 8 minutes turn them off, although such unplanned lights on / off were prohibited by FIFA rules. However, neither the Poles nor the referee began to file a protest, and the FIFA leadership itself limited itself to a written comment. It limited itself to the same remark about the fact that the Soviet players were not officially announced for the match, demanding, however, to send the application list retroactively. Meanwhile, in the 55th minute Nikita Simonyan doubled the score with a beautiful kick to the "nine" from outside the penalty area. Ilyin put a spectacular end to the match with a no less beautiful blow in the 77th minute - 3: 0.
Almost a month later, on July 21, in a test match in Sofia, the Soviet squad confidently beat the Bulgarians - 4: 0. After 6 days, the Finns arrived in Moscow - the outsiders of the group. Having built a deep defense, the Scandinavians were going to play a closed game. True, in the 23rd minute, Voinov succeeded in a long-range strike and the score was opened. But at the end of the first half, Olavi Lakhtinen managed to equalize the score, beating goalkeeper Oleg Makarov, who was replacing the injured Yashin, and the teams went to the break with a draw. The situation on the field strongly resembled a failed match with the Indonesians on the last Olympiad, and Kachalin needed to prove that such mistakes would no longer be repeated with his team. The team was rescued in the 62nd minute by the captain - Igor Netto, who closed the serve from a corner with his head. Despite the victory, the coach was dissatisfied with the game and in the 20 days left before the return match, he worked hard with the players to increase the accuracy of the shots. The results of this work fully justified it on August 15 in Helsinki, when there was no stone unturned from the defense of the Finnish national team - a 10: 0 victory, which is a repetition of the best goal difference for the USSR national team in one match. By the way, the Helsinki match was also the first away match for the Soviet national team, which was attended by its fans.
On September 22, in a friendly match in Budapest, the Hungarians were beaten - 2: 1. In this match, Kachalin tried out a newcomer - defender Vladimir Kesarev.
October 20 in Chorzow was supposed to take place decisive match for reaching the final of the world championship, but it did not become the last. More than one hundred thousand Poles gathered at the lёнsk stadium to support their team, which was joined by the thirty-year-old veteran striker Gerard Cieslik as captain. Lev Yashin returned to the gates of the Soviet team. The Poles turned out to be stronger and won a fairly confident victory in the game - 2: 1, and Tseslik scored a double. Such an outcome of the match meant only one thing: it would be necessary to play an additional game for a ticket to Sweden, since the goal difference and the results of personal meetings did not matter then, although in the event of a draw in the additional match, these indicators would have been taken into account.
I V N P M O
1-2. USSR 4 3 0 1 16 -3 6
1-2. Poland 4 3 0 1 9 -5 6
3. Finland 4 0 0 4 2-19 0
The match was scheduled for November 24, and the East German city of Leipzig was chosen as the venue, and it was chosen mainly at the request of Soviet functionaries, since at the local new 115-thousandth Centralstadion, about a third of the spectators were supposed to be fans of the USSR. True, the road to Leipzig was not without adventures. November 17 torpedo men: Valentin Ivanov and Eduard Streltsov - missed the train to Berlin, and the head of the Football Section of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Valentin Antipenok, who met the latecomers at the Belorussky railway station, set off in pursuit of the train with them, simultaneously calling officials from Ministry of Railways with a request to stop the train. As a result, the car they were driving caught up with the express train in Mozhaisk and the players happily joined the rest of the team.
Due to injuries, the team lacked its recognized leaders: Isaev, Salnikov, Krizhevsky, Simonyan and Ilyin. Shortly before the match itself, Alekper Mamedov was out of action, whose place was unexpectedly taken by Genrikh Fedosov, and he had to play right in the uniform and boots of Mamedov himself, which caused confusion: many believed that Mamedov was present on the field, and not Fedosov ...
The teams began the match without reconnaissance, as they already knew each other well, but the importance of this meeting did not give them the right, forgetting about defense, to try to score a goal by all means, which is why the game turned out to be quite tense. Already in the 5th minute, in a bitter struggle, Streltsov received a painful injury, but, being guilty of being late for the train, and, given that there were no substitutions in official matches then, he made a strong-willed decision to stay in the game, which ultimately brought the team victory. The Poles squandered all their moments at the beginning of the game, ending them unsuccessfully, and the Soviet footballers were able to score twice: in the 30th minute, Streltsov scored from Tatushin's pass, and in the 75th minute Fedosov set the final score from Streltsov's pass - 2: 0. Thanks to this victory, the Soviet team was able to go to their first world championship in Sweden.
From mid-February to March 14, 1958, the national team held training camps in China, in a football sanatorium located on the island, where a number of test matches with local clubs were also held. In May, the team again gathered at the Spartak base in Tarasovka. During this training camp, two test matches were played. In the first, the Soviet team, like the Moscow team, outplayed the Berlin team, made up of the best footballers of the GDR - 4: 0. The second match became a control rehearsal before the games of the World Championship, which started less than a month later: on May 18, the future rivals of the USSR in the group, the British, arrived in Moscow in the most combative squad at that time. The match was held in a double-edged struggle and ended in a draw - 1: 1.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gabriel Kachalin
Coach: Mikhail Yakushin
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Oleg Makarov 07/26/1929 Dynamo Kiev 1 (-1)
13 Vladimir Belyaev 15.09.1933 Dynamo Moscow 1
1 Lev Yashin 10.22.1929 Dynamo Moscow 3 (-2) 5; 6
12 Vladimir Maslachenko 03/05/1936 Lokomotiv Moscow
Defenders
out.t. Mikhail Ogonkov 06.24.1932 Spartak Moscow 5
2 Vladimir Kesarev 02/26/1930 Dynamo Moscow 1 5
3 Konstantin Krizhevsky 20.02.1926 Dynamo Moscow 3 5
4 Boris Kuznetsov 07/14/1928 Dynamo Moscow 5 5
14 Leonid Ostrovsky 01.17.1936 Torpedo Moscow
22 Vladimir Erokhin 10.04.1930 Dynamo Kiev
Midfielders
out.t. Alexey Paramonov 02/21/1925 Spartak Moscow 1
15 Anatoly Maslenkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 1
5 Yuri Voinov 11/29/1931 Dynamo Kiev 4 (1) 5
6 Igor Netto 09.01.1930 Spartak Moscow 5 (2) 1
16 Viktor Tsarev 06/02/1931 Dynamo Moscow 5
Forwards
out.t. Boris Tatushin 03/31/1933 Spartak Moscow 4 (1)
out.t. Eduard Streltsov 07.21.1937 Torpedo Moscow 5 (3)
out.t. Anatoly Isaev 07/14/1932 Spartak Moscow 3 (2)
out.t. Victor Fomin ??. ??. 1929 Dynamo Kiev 1
out.t. Yuri Kovalev 02/06/1934 Dynamo Kiev 1
21 Genrikh Fedosov 06.12.1932 Dynamo Moscow 1 (1)
8 Valentin Ivanov 19.11.1934 Torpedo Moscow 3 (1) 5 1
9 Nikita Simonyan 12.10.1926 Spartak Moscow 4 (4) 5 1
11 Anatoly Ilyin 27.06.1931 Spartak Moscow 3 (3) 5 2
10 Sergey Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 3
17 Alexander Ivanov 04/14/1928 Zenit Leningrad 4 1
7 German Apukhtin 06/12/1936 CSK MO 1
20 Yuri Falin 04/02/1937 Torpedo Moscow 1
18 Valentin Bubukin 04/23/1933 Lokomotiv Moscow
19 Gennady Gusarov 03/11/1937 Torpedo Moscow
Due to the disqualification imposed by Soviet officials, according to the official version, for violating the sports regime, three key players were not included in the composition: Streltsov, Ogonykov and Tatushin. Net, due to a knee injury received on May 15 in a friendly against the British, was able to take part only in the game with the Brazilian national team. In his absence, Simonyan was the captain.
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group D
The first match of the Soviet national team in the final tournaments of the world championships took place on June 8 in Gothenburg, at the New Ullevi stadium, against England. Having already studied each other in a friendly match in May, the teams began the match without "reconnaissance". Already in the 14th minute, Simonyan opened the scoring, finishing off the ball released from the hands of the English goalkeeper Colin McDonald after an unsuccessful attempt to reflect the diagonal shot of Alexander Ivanov. Such a beginning liberated the debutants of the world championship, so that the entire first half and the beginning of the second were theirs. On the 56th minute, Kesarev broke through on the right flank, from where he made a low pass to the same Alexander Ivanov, who easily beat the goalkeeper one on one and sent the ball into the net, bypassing the defender who rushed to cut him. The British, assessing the state of affairs, gathered and began their offensive. The powerful and tall Derek Kevan was especially at the forefront of the attack. In the 68th minute, he closed Billy Wright's distant canopy into the penalty area with his head, leaving Lev Yashin no chance to get the ball. Meanwhile, Valentin Ivanov and Yuri Voinov twice missed the goal from advantageous positions. Ten minutes before the end, Kevan knocked Yashin down, crashing into him at full speed, and Bobby Robson's goal scored in sync with this incident was not counted. At the 83rd minute, the most significant episode of the match took place: while running away from Krizhevsky to the opponent's goal, Johnny Haynes stumbled near the penalty area and fell, and Istvan Zsolt, the match referee, mistakenly assigned a penalty to the USSR national team goal. Soviet footballers and the majority of spectators did not agree with this decision, which is why there was a small scuffle on the field between the referee and the players, during which the overexcited Yashin even threw his famous cap at him, to which, however, the Hungarian did not react. As a result, the penalty was clearly executed by Tom Finney, and Zsolt's wrong decision was for a long time exaggerated in the Soviet press with an eye on the suppression of the Hungarian uprisings of 1956 by the Soviet Union. In defense of the judge, it can be noted that before this penalty he did not react to the fall in the Soviet penalty area of Finney and canceled Robson's goal. The final score (2: 2) did not make the Soviet footballers very happy, since, according to the general opinion of witnesses and participants in the match, the team lost the victory from their hands.
The second rival of the team was the Austrian national team, which lost in the first meeting to the Brazilians - 3: 0, after which there were cardinal changes in its defensive line. The composition of the Soviet team remained unchanged. On June 11, in Boros, on the field of the Rjavallen stadium, two teams charged for battle entered, and the match turned out to be very tense, took place at a fast pace, both teams created quite a few chances. The first goal was scored in the 15th minute, when Valentin Ivanov and Ilyin, taking advantage of the mistake of the enemy's defense, played a simple combination, which ended in a goal from the latter. In the 55th minute, Tsarev played roughly in his own penalty area against Paul Kozlicek, after which the referee rightly pointed to the penalty spot. The blow of the young Hans Bucek, who approached the ball, was not difficult for Yashin, and the score remained the same. After 7 minutes, Valentin Ivanov successfully closed the forty-meter pass of his namesake Alexander, sending the ball into the goal of Kurt Schmid. In the future, the pace of the game dropped and with the final whistle the judge fixed the score 2: 0 in favor of the USSR.
For the third match, scheduled for June 15 at the New Ullevi stadium, Soviet doctors were able to prepare Igor Netto, who, however, still felt ill at ease on the field. The Brazilians entrusted their place in the lineup to the debutants: Pele and Garrinche. To reach the quarterfinals directly, the USSR national team needed to defeat Brazil, which played its first two matches with the same success (victory and draw with similar rivals). Since the Brazilian national team was in a similar, but slightly better position (they won the Austrians with a larger goal difference), a serious struggle began from the very beginning of the meeting. The first three minutes of the match were replete with attacks from the Brazilians: the ball twice hit different rods of the Soviet goal with tremendous force, and in the third minute Didi, approaching someone else's penalty area, pushed the ball among the Soviet defenders that had accumulated there, where he, striking Krizhevsky's thigh, was picked up by the striker Vava and sent to the gate. Having achieved the goal difference that suited them already in the first minutes, the Brazilians began to play slowly, periodically exploding for attacks, which often ended due to ball losses, which were the result of Garrinchi's unnecessary strokes. In the 30th minute, Voinov managed to deliver an accurate and strong blow from 22 meters, however, he did not reach the goal. In the 77th minute, Pele and Vava organized the second goal: after a double zigzag wall, Vava successfully shot on goal in the split. There were no more changes in the match - the Brazilians won in all respects with a score of 2: 0. In the parallel game between the national teams of Austria and England, a draw was recorded, after which the indicators of the goal difference and the points scored by the British and Soviet national teams were equal.
I V N P M O
1. Brazil 3 2 1 0 5 - 0 5
2-3. USSR 3 1 1 1 4-4 3
2-3. England 3 0 3 0 4 - 4 3
4. Austria 3 0 1 2 2-7 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
According to the rules of the tournament, the teams played a play-off match for qualifying from the group every other day. Gabriel Kachalin decided to refresh the line-up a bit, releasing inexperienced Yuri Falin and German Apukhtin on the field, who could not fully integrate into the team game. The British coach made four changes at once in comparison with the previous meeting of the teams. Despite, in general, the sluggish course of the game, partly caused by the fatigue of the teams after the group stage, by the 35th minute the USSR national team had already at least five missed right chances. Then the offensive of the British began, which ended before the break with an unsuccessful blow by Peter Brabrook, led by Peter Broadbent to a favorable position three meters from the gate. However, such a miss provoked the young striker, and in the second half he made several very sharp attacks, one of which even ended with an unprotected goal (the ball hit his hand). In the 55th minute, two mistakes of the British (an unsuccessful throw of the ball by MacDonald and an unsuccessful artificial off-side) led to Ilyin's goal from Voinov's pass. After that, the British with even greater pressure went to attack Yashin's gate, but the Soviet goalkeeper successfully played this meeting and did not let the opponent level the score. As a result, the team advanced to the playoffs of the championship, where it had to meet with the hosts of the tournament - the Swedes.
The match took place on June 19 in Stockholm, at the Rasund stadium. The team was very tired of the night flight, so they approached the match not in the best condition, besides, the Swedish national team did without butt match, that is, had three, rather than one day of rest before the quarterfinal match. The teams spent the first half on an equal footing, and in the second, the fatigue of the Soviet team already affected, which the Swedes did not fail to take advantage of: in the 49th minute, Kurt Hamrin, taking advantage of the mistake of Boris Kuznetsov, realized a one-on-one exit, and in the 87th minute Agne Simonsson successfully closed transfer from the left flank from the same Hamrin. The score is 2: 0 and the USSR national team goes home.
In the Soviet Union, the performance of their national team was recognized as unsuccessful, but later many experts called this judgment erroneous, since the team managed to seriously declare itself in the company of the best teams in the world. The USSR national team also became the most visited team in the group stage (excluding replay), a total of 121,515 spectators attended its matches.
[edit] XVII Summer Olympics in Rome 1960
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
To protect your olympic title at the games in Rome, the USSR national team had to pass the selection sieve. On a territorial basis, she was included in the 3rd European group along with the teams from Bulgaria and Romania. This time, it was decided to create a separate from the main, the Olympic team, which included the players of the nearest reserve of the main team. Of the players who took part in the qualifying games, only goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team that won the Melbourne gold. Boris Arkadiev was appointed coach.
The calendar of games was drawn up in such a way that the USSR national team took part in all the first four games, and in the last two the national teams of Bulgaria and Romania were to fight with each other. In the first match, played on June 29, 1959 in Luzhniki, the Soviet national team in a home match drew with the Bulgarians - 1: 1. On July 19, the Romanians were beaten there - 2: 0. On August 2, in Bucharest, a goalless draw was recorded with the same Romanians. On September 13, in Sofia, the Soviet team was beaten by the Bulgarian - 1: 0. Thus, in the remaining matches, Bulgaria and Romania played out a ticket to Rome between themselves, and the football tournament of the 17th Summer Olympics became the first tournament for the Soviet national team, where it could not break through.
I V N P M O
Bulgaria 4 2 1 1 4 - 3 5
USSR 4 1 2 1 3-2 4
Romania 4 1 1 2 2-4 3
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
All 4 games were played for the national team: B. Razinsky (conceded 2 goals), D. Bagrich, S. Metreveli (1 goal); 3 games: A. Soldatov, M. Ermolaev, N. Linyaev, S. Zavidonov, Z. Kaloev, Y. Kovalev; 2 games: B. Batanov, V. Korolenkov (1 goal), V. Urin (1 goal); 1 game: A. Gogoberidze, Al-dr Sokolov, A. Krutikov, I. Morgunov, I. Zaitsev, V. Voroshilov, Vikt. Sokolov, Sh. Yamanidze.
[edit] European Football Nations Cup 1960
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
The next big tournament for the USSR national team was the first ever European Cup of Nations on football. At that time, the tournament was held according to the so-called Olympic system, that is, there were only matches or a series of elimination matches. Gabriel Kachalin was still at the head of the national team, Nikolai Gulyaev helped him. Andrey Starostin was appointed the head of the team. The first game after the World Cup was a friendly match, held on August 30, 1958 in Prague, against the national team of Czechoslovakia, in which the updated composition of the Soviet team outplayed the opponents - 2: 1.
On September 28, Luzhniki hosted a game that went down in history as the very first match in the history of European championships: in the first game of the 1/8 final two-match series, the teams of the USSR and Hungary met. The first goal of the European championships is also of Soviet origin: in the 4th minute Ilyin opened the goal in the first match. The match itself against the Hungarian team, weakened in recent years, was given to the Soviet national team quite easily and ended with its confident victory - 3: 1, moreover, in the 10th minute, the Austrian referee Alfred Grill canceled, according to many experts undeservedly, Simonyan's goal. Once again, the team set an attendance record: the game with the Hungarians had the largest audience among all other meetings of this tournament - 100,572 spectators.
On October 22 in London, at Wembley stadium, in the last match of the 1958 season, the USSR national team suffered the biggest defeat in its history: they lost to the founders of football - the British with a crushing score of 5: 0, Johnny Haynes scored a hat-trick.
The next time the team gathered with the main line-up almost a year later, on September 6, 1959, when the Czechoslovak national team arrived in Moscow for a friendly match. For the first time after the World Cup, its leaders played for the national team: Netto and Yashin. In this match, the team showed that they did not lose their skills and defeated their opponent more confidently than last year - 3: 1.
On September 27, almost exactly a year after the first game, a return match between the national teams of Hungary and the USSR took place in Budapest. In the pouring rain, the victory was won by Soviet football players - 1: 0, Voinov distinguished himself.
On October 3, a friendly match with the Chinese national team was held in Beijing, which the Soviet team brought to victory (1: 0) after a quick goal by Ilyin in the 2nd minute.
In 1959, the rival of the Soviet Union national team in the quarterfinals was determined. It was the national team of Spain, a country that was under the fascist, as the leadership of the USSR believed, dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco. The Franco government, in turn, strongly condemned the communist path of the USSR. Despite political differences, the teams agreed to meet on May 29, 1960 in Moscow and June 9 in Madrid. On May 19, the coach of the Spaniards, Elenio Herrera, arrived in Moscow, who toured the city, the Metropol Hotel and attended a friendly match between Soviet and Polish footballers. In this game, the Poles lost 1: 7, three goals were scored by the debutant Viktor Ponedelnik. The Spanish national team won the same team twice in the 1/8 finals with a smaller, but rather decent goal difference (4: 2 and 3: 0). Upon learning of the major victory of the USSR, Franco demanded guarantees from his national team that the enemy would be defeated. Despite the successes of Spanish football of those years, for example, the long-term leadership of Real Madrid in the European Cup, the Spanish coaches could not unequivocally be sure of a successful outcome. With all their desire, athletes from Spain could not go to Moscow on the appointed day, due to the negative decision of their dictator. The meeting of the Organizing Commission of the European Cup, held at the end of May in Frankfurt am Main, decided to withdraw the Spanish national team from the tournament for not showing up for the match, which allowed the Soviet national team to directly enter the final tournament of the competition, which was hosted by France. Franco's act became the object of criticism and ridicule not only from Soviet football players, but also from the top party leadership. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev on May 28, 1960 at the All-Union meeting of the foremost workers of the competition of brigades and shock workers of communist labor from the rostrum commented on the decision of the Spanish dictator:
In both big and small Franco crawls before his masters. The whole world is laughing now at his latest sports stunt. It was he who, from the position of the right-back of American prestige, scored an own goal, forbidding the Spanish footballers to meet with the Soviet team!
