The history of the performances of the national teams of the USSR and Russia at the World Football Championships. dossier - tass. The last World Cup match in the history of the USSR national football team
The USSR national football team could rightfully consider the European Championship “its tournament.” In the period from 1960 to 1988, Soviet football players were among the European giants, regularly rising to the podium. The “Golden Age” of domestic football began with the first tournament, which was then called the European Nations Cup.
1960 First tournament, 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 - a total of 13 teams - refused to participate in it. 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 team had to fight against a strong Hungarian team. Soviet football players 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 team. Spanish dictator Franco banned his players from traveling to the match in the USSR, after which the Spaniards were disqualified. According to the unofficial version, it was not just about politics. The coach of the Spanish national team, having attended a friendly match of the future opponent, reported in Madrid: nothing can be guaranteed, “if they press you to the river, it’s a lid.” Franco reasoned that a political demarche was better than humiliation on the football field.
The hosts, the French, as well as the national teams of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, entered the final tournament of 1960.
In the semi-finals on July 6, 1960, at the Marseille Vélodrome stadium, 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 fight - 5:4.
The final took place on July 10, 1960 at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. Yugoslavia opened the scoring in the 43rd minute Galich, but almost immediately after the break Metreveli leveled it.
Regular time ended in a draw, and two additional halves of 15 minutes each were scheduled. In the 113th minute of the game, Viktor Ponedelnik scored the main “golden goal” of domestic 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 Episode two: Franco's revenge
After the successful holding of the 1960 tournament, the number of skeptics and “refuseniks” decreased sharply, and competition increased before the 1964 European Championship. However, the USSR national team was not going to just give up its title.
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 advanced 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 match in Moscow, Monday's double and goal Voronina brought victory to the USSR national team - 3:1.
The final tournament took place in Spain. On June 17, 1964, in Barcelona at the Camp Nou, the USSR national team defeated Denmark in the semifinals with a score of 3:0. Voronin, Monday and Ivanov.
About 80 thousand people gathered for the final match in Madrid on June 21, including dictator Franco himself. The teams quickly exchanged goals, after which a difficult fight between equal opponents ensued. Six minutes before the end of the match Marcelino scored the winning goal - 2:1 in favor of Spain. Soviet football players took home silver medals.
Defeat backfired before Franco's eyes national team coach Konstantin Beskov, who was suspended for the team's poor performance. Those were the times.
The qualifying tournament for the 1968 European Championship was somewhat modified. At the first stage, the teams were divided into 8 groups, of which only the winner advanced to the quarterfinals.
At the group stage, the USSR national team confidently beat the teams of Greece, Austria and Finland, ending up against the Hungarians in the quarterfinals. The USSR national team lost the away match - 0:2, but at home, in Luzhniki, they took revenge with a score of 3:0, entering the Top 4 best teams of the Old World for the third time in a row.
The final tournament of the 1968 European Championship took place in Italy. On June 5 in Naples, the hosts played the USSR team in the semi-finals. The tense meeting ended in a 0-0 draw, and since penalty shoot-outs had not yet been invented, everything was decided by lot. A coin was tossed in the judges' room, and the Italian captain Giacinto Facchetti turned out to be luckier than his Soviet colleague Alberta Shesterneva. In the final, the Italian team was only able to defeat the stubborn Yugoslavs in a replay, winning the European title for the first time.
And the disappointed Soviet football players lost in the match for 3rd place to the English team - 0:2.
1972 The first after the Germans
In the qualifying tournament for the 1972 European Championship, the Spanish team was included in the group of the USSR national team. The dramatic rivalry between the two teams, in which the Northern Irish and Cypriots were extras, was to be resolved in the last round, when the Spaniards hosted the USSR team.
The match, which took place in Seville at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, became a benefit for the defense of the USSR national team and its goalkeeper Evgenia Rudakova who worked miracles. As a result, the game ended with a score of 0:0, which brought Soviet football players into the next round.
In the quarterfinals, the opponent of the USSR representatives was the Yugoslavia team. Having played a draw in Belgrade - 0:0, in Moscow the Soviet Union team did not spare the opponent. Kolotov, Banishevsky and Kozinkevich Their goals ensured a big victory with a score of 3:0.
Belgium became the venue for the Final Four. On June 14, 1972 in Brussels, the USSR team defeated Hungary in the semi-finals with a score of 1:0 thanks to a goal Anatoly Konkova and the excellent performance of Evgeniy Rudakov.
On June 18, 1972, at the Brussels Heysel Stadium, the USSR national team played in the final of the European Championship for the third time in its history. Unfortunately, it was not possible to win - led by the famous G Erd Müller The German national team beat the Soviet team with a score of 3:0.
USSR national football team in 1972 (from left to right): Gennady Evryuzhikhin, Yuri Istomin, Vladimir Troshkin, Anatoly Baidachny, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, Anatoly Konkov, Nikolay Abramov, Viktor Kolotov, Anatoly Banishevsky, Evgeny Rudakov, Murtaz Khurtsila Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Makarov
1976 - 1984. Black streak
After 1972, the USSR national football team began a long decline. In 1976, the team did not make it into 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 the 1980 and 1984 European Championships, the USSR national team was unable to leave the group. Gradually, Soviet football players began to lose the authority and respect gained 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 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 simultaneously headed Dynamo Kiev. Therefore, it is not surprising that the backbone of the team was made up of the people of Kiev.
The USSR national team won the tournament in the group, scoring 13 points in 8 matches, scoring five wins and three draws. Behind were the teams of the GDR, France (at that time the current European champions), Iceland and Norway.
The final tournament of the 1988 European Championship took place in Germany from June 10 to 25. The USSR national team was in Group B with the teams of Ireland, England and the Netherlands. Today such a draw would probably be called a “group of death,” but the Soviet football players were confident in their abilities.
On June 12, in the first match of the tournament, the USSR national team thanks to a goal Vasily Ratsa beat the Netherlands - 1:0. Three days later, Protasov's goal shortly before the end of the match with Ireland allowed Lobanovsky's boys to achieve a draw - 1:1.
On June 18, the USSR national team beat the English team in excellent style with a score of 3:1. Years scored as part of the team Aleynikov, Mikhailichenko and Pasulko.
On June 22, 1988, the national teams of the USSR and Italy met in the semifinals in Stuttgart. At the end of the meeting, the experts spoke with delight about the game of the Soviet team - in their opinion, it was truly a champion's game. The big advantage resulted in goals Litovchenko And Protasova— 2:0 in favor of the USSR team.
Alas, the final on June 25 against the Netherlands was unsuccessful for Lobanovsky’s team. The forwards of the USSR national team had many chances, but they did not take advantage of their chances. And the Dutch excelled Gullit, who opened the account, and in en Basten, who scored a goal absolutely unimaginable in terms of complexity and beauty.
As a result, the Dutch team won with a score of 2:0, winning the European title for the first time in its history. The USSR national team won the third European “silver” in its history.
Four years later, at the 1992 European Championship it will no longer be the USSR national team that will appear, but a strange team without an anthem and flag, representing the Commonwealth independent states(CIS).
The bright history of the Soviet Union football team at the European Championships has ended. Her heirs still see such results only in sweet dreams.
Achievements
[edit] World Championships
bronze medalist (4th place) at the 1966 World Championship (coach - Morozov N.P.)