In early July, before flying to France, the national team, convened under the banner of the USSR national team, played a friendly match against Inter Milan, which ended in a draw - 2: 2. With the score 0: 2 in favor of the Italians, Monday and Valentin Ivanov leveled the situation.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gabriel Kachalin
Coach: Nikolay Gulyaev
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Vladimir Belyaev 15.09.1933 Dynamo Moscow 1 (-1)
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 1 2; 1
2 Vladimir Maslachenko 03/05/1936 Lokomotiv Moscow
Defenders
out.t. Boris Kuznetsov 07/14/1928 Dynamo Moscow 2
3 Vladimir Kesarev 02/26/1930 Dynamo Moscow 2
5 Anatoly Maslenkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 2 2
4 Givi Chokheli 27.06.1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
6 Anatoly Krutikov 09/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 2
Midfielders
9 Viktor Tsarev 06/02/1931 Spartak Moscow 1
7 Yuri Voinov 29.11.1931 Dynamo Kiev 2 (1) 2
8 Igor Netto 09/01/1930 Spartak Moscow 1 2
Forwards
out.t. Alekper Mamedov 09.05.1930 Dynamo Moscow 1
out.t. Nikita Simonyan 12.10.1926 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Anatoly Ilyin 27.06.1931 Spartak Moscow 1 (1)
out.t. Anatoly Isaev 07/14/1932 Spartak Moscow 1
10 Slava Metreveli 05/30/1936 Torpedo Moscow 2 (1) 2 1
11 Valentin Ivanov 19.11.1934 Torpedo Moscow 2 (1) 2 2
13 Valentin Bubukin 04/23/1933 Lokomotiv Moscow 1 2
15 Mikhail Meskhi 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 1 2
12 Victor Monday 05/22/1937 SKA Rostov-on-Don 2 2
14 Yuri Kovalev 02/06/1934 Dynamo Kiev
16 German Apukhtin 06/12/1936 CSKA
17 Zaur Kaloev 01.24.1931 Dynamo Tbilisi
[edit] Final tournament
Winners of the European Cup in 1960 Photo of the USSR national team On July 6, at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, in the heat, the semifinal match of the European Cup between the national teams of the USSR and Czechoslovakia took place. In two friendly matches held by the teams during preparation for the tournament, quite confident victories of the Soviet team were recorded, but the strong Czechoslovak team at that time remained a serious contender for any other. The coaching staff of the USSR national team decided to rely on the high-speed qualities of their young players, which should have worn out their aged rivals. In the first half, both teams maintained a high pace, exchanged attacks, and goalkeepers, Shroyf and Yashin, often entered the game. Gradually, the initiative passed to the Soviet players. At the 35th minute, Valentin Ivanov brought his team forward. After the break, the superiority of the USSR was already felt, the goals of the same Ivanov and Monday finally broke the enemy: the disappointed Vojta even missed the goal from the 11-meter mark. As a result, having defeated their rival with a score of 3: 0, the USSR national team reached the final, where they had to measure their strength with the Yugoslav national team. Tito, who was still at the helm of the SFRY, promised his players a generous reward for defeating the Soviets, which gave the match a special adherence to principles. The government issued only warrants to Soviet footballers allowing them to buy used cars for their own money.
The European Cup arrived in Moscow, 1960. Lev Yashin (left) and Igor Netto (right) On July 10, the final was hosted by Parc des Princes in Paris. The quality of the field was poor and it was raining. The stadium was not sold out, as local fans lost interest in the tournament after the defeat of their national team. From the first minutes on the field, the fight for each goal began, both teams had to play a lot in defense. In the 43rd minute, the Yugoslavs tipped the scales in their favor: having deceived Maslenkin, Erkovich, who broke through on the flank, hung into the penalty area, where Galich closed his pass with his head, after which the ball flew into the goal with a ricochet from Netto's hip. After the break, the USSR national team stepped up their actions in the attack. At the 49th minute, Bubukin, from about 30 meters, struck a powerful blow to Vidinich's goal, who, having caught a wet ball, could not hold it in his hands, which Slava Metreveli took advantage of, picking up a shell and sending it into the goal. Until the end of normal time of the match, a stubborn and tough struggle continued, during which the score did not change anymore, why they had to play overtime. Only in the second extra half, the fate of the match was decided: in the 113th minute, Mikhail Meskhi, having passed the ball along the edge, sent it into the penalty area, after which Monday in a head jump sets the final winning score - 2: 1. The USSR national team won the first ever European Football Cup.
The next day, the teams were awarded at the Eiffel Tower, medals were awarded to the prize-winning teams, and the USSR national team was awarded the cup immediately after the match. The owner of Real Madrid Santiago Bernabeu offered fabulous contracts to many players of that team, however, for ideological reasons, they remained unsigned. The team was honored in Luzhniki, when the newly arrived winners in hotel cars were brought to the main sports arena of the country during the break of the match between Moscow Lokomotiv and Spartak. In the Kremlin, the team was awarded government awards.
[edit] 1962 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 5
A month after its European triumph, the USSR national team began preparations for the upcoming world championship, which was to be held in May-June 1962 in Chile. In 1960, she played two more friendly matches: on August 17 in Leipzig she beat the GDR national team - 1: 0, and on September 4 in Vienna she lost to the Austrian national team - 1: 2, which was her only defeat this year.
From mid-February to March 2, the Soviet national team held a training camp in Digomi. The 1961 season began unsuccessfully for the Soviet national team: in mid-May, the club team lost to the English club Aston Villa, and on May 21 in Warsaw, Poland took revenge for last year's defeat from the USSR national team - 1: 0. For the first time, Soviet television organized the broadcast of the national team's away match.
On June 18, in Luzhniki, the team played the first match in the selection for the upcoming World Cup. The rival was the Turkish national team, which together with the Norwegian squad made up the qualification group, which included the USSR national team. Soviet footballers had the initiative throughout the match, but Valery Voronin, who later became the legendary goalkeeper of the Turkish national team, managed to break through the goalkeeper of the Turkish national team, Turgai Seren.
On June 24, there was also a friendly match between the teams of the USSR and Argentina, which ended in a goalless draw and was remembered for the magnificent save of Vladimir Maslachenko, who, in a phenomenal jump, repulsed a cannon blow under the crossbar inflicted by Jose Sanfilippo.
A week later, on July 1, the Norwegian national team arrived in Moscow. The rival offered the Soviet national team open football, which is why the spectators who came to Luzhniki that day saw seven goals: two against Maslachenko and five against the Norwegian goalkeeper Asbjorn Hansen. The return match against the Norwegian footballers on 23 August in Oslo was also not difficult for footballers from the USSR - a confident 3: 0 victory.
On September 10, in Moscow, a match took place with the Austrian national team, which again beat the Soviet national team - 1: 0, while Valentin Ivanov did not manage to beat the goalkeeper Fraidl from the "point".
On November 12, in Istanbul, the Turks were once again beaten - 2: 1. Having shown one hundred percent result in all 4 qualifying matches, the USSR national team confidently advanced to the final part of the world championship.
I V N P M O
USSR 4 4 0 0 11 -3 8
Turkey 4 2 0 2 4 - 4 4
Norway 4 0 0 4 3 -11 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
Just 6 days later, on November 18 in Buenos Aires, the team entered the River Plate stadium to play the return match against the Argentine national team as part of their South American tour. It was also a confrontation between the winners of the continental championships of South America and Europe. In the period from the 24th to the 26th minute, Victor Monday scored two beautiful goals, and the Argentines were able to answer this only at the end of the match: in the 89th minute, Raul Oscar Belen set the final score - 2: 1 in favor of the USSR. The match was also remembered for the injury of Lev Yashin: from a blow to the head with a foot in the game joint with Juan Jose Pizzuti, he received a concussion and was carried off the field, Maslachenko stood at the gate.
On November 22, in Santiago, the Soviet team was hosted by the hosts of the future world championship, the Chileans. Domination in the first half did not bring the Chilean team success, and the USSR team, on the contrary, was able to realize its superiority in the second half: in the 70th minute, Alexey Mamykina, who replaced Valentin Ivanov, scored the victorious and only goal in this match.
On November 29, the Uruguay national team was beaten in Montevideo. Thus, the Soviet national team outplayed all its tour rivals and earned the most flattering reviews from the South American football and football community. Suffice it to say that the game of the USSR national football team earned no less enthusiastic articles from the local press than the launch of the first man into space by the Soviet state in the same year.
On March 1, 1962, the team went to the training camp in Hungary, the very preparation for the upcoming world championship began in January. On April 11, the first friendly match of the season was held: the local team was outplayed in Luxembourg - 3: 1. On March 18, a game with the vice-world champions - the Swedes was held in Stockholm. The goals of Ponedelnik and Mamykin in the first half provided a good start for the team, and they were able, concentrating on defense, to leave their gates unopened. The match was played especially well by Yashin, who took a penalty from Hamrin.
On April 27, the Uruguayans, the future rivals of the USSR national team in the group, arrived in Moscow for revenge. The team from South America could not oppose anything to the home team and lost in all respects - 5: 0, Mamykin scored a hat-trick (two goals from the penalty spot).
Last match before leaving on May 17 in Chile, the team played as the "Moscow team", on May 3 in Luzhniki with the "Berlin national team", de facto with the GDR national team. The guests lost - 2: 1.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gabriel Kachalin
Coach: Nikolay Gulyaev
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
2 Vladimir Maslachenko 05.03.1936 Spartak Moscow 2 (-2)
1 Lev Yashin 10.22.1929 Dynamo Moscow 2 (-1) 4; 7
3 Sergei Kotrikadze 08/09/1936 Dynamo Tbilisi
Defenders
out.t. Alexander Medakin 01/17/1936 Torpedo Moscow 2
4 Eduard Dubinsky 04/19/1935 CSKA Moscow 2 1
5 Givi Chokheli 06/27/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 4 3
7 Anatoly Maslenkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 4 4
6 Leonid Ostrovsky 01/17/1936 Torpedo Moscow 4
8 Albert Shesternev 06/20/1941 CSKA
Midfielders
9 Nikolay Manoshin 03/06/1938 Torpedo Moscow 2
13 Gennady Gusarov 03/11/1937 Torpedo Moscow 1 (1)
10 Igor Netto 09.01.1930 Spartak Moscow 2 4
12 Valery Voronin 07.17.1939 Torpedo Moscow 4 (1) 4
11 Jozsef Szabo 29.02.1940 Dynamo Kiev
Forwards
out.t. Boris Batanov 07/15/1934 Torpedo Moscow 1
out.t. Valentin Bubukin 04/23/1933 CSKA Moscow 3 (2)
out.t. Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan 06/22/1940 CSKA Moscow 1
14 Valentin Ivanov 19.11.1934 Torpedo Moscow 2 4 4
16 Alexey Mamykin 02/29/1936 CSKA Moscow 1 (1) 2 1
17 Mikhail Meskhi 12.01.1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 4 (2) 3
18 Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Torpedo Moscow 4 (2) 1
19 Victor Monday 05/30/1936 SKA Rostov-on-Don 3 (2) 4 2
15 Viktor Kanevsky 03.10.1936 Dynamo Kiev 2
21 Galimzyan Khusainov 27.07.1937 Spartak Moscow 1
22 Igor Chislenko 04.01.1939 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
20 Victor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kiev
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group A
On May 25, the team flew to South America. After winning the European Cup, another trophy was expected from her.
The organizers placed the Soviet team in Arica, where all the meetings in the first group of the preliminary tournament were to take place at the Carlos Dittborn stadium. The players did not like this coastal town very much, as there was always a strong wind blowing from the ocean and there was a decent heat. The field set aside for training, and in the stadium itself, was as hard as asphalt.
The first match was played by the USSR national team on May 31 against the Yugoslav squad. A strong wind was blowing on the field, which gave the game a special, fast pace. The first half was held in a double-edged struggle, but the score was not opened. The Yugoslavs offered a very rough game, and by the end of the meeting two Soviet players were injured: Slava Metreveli and Eduard Dubinsky. On the 53rd minute, thirty meters from the penalty area of the Balkans, a free kick was assigned for a rough game. The ball after Monday's hit hits the post, after which Valentin Ivanov, who has run over to the goal, finishes it off with his head into the goal. After the goal, the game continued to be replete with mutual attacks and hard joints. In the 85th minute, after the passes of Netto and Ivanov, Monday turned out to be with the ball, which succeeded in a long-range and accurate shot to the bottom corner of the goal. 2: 0 - the final score of this match.
On June 3, the Colombian national team - the generally recognized outsider of the group - became the opponent of the team from the Soviet Union. The coaching staff suggested that the team win with the greatest possible score, since the ratio of goals scored and conceded was taken into account in the final scoring in controversial situations. Take advantage of the confusion in the enemy's defensive formations, by the 13th minute Igor Chislenko and, twice, Ivanov provided the team with a confident three-goal lead with their goals. In the 21st minute, Herman Aseros scored one goal, going one-on-one with Yashin, but the Soviet footballers considered it an accident and did not delay their forces in defense. On the 56th minute, Monday scored another goal of the Soviet team, which finally calmed his comrades. In the 69th minute, the Colombians managed to score a curious goal from a corner: Netto, Chokheli and Yashin did not figure out which of them to knock out the ball from the penalty area, twisted by Marcos Collet down the bottom, and, not stopped by anyone, he quietly flew into the goal. Soviet players began to condemn each other for a stupid goal, moreover, they began to get tired, which is why the initiative gradually passed to the Latin Americans. In the period from 73rd to 77th minutes, Angulo Rada and Marino Keelinger scored two more goals into the gates of confused opponents.
To continue performing at this world championship, the USSR national team had enough to play in a draw on June 6 with the Uruguayan team already familiar to it. At the beginning of the meeting, the teams did not use a few one hundred percent chances, the high pace of the game was set. In the 38th minute, the ball, sent by Galimzyan Khusainov into the penalty area, was sent by Alexei Mamykin from under the feet of the Uruguayans' defender. In the second half, the Uruguayans managed to level the score, but the goal was the result of a referee's error. When Lev Yashin was about to put the ball into play, Julio Cesar Cortez ran out to meet him and tried to kick him with his knee. Yashin was sure that the game would be stopped due to the violation of the Uruguayan striker, and pushed the offender with indignation, but the Italian referee Cesare Jonny saw only the last episode, for which a free kick was assigned towards the Soviet gate within the penalty area. The judge did not count the first blow of Ruben Cabrera and asked for a second one. Bouncing off the wall, the ball hit José Sacia, who, after hitting it, touched one of the Soviet defenders and ricocheted into the goal. Inspired by the feat of the Colombian national team, the Uruguayans went on the attack, but the Soviet team had already analyzed its mistakes and was ready for such a turn. The Soviets organized many attacks, in one of which Chislenko broke through the net from the side with a strong blow, after which the referee, seeing the ball in the goal, pointed to the center. Immediately outraged Uruguayans flocked to him, disagreeing with this decision. Having learned from Chislenko that there was no goal, Netto, the team's captain, went up to the referee and explained that the ball had to be kicked in from the goal. But the Soviet team nevertheless took its toll: a minute before the end, Ivanov finished off the ball into the goal, after the hit of Monday reflected by Roberto Eduardo Sosa. Having defeated Uruguay with a score of 2: 1, the USSR national team advanced to the quarterfinals from the first place. At the end of the meeting, the Uruguayan football players, annoyed by the departure from the tournament, beat the referee, and in the evening of that day they staged a brawl and pogrom in a local casino. During the game, the Uruguayans were just as temperamental: they constantly got into fights and aggravated Yashin's head injury, received on the autumn tour.
I V N P M O
USSR 3 2 1 0 8 -5 5
Yugoslavia 3 2 0 1 8 -3 4
Uruguay 3 1 0 2 4-6 2
Colombia 3 0 2 1 5-11 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
On June 10, Arica hosted the quarterfinal game of the USSR - Chile world championship. From the first minutes the game went smoothly, mutual attacks were carried out. In the 10th minute, Voronin fouled on the left flank and a penalty was awarded for this violation at 18 meters. From a very acute angle, almost at the corner of the penalty area, Leonel Sanchez, beating the Chileans, noticing a gap in the wall, spun the ball flying over the heads of the defenders into the upper right corner of the Soviet goal. Having missed, the USSR footballers went to recoup and seized the initiative, but they rarely managed to get close to the opponent's goal. In the 27th minute, Meskhi, picking up the ball, quickly passed to Chislenko, who was in the center, who sent the ball into the net with lightning speed, equalizing the score. Soviet footballers cheered up and continued to attack, but conceded the second goal in the 29th minute. The Chileans took the lead after their left extreme Eladio Rojas "robbed" the gaping Ivanov and, having passed half the field without hindrance, struck Yashin, closed by defenders, from 30 meters. In the second half, the USSR national team possessed an unconditional advantage, but the Chileans concentrated on defense and kept the score that suits them unchanged.
The team repeated the result it showed at the previous World Championship: it reached the quarterfinals, where it lost to the hosts. Soviet fans and journalists were dissatisfied with the result, the people considered Yashin and Ivanov to be the main culprits of the defeat. Also, many criticized Gabriel Kachalin for the outdated line-up of the "W" team, to which most of the progressive national teams preferred the 4-2-4 formation.
[edit] European Football Cup of Nations 1964
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
In 1963, the games of the second in the history of the European Cup in football started, which was held in the same way, according to the "elimination" system. The USSR national team had to defend their title on the fields of the then hostile Spain, which hosted the final four of this tournament.
The team began preparations for the tournament in the spring under the guidance of the former coach - Gabriel Kachalin. However, after the “national team of clubs”, which was almost an exact copy of the USSR national team of the last world championship, lost in a friendly home match to the ex-winner of the European Cups Cup - Italian “Fiorentina” (1: 3), the coach was removed from his post and his duties were fulfilled for some time by the recent player of the team - Nikita Simonyan. A special council of coaches, created in April by the presidium of the USSR Football Federation, helped him to recruit the team and conduct training. Due to temporary confusion, the national team "stalled" a little and on May 22 lost to the Swedes in Luzhniki - 1: 0. As a result, another recent player of the country's first team, Konstantin Beskov, was appointed to post number one.
The first test for the coach before the upcoming European Cup matches was the meeting in Moscow on September 22 with Hungary. Albert Shesternev and Anatoly Krutikov returned to the team, having received the trust of the new coach, Eduard Malofeev, Viktor Shustikov and Gennady Logofet made their debuts. Beskov also refused the services of two leaders of the former team: Netto and Meskhi. The rivals parted ways: Ferenc Mahosh responded to Valentin Ivanov's goal with an accurate blow - 1: 1.
On October 13, the first game of the 1/8 finals of the European Cup between the national teams of the USSR and Italy took place in Luzhniki. The Soviet team appeared before the public in almost optimal composition: because of the call to the FIFA national team, Yashin was absent, who was replaced by the goalkeeper of the Kutaisi Torpedo - Ramaz Urushadze. The hosts immediately offered the opponent a fast pace, made a bet on the technique, thereby preventing the Italians from playing the main trump card - the tight guardianship of the attackers. Goals by Monday and Chislenko provided the team with a good advantage over the return match - 2: 0.
On November 10, the second game of these teams took place at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Throughout the match, Soviet footballers successfully defended themselves, leaving Italy no opportunity to recoup. Yashin played well at goal, who managed to repel at least three heavy blows to his own goal, including a penalty from Alessandro Mazzola. In addition, from the 33rd to the 89th minute, the Italians were inferior in the long run after the goal of Gusarov. Only at the end of the match, Gianni Rivera scored a goal of prestige. Absolutely deservedly the USSR national team reached the quarterfinals.
On December 1, the team played a friendly with the Moroccan national team in Casablanca. On the field, the guests were greeted personally by the newly minted Prime Minister of the country - Ahmed Bakhnini. The African team considered it a great honor to play with the Soviet Union national team and, getting excited, scored Mohammed Tibari's own goal in the 12th minute. On the 25th minute Sadni equalized the score. Further, by a controversial decision of the side referee, Khusainov's goal was canceled, after which the ball no longer entered the teams' goal.
In January 1964, the team went to Mexico, where it was to take part in the friendly club tournament "Torneo Sextagonal" under the name "Moscow clubs team". 5 rounds were held in the round robin system, in which, after a draw in the first match with Partizan Belgrade (1: 1), Soviet footballers won 4 victories in a row (2: 1 over Nekaha, 5: 0 over America from Mexico City, 2: 1 over Chivas from Guadalajara, 4: 0 over Sao Paulo). In April, under the same name, the team beat the Brazilian club "Parasicaba" - 2: 0.