[edit] European Championships
European champion 1960 (coach - G. D. Kachalin)
silver medalist European Championship 1964 (coach - Beskov K.I.)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1972 (coach - A. S. Ponomarev)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1988 (coach - Lobanovsky V.V.)
[edit] Olympic Games
champion of the Olympic Games 1956 (coach - Kachalin G. D.)
Olympic champion 1988 (coach - Byshovets A.F.)
bronze medalist of the 1972 Olympic Games (coach - A. S. Ponomarev)
bronze medalist of the 1976 Olympic Games (coach - Lobanovsky V.V.)
bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympic Games (coach - Beskov K.I.)
[edit] First steps
USSR national team of 1924 After a long break associated with the hostilities of the First World War, the Great October Socialist Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the national team Russian state 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 each (total score 9:5). The national team of the all-Union scale was first convened at the end of 1924 for its first match against the ambitious and high-quality Turkish national team, which was played on November 16, 1924 in Moscow and ended in victory for the Soviet football players - 3:0.
Over the next eleven years (1925-1935), the USSR national team played more than 40 international matches, of which only 4 were home. In most of these matches, the opponents 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). Matches were also 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 victories (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 Fedor Selin.
The USSR national football team suffered its first defeat in its history in 1927 in Dresden from the Vienna workers' team - 1:3, although it took revenge in the return match.
The Turkish national team made a great contribution to the development of Soviet football, 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 meetings with the USSR team, the Turkish federation exhibited its team under names like “Turkey People's House Team.” In general, the USSR team turned out to be stronger than its Turkish rivals (11 wins, 4 draws, 1 loss). 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 speeches
The USSR joined FIFA a year after the end of World War II, on June 25, 1946.
Meanwhile, the break in 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 start of the USSR football championship 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 the matches, losing only to Spartak. Also widely known is the post-war voyage of Dynamo Moscow, reinforced by footballers from other Soviet clubs, to the UK, 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 Helsinki Olympic football tournament became known in the summer of 1951, but the team began to be recreated only in January 1952. The preparation of the team was entrusted to the experienced and most authoritative Soviet coach at that time - Boris Arkadyev. Also included in the coaching staff were Evgeny Eliseev, Mikhail Butusov and Grigory Fedotov, who were later replaced by Mikhail Yakushin. On January 15, 1952, 36 football players 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 over the course of a month they held a series of control meetings with the best club teams in the country, after which they decided to join the national team. leave 24 best players.
In preparation for the Olympics, the Soviet team was convened under the banners of the Moscow and CDSA teams, since long (more than three months) training camps could raise suspicions among the IOC about whether the team was composed of amateurs. According to the Olympic rules of that time, the participation of professional athletes in the Olympic Games was prohibited, which is why the sports managers of the USSR decided to resort to secrecy. In May, the team played 9 test matches with the national teams of Bulgaria (they played as the national team of Sofia), Hungary, Poland, Finland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. In the 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 the control matches is 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat (goal difference - 16:6 in favor of the USSR).
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Boris Arkadyev
Coach: Mikhail Yakushin
Goalkeepers
1 Leonid Ivanov 07/25/1921 Zenit Leningrad 3;9
2 Vladimir Nikanorov 07/14/1917 CDSA
19 Vladimir Margania 02/08/1928 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 09/27/1925 CDSA 3 1
10 Igor Netto 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 3
9 Georgy Antadze 09/06/1920 Dynamo Tbilisi
Forwards
12 Vasily Trofimov 01/17/1919 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 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 1
17 Friedrich Maryutin 10/07/1924 Zenit Leningrad 1
15 Konstantin Beskov 11/18/1920 Dynamo Moscow 2
18 Avtandil Chkuaseli 12/31/1931 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
13 Valentin Nikolaev 08/16/1921 CDSA 2
[edit] Final tournament
The first official match was a meeting in the 1/16 finals of the XV Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the Bulgarian national team on July 15, 1952. During the main time the score was not opened, so they had to play extra time, where, having conceded first, the Soviet football players were able to win back - 2:1.
In the 1/8 finals, the opponent of the Soviet team was the FRY team. In an enchanting match, losing 1:5 along the way, the USSR team was able to achieve a fighting draw - 5:5. In the replay that took place a day later, the Soviet football players, who gave their all in the first match, lost to the Yugoslavs 1:3 and were eliminated from the further medal competition.
The country's top leadership assessed the performance of the football team as extremely unsatisfactory. Firstly, in light of the successes of other Soviet Olympians, who took second overall team place in the unofficial team competition. Secondly, the loss of the Yugoslav national team was a serious ideological blow for the entire country. Josip Broz Tito in 1948 virtually broke off 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 participated 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 team’s performance) and was disbanded, and Petrov, Arkadyev, Bashashkin, Nikolaev, Beskov and Kryzhevsky were forced to surrender certificates of masters of sports (Beskov, Nikolaev and Arkadyev were honored masters). It is interesting that Krizhevsky and Beskov did not advocate for the CDSA at all.
However, some football players from the disbanded team were still able to win Olympic gold: Igor Netto, Anatoly Bashashkin and Anatoly Ilyin won the football tournament of the Summer Olympics in Melbourne in 1956, and Vsevolod Bobrov won the hockey tournament of the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the same 1956 .
[edit] XVI Summer Olympics in Melbourne 1956
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
After the defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, the USSR national team reassembled only in 1954. Thus, the team did not take part in the games of the Swiss World Championship, and the nearest 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 visited by famous European football teams: Rapid Vienna, Djurgården from Stockholm, the Hungarian Dozsa club, as well as the national teams of Finland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The above-mentioned teams played with club teams of the USSR.
In 1954, four more European football teams visited Moscow: Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland. Of these, the last two were opposed by the Moscow national team, whose composition can be compared to the main team of the country.
4 matches with the Poles and Bulgarians (2 with 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, but they made it possible to determine the main ways of development of the team and pointed out its advantages and disadvantages, which were taken into account in the games of the first team.
On September 8, a meeting took place with the Swedish team, which ended with a real defeat of the Scandinavian squad - 7:0. On September 19 in Leningrad, the city team quite unexpectedly played a draw with the main team of the country - 1:1. On September 26, one of the best teams in the world at that time came to Moscow - the Hungarian team (the current Olympic champion, silver medalist of the World Championship held two months earlier), led by the top scorer of the last world forum - Sandor Kocsis and the legendary Ferenc Puskas, but the Soviet team did not get lost against her background. In the 14th minute, Salnikov opened the scoring, and in the 59th minute, Kocsis scored the return goal, establishing the final result of the match - 1:1. With this match, the USSR national team proved its worth and loudly declared its claims to the highest awards in world football. New young and promising football players were also introduced into the squad and played: Lev Yashin, Nikita Simonyan and Sergei Salnikov.
At the beginning of 1955, the USSR national team, led by Gavriil Kachalin, went on an intense sports tour of India. In 17 matches with teams of varying importance (from amateur teams to the first national team), a 100% result was achieved with a total score of 100:4. The best scorer of the USSR national team was debutant Eduard Streltsov - 15 goals. In the only return match, played on September 16 in Moscow, the team set its record for scoring in a single match, defeating the Indian team 11:1.
The team made return visits to Stockholm and Budapest. Both matches followed similar scenarios to last year: Sweden was again defeated - 6:0, and Hungary was saved from defeat by Puskás in the last minutes - 1:1.