On May 13, in Stockholm, at Rasund, the first quarterfinal of the European Cup was played against the Swedish national team. The debutants of the first team appeared on the field: Eduard Mudrik, Vladimir Glotov and Alexey Korneev. The heavy and wet field prevented the players from acting in a fast manner, which led to numerous riding passes and an increase in single combats in the fight for the ball. Valentin Ivanov opened the scoring in the 62nd minute, having received the ball from Chislenko, who played a high-speed combination with Voronin. Towards the end of the match, the Swedes began to desperately storm Yashin's goal and in the 87th minute Hamrin achieved his goal - a draw 1: 1.
On May 20, the Uruguayan national team was outplayed in Luzhniki. In the 59th minute, Eduard Mudrik scored the only goal in this meeting with a long-range shot.
A week later, on May 27, the USSR national team received the Swedish national team, which arrived for the return quarterfinal match. In the first half, the Swedes' strikers missed a few right chances in front of the Soviet goal, while the hosts, on the contrary, realized their one of the few chances: Monday scored in the 32nd minute. The goal changed the course of the game: Soviet footballers began to play more confidently. On the 56th minute, after a longitudinal pass in the attack, the ball was received on the same Monday and, bypassing the hesitant Hans Milda, scored a double. In the 78th minute, Hamrin returned a little intrigue to the match, upsetting Yashin, who received the Golden Ball the day before the game. However, in the 83rd minute, Voronin, who played a two-move with Ivanov, restored the Soviet national team's advantage by two goals. The 3-1 victory allowed the team to travel to Spain for the European Cup final four.
Having spent a training camp in France, where several control meetings were played, on June 15, the Soviet delegation flew to Barcelona.
[edit] Team composition
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
13 Ramaz Urushadze 08/17/1939 Torpedo of Kutaisi 1
1 Lev Yashin 10.22.1929 Dynamo Moscow 3 (-3) 2; 2
Defenders
out.t. Eduard Dubinsky 04/19/1935 CSKA Moscow 1
out.t. Anatoly Krutikov 09/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 2
11 Alexey Korneev 06/02/1939 Spartak Moscow 2 1
9 Vladimir Glotov 23.01.1937 Dynamo Moscow 2
8 Albert Shesternev 20.06.1941 CSKA 4 2
14 Viktor Shustikov 01/28/1939 Torpedo Moscow 1 2
10 Eduard Mudrik 17.01.1936 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
15 Viktor Anichkin 08.12.1941 Dynamo Moscow 2
Midfielders
out.t. Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
out.t. Valery Korolenkov 05/17/1939 Dynamo Moscow 3
2 Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 4 (1) 2 1
12 Yuri Shikunov ??. ??. 1939 SKA Rostov-on-Don
Forwards
16 Eduard Malofeev 02.06.1942 Dynamo Minsk 1
6 Igor Chislenko 04.01.1939 Dynamo Moscow 4 (1) 2
4 Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 Torpedo Moscow 4 (1) 2 1
3 Victor Monday 05/30/1936 SKA Rostov-on-Don 2 (3) 2 1
7 Gennady Gusarov 11.03.1937 Dynamo Moscow 3 (1) 1
5 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 3 2 1
17 Oleg Kopaev 28.11.1937 SKA Rostov-on-Don
The information available on some websites that I. Bauzha, A. Biba, L. Burchalkin, V. Maslov, V. Ponomarev, Yu. Sevidov, K. Tuaev were also included in the application for the final tournament are erroneous.
[edit] Final Tournament
On June 18, at the Camp Nou stadium, the semifinal game of the European Cup between the Soviet and Danish national teams took place. The Danes were not a strong national team, they reached the final tournament largely thanks to the brilliant performance of their leader - Ole Madsen, who with 11 goals became the top scorer of the entire competition. According to some opinions, the Soviets' rival despaired in advance to seek his fortune in the semifinals and was determined to take his own in the match for third place, playing the first match half-heartedly. One way or another, the USSR national team outplayed its opponent quite easily: in the 19th minute, Voronin scored the first goal from a corner, Monday scored the first goal from Chislenko's pass, in the 89th minute Valentin Ivanov put an end to the match with an elegant solo pass - 3: 0. The defense of the team played no worse than the attack: the vaunted Madsen dealt the first blow to Yashin's goal only in the 65th minute
On June 21 in Madrid, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in the presence of Generalissimo Franco, the final took place, the rival of the USSR national team - the hosts, the Spanish national team. The match had an extraordinary intrigue: firstly, in the previous European Cup, the match between these rivals did not take place due to Franco's reluctance, and secondly, the countries represented by the players were still in hostile relations. The game itself turned out to be interesting: already in the 6th minute with Luis Suarez's pass, Jesus Pereda, after Shesternev's mistake, sent the ball under the crossbar from close range. However, two minutes later Khusainov, having received the ball from Mudrik, burst into the penalty area and outplayed the Spanish goalkeeper Jose Angel Iribar. Then the game proceeded in a more closed manner: the teams played more on defense, the Spaniards rudely tried to exclude Monday from the game. In the second half it started raining, which made the game even more closed, but Pereda and Monday exchanged dangerous shots on the opponent's goal. In the 84th minute, Pereda freed himself from Mudrik, who was guarding him, broke through on the right flank and made a transfer to Marcelino, who scored the decisive goal in the fall with his head - 2: 1 in favor of the Spaniards. The USSR national team had to give up their title of the strongest in Europe to the Spaniards and be content with silver medals.
The live broadcast of the final game, shown on Soviet central television, was partly the reason for Beskov's resignation from the post of coach of the national team. The fact is that on the television screens of millions of Soviet television viewers appeared satisfied with the victory of his national team over the Soviet Generalissimo Franco, an ardent political and ideological opponent of the Soviet Union. In the sporting defeat of the team, a political one was found, and the result was considered unsatisfactory, although it was second in Europe.
[edit] XVIII Tokyo Summer Olympics 1964
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
According to the results of the draw, the USSR national team got into the third European group of the qualifying tournament for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The country was represented by the Olympic, and, in fact, the second team: the players of the first team (Glotov, Korneev, Mudrik) played together with the players of the nearest (Anichkin, Lobanovsky, Urushadze) and deep (Biba, Sevidov, Fadeev) main team. There were no age restrictions for the players, for example, the goalkeeper Kotrikadze was less than 27 years old at the time of the first meeting with the Finns. The team was headed by Vyacheslav Solovyov, who combined this post with similar work at CSKA.
Tournament regulations did not foresee group tournament in a circular system. The teams had to hold two-match matches for elimination. In the preliminary round, the GDR national team knocked out the national team of another, western Germany. At the next stage, they had to fight the Dutch, and the USSR national team challenged the entry into the next round in the confrontation with Finland.
The first meeting took place on July 22, 1963 at the central stadium of Kiev and ended with a confident defeat of the Finns - 7: 0. Boris Kazakov, Viktor Serebryanikov and Gennady Matveev scored two goals each, Andrei Biba scored another goal. The return game on August 1 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, almost devoid of intrigue, ended with another, more modest, defeat of Finland - 4: 0. Serebryanikov, Biba, Kazakov and Matveev scored goals at their own expense. A ticket to the Olympic Games from the group was now to be played by the national teams of the USSR and the GDR.
On May 31, 1964, in Leipzig, at the Centralstadion, the Germans received guests from the Soviet Union. Already in the 10th minute the hosts opened the score: Henning Frenzel scored. The USSR team managed to escape defeat only in the 88th minute, thanks to the efforts of Yuri Sevidov. A week later, a return match took place in Luzhniki, which also did not reveal the strongest: the guests responded to the goal in the 14th minute by Oleg Kopaev with an effective hit by Heino Kleiminger on the 62nd. According to the rules of the tournament, the teams had to play the third, decisive game on a neutral field. The arena for the match was the Decade Stadium in Warsaw. On June 28, the USSR national team lost to the Germans with a large score (4: 1) and did not make it to the Tokyo games.
All 5 games played for the national team: A. Shesternev, V. Serebryanikov (4 goals); 4 games: E. Mudrik, A. Biba (2 goals); 3 games: V. Ponomarev, M. Khurtsilava, Val. Maslov, Y. Sevidov (1 goal); 2 games: S. Kotrikadze, G. Matveev (3 goals), B. Kazakov (3 goals), V. Lobanovskiy, R. Urushadze (conceded 2 goals), V. Glotov, V. Anichkin, A. Korneev, L. Burchalkin; 1 game: E. Malofeev, O. Kopaev (1 goal), V. Lisitsyn (conceded 4 goals), A. Krutikov, G. Logofet, O.S. Sergeev, V. Fadeev.
[edit] 1966 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 7
For the 1966 World Cup in England, the USSR national team was instructed to prepare coach Nikolai Morozov, who had no serious coaching practice. The rivals in the group became known on February 29, 1964, they turned out to be the teams of Greece, Denmark and Wales.
On October 11, 1964, the team played the first test match under the new leadership: in Vienna, it was hosted by the Austrian national team. For the first time, Viktor Serebryanikov and Vladimir Ponomarev appeared in the jerseys of the first team, the rest of the players were the same. The outcome of the match was decided by one goal: at the end of the first half, Yashin's goal was struck by Walter Glechner. In the 80th minute, the hosts could double the score, but Karl Kohler did not convert the penalty.
On November 4, an unplanned friendly game with the local team took place in Algeria. The Soviet Union was represented by the Moscow Spartak team under the leadership of Nikita Simonyan, who, in fact, were going to measure their strength with the African national team, but the local functionaries asked that the match be held at the level of national teams, after which the team was supplemented with players from other Soviet clubs: Lev Yashin, Viktor Ponedelnik and Gennady Matveyev ... The teams parted in peace - 2: 2.
At the end of November, the team played two test matches in the Balkans, where new coach in the case, I reviewed the candidates for the first team: Igor Ryomin, Georgy Sichinavu, Viktor Bannikov, Valery Dikarev and experienced Mikhail Meskhi. On November 22, in Belgrade, a 1: 1 draw with the Yugoslavs was recorded (Slaven Zambata answered Serebryanikov's goal), and on November 29 in Sofia, the match with the Bulgarians ended without goals.
On February 26, 1965, the USSR national team went to a training camp in Yugoslavia, then to Italy.
On May 16, a friendly match with the Austrian national team was held in Luzhniki. At the beginning of the match, a farewell to the national team of Igor Netto took place, who as a captain brought the team to the field and was replaced in the 5th minute by Logofet, and Valentin Ivanov got the captain's armband. The game ended in a goalless draw - 0: 0.
The USSR national team played the first match of the qualifying tournament for the next world championship against Greece on May 23 in Moscow. After a series of experiments, Morozov released Boris Kazakov, Valery Dikarev, Vasily Danilov and Georgy Sichinava, who had not previously played in official matches for the first team, on the field from the first minutes. Yashin, who was also injured before the game, was replaced at goal by Viktor Bannikov. Already in the 14th minute, Kazakov opened the scoring with his head. The USSR national team continued to attack, but closer to the middle of the meeting, the Greeks seized the initiative, as a result of which Dimitris Papaioanna equalized the score in the 60th minute. Having conceded a goal, the Soviet players rallied and went on the attack again. The victory was brought to the team by two accurate blows of the captain - Valentin Ivanov in the 71st and 83rd minutes.
A week later, on May 30, the second qualifying match with the Wales national team took place in Moscow. At the 39th minute, Valentin Ivanov opened the scoring, at the 48th minute, Stuart Williams hit his own goal, and at the 69th minute, Day Davis set the final score of the match - 2: 1.
The next match in the group was held there on June 27. The Danish national team again, like a year ago, could not seriously resist the Soviet team. Already in the 9th minute, Khusainov opened the scoring, and this goal was the only one in the first half. But in the second they fell like a cornucopia: two goals were scored by a rather mature debutant from Tbilisi "Dynamo" - Vladimir Barkaya, Metreveli, Voronin and Meskhi scored one more goals. The victory with a score of 6: 0 practically ensured the team's access to the final tournament of the championship.
On July 4, probably the most notable game of the national team of the year was scheduled - a Moscow friendly match with Brazil, which was considered the undisputed leader of world football. The Brazilians arrived in their first squad and did not have any special problems at the Luzhniki Stadium. At the 24th minute, Pele, who was personally guarded by Voronin, opened the scoring, at the 32nd he organized a goal for Flaviu Minuanu, and at the 67th he put an end to the match. Soviet footballers were going to the offensive several times, but the defense of the Brazilians played very confidently. The composition of the USSR was far from optimal, for example, Yashin at the gate was replaced by Kavazashvili and Bannikov.
On September 4, in Moscow, the experimental squad of the national team broke up peacefully with Yugoslavia - 0: 0. Further, the team was expected by a three-match tour of Europe, which was the end of the qualifying cycle.
On October 3, the Greeks were beaten in Athens. After the goals of Meskhi and Banishevsky at the beginning of the first half, the Greek leader, Papaioann, managed to take advantage of the mistake made by Yashin and Shesternev, who played the ball dangerously in their own penalty area. Inspired by this event, the Greeks went on the attack, but the class of Soviet football players took their own and two goals from Banishevsky removed the question of the winner of the match - 4: 1.
On October 17, in Copenhagen, the USSR national team was hosted by the only team in the group that had theoretical chances to bypass it - the Danish national team. The Danes decided to give a fight to their opponent, but their strength was only enough for the first half, and in the second, their gates were hit in turn by Metreveli, Malofeev and Sabo. Tommy Troelson's goal did not decide anything: the USSR national team confidently qualified for the World Cup.
On October 27, the last, nothing decisive match took place in Cardiff. Banishevsky scored the first goal of the match in the 17th minute, but after 3 minutes Roy Vernon equalized the score, and in the 77th minute Len Allchurch scored the winning goal for Wales.
I V N P M O
USSR 6 5 0 1 19-6 10
Wales 6 3 0 3 11 - 9 6
Greece 6 2 1 3 10-14 5
Denmark 6 1 1 4 7-18 3
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
After the end of the next USSR championship, in November the national team went to South America, first to Brazil. On November 21 in Rio de Janeiro, at Marakana, the hosts opened the scoring in the 54th minute, after Gershon, having beaten Shesternev and Sabo, shot at point-blank on Yashin's goal. Three minutes later, Jairzinho and Pele, after a great combination, beat the Soviet defense, which ended with a magnificent blow of the latter into the bottom corner from twenty meters. Five minutes later, the goalkeeper of the Brazilians - Manga unsuccessfully knocked out the ball, hitting him in Banishevsky, who took advantage of the mistake of his counterpart and reduced the score gap. Tucking the threads of the game into their hands, the Soviet footballers added in the attack, and in one of them Metreveli managed to push the ball into the goal, which bounced off the bar. The match ended in a draw - 2: 2. Another match in Brazil was played on November 25 in Belo Horizonte, with a hundred thousandth sold-out, where the Soviet Union national team and the national team of the local state of Minas Gerais did without goals.
On December 1, Argentina received guests from the USSR at the capital's River Plate. The hosts responded to the goal with the head of Banishevsky (9th minute) with an effective free kick from Ermindo Onega (48th).
On December 4, at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo, the USSR national team beat the local Uruguayan team without any problems, even being not in the most optimal composition - 3: 1 (goals of Khusainov, Banishevsky and Nikolai Osyanin against the only goal of Pedro Rochi). The last match of the season was held in Santiago, where the local legendary club "Colo-Colo" was able to sensationally defeat one of the leading national teams in the world - 3: 1.
The team began the 1966 season with a voyage to the same South America, where the tournament for the Joao Havelange Cup was held, which was then held among teams of different status (national teams of countries, cities, clubs of different leagues) and less officially. The performance of the Soviets at this tournament and in a number of parallel friendly matches with clubs of different ranks cannot be called successful: 5 wins (Independiente (Rivadavia), Chilean national team, Uberlandia national team, Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro), 1 draw ( Concepcion) and 5 defeats (Green Cross, Gremio, Maringa, Palmeiras, Corinthians) in 11 matches. After staying at this training camp from January 19 to early March, the team returned to Europe, more precisely, to Yugoslavia.
On March 23, in Zagreb, the team drew with the local Dynamo - 2: 2, after which a number of not the best results followed in meetings with local clubs and national teams of various classes.
On April 20, in Basel, at the St. Jakob Park stadium, an official friendly match with the Swiss national team took place. By the 9th minute, Chislenko and Monday provided the team with a two-goal advantage, but by the 73rd minute, the opponents leveled the score - 2: 2.
On April 24, in Vienna, the USSR national team was hosted by the Austrian national team, which became one of the most frequent rivals of this team. Not showing themselves in attack, the hosts concentrated on defense, but in the 20th minute they conceded an annoying goal. Goalkeeper Gernot Fraidl did not keep the ball in his hands, caught after the opponent's kick, and Voronin finished it off into the goal with his head. In the first half, the Soviet footballers did not realize a few more dangerous moments. After the break, the Austrians managed to seize the initiative a little. Tired by the end of the match, the Soviet players did not impress the Viennese fans much. On April 27 and 29, the local clubs Schwarz Weiss (3: 1) and Bakker (1: 4) were beaten, respectively.
On May 22, the Soviet national team played a match with Belgium in Brussels. The match began with strong wind and rain, which did not prevent the Soviet team from playing a multi-move organized by Chislenko in the 11th minute, which ended with Serebryannikov's well-aimed kick to the upper left corner of the goal. Then Banishevsky could not hit the gate left by Jean-Marie Trappenier in the fight with Shesternev, breaking through from two meters much higher than the crossbar. Gradually, the Belgians leveled the game and began to unleash attack after attack on Yashin's goal, but he played the match flawlessly, not allowing the Belgians to change the score - 1: 0.
On June 5, in Luzhniki, the Soviet team, which hosted the French national team, held a dress rehearsal before the World Cup, which would start a month later. At the beginning of the match, the hosts had the initiative, but the guests often responded with dangerous counterattacks and in the 19th minute Bernard Blanchet opened the scoring with the transfer of Philippe Gonde. Two minutes later, Gonda manages to solo and the score doubles. The Soviet team, which rushed to recoup, reduced the score in the 26th minute through the efforts of Metreveli, who realized a one-on-one exit. Banishevsky managed to equalize in the 64th minute, closing the cross of Sabo. In the 66th minute, Chislenko brought his team forward. The French pulled out a draw in the 78th minute after a goal by Josep Bonnel - 3: 3.
In mid-June, the team played several matches in Scandinavia with weak rivals, all of which, without exception, confidently beat.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Nikolay Morozov
Coach: Yuri Zolotov
Goalkeepers
22 Viktor Bannikov 28.04.1938 Dynamo Kiev 2 (-2)
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 2 (-2) 4; 5 *
21 Anzor Kavazashvili 07.19.1940 Torpedo Moscow 2 (-2) 2; 1
Defenders
out.t. Valery Dikarev 09/10/1939 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Gennady Logofet 15.04.1942 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Vladimir Saraev 28.04.1936 Torpedo Moscow 1
4 Vladimir Ponomarev 02/18/1940 CSKA 3 5 *
5 Valentin Afonin 22.12.1939 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1 1
6 Albert Shesternev 20.06.1941 CSKA 6 5 *
7 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dinamo Tbilisi 3 3 *
10 Vasily Danilov 05/13/1941 Zenit Leningrad 5 4 *
3 Leonid Ostrovsky 17.01.1936 Dynamo Kiev 2
9 Viktor Getmanov 05/04/1940 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
Midfielders
out.t. Georgy Ryabov 08/23/1938 Dynamo Moscow 2
8 Jozsef Szabo 29.02.1940 Dynamo Kiev 2 (1) 4 *
12 Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 6 (1) 5 *
14 Georgy Sichinava 15.09.1944 Dynamo Tbilisi 1 2
16 Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 (3) 2 1
2 Viktor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kiev 2
13 Alexey Korneev 02/06/1939 Spartak Moscow 2
Forwards
out.t. Valentin Ivanov 19.11.1934 Torpedo Moscow 3 (3)
out.t. Boris Kazakov 06.11.1940 CSKA Moscow 3 (1)
out.t. Mikhail Meskhi 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 4 (1)
out.t. Vladimir Barkaya 07/29/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 1 (2)
out.t. Vitaly Khmelnitskiy 06/12/1943 Dynamo Kiev 2
15 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 4 (1) 4 *
18 Anatoly Banishevsky 02/23/1946 Oilman Baku 3 (4) 5 1 *
19 Eduard Malofeev 02.06.1942 Dynamo Minsk 2 (1) 5 2 *
11 Igor Chislenko 04.01.1939 Dynamo Moscow 4 2 *
17 Valeriy Porkuyan 04.10.1944 Dynamo Kiev 3 4
20 Eduard Markarov 06/20/1942 Oilman Baku 1
The set of bronze medals consisted of only 11 units, which were distributed among the players nominated for the award by the national federations.
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group D
Arriving in England, the team settled in Durham, which is near Sunderland, where, along with Middlesbrough, the matches of the fourth group took place. Apart from the USSR, the quartet was supplemented by the DPRK, Italy and Chile with their national teams.
The first game took place on 12 July in Middlesbrough, at Ayres Park Stadium. The rival - the North Korean national team - was the biggest mystery of the championship, but it was clear to everyone that this team was not stronger than most of the participants, including the Soviet Union. Voronin unexpectedly remained on the bench for “preventive” purposes. The first dangerous moment was created already in the 3rd minute, but Sin Jung Kyu - the captain of the Koreans - carried the ball sent by Banishevsky out of the empty net. The enemy's activity in the first minutes brought a little confusion to the game of the USSR national team, and in the 13th minute already Kavazashvili had to rescue the team in a desperate jump. For the first half hour, the teams exchanged attacks, but could not reasonably complete any of them. On the 31st minute, Banishevsky made a pass to Malofeev, who, being near the right front, shot on goal. The ball, which defender Park Lee Sup reached, bounced off his foot into the goal. Two minutes later, the Soviets doubled the score: after Szabo's pass from a free-kick, Banishevsky scored a goal. In the second half, mutual attacks began again: in the 46th minute Malofeev hits the post, and in the 51st minute Ostrovsky knocks the ball out of the empty goal. Further, the initiative was taken over by the Soviet team, and goalkeeper Lee Chan Myung rescued its opponent several times. In the 88th minute, Malofeev scored a double and the victory of his team over a tired opponent - 3: 0. Nikolay Morozov was not satisfied with the team's performance.
On July 16 in Sunderland, at Rocker Park, the most intriguing match in the subgroup took place: Italy - USSR. Most experts assumed that Italy was the clear favorite of Quartet No. 4. Both teams chose an attacking style of play for the match, and the Soviet defense was able to surpass the traditionally strong Italian defense, holding back the onslaught of such masters as Sandro Mazzola and Ezio Pascuti. Ponomarev turned off Pascutti from the game, and Facetti could not cope with Chislenko at the decisive moment. The Italians' defense did not fail, but in the 57th minute Chislenko, having received the ball from Banishevsky, delivered a powerful irresistible blow. The goal upset the Italians and allowed the Soviet Union to seize the advantage, and Khusainov did not use two one hundred percent chances to increase the score. True, the score did not change anymore - 1: 0, and the USSR national team was the first of all the participants to reach the quarterfinals.
From the match on July 20 at the same "Rocker Park" against Chile for the USSR national team only depended on where it left the group. Nikolay Morozov decided to test his reserves in this game by releasing 8 new players. The match did not turn out to be spectacular enough, and many Soviet footballers were reproached for their poor performance. In the 29th minute, Porkuyan opened the score, but after 4 minutes Ruben Marcos equalized the score. The victory for the Soviets was brought by the same Porkuyan, who made a double. Having won (2: 1), the USSR national team, together with the DPRK national team, advanced to the next round.
I V N P M O
USSR 3 3 0 0 6 - 1 6
DPRK 3 1 1 1 2-4 3
Italy 3 1 0 2 2 - 2 2
Chile 3 0 1 2 2-5 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
On July 23, "Rocker Park" hosted the quarterfinal match between the national teams of Hungary and the USSR. Voronin took the place of the injured Khurtsilava in the defense, Porkuyan, who had successfully played in the match with Chili, came to the left edge of the attack, and Khusainov pulled back into the midfield. In the 5th minute, the Soviet team succeeded in an early goal: goalkeeper Jozsef Gelei did not keep the ball in his hands after a slight blow from full-back Danilov, which was effectively used by Chislenko. Throughout the first half, the Hungarian footballers were confidently restrained by the Soviet defenders. Valery Voronin did a wonderful job of his personal assignment: he was entrusted with taking care of the most formidable Hungarian - Florian Albert. The second half also began with a goal: in the 46th minute, Porkuyan sent the ball into the goal (it is believed that he scored this ball with his head, but Porkuyan himself claimed that he kicked) sent by Khusainov from a free kick, and Geli missed him. Such a turn led the Hungarians to despondency, but after the goal of Ferenc Bene, the Hungarians staged a real assault. Bene and Mesei did their best. Yashin and Shesternev showed themselves excellently in this situation, earning the best marks from the press. Yashin's high-class saves were played on British television all evening after the match. Having withstood the onslaught of a strong rival (at the group stage, the Hungarian team knocked out Brazil from the draw), the Soviet team achieved a victory (2: 1) and advanced to the semifinals, securing at least the bronze medals of the championship, which were awarded for the fourth place.
The semi-finals were held on July 25 at Liverpool's Goodison Park. The USSR national team met with the FRG team. The Germans showed, according to many, rough football. For example, already in the 7th minute, Jozsef Szabo had his ankle joint broken in the junkyard, which is why he could not play at his level, and in the second half Franz Beckenbauer. The FRG footballers asked a lot of work for the defenders of the USSR, who did not cope with it in the best way, relying on the skill of Lev Yashin. In the 42nd minute, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger picked up the ball lost by Chislenko, quickly transferred it forward to Helmut Haller, who opened the scoring with a strong blow. A couple of minutes later, Chislenko was provoked to a rough foul by German players, after which he received a red card from the Italian referee Conchetto Lo Bello, whose work did not leave the best impression. In the 68th minute, Beckenbauer, who noticed that Yashin was closed by the defenders, increased the score gap with a long-range shot. However, after that, the Soviet footballers started to give the German defense one nuisance after another. According to most football journalists, the Soviet team, playing, in fact, with nine men, looked much better than the opponent in the second half. In the 87th minute, Porkuyan reduced the gap of his team, and a minute before the end, he missed another moment, and it was not possible to equalize the score - 2: 1.
The USSR national team competed for the third place with Portugal on July 28 at London Wembley. Shesternev, Sabo and Chislenko could not take part in the match. Due to the forced shuffling in the line-up, the two leaders of the Portuguese attack had to take care of Voronin (Eusebio) and Hurzilava (Jose Torres). If the first was able to neutralize his formidable opponent, then the second was not, a significant difference in height prevented (Torres was taller). In the 11th minute, Khurtsilava, in the fight against Torres, played the ball in the penalty area with a hand, for which a fair penalty was awarded, converted by Eusebio. At the end of the first half, Metreveli succeeds in a long dash in the center, which he ended with a strong blow (this goal is often mistakenly attributed to Malofeev). Goalkeeper Jose Pereira reached for the ball hit by one of the defenders, but could not fix it, conceding a goal. Both teams began the second half with attacks, while the USSR national team looked better than the primitive Portuguese, who relied on Eusebio and Torres. Particularly distinguished was the author of the return goal - sitting in reserve Metreveli. The outcome of the match was decided only in the 87th minute, when Torres quickly ran behind the backs of Khurtsilava and Korneev to send the ball into the goal, sent by his head to Jose Augustu. The USSR national team suffered the second consecutive defeat with a score of 1: 2 and was content with the "bronze".
On the whole, Yashin, Shesternev, Voronin and Chislenko played a very strong tournament, confirming their high class, both extreme defenders - Ponomarev and Danilov - played reliably. The central forwards looked weaker - Malofeev and Banishevsky (except for the first match against the DPRK), Khusainov did not act in the best way. The opening of the championship was Porkuyan, who was included at the last moment in the national team, who scored 4 goals. Many regretted the absence of Mikhail Meskhi, who was in excellent shape at that time, and Eduard Streltsov, who was not allowed to travel abroad.
Interestingly, of the Dynamo Kiev who won the USSR championship in 1966, only Sabo and Porkuyan were in the main team in England, Ostrovsky and Serebryanikov performed sporadically, and dispatcher Andrei Biba, recognized as the best footballer of the 1966 season, was not included in the application at all for the world championship.
In the Soviet Union, the team's performance was recognized as good, but nothing more.
[edit] XIX Summer Olympics in Mexico City 1968
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 1
[edit] 1 circle
Albania - rejection
[edit] group ending
May 21, 1968 - USSR 3-2 Czechoslovakia
June 1, 1968 - Czechoslovakia 3-0 USSR
They played for the national team in all 4 matches of the qualifying tournament: Y. Pshenichnikov (conceded 6 goals), A. Shesternev, M. Khurtsilava (1 goal), I. Chislenko (3 goals), A. Banishevsky (1 goal); in 3 matches: V. Afonin, V. Voronin, E. Malofeev; in 2 matches: G. Tskhovrebov, J. Sabo, E. Streltsov, A. Byshovets, V. Anichkin (1 goal), V. Kaplichny, G. Evryuzhikhin; in 1 match: V. Levchenko, Y. Istomin, G. Nodia, G. Logofet. The head coach is Mikhail Yakushin.
[edit] European Football Championship 1968
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
June 11, 1967
USSR 4 - 3 Austria Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 100.000
Judge: E. Bostrom
Malofeev 25 "
Byshovets 36 "
Number 43 "
Streltsov 80 "Hof 38"
Free 54 "
Sieber 71 "
Compositions: USSR: Yashin, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Byshovets, Streltsov, Malofeev
Austria: Pichler, Wartush, Eshelmüller, Glechner, Sturmberger, Fak, Hof, Vlögel, Sieber, Wolny, Hormayer
July 16, 1967
USSR 4 - 0 Greece Stadium: Dynamo, Tbilisi
Viewers: 40.000
Judge: B. Nielsen
Banishevsky 50 "and 77"
Sabo 72 "(pen)
Number 83 "
Compositions: USSR: Yashin, Anichkin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Streltsov
Greece: Ikonomopoulos, Plesas, Polychroniou, Bellis, Lukanidis, Camaras, Domazos, Haytas, Sideris, Papaioannou, Botinos
August 30, 1967
USSR 2 - 0 Finland Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 80.000
Judge: M. Sarvan
Khurtsilava 14 "
Number 80 "
Compositions: USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Tskhovrebov, Maslov, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Malofeev
Finland: Nesman, Mäkipää, Kilponen, Kautonen, Nummila, Peltonen, Mäkelä, Syrjavaara, Palman, Tolsa, Laine
September 6, 1967
Finland 2 - 5 USSR Stadium: Kupitta, Turku
Viewers: 8.000
Judge: P. Spotak
Peltonen 18 "(pen)
Syrjavaara 25 "Sabo 2" and 56 "(pen)
Maslov 14 "
Banishevsky 35 "
Malofeev 63 "
Compositions: Finland: Nesman, Pitko, Kilponen, Myakipää, Nummila, Mäkelä, Syrjavaara, Nuoranen, Tolsa, Peltonen, Laine
USSR: Pshenichnikov (Kavazashvili 80 "), Afonin, Anichkin, Khurtsilava, Logofet, Maslov, Chislenko, Sabo (k), Banishevsky, Byshovets, Malofeev
October 15, 1967
Austria 1 - 0 USSR Stadium: Prater, Vienna
Viewers: 34.000
Judge: T. Bechirov
Grouse 50 "
Compositions:
Austria: Harreiter, Gebhardt, Glechner, Strain, Fröhlich, Sturmberger, Eigenstiller, Koltsnik, Sieber, Grausam, Vlögel
USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Tskhovrebov, Maslov, Anichkin, Sabo, Banishevsky, Streltsov, Byshovets
October 31, 1967
Greece 0 - 1 USSR Stadium: Karaiskakis, Piraeus
Viewers: 45.000
Judge: G. Dienst
Malofeev 50 "
Compositions:
Greece: Christidis, Balopoulos, Zanderoglu, Polykhroniou, Gaitadis, Haytas, Lukanidis, Domazos, Yuttsos, Sideris, Papaioannou, Botinos
USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Streltsov, Malofeev
I V N P M O
USSR 6 5 0 1 16-6 10
Greece 6 2 2 2 8-9 6
Austria 6 2 2 2 8 - 10 6
Finland 6 0 2 4 5-12 2
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Quarter-finals
May 4, 1968
Hungary 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Nepstadion, Budapest
Viewers: 80.000
Judge: L. van Ravens
Farkash 21 "
Gerech 84 "
Compositions: Hungary: Vater, Novak, Shoimoshi, Mesei, Ihas, Gerech, Syuch, Rakosi, Fazekas, Varga, Farkas
USSR: Kavazashvili, Istomin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Kaplichny, Malofeev, Streltsov, Banishevsky
May 11, 1968
USSR 3 - 0 Hungary Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 102.000
Judge: K. Chancher
Shoimoshi 21 "(ag)
Khurtsilava 59 "
Byshovets 73 "
Compositions: USSR: Pshenichnikov, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Kaplichny, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Evryuzhikhin
Hungary: Tamas, Novak, Shoimoshi, Ihas, Mesei, Syuch, Varga, Komora, Albert, Farkas, Rakosi
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Mikhail Yakushin
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Lev Yashin 22.10.1929 Dynamo Moscow 2 (-3)
19. Anzor Kavazashvili 07/19/1940 Torpedo Moscow 5 (-3)
1.Yuri Pshenichnikov 06/02/1940 CSKA Moscow 2 (-2) 2; 2
2. Evgeny Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kiev
Defenders
3. Victor Anichkin 08.12.1941 Dynamo Moscow 6
9.Murtaz Khurtsilava 05.01.1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 8 (2)
5. Yuri Istomin 07/03/1944 CSKA Moscow 1 2
10. Albert Shesternev 20.06.1941 CSKA Moscow 7 2
6.Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 2 2
4. Valentin Afonin 22.12.1939 CSKA Moscow 6 2
7.Vladimir Levchenko 02/18/1944 Dynamo Kiev
Midfielders
out.t. Guram Tskhovrebov 07/14/1938 Dynamo Tbilisi II
out.t. Valery Maslov 28.04.1940 Dynamo Moscow 3 (1)
out.t. Jozsef Szabo 29.02.1940 Dynamo Kiev 6 (3)
20. Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 5
11.Alexander Lenev 25.09.1944 Torpedo Moscow 2 2
12.Eduard Malofeev 02.06.1942 Dynamo Minsk 5 (3) 2
8. Gennady Logofet 15.04.1942 Spartak Moscow 1 2
13.Kakhi Asatiani 01.01.1947 Dinamo Tbilisi
21. Vladimir Muntyan 09/14/1946 Dynamo Kiev
Forwards
out.t. Eduard Streltsov 07.21.1937 Torpedo Moscow 5 (1)
18.Igor Chislenko 04.01.1939 Dynamo Moscow 7 (3)
14. Anatoly Banishevsky 23.02.1946 Oilman Baku 7 (3) 2
15. Anatoly Byshovets 23.04.1946 Dynamo Kiev 6 (2) 2
16. Gennady Evryuzhikhin 04.02.1944 Dynamo Moscow 1 2
17.Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi
22. Nikolay Smolnikov 03/10/1949 Neftchi Baku
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] 1/2 finals
June 5, 1968
Italy 0 - 0 * USSR Stadium: San Paolo Stadium, Naples
Attendance: 68,582
Judge: K. Chancher
Compositions:
Italy: Zoff, Burgnich, Facchetti, Ferrini, Bercellino, Castano, Domengini, Juliano, Mazzola, Rivera, Prati
* Italy reached the final thanks to the draw
[edit] 3rd place match
June 8, 1968
England 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Viewers: 68 817
Judge: I. Zholt
B.Charlton 39 "
Hirst 63 "
Lineups: England: Banks, T. Wright, Wilson, Styles, Lebon, Moore, Hunter, R. Charlton, Hunt, Hirst, Peters
USSR: Pshenichnikov, Istomin, Shesternev, Kaplichny, Afonin, Lenev, Logofet, Malofeev, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Evryuzhikhin
The performance of the USSR national team at this championship was considered extremely unsuccessful. No goals were scored in two matches of the final tournament. In the game for the third place, the USSR national team lost with a score of 0: 2 to the British. The coach of our national team Mikhail Yakushin, although not immediately, was dismissed. To justify the weak performance, we can say that on the eve of the championship, the national team for various reasons lost almost half of the main team - Voronin, Khurtsilava, Yashin, Nodia, Chislenko, Anichkina, Streltsov. Lenev, Logofet, Afonin and Malofeev could not properly replace the leaders.