The most serious rival for the Soviet team in 1955 was the German national team, which at that time was the current world champion. In Moscow, for a friendly match on August 21, it arrived in a weakened squad, which, according to the official version, was to blame for the jaundice epidemic, however, even with such a squad, the Bundesteam represented a very formidable force. The team coach, Sepp Herberger, remained the same and carried out thorough preparations for this match. The game itself turned out to be very entertaining: losing 1:2 by the 52nd minute, the USSR team was able to snatch victory - 3:2.
Back in 1955, a friendly match took place in Moscow with a strong French team - 2:2.
Having defeated the Danish national team in two friendly matches (home and away) with a total score of 10:3, the team now had to solve the problem of reaching the final tournament of the Olympics. The opponent in the qualifying games was the Israeli team. The level of the teams became clear after the first Moscow match, which ended in a victory for the USSR - 5:0, and the return match in Tel Aviv turned into an empty formality - 1:2, defeat for Israel.
The dress rehearsal for the voyage to Australia was matches with opponents already familiar to the team: France, Germany and Hungary. On September 15, in Hanover, a slight superiority over the Germans was confirmed - 2:1, on September 23, the Hungarians still prevailed over the Soviet football players in Moscow - 1:0, and on October 24, in Paris, the French, in an equal fight, inflicted the second defeat on 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 football players did not allow their skills to be doubted, winning 16:2 (Streltsov and Isaev scored 3 goals each, Valentin Ivanov and Tatushin scored two goals each). , Paramonov, Ryzhkin and Netto). It is curious that after the break the USSR was losing with a score of 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 Nikolai Tishchenko 12/10/1926 Spartak Moscow 2 4
4 Anatoly Bashashkin 02/23/1924 CDSA 2 5 *
5 Mikhail Ogonkov 06/24/1932 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 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 1 5 1 *
10 József Beca 11/06/1929 CDSA 1
Forwards
otb.t. Ivan Moser 12/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 1
11 Boris Tatushin 03/31/1933 Spartak Moscow 2(2) 5 1 *
12 Anatoly Isaev 07/14/1932 Spartak Moscow 1 3 1 *
13 Nikita Simonyan 10/12/1926 Spartak Moscow 2(2) 1 *
14 Sergei Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 2 4 2 *
15 Anatoly Ilyin 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 2(1) 2 1 *
16 Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 Torpedo Moscow 1(2) 3 1
17 Eduard Streltsov 07/21/1937 Torpedo Moscow 4 2
18 Vladimir Ryzhkin 12/29/1930 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 within the framework of the official tournament, held according to the Olympic knockout system, took place on November 24, at 12:00 (this was the opening match of the football tournament). The rival of the Soviet team was the united German team, composed of beginning West German professionals. The head coach of the Germans chose defensive tactics for his players, but taking advantage of their superiority in class and accumulated experience, the Soviet team was able to score twice, through the efforts of Isaev (23) and Streltsov (86). Habig's goal in the 89th minute was a goal of prestige. It is interesting that the coach of the German national team recognized his team’s performance as good, that is, he assessed a decent game with the USSR national team as no worse than winning medals.
The next opponent of the Soviet team was the Indonesian 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 rivals. At home, Soviet athletes swore an oath to the country's sports leadership that they would win all matches at the Olympics, but they managed to win gold medals by breaking it.
The Indonesian national team played very closed football, using a 9-1 formation, and also having a great goalkeeper - Maulvi Saelan. In the match played on November 29, in 120 minutes, 68 shots were fired at the Indonesian goal, 27 corners were taken into their penalty area, but no goal happened. At the end of the meeting, the Indonesians carried out their only attack: Danue went 1v2 towards the goal, dribbled past Bashashkin, deceived Yashin and missed. The draw was 0:0, and a replay was scheduled for December 1.
According to the competition regulations, after a second draw, lots were supposed to be drawn, which is why victory was very important for the Soviet team. After analyzing the first meeting, it was decided to change the emphasis of the attack: instead of trying to break through the dense Indonesian defense with the help of beautiful combinations and dribbles, which was very difficult, preference should be given to long-range shots in order to avoid entering someone else's penalty area, crowded with defenders. Football psychology says that in matches with football midgets, which Indonesia has always been one of, a quick goal is necessary, since by the end of the match an opponent of this class is usually pressed so tightly against their goal, guarding the result that satisfies them (a draw), that it is almost impossible to score. Therefore, from the first minutes, Anatoly Maslenkin and Anatoly Ilyin were released onto the field, who were good at long-range strikes and were not afraid to take over the completion of the attack. The changes in the game and tactics bore fruit, since by the 19th minute the Indonesians were losing 2:0, and the USSR team calmly brought this match to victory - 4:0.
The team approached the semi-final match with the Bulgarian national team, scheduled for December 5, in far from the best condition, after a grueling confrontation with Indonesia. In addition, during the match, two Soviet football players (Valentin Ivanov and Nikolai Tishchenko) were injured, and substitutions at that time were not allowed by the rules. According to the scenario, the match turned out to be surprisingly similar to the scenario of the confrontation between 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, also in extra time the Bulgarians managed to take the lead, and the USSR national team, showing its character, was able to first equalize the score (Streltsov scored 8 minutes before the end), and then set the final, winning score - 2:1 (Tatushin scored in the 116th minute).
The opponent in the final, held on December 8, for the USSR team was the Yugoslav team, 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 players who had not played much came onto the field: Nikita Simonyan, Anatoly Isaev and Anatoly Ilyin. It was these players who scored the only goal in the game: in the 48th minute, Isaev headed in Ilyin’s cross from the right flank.
So 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 leading teams in the world definitely indicated the team’s readiness to take part in the upcoming world championship in Sweden. The application was accepted, and the team ended up in the 6th UEFA qualifying group, composed, like the others, on a regional basis, which also included teams already familiar to Soviet football players: Poland and Finland.
On June 1, the first control match of the USSR national team against the Romanian team was held in Moscow after the Olympic final. The team was still led by Gavriil Kachalin, the core of the team remained the same, of 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 team played a qualifying match for the upcoming World Cup against the Polish team. The match was very important for both teams, since it was clear to everyone that they would play for a ticket to the world championship in European Group 6. The spirit of both teams was indeed very high, so from the first minutes a stubborn struggle began for the right to take the lead. Three times the Poles shook the frame of Yashin's goal with crazy powerful blows, but they could not get any benefit from their activity. But luck smiled on the Soviet football players already in the 9th minute: Tatushin made the Polish goalkeeper Szymkowiak make a mistake and opened the scoring in the match. In the second half, the game was already under the dictation of the hosts; a whole hail of balls fell on the Poles' goal. At the 52nd minute, clouds gathered over the Luzhniki Stadium and it occurred to someone to turn on the lights, and then turn them off 8 minutes later, although such unscheduled switching on/off of the lights was prohibited by FIFA rules. However, neither the Poles nor the judge began to file a protest, and the FIFA leadership itself limited itself to only a written remark. It limited itself to the same remark regarding the fact that the Soviet players were not officially entered into the match, demanding, however, that the application list be sent retroactively. Meanwhile, in the 55th minute, Nikita Simonyan doubled the score with a beautiful shot into the top nine from outside the penalty area. With an equally beautiful strike in the 77th minute, Ilyin put an impressive end to the match - 3:0.
Almost a month later, on July 21, in a control match in Sofia, the Soviet squad confidently beat the Bulgarians - 4:0. Just 6 days later the Finns, the group’s outsiders, arrived in Moscow. Having built a solid defense, the Scandinavians were going to play a closed game. True, in the 23rd minute Voynov made a long-range shot and the scoring was opened. But at the end of the first half, Olavi Lahtinen 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 was very reminiscent of the disastrous match with the Indonesians at the last Olympics, and Kachalin needed to prove that such mistakes would not happen again with his team. The team was rescued in the 62nd minute by captain Igor Netto, who headed in a corner kick. Despite the victory, the coach was dissatisfied with the game and in the 20 days remaining before the return match, he carried out serious work with the players to increase the accuracy of their shots. The results of this work fully justified it on August 15 in Helsinki, when the Finnish national team’s defense left no stone unturned - a 10:0 victory, which is a repeat better difference goals for the USSR national team in one match. By the way, the Helsinki match was also the first away match for the Soviet team, which was attended by its fans.
On September 22, the Hungarians were beaten in a friendly match in Budapest - 2:1. In this match, Kachalin tested a newcomer - defender Vladimir Kesarev.
On October 20, the decisive match for reaching the final part of the world championship was supposed to take place in Chorzow, but it did not become the last. More than one hundred thousand Poles gathered at the Szląsk stadium to support their team, which was joined as captain by thirty-year-old veteran striker Gerard Cieślik. Lev Yashin returned to the goal of the Soviet team. The Poles turned out to be stronger and won a fairly confident victory in the game - 2:1, with Cieslik scoring a double. This outcome of the match spoke only of one thing: it would be necessary to play an additional game for a ticket to Sweden, since goal differences and the results of personal meetings did not matter then, although in the event of a draw in the additional match, these indicators would be 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 only at the request of Soviet functionaries, since at the local new 115,000-seat Central Stadium, about a third of the spectators were supposed to be USSR fans. True, the road to Leipzig was not without adventure. On November 17, the torpedo men: Valentin Ivanov and Eduard Streltsov were late for the train to Berlin, and the head of the Football Section of the Committee on Physical Education and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Valentin Antipenok, who met the latecomers at the Belorussky station, set off with them in pursuit of the train, simultaneously calling officials from Ministry of Transport with a request to stop the train. As a result, the car they were traveling in caught up with the express in Mozhaisk and the players safely joined the rest of the team.
Due to injuries, the team was without its recognized leaders: Isaev, Salnikov, Krizhevsky, Simonyan and Ilyin. Shortly before the match itself, Alekper Mamedov dropped out of action, whose place was unexpectedly taken by Genrikh Fedosov, and he had to perform directly in the uniform and boots of Mamedov himself, which caused confusion: many thought that Mamedov was present on the field, not Fedosov .
The teams started the match without reconnaissance, since 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 at all costs, which is why the game turned out to be quite tense. Already in the 5th minute of 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 at that time, he made a strong-willed decision to stay in the game, which ultimately brought the team victory. The Poles squandered all their chances at the beginning of the game, finishing them unsuccessfully, and the Soviet football players were able to score twice: in the 30th minute Streltsov scored from Tatushin’s pass, and in the 75th minute the final score from Streltsov’s pass was set by Fedosov - 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 were also held with local clubs. In May, the team gathered again at the Spartak base in Tarasovka. During this training camp, two control matches were played. In the first, the Soviet team, as the “Moscow team”, beat the “Berlin team”, made up of the best football players of the GDR - 4:0. The second match became a test rehearsal before the games of the World Championship starting in less than a month: on May 18, the future rivals of the USSR in the group, the British, arrived in Moscow in the most combative lineup at that time. The match took place in a double-edged struggle and ended in a draw - 1:1.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin
Coach: Mikhail Yakushin
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Oleg Makarov 07/26/1929 Dynamo Kyiv 1(-1)
13 Vladimir Belyaev 09/15/1933 Dynamo Moscow 1
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 3(-2) 5;6
12 Vladimir Maslachenko 03/05/1936 Lokomotiv Moscow
Defenders
otb.t. Mikhail Ogonkov 06/24/1932 Spartak Moscow 5
2 Vladimir Kesarev 02/26/1930 Dynamo Moscow 1 5
3 Konstantin Krizhevsky 02/20/1926 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 04/10/1930 Dynamo Kyiv
Midfielders
otb.t. Alexey Paramonov 02/21/1925 Spartak Moscow 1
15 Anatoly Maslenkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 1
5 Yuri Voynov 11/29/1931 Dynamo Kyiv 4(1) 5
6 Igor Netto 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 5(2) 1
16 Viktor Tsarev 06/02/1931 Dynamo Moscow 5
Forwards
otb.t. Boris Tatushin 03/31/1933 Spartak Moscow 4(1)
otb.t. Eduard Streltsov 07/21/1937 Torpedo Moscow 5(3)
otb.t. Anatoly Isaev 07/14/1932 Spartak Moscow 3(2)
otb.t. Victor Fomin??.??.1929 Dynamo Kyiv 1
otb.t. Yuri Kovalev 02/06/1934 Dynamo Kyiv 1
21 Genrikh Fedosov 12/06/1932 Dynamo Moscow 1(1)
8 Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 Torpedo Moscow 3(1) 5 1
9 Nikita Simonyan 10/12/1926 Spartak Moscow 4(4) 5 1
11 Anatoly Ilyin 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 3(3) 5 2
10 Sergei Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 3
17 Alexander Ivanov 04/14/1928 Zenit Leningrad 4 1
7 German Apukhtin 06/12/1936 CSK Moscow Region 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 squad: Streltsov, Ogonkov and Tatushin. Netto, due to a knee injury received on May 15 in a friendly match with 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 team in the final tournaments of the World Championships took place on June 8 in Gothenburg, at the New Ullevi stadium, its opponent was the England team. Having already studied each other in a friendly match in May, the teams started the match without “reconnaissance”. Already in the 14th minute, Simonyan opened the scoring, finishing into the goal the ball released from the hands of English goalkeeper Colin MacDonald after an unsuccessful attempt to repel a diagonal shot from Alexander Ivanov. This start liberated the debutants of the world championship, so that the entire first half and the beginning of the second remained with them. In the 56th minute, Kesarev broke through on the right flank, from where he made a low pass to the same Alexander Ivanov, who without much difficulty beat the goalkeeper one on one and sent the ball into the net, bypassing the defender who rushed across. The British, assessing the state of affairs, gathered and began their offensive. The powerful and tall Derek Kevan stood out especially at the forefront of the attack. In the 68th minute, he headed in Billy Wright's long cross into the penalty area, leaving Lev Yashin no chance to reach the ball. Meanwhile, Valentin Ivanov and Yuri Voynov missed the goal twice from advantageous positions. Ten minutes before the end, Kevan knocked Yashin down, crashing into him at full speed, and Bobby Robson's goal, scored simultaneously with this incident, was not counted. In the 83rd minute, the most significant episode of the match occurred: while running away from Krizhevsky towards the enemy goal, Johnny Haynes tripped near the penalty area and fell, and Istvan Zsolt, the match referee, mistakenly awarded a penalty against the USSR national team. The Soviet football players and the majority of the 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 taken by Tom Finney, and Zsolt’s wrong decision was exaggerated for a long time in the Soviet press with an eye to the Soviet Union’s suppression of the Hungarian uprisings of 1956. In the referee's defense, it can be noted that before this penalty he did not react to Finney's fall in the Soviet penalty area and canceled Robson's goal. The final score (2:2) did not make the Soviet football players very happy, since according to the general opinion of witnesses and participants in the match, the team lost the victory from their hands.