[edit] 1970 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 4
Group 4 1 2 3 I V N P M O
1. USSR 2: 0 3: 0 4 3 1 0 8 - 1 7
2. Northern Ireland 0: 0 4: 1 4 2 1 1 7 -3 5
3.Turkey 1: 3 0: 3 4 0 0 4 2-13 0
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gabriel Kachalin
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Evgeny Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kiev 3
2 Anzor Kavazashvili 07.19.1940 Spartak Moscow 2 (-1) 4; 2
13 Lev Yashin 10.22.1929 Dynamo Moscow
1 Leonid Shmuts 08.10.1948 CSKA
Defenders
3 Valentin Afonin 22.12.1939 CSKA Moscow 1 3
4 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 15.04.1945 Dynamo Tbilisi 4 3
5 Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 3 3
6 Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 4 2
8 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 2 3
9 Albert Shesternev 20.06.1941 CSKA 4 4
7 Gennady Logofet 15.04.1942 Spartak Moscow 2
10 Valery Zykov 24.02.1944 Dynamo Moscow
Midfielders
11 Kakhi Asatiani 01.01.1947 Dynamo Tbilisi 3 (2) 4 1
12 Nikolay Kiselev 29.11.1946 Spartak Moscow 1 3
14 Vladimir Muntyan 14.09.1946 Dynamo Kiev 4 (2) 4
15 Viktor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kiev 3 2
Forwards
out.t. Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Mikhail Gershkovich 04/01/1948 Torpedo Moscow 3
16 Anatoliy Byshovets 23.04.1946 Dynamo Kiev 3 (1) 4 4
17 Gennady Evryuzhikhin 04.02.1944 Dynamo Moscow 1 4
19 Givi Nodia 02.01.1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 3 (2) 1
20 Anatoliy Puzach 03.06.1941 Dynamo Kiev 3 2
21 Vitaliy Khmelnitskiy 12.06.1943 Dynamo Kiev 2 (1) 4 1
18 Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi
22 Valery Porkuyan 10/04/1944 Chernomorets Odessa
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group A
May 31, 1970
12:00
Mexico 0-0 USSR Mexico City, Azteca
Judge: Kurt Chancellor
Attendance: 107,000
June 6, 1970
16:00
USSR 4–1 Belgium Mexico City, Azteca
Judge: Rudolf Scherer
Attendance: 59,000
Byshovets 14 ", 63"
Asatiani 57 "
Khmelnitsky 76 "Lambert 86"
June 10, 1970
16:00
USSR 2–0 El Salvador Mexico City, Azteca
Judge: Rafael Hormazabal
Attendance: 89,000
Byshovets 51 ", 74"
I V N P M O
USSR 3 2 1 0 6 - 1 5
Mexico 3 2 1 0 5 - 0 5
Belgium 3 1 0 2 4-5 2
El Salvador 3 0 0 3 0 -9 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/4 finals
June 14, 1970
12:00
Uruguay 1-0 (d.v.) USSR Mexico City, Azteca
Judge: Laurens van Ravens
Attendance: 45,000
Esparrago 116 "
[edit] European Football Championship 1972
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 4
November 15, 1970
Cyprus 1 - 3 USSR Stadium: Municipal Stadium, Nicosia
Viewers: 13,000
Judge: P. Kostovsky
Charalambus 42 "Kolotov 10"
Evryuzhikhin 16 "
Shevchenko 50 "
Compositions: Cyprus: Alcibiades, Kattos, Kavasis, Fokkis, Kureas, Charalambous, Thassos (Ketriotis, 83), Lakis (Markus, 75), Papadopoulos, Vasiliou, Stylianou
USSR: Bannikov, Istomin, Shesternev (k), Lovchev, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Kopeikin (Nodia, 70), Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin
May 30, 1971
USSR 2 - 1 Spain Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 102,000
Judge: F. Beaversi
Kolotov 79 "
Shevchenko 83 "Rexach 88"
Compositions: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Zykov, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan (Fedotov, 57), Sabo, Banishevsky (Nodia, 76), Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin
Spain: Iribar, Sol (Anton, 65), Tonono, Benito, Gallego, Violeta (Laura, 62), Rexach, Claramunt, Amancio, Uriarte, Churruca
June 7, 1971
USSR 6 - 1 Cyprus Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 35,000
Judge: E. Beillard
Fedotov 79 "and 86"
Evryuzhikhin 23 "and 38"
Kolotov 59 "
Banishevsky 85 "Stephanis 75"
Compositions: USSR: Bannikov (Rudakov, 46), Istomin, Shesternev (k), Zykov, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Banishevsky, Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin (Khmelnitsky, 64)
Cyprus: Barnavas, Coconut, Kavasis, Fokkis, Kallis, Stephanis, Vasiliou, Constantinou, Markus, Kandzhileris (Takis, 74), Stylianou (Theodorou, 46)
Missed penalty: Banishevsky (32)
September 22, 1971
USSR 1 - 0 Northern Ireland Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 75,000
Judge: W. Dahlberg
Muntian 43 "(pen)
Compositions:
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Zykov, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Muntyan, Dolmatov, Fedotov, Shevchenko (Ishtoyan, 74), Evryuzhikhin
Northern Ireland: McFaul, Craig (Hamilton, 60), Neill, Hunter, Nelson, Higan, Clements, Nicholson, O'Kane, Dugan, Best
October 13, 1971
Northern Ireland 1 - 1 USSR Stadium: Windsor Park, Belfast
Viewers: 20,000
Judge: R. Nichus
Nicholson 13 "Byshovets 32"
Compositions:
Northern Ireland: Jennings, Rice, Nelson, Nicholson, Hunter, O'Kane, McMordie, Hamilton (O'Neill, 65), Neill, Dugan (Cassidy, 46), Clements
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Lovchev, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Kiselev, Dolmatov, Konkov, Byshovets, Shevchenko (Ishtoyan, 60)
October 27, 1971
Spain 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Sevilla
Viewers: 60,000
Judge: N. Bartenshaw
Lineups: Spain: Reina, Sol, Gallego, Tonono, Anton (Martial, 76), Laura, Claramunt, Kini, Amancio, Kino, Churruca
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Istomin, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Muntyan, Dolmatov, Fedotov (Kiselev, 83), Byshovets, Ishtoyan (Shevchenko, 62)
I V N P M O
USSR 6 4 2 0 13 -4 10
Spain 6 3 2 1 14 -3 8
Northern Ireland 6 2 2 2 10 -6 6
Cyprus 6 0 0 6 2 - 26 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/4 finals
April 30, 1972
Yugoslavia 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Crvena Zvezda (stadium), Belgrade
Viewers: 99,000
Judge: R. Schörer
Compositions:
Yugoslavia: Marich, Ramlyak, Stepanovich, Pavlovich, Paunovich, Holzer, Yankovic, Oblak, Bukal (Baevich, 85), Achimovich, Dzhaich
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Kaplichny, Istomin, Makhovikov (Troshkin, 62), Dolmatov, Baidachny, Banishevsky, Konkov, Kozinkevich (Evryuzhikhin, 75)
May 13, 1972
USSR 3 - 0 Yugoslavia Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 100,000
Judge: A. Añonesi
Kolotov 53 "
Banishevsky 74 "
Kozinkevich 90 "
Compositions: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Abramov, Istomin, Kolotov, Troshkin, Baidachny (Kopeikin, 66), Banishevsky, Konkov, Evryuzhikhin (Kozinkevich, 90)
Yugoslavia: Marich, Ramlyak, Stepanovich, Pavlovich, Paunovich, Holzer (Petkovic, 56), Antonevich, Oblak (Erkovich, 73), Jankovic, Achimovich, Dzhaich
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: qualifying games - Valentin Nikolaev, final tournament - Alexander Ponomarev
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
20 Viktor Bannikov 28.04.1938 Torpedo Moscow 2 (-1)
1 Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kiev 7 (-3) 2; 3
19 Vladimir Pilgui 26.01.1948 Dynamo Moscow
Defenders
out.t. Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 2
out.t. Albert Shesternev 20.06.1941 CSKA Moscow 6
out.t. Valery Zykov 02.24.1944 Dynamo Moscow 3
out.t. Alexander Makhovikov 12.04.1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
4 Nikolay Abramov 01/05/1950 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 15.04.1945 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 2
3 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 5 2
12 Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 4 2
13 Yuri Istomin 07/03/1944 CSKA Moscow 5 2
5 Viktor Matvienko 10/26/1948 Dynamo Kiev
21 Mikhail Fomenko 19.09.1948 Dynamo Kiev
Midfielders
out.t. Jozsef Szabo 29.02.1940 Dynamo Moscow 1
out.t. Nikolay Kiselev 29.11.1946 Spartak Moscow 2
10 Vladimir Muntyan 14.09.1946 Dynamo Kiev 5 (1)
6 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kiev 7 (4) 2
7 Vladimir Troshkin 28.09.1947 Dynamo Kiev 2 2
14 Anatoly Konkov 19.09.1949 Shakhtar Donetsk 3 2 1
15 Oleg Dolmatov 11/29/1948 Dynamo Moscow 4 1
Forwards
out.t. Vladimir Fedotov 18.01.1943 CSKA Moscow 5 (2)
out.t. Vitaly Shevchenko 02.10.1951 Oilman Baku 6 (2)
out.t. Boris Kopeikin 27.03.1946 CSKA Moscow 2
out.t. Vitaly Khmelnitsky 12.06.1943 Dynamo Kiev 1
out.t. Anatoly Byshovets 23.04.1946 Dynamo Kiev 2 (1)
17 Gennady Evryuzhikhin 04.02.1944 Dynamo Moscow 6 (3)
22 Levon Ishtoyan 03.09.1947 Ararat Yerevan 3
8 Anatoly Baidachny 01.10.1952 Dynamo Moscow 2 2
9 Anatoly Banishevsky 23.02.1946 Oilman Baku 4 (2) 2
16 Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 2 1
11 Eduard Kozinkevich 05/23/1949 Karpaty Lviv 2 (1) 1
18 Vladimir Onishchenko 10/28/1949 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 2
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] 1/2 finals
June 14, 1972
USSR 1 - 0 Hungary Stadium: Stade Emile Versay, Brussels
Attendance: 1,659
Judge: R. Glöckner
Skates 53 "
Compositions: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava, Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov, Troshkin, Kolotov, Baidachny, Banishevsky (Nodia, 68), Onishchenko.
Hungary: Getsi, Fabian, Pancic, Balint, P. Juhas, I. Juhas, L. Kocis (Albert, 60), Kyu, Seke, Bene (A. Dunai, 60), Zambo.
Missed penalty: Zambo (84, goalkeeper).
[edit] Final
June 18, 1972
Germany 3 - 0 USSR Stadium: Heisel, Brussels
Viewers: 50,000.
Judge: F. Marshall
G.Müller 27 "
Wimmer 51 "
G.Müller 58 "
Compositions: Germany: Mayer, Hettges, Breitner, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer (k), Wimmer, Heynckes, W. Hoeness, G. Müller, Netzer, E. Kremers.
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov (Dolmatov, 46), Troshkin, Kolotov, Baidachny, Banishevsky (Kozinkevich, 63), Onishchenko.
[edit] XX Summer Olympics in Munich 1972
[edit] Qualifiers
June 2, 1971 - Netherlands 4-0 USSR
June 16, 1971 - USSR 0-0 Netherlands
[edit] Group 1
October 13, 1971 - USSR 4-0 Austria
November 3, 1971 - USSR 5-1 France
November 18, 1971 - Austria 0-1 USSR
May 25, 1972 - France 1-3 USSR
I V N P M O
USSR 4 4 0 0 13-2 8
France 4 2 0 2 10-9 4
Austria 4 0 0 4 1-13 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Alexander Ponomarev, in May 1972 - Boris Nabokov
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Lev Kudasov 24.06.1943 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
out.t. Alexander Tkachenko 01.24.1947 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 1
out.t. Alexander Prokhorov 18.06.1946 Dynamo Kiev 1 (-1)
out.t. Vladimir Oleinik ??. ??. 1950 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2 (-1)
2 Vladimir Pilgui 01/26/1948 Dynamo Moscow 1 2
1 Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kiev 6; 6
Defenders
out.t. Nikolay Abramov 01/05/1950 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Vyacheslav Bulavin 04/18/1946 Zenit Leningrad 2
out.t. Vadim Ivanov 17.01.1943 Spartak Moscow 2
out.t. Valery Zykov 02.24.1944 Dynamo Moscow 2
out.t. Nikolay Khudiev 05/15/1949 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1
out.t. Serhiy Dotsenko 09/07/1947 Dynamo Kiev 1
out.t. Vadim Sosnikhin 08/10/1942 Dynamo Kiev 3
out.t. Stefan Reshko 24.03.1947 Dynamo Kiev 3
out.t. Norik Mesropyan 04/30/1946 Ararat Yerevan 3
out.t. Viktor Matvienko 26.10.1948 Dynamo Kiev 2
out.t. Boris Serostanov 10/17/1949 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
out.t. Rostislav Potochnyak 01/26/1948 Carpathians Lviv 1
out.t. Vladimir Golubev 04.16.1950 Zenit Leningrad 1
out.t. Viktor Zvyagintsev 10.22.1950 CSKA Moscow 1
3 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 15.04.1945 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
4 Murtaz Khurtsilava 05.01.1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 1
5 Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 7
6 Yuri Istomin 07/03/1944 CSKA Moscow 6
8 Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 6
7 Sergey Olshansky 28.05.1948 Spartak Moscow 3
Midfielders
out.t. Sergei Bondarenko ??. ??. 1948 Ararat Yerevan 4
out.t. Vladimir Troshkin 28.09.1947 Dynamo Kiev 5 (1)
out.t. Vladimir Veremeev 08.11.1948 Dynamo Kiev 4
out.t. Manuchar Machaidze 25.03.1949 Dynamo Tbilisi II (1)
out.t. Leonid Buryak 10.07.1953 Chernomorets Odessa 1
out.t. Hasanbek Mirikov 06/03/1950 Oilman Baku 1
11 Arkady Andreasyan 08/11/1947 Ararat Yerevan 5 (3) 4
12 Hovhannes Zanazanyan 10.12.1946 Ararat Yerevan 6 (3) 6 1
9 Jozsef Szabo 29.02.1940 Dynamo Moscow 5 1
13 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kiev 6 3
14 Anatoly Kuksov 11/21/1949 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 5
15 Vyacheslav Semyonov 08/17/1947 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 5 3
Forwards
out.t. Vladimir Goncharov 11/21/1946 Zenit Leningrad 1
out.t. Gennady Shalimov 11/29/1947 Torpedo Moscow 2 (1)
out.t. Eduard Kozinkevich 05/23/1949 Carpathians Lviv 4 (3)
out.t. Yuri Avrutskiy 05/10/1944 Dynamo Moscow 2
out.t. Boris Kopeikin 27.03.1946 CSKA Moscow 2 (1)
out.t. Bohdan Greshchak 03/31/1949 Carpathians Lviv 3 (1)
out.t. Levon Ishtoyan 03.09.1947 Ararat Yerevan 1 (1)
out.t. Anatoly Vasiliev 25.08.1944 Dynamo Minsk 1
out.t. Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
18 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kiev 1 (2) 6 6
10 Andrey Yakubik 24.08.1950 Dynamo Moscow 2
16 Yuri Eliseev 09/26/1949 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 3 1
17 Vladimir Onishchenko 10/28/1949 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 3
19 Gennady Evryuzhikhin 04.02.1944 Dynamo Moscow 6 1
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
August 28, 1972 - Burma 0-1 USSR
August 30, 1972 - Sudan 1-2 USSR
September 1, 1972 - Mexico 1-4 USSR
I V N P M O
USSR 3 3 0 0 7 - 2 6
Mexico 3 2 0 1 3-4 4
Burma 3 1 0 2 2 - 2 2
Sudan 3 0 0 3 1-5 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Group A
September 3, 1972 - Morocco 0-3 USSR
September 5, 1972 - Poland 2-1 USSR
September 8, 1972 - Denmark 0-4 USSR
I V N P M O
Poland 3 2 1 0 8 - 2 5
USSR 3 2 0 1 8-2 4
Denmark 3 1 1 1 4-6 3
Morocco 3 0 0 3 1-11 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1974 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 9
Group 9 1 2 3 I V N P M O
1. USSR 1: 0 2: 0 4 3 0 1 5-2 6
2. Ireland 1: 2 2: 1 4 1 1 2 4-5 3
3. France 1: 0 1: 1 4 1 1 2 3-5 3
According to the competition regulations, the winner of the 9th group of Europe met for the right to enter the final tournament in additional matches with the winner of the 3rd group of South America:
September 26, 1973
USSR 0 - 0 Chile Stadium: Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
The USSR national team refused the return match at a visit to the Chilean national team, citing the political situation in Chile. By the decision of FIFA, the USSR national team was credited with a defeat, the Chile team reached the final of the championship.
They played for the national team in all 5 matches of the qualifying tournament: R. Dzodzuashvili, E. Lovchev, V. Kaplichny; in 4 matches: M. Khurtsilava, V. Fedotov (1 goal), O. Blokhin (1 goal), V. Muntyan; in 3 matches: E. Rudakov (conceded 1 goal), V. Kolotov (1 goal), S. Olshansky, V. V. Kuznetsov, A. Andreasyan, V. Onishchenko (2 goals); in 2 matches: V. Semenov, V. Evryuzhikhin, A. Puzach, V. Pilguy (conceded 1 goal); in 1 match: V. Muntyan, Y. Vasenin, M. Fomenko, O. Dolmatov, V. Gutsaev, A. Kozhemyakin. Head coach - Evgeny Goryansky.
[edit] 1976 European Football Championship
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 6
1. USSR 2: 1 3: 0 4: 1 6 4 0 2 10-6 8
2. Ireland 3: 0 4: 0 2: 1 6 3 1 2 11 -5 7
3.Turkey 1: 0 1: 1 2: 1 6 2 2 2 5-10 6
4.Switzerland 0: 1 1: 0 1: 1 6 1 1 4 5-10 3
[edit] 1/4 finals
April 24, 1976
Czechoslovakia 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Slovan, Bratislava
Viewers: 50,000
Judge: H. Ok
Möder 34 "
Panenka 47 "
Lineups: Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Dobiash, Ondrush, Chapkovich, Gög, Möder (Knapp, 77), Pollak, Panenka, Masny, Petrash (Kroupa, 18), Nehoda
USSR: Prokhorov, Konkov, Zvyagintsev, Fomenko, Reshko, Matvienko, Lovchev (Veremeev, 57), Onishchenko (Nazarenko, 68), Kolotov (k), Troshkin, Blokhin
May 22, 1976
USSR 2 - 2 Czechoslovakia Stadium: Central, Kiev
Viewers: 100,000
Judge: A. Mackenzie
Buryak 53 "
Blokhin 87 "Möder 45" and 82 "
Compositions: USSR: Rudakov, Konkov (Minaev, 54), Lovchev, Fomenko (k), Zvyagintsev, Troshkin, Muntyan, Onishchenko, Buryak, Veremeev, Blokhin
Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Goeg, Pollak, Dobiash, Ondrush, Pivarnik, Chapkovich (Yurkemik, 83), Masny, Möder, Gallis (Shveglik, 88), Nehoda
Warnings: Troshkin, Möder
They played for the national team in all 8 matches of the qualifying tournament: O. Blokhin (3 goals), V. Veremeev (1 goal), V. Onishchenko (2 goals); in 7 matches: A. Konkov (1 goal), M. Fomenko; in 6 matches: V. Kolotov (3 goals), E. Rudakov (conceded 5 goals), L. Buryak (1 goal), V. Muntyan (1 goal), V. Troshkin; in 5 matches: E. Lovchev, S. Reshko, V. Zvyagintsev; in 4 matches: V. Matvienko; in 3 matches: V. Fedorov; in 2 matches: V. Sakharov; in 1 match: V. Pilguy (conceded 3 goals), V. Kaplichny, S. Nikulin, S. Olshansky, V. Fedotov, V. Zuev, A. Prokhorov (conceded 2 goals), L. Nazarenko, A. Minaev. Head coach - Konstantin Beskov (in 1974), then - Valery Lobanovsky.
[edit] XXI Summer Olympics in Montreal 1976
[edit] Preparing for the tournament (Olympic team)
[edit] Qualifiers
May 7, 1975 - Yugoslavia 1-1 USSR
May 21, 1975 - USSR 3-0 Yugoslavia
[edit] Group 1
July 30, 1975 - Iceland 0-2 USSR
August 28, 1975 - Norway 1-3 USSR
September 10, 1975 - USSR 1-0 Iceland
November 24, 1975 - USSR 4-0 Norway
I V N P M O
USSR 4 4 0 0 10 -1 8
Norway 4 1 1 2 5 - 10 3
Iceland 4 0 1 3 3-7 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: qualifying games - Konstantin Beskov, final tournament - Valery Lobanovsky
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
2 Alexander Prokhorov 18.06.1946 Spartak Moscow 5 (-2)
1 Vladimir Astapovsky 07.16.1946 CSKA Moscow 1 5; 4
Defenders
out.t. Nikolay Khudiev 05/15/1949 CSKA Moscow 1
out.t. Sergei Olshansky 05/28/1948 Spartak Moscow 2
out.t. Nikolay Osyanin 12.12.1941 Spartak Moscow 5
out.t. Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 6
out.t. Valentin Utkin 03/02/1947 CSKA Moscow 4
out.t. Sergey Nikulin 01.01.1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
out.t. Yuri Saukh 14.09.1951 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
6 Vladimir Troshkin 28.09.1947 Dynamo Kiev 4 5
3 Viktor Zvyagintsev 10.22.1950 Dynamo Kiev 4 3 1
4 Viktor Matvienko 26.10.1948 Dynamo Kiev 5
5 Stefan Reshko 24.03.1947 Dynamo Kiev 4
7 Mikhail Fomenko 19.09.1948 Dynamo Kiev 5
Midfielders
out.t. Viktor Papaev 03/02/1947 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Mikhail Bulgakov 12.10.1951 Spartak Moscow 2 (1)
out.t. Manuchar Machaidze 25.03.1949 Dynamo Tbilisi II
out.t. Alexander Maksimenkov 08/17/1952 Torpedo Moscow 6
out.t. Valery Gladilin 19.10.1951 Spartak Moscow 3
out.t. Valery Filatov 11/18/1950 Torpedo Moscow 2
17 David Kipiani 18.11.1951 Dynamo Tbilisi 2 (2)
12 Alexander Minaev 11.08.1954 Dynamo Moscow 6 (4) 5 1
9 Leonid Buryak 10.07.1953 Dynamo Kiev 3 (2) 5
8 Anatoly Konkov 19.09.1949 Dynamo Kiev 2
10 Vladimir Veremeev 08.11.1948 Dynamo Kiev 4 1
11 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kiev 5 2
Forwards
out.t. Vadim Nikonov 08/09/1948 Torpedo Moscow 1
out.t. Vasilis Hadzipanagis 26.10.1954 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4 (1)
out.t. Vladimir Sakharov 05.02.1948 Torpedo Moscow 3 (3)
16 Vladimir Fedorov 05.01.1956 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3 (1) 4
13 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kiev 5 1
14 Vladimir Onishchenko 28.10.1949 Dynamo Kiev 5 3
15 Leonid Nazarenko 21.03.1955 CSKA Moscow 2 1
[edit] Final tournament
I V N P M O
USSR 2 2 0 0 5 - 1 4
DPRK 2 1 0 1 3-4 2
Canada 0 0 0 2 2-5 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/4 finals
July 25, 1976
Iran 1-2 USSR Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
Judge: G. Velazquez
Viewers: 6,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
July 27, 1976
GDR 2-1 USSR Olympic, Montreal
Judge: G. Dorantes
Attendance: 58,000
[edit] 3rd place match
July 29, 1976
Brazil 0-2 USSR Olympic, Montreal
Judge: A. Klein
Attendance: 56,000
[edit] 1978 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 9
Group 9 1 2 3 I V N P M O
1.Hungary 2: 1 3: 0 4 2 1 1 6 - 4 5
2. USSR 2: 0 2: 0 4 2 0 2 5-3 4
3.Greece 1: 1 1: 0 4 1 1 2 2-6 3
They played for the national team in all 4 matches of the qualifying tournament: O. Blokhin, L. Buryak (1 goal), A. Konkov (1 goal), D. Kipiani (2 goals), A. Minaev, V. Troshkin, Sh.Khinchagashvili; in 3 matches: V. Fedorov, V. Onishchenko, A. Maksimenkov; in 2 matches: V. Astapovsky (conceded 2 goals), E. Lovchev, S. Baishakov, Y. Degtyarev (conceded 1 goal), V. Matvienko; in 1 match: S. Olshansky, V. Kruglov, O. Dolmatov, A. Novikov. The head coach is Nikita Simonyan.