The team's second opponent was the Austrian national team, which lost to the Brazilians in the first meeting - 3:0, after which its defensive line underwent drastic changes. The composition of the Soviet team remained unchanged. On June 11 in Borås, two teams eager to fight took to the field of the Rävallen stadium, and the match turned out to be very intense, played 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 an error in the enemy defense, played a simple combination that ended in the latter’s goal. In the 55th minute, Tsarev made a rough play in his own penalty area against Paul Kozlicek, after which the referee rightly pointed to the penalty spot. The shot from young Hans Butsek, who approached the ball, was not difficult for Yashin, and the score remained the same. After 7 minutes, Valentin Ivanov successfully completed a forty-meter pass from his namesake Alexander, sending the ball into the goal of Kurt Schmid. Subsequently, the pace of the game slowed down and with the final whistle the referee recorded 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 out of place on the field. The Brazilians entrusted their place in the lineup to debutants: Pele and Garrincha. In order to directly reach the quarterfinals, the USSR national team needed to defeat Brazil, which played its first two matches with the same success (a win and a draw with similar opponents). Since the Brazilian national team was in a similar, but slightly better position (they beat 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 posts of the Soviet goal with enormous force, and in the third minute, Didi, approaching someone else’s penalty area, pushed the ball among the Soviet defenders who had accumulated there, where it, striking Krizhevsky’s thigh, was picked up by the striker Vava and sent to the gate. Having achieved a goal difference that suited them already in the first minutes, the Brazilians began to play leisurely, periodically bursting into attacks, which often ended due to the loss of the ball resulting from Garrincha’s excessive dribbles. In the 30th minute, Voynov managed to deliver an accurate and powerful shot from 22 meters, but did not reach the target. In the 77th minute, Pele and Vava organized the second goal: after a double zigzag wall, Vava successfully hit the goal in the splits. 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 Austrian and English national teams, a draw was recorded, after which the goal difference and points scored by the British and Soviet 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 tournament regulations, the teams played a play-off match every other day to qualify from the group. Gavriil Kachalin decided to freshen up the squad a little by fielding the inexperienced Yuri Falin and German Apukhtin, who were never able to fully integrate into the team. team game. The English coach made four changes at once compared to the previous meeting of the teams. Despite the generally sluggish progress of the game, partly caused by the fatigue of the teams after the group stage, by the 35th minute the USSR team had no less than five missed chances. Then the English offensive began, which ended before the break with an unsuccessful shot from Peter Brabrook, brought by Peter Broadbent to an advantageous position three meters from the goal. However, such a mistake provoked the young striker, and in the second half he carried out several very sharp attacks, one of which even ended in an undefended goal (the ball hit his hand). In the 55th minute, two mistakes by the English (an unsuccessful throw-out of the ball by MacDonald and an unsuccessful artificial off-side) led to Ilyin’s goal from Voynov’s pass. After this, the British set out to attack Yashin’s goal with even greater pressure, but the Soviet goalkeeper successfully played this game and did not allow the opponent to equalize the score. As a result, the team reached the playoffs of the championship, where it had to meet the hosts of the tournament, the Swedes.
The match took place on June 19 in Stockholm, at the Rasunda stadium. The team was very tired from the overnight flight, so it didn’t approach the match in the best condition; besides, the Swedish team did without a play-off match, that is, they had three, not one, day of rest before the quarterfinal match. The teams spent the first half on equal terms, but in the second half 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 Boris Kuznetsov’s mistake, converted a one-on-one, and in the 87th minute, Agne Simonsson successfully closed a pass from the left flank from the same Khamrin. The score is 2:0 and the USSR team goes home.
In the Soviet Union, the performance of their team was considered 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 replays), its matches were attended by a total of 121,515 spectators.
[edit] XVII Summer Olympics in Rome 1960
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
To defend its Olympic title at the games in Rome, the USSR team had to pass the selection sieve. According to the territorial principle, it ended up in the 3rd European group along with the teams of Bulgaria and Romania. This time it was decided to create an Olympic team separate from the main one, which included players from the closest reserve of the main team. Of the players who took part in the qualifying games, only goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team that won gold in Melbourne. Boris Arkadyev was appointed coach.
The games calendar was compiled in such a way that in all first four The USSR national team took part in the games, and in the last two the teams of Bulgaria and Romania had to fight each other. In the first match, played on June 29, 1959 in Luzhniki, the Soviet team tied with the Bulgarians at home - 1:1. On July 19, the Romanians were beaten there - 2:0. On August 2, a goalless draw was recorded in Bucharest with the same Romanians. On September 13 in Sofia, the Soviet team was beaten by the Bulgarian team - 1:0. Thus, in the remaining matches, Bulgaria and Romania competed for a ticket to Rome, and the football tournament of the 17th Summer Olympics became the first tournament for the Soviet team where it could not get into.
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 played for the national team: B. Razinsky (missed 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 Nations Cup 1960
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
The next big tournament for the USSR national team was the first ever European Nations Cup. At that time, the tournament was held according to the so-called Olympic system, that is, only matches or a series of knockout matches took place. The team was still headed by Gavriil Kachalin, with Nikolai Gulyaev helping him. Andrey Starostin was appointed head of the team. The first game after the World Cup was a friendly match held on August 30, 1958 in Prague, against the Czechoslovakian national team, in which the updated composition of the Soviet team beat the opponents - 2:1.
On September 28, a game took place in Luzhniki that went down in history as the very first match in the history of the European championships: in the first game of a two-game series in the 1/8 finals, 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 a weakened last years the Hungarian team was quite easy for the Soviet team and ended in a confident victory - 3:1, moreover, in the 10th minute, the Austrian referee Alfred Grill canceled, in the opinion of 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: it 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 main team gathered was almost a year later, on September 6, 1959, when the Czechoslovakian national team came to Moscow for a friendly match. For the first time after the World Cup, its leaders, Netto and Yashin, played for the national team. In this match, the team showed that they had not lost 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 Soviet football players won - 1:0, Voinov scored.
On October 3, Beijing hosted a friendly match with the Chinese team, which the Soviet team brought to victory (1:0) after Ilyin’s quick goal in the 2nd minute.
In 1959, the opponent of the Soviet Union national team in the quarterfinals was determined. This was the Spanish national team - a country that was under the fascist, as the USSR leadership believed, dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco. Franco's government, in turn, sharply 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 Spanish coach, Helenio Herrera, arrived in Moscow, toured the city, the Metropol Hotel and attended a friendly match between Soviet and Polish football players. In this game, the Poles lost 1:7, debutant Viktor Ponedelnik scored three goals. The Spanish national team defeated the same team twice in the 1/8 finals with a smaller, but quite decent goal difference (4:2 and 3:0). Having learned about the major victory of the USSR, Franco demanded guarantees from his team that the enemy would be defeated. Despite the successes of Spanish football in those years, for example, the long-term leadership of Real Madrid in the European Champions Cup, Spanish coaches could not be unequivocally confident in a successful outcome. Despite their best wishes, athletes from Spain were unable to 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 remove the Spanish team from the tournament for failure to appear for the match, which allowed the Soviet team to directly qualify for 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 Leaders of the Competition of Brigades and Shock Workers of Communist Labor, commented from the podium on the decision of the Spanish dictator:
In both big and small ways, Franco grovels before his masters. The whole world is laughing now at his latest sports stunt. It was he who, from the position of right-back of American prestige, scored an own goal, prohibiting the Spanish football players from meeting with the Soviet team!