[edit] 1980 European Football Championship
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 6
Group 6 1 2 3 4 I V N P M O
1.Greece 4: 1 8: 1 1: 0 6 3 1 2 13-7 7
2.Hungary 0: 0 3: 1 2: 0 6 2 2 2 9-9 6
3. Finland 3: 0 2: 1 1: 1 6 2 2 2 10-15 6
4. USSR 2: 0 2: 2 2: 2 6 1 3 2 7-8 5
They played for the national team in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: A. Bubnov; in 5 matches: V. Khidiyatullin, A. Makhovikov; in 4 matches: A. Berezhnoy, V. Bessonov (1 goal); in 3 matches: V. Zhupikov, S. Prigoda, Y. Chesnokov (1 goal), O. Blokhin, N. Gontar (conceded 5 goals), R. Shengelia, D. Kipiani; in 2 matches: Y. Degtyarev (conceded 1 goal), A. Konkov, L. Buryak, V. Daraselia, S. Shavlo, S. Yurchishin, Y. Gavrilov; in 1 match: M. An, G. Yartsev, V. Gutsaev, Y. Adzhem, M. Machaidze, V. Koridze, Y. Romensky (conceded 1 goal), Sh.Khinchagashvili, A. Khapsalis, R. Dasaev (missed 1 ball), S. Nikulin, F. Cherenkov, A. Maksimenkov, S. Andreev, V. Veremeev, V. Kazachenok, H. Oganesyan. Head coach - Nikita Simonyan (until July 1979), then Konstantin Beskov.
[edit] XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow 1980
[edit] The composition of the Olympic team
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov
No. Name Date of birth Goals Club
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 6; 3
12 Vladimir Pilgui 26.01.1948 Dynamo Moscow 1
Defenders
2 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 6
3 Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 6
4 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03.03.1959 Spartak Moscow 6 2
5 Oleg Romantsev 01/04/1954 Spartak Moscow 6 1
13 Serhiy Baltacha 17.02.1958 Dynamo Kiev 2
14 Sergey Nikulin 01.01.1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
Midfielders
6 Sergey Shavlo 09/04/1956 Spartak Moscow 5 1
8 Vladimir Bessonov 05.03.1958 Dynamo Kiev 6 1
9 Yuri Gavrilov 05/03/1953 Spartak Moscow 5 3
10 Fedor Cherenkov 25.07.1959 Spartak Moscow 6 4
15 Khoren Hovhannisyan 10.01.1955 Ararat Yerevan 3 2
16 Alexander Prokopenko 16.11.1953 Dynamo Minsk 2
Forwards
7 Sergey Andreev 05.16.1956 SKA Rostov-on-Don 6 5
11 Valery Gazzaev 07.08.1954 Dynamo Moscow 6
17 Revaz Chelebadze 02.10.1955 Dynamo Tbilisi II
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group A
July 20, 1980 - USSR 4-0 Venezuela
July 22, 1980 - USSR 3-1 Zambia
July 24, 1980 - USSR 8-0 Cuba
I V N P M O
USSR 3 3 0 0 15 - 1 6
Cuba 3 2 0 1 3-9 4
Venezuela 3 1 0 2 3-7 2
Zambia 3 0 0 3 2 - 6 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/4 finals
July 27, 1980
USSR 2-1 Kuwait Dynamo, Moscow
Judge: V. Rubio
Attendance: 51,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
July 29, 1980
USSR 0-1 GDR Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Judge: W. Ericsson
Attendance: 90,000
[edit] 3rd place match
August 1, 1980
USSR 2-0 Yugoslavia Dynamo, Moscow
Judge: Robert Valentine
Attendance: 51,000
[edit] FIFA World Cup 1982
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
1. USSR
2:0 3:0 5:0 4:0 8 6 2 0 20-2 20
2. Czechoslovakia 1: 1 2: 0 6: 1 2: 0 8 4 2 2 15-6 10
3. Wales 0: 0 1: 0 2: 2 4: 0 8 4 2 2 12-7 10
4. Iceland 1: 2 1: 1 0: 4 2: 0 8 2 2 4 10-21 6
5.Turkey 0: 3 0: 3 0: 1 1: 3
8 0 0 8 1-22 0
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 13.06.1957 Spartak Moscow 8 (-2) 5; 4
21 Viktor Chanov 07.21.1959 Dynamo Kiev
22 Vyacheslav Chanov 23.01.1951 Torpedo Moscow
Defenders
out.t. Alexander Mirzoyan 20.10.1951 Spartak Moscow 1
out.t. Vladimir Lozinsky 02/06/1955 Dynamo Kiev 2
4 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03.03.1959 Spartak Moscow 2
20 Oleg Romantsev 04.01.1954 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 4
3 Alexander Chivadze 08.09.1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 (1) 5 1
5 Serhiy Baltacha 17.02.1958 Dynamo Kiev 6 5 1
6 Anatoliy Demyanenko 19.02.1959 Dynamo Kiev 4 (1) 5
12 Andrey Bal 16.01.1958 Dynamo Kiev 1 4 1
14 Sergei Borovskiy 29.01.1956 Dynamo Minsk 4 3
18 Yuri Susloparov 08.14.1958 Torpedo Moscow 4 1
Midfielders
out.t. Sergey Shavlo 09/04/1956 Spartak Moscow 3
out.t. David Kipiani 18.11.1951 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
17 Leonid Buryak 10.07.1953 Dynamo Kiev 7
8 Vladimir Bessonov 05.03.1958 Dynamo Kiev 6 (1) 5
9 Yuri Gavrilov 05/03/1953 Spartak Moscow 8 (2) 5 1
10 Khoren Hovhannisyan 10.01.1955 Ararat Yerevan 4 (2) 3 1
13 Vitaly Daraselia 09.10.1957 Dynamo Tbilisi 5 (1) 4
Forwards
out.t. Alexander Tarkhanov 06.09.1954 CSKA 1
out.t. Vladimir Gutsaev 21.12.1952 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
19 Vadim Evtushenko 01.01.1958 Dynamo Kiev 1
7 Ramaz Shengelia 01.01.1957 Dinamo Tbilisi 5 (4) 5 1
11 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kiev 7 (5) 5 1
15 Sergey Andreev 05.16.1956 SKA Rostov-on-Don 6 (3) 3
16 Sergei Rodionov 09/03/1962 Spartak Moscow 1 2
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group F
June 14, 1982
21:15
Brazil 2–1 USSR Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Seville
Judge: Augusto Lamo Castillo
Attendance: 68,000
Socrates 75 "
Eder 88 "Ball 34"
June 19, 1982
21:15
USSR 3–0 New Zealand Estadio La Rosaleda, Malaga
Judge: Youssef El-Gul
Attendance: 19,000
Gavrilov 24 "
Blokhin 48 "
Baltach 68 "
June 22, 1982
21:15
USSR 2–2 Scotland Estadio La Rosaleda, Malaga
Judge: Nicolae Raina
Attendance: 45,000
Chivadze 59 "
Shengelia 84 "Jordan 15"
Sauness 86 "
I V N P M O
Brazil 3 3 0 0 10 - 2 6
USSR 3 1 1 1 6-4 3
Scotland 3 1 1 1 8-8 3
New Zealand 3 0 0 3 2 -12 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Group 1
July 1, 1982
21:15
Belgium 0-1 USSR Nou Camp, Barcelona
Judge: Michelle Votro
Attendance: 45,000
Hovhannisyan 48 "
July 4, 1982
21:15
Poland 0-0 USSR Nou Camp, Barcelona
Judge: Robert Valentine
Attendance: 65,000
I V N P M O
Poland 2 1 1 0 3 - 0 3
USSR 2 1 1 0 1-0 3
Belgium 2 0 0 2 0 -4 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] European Football Championship 1984
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 2
Group 2 1 2 3 4 I V N P M O
1. Portugal 1: 0 2: 1 5: 0 6 5 0 1 11 -6 10
2. USSR 5: 0 2: 0 2: 0 6 4 1 1 11-2 9
3.Poland 0: 1 1: 1 1: 1 6 1 2 3 6-9 4
4. Finland 0: 2 0: 1 2: 3 6 0 1 5 3-14 1
They played for the national team in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: R. Dasaev (conceded 2 goals), A. Chivadze, A. Demyanenko (2 goals), S. Baltacha (1 goal), H. Oganesyan; in 5 matches: A. Bal, O. Blokhin (2 goals), T. Sulakvelidze, F. Cherenkov (2 goals); in 4 matches: L. Buryak; in 3 matches: V. Bessonov, S. Andreev (1 goal), R. Shengelia, V. Evtushenko, S. Borovskiy, N. Larionov (1 goal); in 2 matches: S. Rodionov (1 goal), Y. Gavrilov; in 1 match: V. Lozinsky, A. Tarkhanov. The head coach is Valery Lobanovsky.
[edit] XXIII Los Angeles Summer Olympics 1984
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 1
May 18, 1983 - Bulgaria 2-2 USSR
May 26, 1983 - USSR 3-0 Greece
7 September 1983 - Hungary 0-1 USSR
October 5, 1983 - Greece 1-3 USSR
October 12, 1983 - USSR 0-0 Bulgaria
April 25, 1984 - USSR 0-1 Hungary
I V N P M O
USSR 6 3 2 1 9 -4 8
Hungary 6 3 2 1 8 -5 8
Bulgaria 6 1 5 0 7 -5 7
Greece 6 0 1 5 4 - 14 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
For the national team (Olympic) played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: S. Gotsmanov, V. Grachev (1 goal); in 5 matches: Viach. Chanov (conceded 3 goals), V. Gazzaev (2 goals); in 4 matches: V. Yanushevsky, V. Zhupikov, S. Aleinikov (1 goal), F. Cherenkov (2 goals), V. Shishkin; in 3 matches: E. Mileshkin, E. Kuznetsov (1 goal), V. Melnikov, B. Pozdnyakov; in 2 matches: M. Belyalov, A. Sorokalet, V. M. Kuznetsov, I. Belanov, V. Klementyev (1 goal), G. Litovchenko; in 1 match: V. Novikov (conceded 1 goal), S. Vedeneev, Y. Zheludkov, A. Keropyan, V. Kaplun, N. Larionov (1 goal), I. Gurinovich, V. Kasparavichius, A. Zygmantovich, Yu . Pudyshev, S. Stukashov. Head coach - Vladimir Salkov (in May 1983), then Eduard Malofeev.
The national team did not go to the Olympics because of the boycott announced by the Soviet sports authorities. Almost all socialist countries refused to participate in the Olympics, and no one from this group went to the football tournament.
[edit] 1986 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 6
Group 6 1 2 3 4 5 I V N P M O
1. Denmark
4:2 0:0 3:0 1:0 8 5 1 2 17-6 11
2. USSR 1: 0 4: 0 2: 0 1: 0 8 4 2 2 13 -8 10
3.Switzerland 1: 0 2: 2 0: 0 1: 1 8 2 4 2 5-10 8
4. Ireland 1: 4 1: 0 3: 0 0: 0 8 2 2 4 5 -10 6
5. Norway 1: 5 1: 1 0: 1 1: 0
8 1 3 4 4-10 5
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: qualifying games - Eduard Malofeev, final tournament - Valery Lobanovsky
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 13.06.1957 Spartak Moscow 8 (-8) 3; 5
22 Sergey Krakovsky 08/11/1960 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Defenders
out.t. Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
out.t. Serhiy Baltacha 17.02.1958 Dynamo Kiev 4
out.t. Boris Pozdnyakov 05/31/1962 Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow 2
out.t. Ivan Vishnevsky 02/21/1957 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2
3 Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
2 Vladimir Bessonov 05.03.1958 Dynamo Kiev 3 3
4 Gennady Morozov 12/30/1962 Spartak Moscow 3 1
5 Anatoliy Demyanenko 19.02.1959 Dynamo Kiev 7 (1) 3
6 Alexander Bubnov 10.10.1955 Spartak Moscow 4 1
15 Nikolay Larionov 02/19/1957 Zenit Leningrad 3 2
10 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kiev 4
12 Andrey Bal 16.01.1958 Dynamo Kiev 2
Midfielders
out.t. Khoren Hovhannisyan 10.01.1955 Ararat Yerevan 2
out.t. Andrey Zygmantovich 02.12.1962 Dynamo Minsk 4
out.t. Sergey Gotsmanov 27.03.1959 Dynamo Minsk 8 (1)
out.t. Yuri Gavrilov 03.05.1953 Spartak Moscow 4 (1)
out.t. Fedor Cherenkov 25.07.1959 Spartak Moscow 4 (1)
9 Alexander Zavarov 04/26/1961 Dynamo Kiev 3 4 1
13 Gennady Litovchenko 09/11/1963 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 5 (1) 1
20 Sergei Aleinikov 07.11.1961 Dynamo Minsk 8 4 1
7 Ivan Yaremchuk 19.03.1962 Dynamo Kiev 3 1
8 Pavel Yakovenko 19.12.1964 Dynamo Kiev 3 1
21 Vasily Rat 25.04.1961 Dynamo Kiev 3 1
Forwards
out.t. Georgy Kondratyev 07.01.1960 Dynamo Minsk 7 (3)
11 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kiev 3 2 1
14 Sergei Rodionov 03.09.1962 Spartak Moscow 2 4 1
18 Oleg Protasov 04.02.1964 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 7 (5) 1
19 Igor Belanov 25.09.1960 Dynamo Kiev 2 4 4
17 Vadim Evtushenko 01.01.1958 Dynamo Kiev 3
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group C
June 2, 1986
12:00
USSR 6: 0 (3: 0) Hungary Irapuato, Estadio Sergio Le; n Chavez
Judge: Luigi Agnolin
2 "Yakovenko
4 "Aleinikov
24 "(pen) Belanov
66 "Yaremchuk
75 "Dyke (auth.)
80 "Rodionov
Note: Yevtushenko (USSR) missed a penalty (77 ", wide).
June 5, 1986
12:00
France 1: 1 (0: 0) USSR Leon, Estadio Nou Camp
Judge: Romualdo Arppi Filho
62 Fernandez 54 Rat
June 9, 1986
12:00
USSR 2: 0 (0: 0) Canada Irapuato, Estadio Sergio Le; n Chavez
Judge: Idris Traore
59 "Blokhin
75 "Zavarov
I V N P M O
USSR 3 2 1 0 9 -1 5
France 3 2 1 0 5 -1 5
Hungary 3 1 0 2 2-9 2
Canada 3 0 0 3 0 -5 0
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/8 finals
June 15, 1986
16:00
Belgium 4: 3 (0: 1) in d.p. USSR Leon, Nou Camp
56 "Shifo
78 "Kulemans
102 "Demol
109 "Klassen 28", 70 ", 111" (pen) Belanov
Number of viewers - 132,277
Chief Justice - Eric Fredrickson
Assistant judges - Arminio Victoriano Sanchez, David Socha
Alerts (deletions) - 65 "Michelle Rankin (Bel) (0)
[edit] European Football Championship 1988
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
Group 3 1 2 3 4 5 I V N P M O
1. USSR
2:0 1:1 2:0 4:0 8 5 3 0 14-3 13
2.GDR 1: 1 0: 0 2: 0 3: 1 8 4 3 1 13-4 11
3.France 0: 2 0: 1 2: 0 1: 1 8 1 4 3 4-7 6
4. Iceland 1: 1 0: 6 0: 0 2: 1 8 2 2 4 4 - 14 6
5. Norway 0: 1 0: 0 2: 0 0: 1
8 1 2 5 5-12 4
[edit] Team composition
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 13.06.1957 Spartak Moscow 8 (-3) 5 -4
16 Viktor Chanov 07.21.1959 Dynamo Kiev 1
Defenders
out.t. Nikolay Larionov 02/19/1957 Zenit Leningrad 1
out.t. Viktor Losev 25.01.1959 Dynamo Moscow 1
out.t. Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
out.t. Alexander Bubnov 10.10.1955 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Vladimir Bessonov 05.03.1958 Dynamo Kiev 6 3
3 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03.03.1959 Spartak Moscow 8 (1) 5
4 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kiev 7 4
5 Anatoliy Demyanenko 19.02.1959 Dynamo Kiev 7 4
13 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 2 (1) 2
19 Serhiy Baltacha 17.02.1958 Dynamo Kiev 1 1
12 Ivan Vishnevsky 02.21.1957 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Midfielders
out.t. Pavel Yakovenko 19.12.1964 Dynamo Kiev 6
out.t. Igor Dobrovolskiy 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 2
outbound Ivan Yaremchuk 03/19/1962 Dynamo Kiev 2
6 Vasily Rat 25.04.1961 Dynamo Kiev 7 (1) 5 1
7 Sergey Aleinikov 07.11.1961 Dynamo Minsk 7 (1) 5 1
8 Gennady Litovchenko 11.09.1963 Dynamo Kiev 5 (1) 4 1
9 Oleksandr Zavarov 26.04.1961 Dynamo Kiev 6 (2) 5
15 Oleksiy Mikhaylichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kiev 4 (1) 5 1
18 Sergei Gotsmanov 27.03.1959 Dynamo Minsk 4
14 Vyacheslav Sukristov 01/01/1961 Zalgiris Vilnius
Forwards
out.t. Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kiev 4 (1)
out.t. Sergei Rodionov 09/03/1962 Spartak Moscow 5
out.t. Vadim Evtushenko 01.01.1958 Dynamo Kiev 1
10 Oleg Protasov 04.02.1964 Dynamo Kiev 5 (1) 5 2
11 Igor Belanov 25.09.1960 Dynamo Kiev 6 (4) 4
20 Victor Pasulko 01.01.1961 Spartak Moscow 2 1
17 Sergei Dmitriev 03/19/1964 Zenit Leningrad
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
June 12, 1988
Netherlands 0: 1 USSR Stadium: Cologne
Viewers: 60,000
Judge: Dieter Pauli
Rat 53 "
June 15, 1988
Ireland 1: 1 USSR Stadium: Hannover
Attendance: 38,308
Judge: Emilio Soriano Aladren
Whelan 39 "Protasov 75"
June 18, 1988
England 1: 3 USSR Stadium: Frankfurt
Viewers: 53,000
Judge: Jose Rocha dos Santos
Adams 15 "Aleinikov 3"
Mikhailichenko 26 "
Pasulco 73 "
Team I V N P M Points
USSR 3 2 1 0 5; 2 5
Netherlands 3 2 0 1 4; 2 4
Ireland 3 1 1 1 2; 2 3
England 3 0 0 3 2; 7 0
[edit] Semi-finals
June 22, 1988
USSR 2: 0 Italy Stadium: Stuttgart
Viewers: 61,606
Judge: Alexis Ponne
Litovchenko 61 "
Protasov 63 "
[edit] Final
June 25, 1988
USSR 0: 2 Netherlands Stadium: Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Judge: Michelle Votro
Gullit 34 "
van Basten 54 "
[show] in the USSR national team - European Championship 1988 - 2nd place
1 Dasaev (v) 2 Bessonov 3 Khidiyatullin 4 O. Kuznetsov 5 Demyanenko 6 Rat 7 Aleinikov 8 Litovchenko 9 Zavarov 10 Protasov 11 Belanov 12 Vishnevsky 13 Sulakvelidze 14 Sukristov 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Vic. Vats (v) 17 Dmitriev 18 Gotsmanov 19 Baltacha 20 Pasulko Coach Valery Lobanovsky
[edit] XXIV summer Seoul Olympics 1988
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 4
October 14, 1986 - Norway 0-0 USSR
April 15, 1987 - Turkey 0-2 USSR
May 7, 1987 - Bulgaria 0-1 USSR
12 August 1987 - USSR 1-0 Norway
October 28, 1987 - Switzerland 2-4 USSR
April 6, 1988 - USSR 2-0 Turkey
April 27, 1988 - USSR 2-0 Bulgaria
May 10, 1988 - USSR 0-0 Switzerland
I V N P M O
USSR 8 6 2 0 12 - 2 14
Bulgaria 8 4 2 2 13 -5 10
Switzerland 8 2 3 3 8-10 7
Norway 8 0 5 3 1-7 5
Turkey 8 1 2 5 5-15 4
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] Team composition
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals Reward
Goalkeepers
1 Dmitry Kharin 08.16.1968 Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow 8 (-2) 6 -6
16 Alexey Prudnikov 03/20/1960 Torpedo Moscow, Spartak Moscow
Defenders
out.t. Valery Panchik 10.07.1963 Neftchi Baku 1
out.t. Arkady Afanasyev 03/20/1959 Zenit Leningrad 1
out.t. Dmitry Kuznetsov 28.08.1965 CSKA Moscow 1
2 Gela Ketashvili 27.09.1965 Dynamo Tbilisi 5 6
3 Igor Sklyarov 08/31/1966 Dynamo Moscow 7 2
4 Alexey Cherednik 09/15/1960 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4 4
5 Arvydas Janonis 11/06/1960 Zalgiris Vilnius 1 1
12 Evgeny Yarovenko 08/17/1963 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 5 4
13 Sergei Fokin 07/26/1961 CSKA Moscow 3 1
17 Viktor Losev 25.01.1959 Dynamo Moscow 6 6
18 Sergey Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Lokomotiv Moscow 3 6
Midfielders
out.t. Alexander Vorobyov 28.03.1962 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
out.t. Valery Broshin 19.10.1962 CSKA 2
out.t. Valdas Ivanauskas 07/31/1966 Zalgiris Vilnius 3
6 Vadim Tishchenko 03.24.1963 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4
7 Evgeny Kuznetsov 08/30/1961 Spartak Moscow 6 (1) 5
10 Igor Dobrovolskiy 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 8 (2) 6 6
14 Vladimir Tatarchuk 26.07.1961 CSKA 5 5
15 Oleksiy Mikhaylichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kiev 8 (2) 6 5
8 Igor Ponomarev 02.24.1960 Neftchi Baku 1
Forwards
out.t. Oleg Morozov 10/13/1961 Chernomorets Odessa 1
out.t. Sergei Dmitriev 03/19/1964 Zenit Leningrad 1
out.t. Nikolay Savichev 13.02.1965 Torpedo Moscow 1
out.t. Stasis Baranauskas 05/07/1962 Zalgiris Vilnius II (2)
9 Alexander Borodyuk 30.11.1962 Dynamo Moscow 4 (1) 2
11 Volodymyr Lyutyi 04/20/1962 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 6 (3) 6
19 Yuri Savichev 13.02.1965 Torpedo Moscow 4 (1) 5 1
20 Arminas Narbekovas 28.01.1965 Zalgiris Vilnius 1 6 2
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group C
September 18, 1988 - South Korea 0-0 USSR
September 20, 1988 - Argentina 1-2 USSR
September 22, 1988 - USA 2-4 USSR
I V N P M O
USSR 3 2 1 0 6 -3 5
Argentina 3 1 1 1 4 - 4 3
South Korea 3 0 2 1 1-2 2
USA 3 0 2 1 3-5 2
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[edit] 1/4 finals
September 25, 1988
Australia 0-3 USSR Kuduk Stadium, Busan
Judge: Juan Cardelino
Viewers: 5,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
September 27, 1988
Italy 2-3 USSR Kuduk Stadium, Busan
Judge: Jamal Al-Sharif
Viewers: 10,000
[edit] Final
October 1, 1988
Brazil 1-2 USSR Olympic, Seoul, Seoul
Judge: Gerard Biguet
Attendance: 73,000
[show] about r USSR National Team - Olympic Games 1988 - Champion
1 Kharin (v) 2 Ketashvili 3 Sklyarov 4 Cherednik 5 Yanonis 6 Tishchenko 7 E. Kuznetsov 8 I. Ponomarev 9 Borodyuk 10 Dobrovolsky 11 Lyuty 12 Yarovenko 13 Fokin 14 Tatarchuk 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Prudnikov (c) 17 Losev 18 Gorlukovich 19 Yu. Savichev 20 Narbekovas Coach Anatoly Byshovets
[edit] 1990 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
Group 3 1 2 3 4 5 I V N P M O
1. USSR
2:0 2:0 3:0 1:1 8 4 3 1 11-4 11
2.Austria 0: 0 3: 2 3: 0 2: 1 8 3 3 2 9-9 9
3.Turkey 0: 1 3: 0 3: 1 1: 1 8 3 1 4 12 -10 7
4.GDR 2: 1 1: 1 0: 2 2: 0 8 3 1 4 9-13 7
5. Iceland 1: 1 0: 0 2: 1 0: 3
8 1 4 3 6-11 6
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Valery Lobanovsky
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 13.06.1957 Spartak Moscow, Sevilla 6 (-2) 1 -2
16 Viktor Chanov 07.21.1959 Dynamo Kiev 2 (-2)
22 Alexander Uvarov 13.01.1960 Dynamo Moscow 2 -2
Defenders
out.t. Oleg Luzhny 08/05/1968 Dynamo Kiev 4
out.t. Gela Ketashvili 27.09.1965 Dynamo Tbilisi II
out.t. Vasily Kulkov 06/11/1966 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Vladimir Bessonov 05.03.1958 Dynamo Kiev 4 2
3 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03.03.1959 Toulouse 5 3
4 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kiev 6 3
5 Anatoliy Demyanenko 19.02.1959 Dynamo Kiev 2 1
20 Sergey Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Lokomotiv Moscow, Borussia Dortmund 7 3
13 Akhrik Tsveiba 11.09.1966 Dynamo Kiev
19 Sergei Fokin 26.07.1961 CSKA
Midfielders
out.t. Oleksiy Mikhaylichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kiev 7 (2)
out.t. Fedor Cherenkov 25.07.1959 Spartak Moscow 2
out.t. Valdas Ivanauskas 07/31/1966 Zalgiris Vilnius 1
6 Vasily Rat 25.04.1961 Dynamo Kiev, Espanyol Spain 6 1
7 Sergey Aleinikov 07.11.1961 Dynamo Minsk, Juventus, Italy 7 3
8 Gennady Litovchenko 11.09.1963 Dynamo Kiev 8 (3) 3
9 Alexander Zavarov 04/26/1961 Juventus, Italy 8 (1) 3 1
11 Igor Dobrovolskiy 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 7 (2) 3 1
15 Ivan Yaremchuk 19.03.1962 Dynamo Kiev 1 2
17 Andrey Zygmantovich 02.12.1962 Dynamo Minsk 2 2 1
18 Igor Shalimov 02.02.1969 Spartak Moscow 2
21 Valery Broshin 19.10.1962 CSKA
Forwards
out.t. Yuri Savichev 13.02.1965 Torpedo Moscow 3
10 Oleg Protasov 04.02.1964 Dynamo Kiev 8 (3) 3 1
12 Alexander Borodyuk 30.11.1962 Dynamo Moscow, Schalke 04, Germany 1 1
14 Vladimir Lyutyi 04/20/1962 Schalke 04, Germany 1
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group B
June 9, 1990
17:00
USSR 0-2 Romania San Nicola, Bari
Viewers: 42,907
Judge: Juan Cardelino
Lakatush 42 ", 57" (pen)
June 13, 1990
21:00
Argentina 2-0 USSR Sao Paulo, Naples
Viewers: 55,759
Judge: Eric Fredriksson
Troglio 27 "
Burruchaga 79 "
June 18, 1990
21:00
Cameroon 0-4 USSR San Nicola, Bari
Attendance: 37,303
Judge: Jose Wright
Protasov 20 "
Zygmantovich 29 "
Zavarov 55 "
Dobrovolsky 63 "
I V N P M O
Cameroon 3 2 0 1 3-5 4
Romania 3 1 1 1 4 - 3 3
Argentina 3 1 1 1 3 - 2 3
USSR 3 1 0 2 4-4 2
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
[show] about r USSR National Team - World Championship 1990
1 Dasaev (v) 2 Bessonov 3 Khidiyatullin 4 O. Kuznetsov 5 Demyanenko 6 Rat 7 Aleinikov 8 Litovchenko 9 Zavarov 10 Protasov 11 Dobrovolsky 12 Borodyuk 13 Tsveiba 14 Lyuty 15 Yaremchuk 16 Vic. Chanov (v) 17 Zygmantovich 18 Shalimov 19 Fokin 20 Gorlukovich 21 Broshin 22 Uvarov (v) Coach Valery Lobanovsky
[edit] XXV Summer Olympics in Barcelona 1992
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
September 11, 1990 - USSR 2-2 Norway
April 18, 1991 - Hungary 0-0 USSR
June 12, 1991 - Italy 1-0 USSR
August 27, 1991 - Norway 0-1 USSR
September 24, 1991 - USSR 2-0 Hungary
October 16, 1991 - USSR 1-1 Italy
I V N P M O
Italy 6 4 1 1 6-8 9
Norway 6 3 1 2 13 - 6 7
USSR 6 2 3 1 6-4 7
Hungary 6 0 1 5 1-8 1
I - games, B - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
For the national team (Olympic) played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: S. Bezhenar (1 goal), Y. Nikiforov, S. Radchenko (1 goal); in 5 matches: S. Kiryakov, G. Stauche (conceded 2 goals), O. Tetradze; in 4 matches: Y. Tishkov (1 goal); in 3 matches: M. Kasymov, V. Onopko (1 goal), O. Salenko, B. Tedeev, V. Tsarev, D. Khlestov, S. Shcherbakov (1 goal); in 2 matches: O. Benko, S. Zaets, V. Popovich, S. Mandreko, S. Shustikov (1 goal), I. Simutenkov; in 1 match: V. Pchelnikov (conceded 2 goals), G. Moroz, I. Chugainov, A. Muschinka, S. Mamchur, E. Bushmanov, O. Koshelyuk. The head coach is Boris Ignatiev.
[edit] European Football Championship 1992
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
Group 3 1 2 3 4 5 I V N P M O
1. USSR
0:0 2:0 2:2 4:0 8 5 3 0 13-2 13
2.Italy 0: 0 1: 1 3: 1 2: 0 8 3 4 1 12-5 10
3. Norway 0: 1 2: 1 0: 0 3: 0 8 3 3 2 9-5 9
4.Hungary 0: 1 1: 1 0: 0 4: 2 8 2 4 2 10-9 8
5.Cyprus 0: 3 0: 4 0: 3 0: 2
8 0 0 8 2-25 0
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Anatoly Byshovets
No. Name Date of birth Club Elimination of Games (goals) Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
out.t. Alexander Uvarov 01.13.1960 Dynamo Moscow 4
12 Stanislav Cherchesov 09/02/1963 Spartak Moscow 3 (-2)
1 Dmitry Kharin 08.16.1968 CSKA Moscow 1 3 -4
Defenders
out.t. Sergei Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Borussia Dortmund 1
out.t. Vadim Tishchenko 03.24.1963 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1
out.t. Vasily Kulkov 11.06.1966 Spartak Moscow, Benfica 8
out.t. Dmitry Galyamin 01/08/1963 CSKA 5
2 Andrey Chernyshov 07.01.1968 Dynamo Moscow 8 3
4 Akhrik Tsveiba 11.09.1966 Dynamo Kiev 6 2
5 Oleg Kuznetsov 22.03.1963 Dynamo Kiev, Glasgow Rangers 5 (1) 3
16 Dmitry Kuznetsov 28.08.1965 CSKA 3 3
3 Kakhaber Tskhadadze 09/07/1968 Spartak Moscow 1
18 Viktor Onopko 10/14/1969 Spartak Moscow 3
20 Andrey Ivanov 04/06/1967 Spartak Moscow 1
Midfielders
out.t. Vladimir Tatarchuk 26.07.1961 CSKA 1
out.t. Alexander Mostovoy 08.22.1968 Spartak Moscow 5 (2)
6 Igor Shalimov 02.02.1969 Spartak Moscow, Foggia Italy 8 (1) 1
7 Alexey Mikhailichenko 03/30/1963 Sampdoria Italy, Glasgow Rangers 8 (2) 3
8 Andriy Kanchelskis 01/23/1969 Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester United 8 (3) 3
9 Sergei Aleinikov 11/07/1961 Lecce Italy 6 (1) 2
10 Igor Dobrovolskiy 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 2 3 1
17 Igor Korneev 04.09.1967 CSKA, Espanyol Spain 2 (1) 1
19 Igor Ledyakhov 05/22/1968 Spartak Moscow
Forwards
out.t. Oleg Protasov 02/04/1964 Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece 4 (1)
out.t. Ivan Getsko 04/06/1968 Chernomorets Odessa 2
11 Serhiy Juran 11.06.1969 Dynamo Kiev, Benfica 5 (1) 2
15 Igor Kolyvanov 06.03.1968 Dynamo Moscow, Foggia Italy 7 2
13 Sergei Kiryakov 01/01/1970 Dynamo Moscow 2
14 Vladimir Lyuty 20.04.1962 Duisburg Germany 1
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
June 12, 1992
CIS 1: 1 Germany Stadium: Idrotsparken, Norrkoping
Viewers: 17 410
Judge: Gerard Biguet
The USSR national football team could rightfully consider the European Championship "its own tournament." In the period from 1960 to 1988, Soviet football players were among the European grandees, regularly climbing the podium. The "golden age" of domestic football began with the first tournament, which was then called the European Nations Cup.
1960 The first tournament, the first victory of the USSR
The idea of a tournament among European football teams was born with difficulty. When the tournament was approved, the teams of England, Germany, Sweden refused to participate in it - only 13 teams. Their main argument was the excessive workload of football players in the clubs.
The tournament was held according to the Olympic system, and the final tournament was to take place in July 1960 in France.
In the 1/8 finals, the USSR national team had to fight with a strong Hungarian team. Soviet footballers successfully coped with the task both at home and away - 3: 1 and 1: 0.
The team passed the quarterfinals automatically, due to the refusal of the Spanish national team. Spanish dictator Franco banned his players from going to the match in the USSR, after which the Spaniards were disqualified. According to the unofficial version, it was not only about politics. The coach of the Spanish national team, having visited the friendly match of the future opponent, reported in Madrid: nothing can be guaranteed, “if they are pressed to the river, it’s a cover”. Franco reasoned that a political demarche was better than humiliation on the football field.
The final tournament of 1960 included the hosts, the French, as well as the national teams of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
In the semifinals on July 6, 1960, at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, the USSR national team defeated the Czechoslovakian team with a score of 3: 0. Distinguished themselves Valentin Ivanov(twice) and Victor Monday.
In the second semi-final, the Yugoslavs beat the French in a dramatic struggle - 5: 4.
The final took place on 10 July 1960 at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. The score was opened in the 43rd minute by Yugoslavia Galich, but almost immediately after the break Metreveli equalized it.
The main time ended in a draw, and two additional halves of 15 minutes were appointed. In the 113th minute of the game, Viktor Ponedelnik scored the main “golden goal” of national football. The USSR national team won 2: 1 and became the winner of the first European Championship.
And today this achievement remains the best in the history of football in the post-Soviet space.
USSR national football team in 1960. Photo: RIA Novosti / Nikolay Volkov
1964 year. Episode two: Franco's revenge
After the successful holding of the 1960 tournament, the number of skeptics and "refuseniks" sharply diminished, and the competition before the 1964 European Championship increased. Nevertheless, the USSR national team was not going to give up their title just like that.
In the 1/8 finals, the Soviet team had to play with Italy. The USSR national team won at home - 2: 0, played away in a draw - 1: 1, and went to the quarterfinals, where they had to play with the Swedes.
The first match in Sweden turned out to be difficult and ended in a draw - 1: 1. In the return leg in Moscow, Monday's double and a goal Voronin brought victory to the USSR national team - 3: 1.
The final tournament was held in Spain. On June 17, 1964, at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, the USSR national team defeated Denmark 3: 0 in the semifinals. Voronin, Monday and Ivanov.
About 80 thousand people gathered for the final match in Madrid on June 21, including the dictator Franco himself. The teams quickly exchanged goals, after which a tough struggle of equal rivals began. Six minutes before the end of the match Marcelino scored the winning goal - 2: 1 in favor of Spain. Soviet footballers took home silver medals.
Defeat in front of Franco backfired national team coach Konstantin Beskov, who was removed from office for a poor team result. Those were the times.
The qualifying tournament for the 1968 European Championship was slightly modified. At the first stage, the teams were divided into 8 groups, of which only the winner reached the quarterfinals.
At the group stage, the USSR national team confidently outstripped the teams of Greece, Austria and Finland, hitting the Hungarians in the quarterfinals. The USSR national team lost the away match - 0: 2, but at home, at Luzhniki, they took revenge with a score of 3: 0, for the third time in a row entering the Top 4 of the best teams of the Old World.
The final tournament of EURO 1968 was held in Italy. On June 5, in Naples, the hosts played in the semifinals with the USSR team. The tense meeting ended in a 0: 0 draw, and since the penalty shootout had not yet been invented, everything was decided by lots. A coin tossed in the judging room, and the Italian captain Giacinto Facetti turned out to be luckier than his Soviet counterpart Alberta Shesterneva... In the final, the Italian national team only managed to defeat the stubborn Yugoslavs in a replay, winning the European title for the first time.
And the disappointed Soviet footballers lost the match for the 3rd place to the England team - 0: 2.
1972 year. First after the Germans
In the qualifying tournament for the 1972 European Championship, the team of Spain got into the group of the USSR national team. The dramatic rivalry between the two teams, in which the Northern Irishmen and the Cypriots were extras, should have been resolved in the last round, when the Spaniards took the USSR team on their field.
The match, which took place in Seville at the Ramon Sánchez Pisjuan stadium, became a benefit in the defense of the USSR national team and its goalkeeper Evgeniya Rudakova who worked miracles. As a result, the game ended with a score of 0: 0, which brought Soviet footballers to the next round.
In the quarterfinals, the national team of Yugoslavia became the rival of the representatives of the USSR. Having played in Belgrade in a draw - 0: 0, in Moscow the team of the Soviet Union did not spare the rival. Kolotov, Banishevsky and Kozinkevich their goals ensured a major victory with a score of 3: 0.
Belgium was the venue for the Final Four. On June 14, 1972 in Brussels, the CCSO national team defeated Hungary 1: 0 in the semifinals thanks to a goal Anatoly Konkova and the excellent play of Evgeny Rudakov.
On June 18, 1972, at the Heisel stadium in Brussels, the USSR national team played for the third time in its history in the European Championship final. Unfortunately, it did not work out to win - led by the famous G by Yerd Müller the FRG national team beat the Soviet team with a score of 3: 0.
The USSR national football team of 1972 (from left to right): Gennady Evryuzhikhin, Yuri Istomin, Vladimir Troshkin, Anatoly Baidachny, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, Anatoly Konkov, Nikolai Abramov, Victor Kolotov, Anatoly Banishevsky, Evgeny Rudakov, Murtaz Khurtsila / News Alexander Makarov
1976 - 1984. Black stripe
After 1972, the USSR national football team began a long decline. In 1976, the team did not make it to the Top-4 for the first time, losing in the quarterfinals to the Czechoslovakian team on aggregate - 0: 2 and 2: 2. And then in the qualifying tournaments for EURO 1980 and EURO 1984 the USSR national team was unable to qualify from the group. Gradually, Soviet footballers began to lose the authority and respect that had been won by their predecessors. During the absence of the USSR national team in the final tournaments, the number of participating teams was increased from four to eight.
1988 year. Silver final of Lobanovsky's "golden team"
The USSR national team began the qualifying tournament for the 1988 European Championship under the leadership of Valery Lobanovsky, who also headed Dynamo Kiev. Therefore, it is not surprising that the backbone of the national team was made up of the people of Kiev.
The USSR national team won the tournament in the group, gaining 13 points in 8 matches, scoring five victories and three draws. Behind were the teams of the GDR, France (at that time the reigning European champions), Iceland and Norway.
The final tournament of EURO-1988 was held in Germany from June 10 to 25. The USSR national team got into group B with teams from Ireland, England and the Netherlands. Today, such a lot would probably have been dubbed the “death group”, but the Soviet footballers were confident in their strength.
June 12 in the first match in the tournament the USSR national team thanks to a goal Vasily Rat defeated the Netherlands - 1: 0. Three days later, Protasov's goal shortly before the end of the match with Ireland allowed Lobanovsky's guys to achieve a draw - 1: 1.
On June 18, the USSR national team beat England 3: 1 in excellent style. As part of the team, years have been hammered Aleinikov, Mikhailichenko and Pasulko.
On June 22, 1988 in Stuttgart in the semifinals the national teams of the USSR and Italy met. At the end of the meeting, the experts spoke with enthusiasm about the game of the Soviet team - it, in their opinion, was truly champion. The big advantage resulted in goals Litovchenko and Protasova- 2: 0 in favor of the USSR national team.
Alas, the final on June 25 against the Netherlands national team was unsuccessful for Lobanovsky's team. The strikers of the USSR national team had a lot of chances, but they did not use their chances. And the Dutch distinguished themselves Gullit who opened the account, and in en Basten, who scored a goal absolutely unthinkable in terms of the complexity of execution and beauty.