At the beginning of July, before flying to France, the national team, convened under the banner of the national team of USSR clubs, played a friendly match against Inter Milan, which ended in a draw - 2:2. With the score 0:2 in favor of the Italians, the situation was leveled by Monday and Valentin Ivanov.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin
Coach: Nikolay Gulyaev
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Vladimir Belyaev 09/15/1933 Dynamo Moscow 1(-1)
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 1 2 ;1
2 Vladimir Maslachenko 03/05/1936 Lokomotiv Moscow
Defenders
otb.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 06/27/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
6 Anatoly Krutikov 09/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 2
Midfielders
9 Viktor Tsarev 06/02/1931 Spartak Moscow 1
7 Yuri Voynov 11/29/1931 Dynamo Kyiv 2(1) 2
8 Igor Netto 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 1 2
Forwards
otb.t. Alekper Mamedov 05/09/1930 Dynamo Moscow 1
otb.t. Nikita Simonyan 10/12/1926 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Anatoly Ilyin 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 1(1)
otb.t. Anatoly Isaev 07/14/1932 Spartak Moscow 1
10 Slava Metreveli 05/30/1936 Torpedo Moscow 2(1) 2 1
11 Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 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 Kyiv
16 German Apukhtin 06/12/1936 CSKA
17 Zaur Kaloev 01/24/1931 Dynamo Tbilisi
[edit] Final tournament
Winners of the 1960 European Cup. Photo of the USSR national team. On July 6, at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, the semi-final match of the European Cup between the national teams of the USSR and Czechoslovakia took place in the heat. In two friendly matches held by the teams during preparation for the tournament, quite confident victories of the Soviet team were recorded, but the Czechoslovakian team, strong at that time, remained a serious rival for any other. The coaching staff of the USSR national team decided to rely on the speed qualities of their young players, which was supposed to wear down their older opponents. In the first half, both teams maintained a high tempo, exchanged attacks, and goalkeepers Shroif and Yashin often came into play. Gradually, the initiative passed to the Soviet players. In the 35th minute, Valentin Ivanov put his team ahead. After the break, the superiority of the USSR was already felt, goals from the same Ivanov and Ponedelnik finally broke the enemy: a disappointed Vojta even missed the goal from the 11-meter mark. As a result, having defeated its opponent with a score of 3:0, the USSR team reached the final, where it had to measure its strength with the Yugoslav team. Tito, still at the helm of the SFRY, promised his players a generous reward for the victory over the Soviets, which gave the match a special principle. The government only issued warrants to Soviet football players, allowing them to buy used cars with 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 the Parc des Princes in Paris. The quality of the field left much to be desired, and it was raining. The stadium was not sold out, as local fans lost interest in the tournament after the defeat of their team. From the first minutes on the field there was a fight for every ball, both teams had to play a lot on the defensive. In the 43rd minute, the Yugoslavs tipped the scales in their favor: having deceived Maslenkin, Erkovic, who had broken through on the flank, crossed into the penalty area, where his pass was headed in by Galic, after which the ball ricocheted off Netto’s hip into the goal. After the break, the USSR team strengthened its attack. In the 49th minute, Bubukin from approximately 30 meters struck a powerful shot at Vidinich's goal, who, having caught the wet ball, could not hold it in his hands, which Slava Metreveli took advantage of, picking up the projectile and sending it into the goal. Until the end of the match's regular time, a stubborn and tough fight continued, during which the score no longer changed, which is why overtime had to be played. Only in the second extra period was the fate of the match decided: in the 113th minute, Mikhail Meskhi, passing the ball along the edge, sent it into the penalty area, after which Ponedelnik, with a jumping header, established 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, the winning teams were awarded medals, 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, but for ideological reasons, they remained unsigned. The team was honored at Luzhniki, when the newly arrived winners in hotel cars were brought to the country's main sports arena during a break in the match between Lokomotiv Moscow 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 take place in May-June 1962 in Chile. In 1960, she played two more friendly matches: on August 17 in Leipzig she beat the GDR team - 1:0, and on September 4 in Vienna she lost to the Austrian team - 1:2, which became her only defeat this year.
From mid-February to March 2, the Soviet 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 against the USSR national team - 1:0. For the first time, Soviet television organized the broadcast of an away match of the national team.
On June 18, in Luzhniki, the team played the first match as part of the qualification for the upcoming World Cup. The opponent was the Turkish national team, which, together with the Norwegian squad, made up the qualifying group, which included the USSR national team. The Soviet football players had the initiative throughout the match, but they managed to break through the Turkish national team goalkeeper, Turgay Seren, who later became legendary, only once - Valery Voronin.
On June 24, a friendly match between the teams of the USSR and Argentina was held there, which ended in a goalless draw and was remembered for the magnificent save of Vladimir Maslachenko, who, with a phenomenal jump, parried a cannon shot under the crossbar inflicted by Jose Sanfilippo.
A week later, on July 1, the Norwegian national team arrived in Moscow. The opponent offered the Soviet team open football, which is why the spectators who came to Luzhniki that day witnessed seven goals: two against Maslachenko and five against the Norwegian goalkeeper Asbjorn Hansen. The return match with Norwegian football players on August 23 in Oslo also turned out to be easy for the USSR football players - a confident victory 3:0.
On September 10, a match was held in Moscow with the Austrian national team, which again beat the Soviet national team - 1:0, while Valentin Ivanov failed to beat goalkeeper Freidl from the point.
On November 12, the Turks were beaten again in Istanbul - 2:1. Having shown a 100% result in all 4 qualifying matches, the USSR national team confidently reached the final part of the World Cup.
I V N P M O
USSR 4 4 0 0 11-3 8
Türkiye 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 took to the field of the River Plate stadium to play the return match with 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 Ponedelnik scored two beautiful goals, and the Argentines were able to respond to this only at the close 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 kick to the head in a game clash with Juan Jose Pizzuti, he received a concussion and was carried off the field, Maslachenko stood in goal.
On November 22, the Soviet team was hosted in Santiago by the hosts of the future world championship, the Chileans. Dominance in the first half did not bring success to the Chilean national team, but 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 winning and only goal in this match.
On November 29, the Uruguay national team was beaten in Montevideo. Thus, the Soviet team beat all its rivals on the tour and earned the most flattering reviews from the South American football and football community. Suffice it to say that the performance 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 training camp in Hungary; preparations for the upcoming World Cup began in January. On April 11, the first friendly match of the season was held: the local team was beaten in Luxembourg - 3:1. On March 18, a game was held in Stockholm with the vice-world champions - the Swedes. Goals from Ponedelnik and Mamykin in the first half provided a good start for the team, and they were able to, concentrating on defense, keep their goal unopened. Yashin played the match especially well, taking a penalty from Khamrin.
On April 27, the Uruguayans, future group rivals of the USSR national team, came to Moscow for revenge. The team from South America was unable to oppose anything to the home team and lost on all counts - 5:0, Mamykin scored a hat-trick (two goals from the penalty spot).
The team played the last match before departure on May 17 in Chile as the “Moscow team”, on May 3 in Luzhniki with the “Berlin team”, de facto with the GDR team. The guests lost 2:1.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin
Coach: Nikolay Gulyaev
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
2 Vladimir Maslachenko 03/05/1936 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
otb.t. Alexander Medakin 01/17/1936 Torpedo Moscow 2
4 Eduard Dubinsky 04/19/1935 CSKA 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 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 2 4
12 Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 4(1) 4
11 Jozsef Szabo 02/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv
Forwards
otb.t. Boris Batanov 07/15/1934 Torpedo Moscow 1
otb.t. Valentin Bubukin 04/23/1933 CSKA 3(2)
otb.t. Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan 06/22/1940 CSKA 1
14 Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 Torpedo Moscow 2 4 4
16 Alexey Mamykin 02/29/1936 CSKA 1(1) 2 1
17 Mikhail Meskhi 01/12/1937 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 10/03/1936 Dynamo Kyiv 2
21 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 1
22 Igor Chislenko 01/04/1939 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
20 Viktor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group A
On May 25, the team flew to South America. After winning the European Cup, they expected another trophy from her.
The organizers placed the Soviet team in Arica, where all matches in the first group of the preliminary tournament were to be held at the Carlos Dittborn Stadium. This coastal town was not very popular with the football players, as there was constantly a strong wind blowing from the ocean and it was quite hot. The field designated 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. There was a strong wind blowing on the field, which gave the game a special, fast pace. The first half was a two-edged battle, but the score was not opened. The Yugoslavs offered a very rough game, and by the end of the meeting two Soviet players remained injured: Slava Metreveli and Eduard Dubinsky. In the 53rd minute, thirty meters from the Balkans penalty area, a penalty was awarded for rough play. The ball, after Monday's shot, hits the post, after which Valentin Ivanov, who runs in, heads it into the goal. After the goal, the game continued to be replete with mutual attacks and tough encounters. In the 85th minute, after passes from Netto and Ivanov, Monday found himself with the ball, who managed a long-range and accurate shot into the bottom corner of the goal. 2:0 is the final score of this match.
On June 3, the opponent of the team from the Soviet Union was the Colombian team - the generally recognized outsider of the group. The coaching staff suggested that the team win with as large a score as possible, since the ratio of goals scored and goals conceded was taken into account in the final calculation of points in controversial situations. Taking advantage of the confusion in the enemy's defensive formations, by the 13th minute Igor Chislenko and, twice, Ivanov, with their goals, provided the team with a confident three-goal advantage. In the 21st minute, German Aceros scored one goal, going one-on-one with Yashin, but the Soviet players considered this an accident and did not pull forces into defense. In the 56th minute, Monday scored another goal for 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 should knock out Marcos Colle's low ball from the penalty area, and, unstopped by anyone, it quietly flew into the goal. The Soviet players began to condemn each other for the stupid goal, and they also began to get tired, which is why the initiative gradually passed to the Latin Americans. In the period from the 73rd to the 77th minutes, Angulo Rada and Marino Kilinger scored two more goals against the confused opponents.
In order to continue competing at this World Championship, it was enough for the USSR national team to play a draw on June 6 with the Uruguayan team that was already familiar to it. At the beginning of the meeting, the teams did not use several 100% chances; a high tempo was set for the game. In the 38th minute, the ball sent by Galimzyan Khusainov into the penalty area was sent from under the foot of the Uruguayan defender into the goal by Alexey Mamykin. In the second half, the Uruguayans managed to equalize the score, but the goal was the result of a refereeing error. When Lev Yashin was about to put the ball into play, Julio Cesar Cortez ran towards him and tried to hit him with his knee. Yashin was sure that the game would be stopped due to a violation by the Uruguayan forward, and pushed the offender with indignation, but the Italian referee Cesare Jonni saw only the last episode, for which a free kick was awarded towards the Soviet goal inside the penalty area. The referee did not count Ruben Cabrera's first blow and asked him to strike again. Bouncing off the wall, the ball hit Jose Sasia, who, after his kick, touched one of the Soviet defenders and ricocheted into the goal. Inspired by the feat of the Colombian team, the Uruguayans vigorously 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 powerful blow, after which the referee, seeing the ball in the goal, pointed to the center. Immediately, indignant Uruguayans flocked to him, disagreeing with this decision. Having learned from Chislenko that there was no goal, Netto, the team captain, approached the referee and explained that the ball had to be kicked in from the goal. But the Soviet team still took its toll: a minute before the end, Ivanov finished the ball into the goal after Monday’s shot was reflected by Roberto Eduardo Sosa. Having defeated Uruguay with a score of 2:1, the USSR national team advanced from first place to the quarterfinals. At the end of the meeting, the Uruguayan football players, annoyed at being eliminated from the tournament, beat up the judge, and in the evening of that day they staged a riot and pogrom at the 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, the quarterfinal game of the world championship between the USSR and Chile took place in Arica. From the first minutes the game went smoothly, there were mutual attacks. In the 10th minute, Voronin fouled on the left flank and a penalty was awarded for this violation 18 meters away. From a very acute angle, almost at the corner of the penalty area, Chilean striker Leonel Sanchez, 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 conceded, the USSR football players went to win back and seized the initiative, but they rarely managed to get closer to the opponent’s goal. In the 27th minute, Meskhi, having picked up the ball, quickly passed to Chislenko, who found himself in the center, who quickly sent the ball into the net, leveling the score. The Soviet players cheered up and continued to attack, but in the 29th minute they conceded the second goal. The Chileans took the lead after their left winger Eladio Rojas “robbed” the gaping Ivanov and, unhindered, passing half the field, struck Yashin, who was covered by the defenders, from 30 meters. In the second half, the USSR national team had an unconditional advantage, but the Chileans concentrated on defense and kept the score, which suited 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; people considered Yashin and Ivanov to be the main culprits of the defeat. Also, many criticized Gavriil Kachalin for the outdated formation of the “W” team, to which most progressive teams preferred the 4-2-4 formation.
[edit] European Nations Cup 1964
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
In 1963, the games of the second European Football Cup in history started, which was held in the same way, according to the “knockout” system. The USSR national team had to defend its title on the fields of Spain, which was hostile at that time, which hosted the final four of this tournament.
The team began preparing for the tournament in the spring under the guidance of its former coach, Gavriil Kachalin. However, after the “team of clubs”, which was practically exact copy The USSR national team, modeled after the last World Cup, lost in a home friendly match to the former European Cup Winners' Cup winner, the Italian Fiorentina (1:3), the coach was removed from his position and his duties were performed for some time by the team's recent player, Nikita Simonyan. A special council of coaches, created in April by the Presidium of the USSR Football Federation, helped him staff the team and conduct training. Due to temporary confusion, the team “stalled” a little and on May 22 lost to the Swedes in Luzhniki - 1:0. As a result, another recent player from the country’s first team, Konstantin Beskov, was appointed to the number one post.
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 previous team: Netto and Meskhi. The rivals settled peacefully: Ferenc Mahos responded to Valentin Ivanov's goal with a precise strike - 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: due to a call to the FIFA team, Yashin was absent, who was replaced by the goalkeeper of Kutaisi Torpedo, Ramaz Urushadze. The hosts immediately offered the opponent a fast tempo and relied on technique, thereby preventing the Italians from playing their main trump card - close guarding of the attackers. Goals from Ponedelnik and Chislenko gave the team a good lead heading into 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, the Soviet players successfully defended, leaving Italy no opportunity to win back. Yashin performed well in goal, managing to fend off at least three hard shots into his own net, including a penalty from Alessandro Mazzola. In addition, from the 33rd to the 89th minute the Italians were inferior in the score after Gusarov’s goal. Only towards the end of the match did Gianni Rivera score a goal of prestige. The USSR national team absolutely deservedly reached the quarterfinals.