As a result, the Netherlands national team won with a score of 2: 0, winning the European title for the first time in its history. The USSR national team put in the piggy bank the third European "silver" in its history.
Four years later, it was not the USSR national team that would appear at the 1992 European Championship, but a strange team without an anthem and a flag, representing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The bright history of the football team of the Soviet Union at the European Championships is over. So far, her heirs see such results only in sweet dreams. 
EURO 1988
We continue to talk about the history of European championships. Today we will talk about how 24 years ago the USSR national team won the title of vice-champion of the continent on the football fields of West Germany.
GERMAN EURO STARTED WITH THEATER
By the mid-1980s, the scheme for holding European championships had finally settled down. There were no major changes in the regulations and formula for Euro 1988. And the number of those wishing to take part in the tournament has remained the same as it was four years ago: Liechtenstein, who did not even have its own national championship, refused to play again.
After lengthy debates, Germany was named the host country for Euro 1988, which was exempted from qualifying matches. The remaining 32 national teams were divided into 7 groups - 4-5 teams in each. The winners of the groups received a ticket to the finals, which were then joined by the owners.
To emphasize the significance of the event, the Old Opera concert hall in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was chosen for the drawing of lots for the qualifying round. The rivals of our team were the reigning European champions, the French, the teams of the GDR, Norway and Iceland.
WITHOUT VOLTAGE
The opening match of the third group, in which the USSR national team played, showed that France is entering an era of generational change. Both main strikers, who had long stepped over the 30-year mark, finished their careers in the ranks of the tricolors, Bernard Lacombe and Didier Six, their example was followed by midfielder Alain Giresse, 31-year-old Michel Platini thought about leaving the national team, only succumbing to persuasion, he returned to her the same age as Jean Tigan. The French started the qualifying cycle with a sensational goalless draw in Iceland, then lost at home to ours - 0: 2 and were content with a draw in the GDR - 0: 0. One point scored in three matches actually eliminated them from the number of applicants for the only ticket to the final.
However, the USSR national team also started with a draw in Iceland (1: 1). However, this result was only a small fly in the ointment in a rather impressive barrel of honey. The Soviet team looked quite balanced, played with a margin and, most importantly, achieved results. Of course, one of the key episodes of this qualifying campaign was the success in Paris - 2: 0.
After him, the USSR national team felt confident and began to win after victory - 4: 0 at home with Norway and 2: 0 with the GDR, 1: 0 away with the Norwegians, followed by two "strategic" draws of 1: 1 with France (at home) and the GDR (away) and, finally, put the point 2: 0 in Simferopol over Iceland. Thus, the USSR team went through the qualifying cycle without defeats, having won 5 wins and three draws, and for the first time in the last 12 years got into the final stage of the European Championship.
It should be noted that our team was headed by Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovskiy, who, after an unsuccessful qualifying round of the previous Euro, was not just fired, but found it inexpedient to be involved in such work in the future. But life has made adjustments. Before the 1986 World Cup, the USSR national team, led by Eduard Vasilyevich Malofeev, who fell on it with unimportant results in test matches, caused panic among sports officials. And literally a week and a half before the start of the World Cup, they replaced Malofeyev with the Lobanovsky Cup Winners' Cup, who had just won the Cup of Lobanovsky Cup Winners with his Dynamo Kiev. Moreover, Valery Vasilyevich did not fail to set several tough conditions that were met. First, he continued to work at the club: the practice of a freed national team coach was introduced to the USSR in 1982. Secondly, Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan, who was dismissed with him three years earlier, took the position of the team chief. Thirdly, Lobanovsky himself chose his assistants, regardless of how they were treated in the Football Federation.
As for the composition, the base club of the national team again became Dynamo Kiev, but within reasonable limits. From the first minutes, no more than seven footballers from the capital of the Ukrainian SSR entered the field. The situation of the mid-1970s, when Dynamo Kiev itself played under the flag of the national team, was not even close.
BOTTLES AND BOMBS
Among the rest of the qualifying groups, we will single out the one in which the Netherlands played. They confidently walked towards their intended goal, but their victorious gait was almost interrupted by their own fans. At the beginning of the Netherlands - Cyprus match, which took place in Rotterdam, one of the fans threw a bottle and smashed the head of the guests' goalkeeper, who was carried away on a stretcher. The game continued, but shortly after the break, with the score 5: 0, another fan threw a hybrid of an explosive device and a smoke bomb onto the field: he fell next to the backup goalkeeper of the Cypriots, started smoking, and then there was an explosion. Thank God no one was hurt! For an hour, the outraged guests were persuaded to return to the field. In the end the match was finished - the hosts won 8: 0. But upon returning home, the Cypriots filed a protest.
UEFA's first decision was to give Orange a 0-3 defeat. In this case, the Greeks got a real chance to bypass the Dutch, who had to beat their rival at home in the final duel. However, the football association of the Netherlands worked brilliantly: as a result of lengthy consultations, it achieved a significant reduction in punishment. Thinking again, UEFA decided to replay the match between the Dutch and Cyprus with empty stands. Of course, the Orange won again (4: 0) and destroyed the aspirations of the Greek fans to reach the final.
A tragicomic story happened to the Portuguese national team. After the failure at the 1986 World Cup, serious football passions flared up in this state with the participation of members of parliament. By order from above, eight (!) Experienced footballers were suspended from games for the Portuguese national team. It is not surprising that the “European Brazilians”, which significantly renewed but did not strengthen their ranks, lost the fight in their group to Sweden and Italy. The coveted ticket was given to the "squadra azzurra".
TWO BATTLES WITH ORANGE
The draw for the final stage of Euro 1988 assigned the teams of the Netherlands, England and Ireland to the same group as the USSR national team. The other group included the national teams of Germany (this country was the organizer of the tournament), Spain, Italy and Denmark.
The hosts of the competition and “Scuadra Azzurra”, who played in the opening match in a draw 1: 1, turned out to be stronger than their competitors in the group. The Germans and Italians alternately outplayed the Spaniards and the Danes and reached the 1/2 finals. Their dispute among themselves for leadership was decided by the difference between goals scored and conceded. She was slightly better in the FRG national team: 5-1 against 4-1.
But in our group, the struggle began with two sensations, the author of one of which was the USSR national team. Valery Lobanovsky's wards not only withstood the onslaught organized by the excellent Netherlands national team, but also managed to use their chance - the goal was hit by Vasily Rat's strike. 1: 0 in favor of the USSR national team.
In the British derby England - Ireland, there was also a surprise. The British, considered one of the favorites of the tournament, conceded the ball already in the sixth minute, and did not manage to recoup. The goalkeeper of the Irish national team Pat Bonner reacted brilliantly, then the frame of the goal rescued his team. After the final whistle, unprecedented jubilation reigned in the Irish camp. Still would! They could not defeat England for four decades.
The match of the second round of the Netherlands - England for the two favorites of the Euro turned into a match of life and death. The second defeat deprived any of the teams of the chance to win the championship title. The British fought like lions, but the inimitable Marco van Basten played in the orange ranks, scoring three goals against the British. The Netherlands won 3-1. Our team, on the other hand, sold out in the world in a meeting with Ireland - 1: 1. Since the game for the USSR national team did not go well in this duel, the draw result could be considered quite satisfactory.
In the final round, the Soviet team beat the British, demoralized by two failures (3: 1) and deservedly received a pass to the semifinals.
But in the confrontation between the Netherlands and Ireland, another sensation almost burst out. The Orange was only satisfied with the victory, and they achieved it, but only at the end of the match - eight minutes before the final whistle.
In the first semifinal, the principal rivals met - Germany and the Netherlands. The hosts of the championship opened the scoring from the penalty spot, the orange ones also restored the balance with the help of the 11-meter, and when the match was smoothly approaching extra time, Marco van Basten said his weighty word again. His goal, spent in the 88th minute, left the Germans without a final. It was a kind of sweet revenge for the Orange defeat in the decisive match of the 1974 World Cup.
A day later, the USSR national team met with Italy. Our team suppressed the "squadra azzurra" with cosmic speeds and pressure. The fate of the second semi-final was decided in a short interval from 58th to 62nd minutes, when Gennady Litovchenko and Oleg Protasov scored two goals in a row. 2: 0 in favor of the Soviet Union national team.
In the final, our team was not much inferior to the Dutch, but all other things being equal, the highest individual skill of the orange stars affected. The scoring was opened by Ruud Gullit, and then scored his famous goal-masterpiece by Marco van Basten, who gave the ball an incredible trajectory!
The USSR national team could return to the game and try to turn the tide of the fight if it converted a penalty. But Igor Belanov did not outplay van Breeckelen, and there was still more than half an hour until the end of regular time, and the opponent began to get tired ...
European Championship - 1988. Match results1/2 finals
USSR - Italy - 2: 0
Netherlands - Germany - 2: 1
The final
Netherlands - USSR - 2: 0
1988 European Championship. The final
Netherlands - USSR - 2: 0 (1: 0)
June 25, 1988 Munich. Olympic Stadium. 62,770 spectators.
Judges: M. Votrot, J. Biguet, R. Arrell (all - France).
Netherlands: van Brueckelen, van Aerle, R. Koeman, Rijkaard, Wouters, van Tiggelen, Gullit (k), Muren, E. Koehman, Vanenburg, van Basten.
THE USSR: Dasaev (k), Demyanenko, Khidiyatullin, Mikhailichenko, Litovchenko, Gotsmanov (Baltacha, 69), Aleinikov, Zavarov, Rat, Protasov (Pasulko, 72), Belanov.
Goals: 1: 0 Gullit (32), 2: 0 van Basten (54).
Missed penalty: Belanov (59, goalkeeper).
Warnings: Demyanenko, Litovchenko, Khidiyatullin, Wauters, van Aerle.
Final tournament scorers:
M. van Basten (Netherlands) - 5 goals.
Symbolic team:
J. van Broeckelen (Netherlands), D. Bergomi (Italy), F. Raikaard (Netherlands), R. Koeman (Netherlands), P. Maldini (Italy), R. Gullit (Netherlands), J. Wouters (Netherlands), D. Giannini (Italy), L. Matteus (Germany), D. Vialli (Italy), M. van Basten (Netherlands).
Alexander Titeev
USSR national team-1988. Where are they now?
Exactly 27 years ago, the USSR national team lost to the Netherlands in the final of Euro 1988. We are studying how the life of the players of that squad developed.
1. Rinat Dasaev (5 games, 4 conceded goals)
A successful game at Euro 1988 aroused interest in Dasaev from foreign scouts, and in November of the same year Rinat became the first Soviet footballer to move to Europe on a commercial basis. His new club was Sevilla, where he adapted for a long time, but eventually became a fan favorite. After losing his place in the squad in 1991, he hung up his gloves and began to train the goalkeepers of Sevilla. Returning to Russia, Dasaev also took up coaching, working with goalkeepers in Spartak and the national team. At present, Dasaev is passing on his rich experience to the goalkeepers of Spartak's youth squad.
16.Viktor Chanov (1 game)
At Euro 1988, the Dynamo Kiev goalkeeper rode in the status of the second goalkeeper, but he himself was sure that he was better than Dasaev, and even his partners felt it. Chanov still got his chance, replacing Rinat with the score 0: 1 in the match with Ireland, and then the Soviet footballers equalized the score. But in the next matches Dasaev played again. After finishing football, he briefly worked as a coach of CSKA-Borisfen in 1996 and went into business. He is now the CEO of a company in charge of transportation and railways.
3. Vagiz Khidiyatullin (5 games)
The European Championship, which the defender played from bell to bell, opened the way for Khidiyatullin to French “Toulouse”. There, the native of Perm spent two seasons, but after the failure at the 1990 World Cup, they parted with him. After playing for the modest Montauban and La Beige, he returned to Russia in 1994 - Konstantin Beskov invited him to Dynamo. Soon Khidiyatullin headed the union of footballers and coaches of Russia, and in 1996 he managed to play for the beach soccer team.
4. Oleg Kuznetsov (4 games)
Kuznetsov was also one of the strongholds of the defense of the Soviet national team, but he did not play in the final of Euro 1988 - he was let down by an extra yellow card in the match with Italy. But that tournament opened it to Europe, and two years later, taking gold with Dynamo Kiev, he left for Scotland, where he defended the Glasgow Rangers for four seasons. After getting dusty in Israel and Ukraine, he hung up his boots and took up coaching. For a long time he was the right hand of Oleg Blokhin, helping him in the national team of Ukraine and "Moscow", and now he coaches the national team of Ukraine U18.
5. Anatoly Demyanenko (4 games)
The captain of Dynamo Kiev, included by France Football magazine in the symbolic team of the European Championships, moved to German Magdeburg in 1991. But a year later, in transit through the Polish "Widzev", the defender "with two hearts" returned to Kiev, where he hung up his boots. In 1993, he began to work in the coaching staff of Dynamo, and since 2005 he independently headed the club - however, in European competitions, he and his team frankly failed. Demyanenko's last place of work was Volyn, from where he left in 2013.
6. Vasily Rat (5 games, 1 goal)
Having Hungarian roots, Rat has always been drawn to his historical homeland. In 1990, returning to Dynamo Kiev after three months at Espanyol, he decided to leave the team and train on his own. But his move to Hungary, to Ferencváros, overshadowed a paralysis attack - Rat was treated for a month and a half, entered the field only six months after his illness, and then almost did not play. After graduating from football, Rat went into business, and then worked as a coach in Hungary and Ukraine. Now he trains children at the Ferencváros Academy.
7.Sergey Aleinikov (5 games, 1 goal)
After the Euro, the Minsker got into the pencil of the scouts of Turin "Juventus", where Dino Zoff was personally interested in Aleinikov's services. In Turin, he was a rotation player (30 matches in two seasons), and after the resignation of Zoff left the club and went to Lecce. Then there was Japan - Aleinikov spent three good years there, playing for Gamba Osaka. After finishing playing in Sweden, Sergey became a coach. In the 2003 season, he even worked at Torpedo-Metallurg, but that experience turned out to be largely sad.
12. Ivan Vishnevsky (did not play)
The Dnipro defender never entered the field during the tournament, but he also left the USSR a year after the silver Euro. Vishnevsky spent three intense years at Fenerbahce and Saryespor, but was forced to retire due to injuries at the age of 35. Four years later, Ivan died due to melanoma ...
2. Vladimir Bessonov (3 games)
The universal midfielder could have moved to Roma right after Euro, but Vladimir refused and asked to leave him at Dynamo. The Kiev team was everything to him - he spent 13 years here, and here he began his coaching career in 1991. The first serious work experience was CSKA Kiev, with which he reached the final of the Ukrainian Cup. Later there were "Niva", "Zarya", "Kharkov" and "Dnepr". In 2010, Bessonov was fired due to unsatisfactory results, after which he no longer trained. But Vladimir has his own reason for pride - it was he who opened Yevgeny Konoplyanka to football, bringing him to the base.
8. Gennady Litovchenko (4 games, 1 goal)
Litovchenko and Protasov were inseparable - both at one time moved from Dnipro to Dynamo Kiev, being the key players of Dnipropetrovsk, and then, in 1990, proceeded to the Greek Olympiacos. Together they left the club due to financial fraud related to the payment of salaries. At the end of his career, Litovchenko worked in the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team and came with Yuri Kalitvintsev to the Volga Nizhny Novgorod, with which, however, he did not achieve success.
13. Tengiz Sulakvelidze (2 games)
After Euro-88, Tengiz decided to change his usual environment and after 11 years playing for Dinamo Tbilisi left for Sweden, where he ended his career playing for Holmsund. Soon he founded his own academy, named it after his own name and began to educate new players.
One of his pupils was Tengiz Sulakvelidze Jr., who now runs the affairs of the academy. The coaching career of the ex-midfielder of Tbilisi "Dynamo" ended with the youth national team of Georgia, where he came twice, but did not achieve success.
14. Vyacheslav Sukristov (did not play)
The name of Sukristov is closely connected with “Zalgiris”. As part of the green-and-white Vyacheslav began to play football, thanks to the performances for the Lithuanians he got to Euro-88, and then returned to his native club more than once after traveling in Russia (a year in Moscow Lokomotiv) and Israel. Sukristov finished his football career at Zalgiris and took up coaching there. For 10 years he has been working in the coaching staff of the reigning champion of Lithuania.
15.Alexey Mikhailichenko (5 games, 1 goal)
For one of the stars of Soviet football of that time, 1988 was a triumphant year - after the European Championship final, he won the Olympics in Seoul, and two years later, having established himself in Dynamo Kiev, he went abroad. And his trip to Europe was also very successful - he became the champion of Italy with Sampdoria, and then found the golden era of the Glasgow Rangers, winning the championship title five times in a row. In 1996, he finished playing, and six years later he headed Dynamo Kiev. As a coach, Mikhailichenko achieved significant success (two Ukrainian championships, silver at Euro 2006 U21), and now works at Dynamo as a sports director.
18.Sergey Gotsmanov (4 games)
One of the toughest players in the USSR championship, even nominated by Ogonyok magazine for the Pig-Iron Leg prize, played in most of the Euro-88 matches. However, he was given the title of "Honored Master of Sports" - Gotsmanov, like Viktor Pasulko, did not receive it. In 1990 he went to conquer European football. He managed to play in England, defending the colors of Brighton and Southampton, and in Germany with Hallescher, and even in the USA, where he spent three years for the Minnesota Thunder. There he liked it so much that after the end of his career, Gotsmanov decided to stay with his family in Minnesota.
19.Sergey Baltacha (1 game)
After Euro-88, the midfielder of Kiev Dynamo was one of the first to leave the USSR and went to Foggy Albion. And even though Baltachi's playing career did not go well there (in Ipswich he spent a whole season on the bench, and then played without much success in the Scottish Championship), then he found something to his liking. He started coaching the kids, did a very good job at Charlton, and then worked for four years at the Chelsea academy. Now Baltacha works again at Charlton School and lives in south London.
20.Victor Pasulko (2 games, 1 goal)
A favorite of the fans of the Odessa "Chornomorets" after the Euro became the champion of the USSR with "Spartak" in 1989, and then found himself in Germany. He did not fit Karlsruhe, where he was initially traveling, but in teams of a lower level - like Fortuna Cologne - he felt like one of his own. In 2002, Pasulco suddenly began to lead the Moldavian national team, but for three years they came out with poor success. After that, he continued to look for coaching, and now leads Italy's Orlandina from Serie D.
9. Alexander Zavarov (5 games)
Zavarov's game at the European Championship aroused serious interest in the top clubs of the Old World, and between Barcelona and Juventus, Alexander chose to move to Turin. There he did not really work out (including due to psychological reasons), and when Dino Zoffa was replaced by Giuseppe Manfredi in the coaching post, he abruptly refused Zavarov's services. To finish his career, Alexander went to “Nancy”, where he received the nickname “beet” from his partners - “blette” (for using the word on the football field) and opened his own bar. In France, he received a coaching license, after which he worked for Arsenal Kiev and the Ukrainian national team.
10.Oleg Protasov (5 games, 2 goals)
The best scorer of the Soviet national team at Euro 88 has found his place in the sun in Greece. In 1990, he left Dnipro for Olympiacos in Piraeus, where he scored in almost every match. His coaching work began with the "legend" - he was a scout for the club, and then suddenly became a mentor for "Oli". Then there were Cyprus, Romania, Ukraine, where he coached his native Dnipro, Russia, again Greece, Kazakhstan and Belarus. His last place of work was the Romanian "Astra" from Giurgiu,.
11.Igor Belanov (4 games)
It is quite possible that Igor could turn the tide of the final against Holland - but his shot from the penalty spot was parried by Hans van Brekelen. But that mistake did not prevent the best football player in Europe - 1986 from finding himself new club abroad. In 1989, Belanov moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach, for which he spent two seasons. He was prevented from gaining a foothold in Germany by a conflict with a coach, injuries and a household history inflated by the media. Later, when Igor is already sold to Eintracht Braunschweig, he will be called the most unsuccessful transfer in the history of the Bundesliga. He tried to get a job in football, but has been taking a break from the game for several years.
17.Sergey Dmitriev (did not play)
The key forward of the championship “Zenith” -1984 went to Germany as a tourist, and never played in the tournament. And in general, his career in the USSR national team was not rich in events - only 6 matches and one goal. But the club wanderings were long and bright. Dmitriev managed to appear in Spain, having played a season for Jerez, in Austrian Stahl, and even in Swiss St. Gallen. After completing his career at Svetogorts (it was there that Alexander Kerzhakov began to play football), Dmitriev became a coach - and also changed jobs many times, mostly staying in his native St. Petersburg.