On December 1, the team played a friendly match in Casablanca with the Moroccan national team. The guests were personally greeted on the field by the newly appointed Prime Minister of the country, Ahmed Bahnini. The African team considered it a great honor to play against the Soviet Union team and, getting excited, scored an own goal from Mohammed Tibari in the 12th minute. In the 25th minute the score was equalized by Sadni. Then, by a controversial decision of the side referee, Khusainov’s goal was canceled, after which the ball no longer hit the teams’ goal.
In January 1964, the team went to Mexico, where, under the name “team of Moscow clubs,” they were to take part in the friendly club tournament “Torneo Sextagonal.” 5 rounds were held in the round-robin system, in which, after a draw in the first match with Partizan Belgrade (1:1), Soviet football players won 4 victories in a row (2:1 over Necaja, 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 Rasunda, the first quarter-final of the European Cup was played against the Swedish team. The debutants of the first team appeared on the field: Eduard Mudrik, Vladimir Glotov and Alexey Korneev. The heavy and wet field did not allow the players to act in a quick manner, which led to numerous high passes and increased fights for the ball. Valentin Ivanov opened the scoring in the 62nd minute, receiving 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 Khamrin achieved his goal - a 1:1 draw.
On May 20, the Uruguayan team was beaten 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 hosted the Swedish national team, which arrived for the return quarterfinal match. In the first half, the Swedes' attackers missed several good chances in front of the Soviet goal, and the hosts, on the contrary, converted one of their few chances: Monday scored in the 32nd minute. The goal changed the course of the game: Soviet football players began to play more confidently. In the 56th minute, after a longitudinal pass in attack, the same Ponedelnik received the ball and, beating the hesitant Hans Mild, scored a double. In the 78th minute, Khamrin brought back some 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-step match with Ivanov, restored the two-goal advantage of the Soviet team. A 3:1 victory allowed the team to travel to Spain for the final four of the European Cup.
After a training camp in France, where several control matches were played, on June 15 the Soviet delegation flew to Barcelona.
[edit] Team composition
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
13 Ramaz Urushadze 08/17/1939 Torpedo Kutaisi 1
1 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow 3(-3) 2;2
Defenders
otb.t. Eduard Dubinsky 04/19/1935 CSKA 1
otb.t. Anatoly Krutikov 09/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 2
11 Alexey Korneev 02/06/1939 Spartak Moscow 2 1
9 Vladimir Glotov 01/23/1937 Dynamo Moscow 2
8 Albert Shesternev 06/20/1941 CSKA 4 2
14 Viktor Shustikov 01/28/1939 Torpedo Moscow 1 2
10 Eduard Mudrik 01/17/1936 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
15 Viktor Anichkin 12/08/1941 Dynamo Moscow 2
Midfielders
otb.t. Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
otb.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 06/02/1942 Dynamo Minsk 1
6 Igor Chislenko 01/04/1939 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 03/11/1937 Dynamo Moscow 3(1) 1
5 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 3 2 1
17 Oleg Kopaev 11/28/1937 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 is erroneous.
[edit] Final Tournament
On June 18, the semi-final game of the European Cup between the Soviet and Danish teams took place at the Camp Nou stadium. The Danes were not a strong team; they reached the final tournament largely thanks to the brilliant play of their leader, Ole Madsen, who became the top scorer of the entire competition with 11 goals. According to some opinions, the opponent of the Soviets had already despaired of looking for happiness in the semi-finals and was determined to take his toll in the match for third place, playing the first match half-heartedly. One way or another, the USSR national team beat its opponent quite easily: in the 19th minute, Voronin scored the first goal from a corner, in the 40th minute, Monday scored from a pass from Chislenko, in the 89th minute, Valentin Ivanov put an end to the match with an elegant solo pass - 3:0. The team’s defense played no worse than the attack: the vaunted Madsen struck the first shot at 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 opponent of the USSR national team was 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, from Luis Suarez's pass, Jesus Pereda after Shesternev's mistake with close range sent the ball under the crossbar. However, just two minutes later, Khusainov, having received the ball from Mudrik, burst into the penalty area and beat the Spanish goalkeeper, Jose Angel Iribar. Then the game proceeded in a more closed manner: the teams played more defensively, the Spaniards rudely tried to exclude Monday from the game. It started to rain in the second half, making 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 Mudryk, who was guarding him, broke through the right flank and made a pass to Marcelino, who, with a falling header, scored the decisive goal - 2:1 in favor of the Spaniards. The USSR national team had to give up its 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 as coach of the national team. The fact is that Generalissimo Franco, an ardent political and ideological opponent of the Soviet Union, appeared on the television screens of millions of Soviet viewers, satisfied with the victory of his team over the Soviet Union. The team's sporting defeat was found to be political, and the result was considered unsatisfactory, although it was second place in Europe.
[edit] XVIII Summer Olympics in Tokyo 1964
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
According to the results of the draw, the USSR national team was included in the third European group of the qualifying tournament for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The country was represented by the Olympic team, and, in fact, the second team: players of the first team (Glotov, Korneev, Mudrik) played together with players from the closest (Anichkin, Lobanovsky, Urushadze) and deep (Biba, Sevidov, Fadeev) main team. There were no age restrictions for players; for example, 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 in CSKA.
The tournament regulations did not provide for a round-robin group tournament. The teams had to play two-legged knockout matches. In the preliminary round, the GDR team knocked out the other team, Western Germany. At the next stage, they had to fight with the Dutch, and the USSR national team contested access to the next round in a confrontation with Finland.
The first meeting took place on July 22, 1963 at the central stadium of Kyiv and ended with a confident defeat of the Finns - 7:0. Boris Kazakov, Viktor Serebryanikov and Gennady Matveev scored two goals each, and Andrey Biba scored another goal. The return game on August 1 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, almost devoid of intrigue, ended in another, more modest defeat of Finland - 4:0. The goals were scored by Serebryanikov, Biba, Kazakov and Matveev. The team of the USSR and the GDR now had to compete for a ticket to the Olympic Games from the group.
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 scoring: 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 Oleg Kopaev’s goal in the 14th minute with a scoring strike from Heino Climinger in the 62nd minute. According to the tournament regulations, the teams had to play the third, decisive game on a neutral field. Warsaw's Decade Stadium was chosen as the venue for the match. 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, Yu.Sevidov (1 goal); 2 games: S. Kotrikadze, G. Matveev (3 goals), B. Kazakov (3 goals), V. Lobanovsky, R. Urushadze (missed 2 goals), V. Glotov, V. Anichkin, A. Korneev, L. Burchalkin; 1 game: E. Malofeev, O. Kopaev (1 goal), V. Lisitsyn (missed 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 assigned to coach Nikolai Morozov, who had no serious coaching experience. The group opponents 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 its first test match under new leadership: it was hosted by the Austrian national team in Vienna. For the first time, Viktor Serebryanikov and Vladimir Ponomarev appeared in the T-shirts 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, Walter Glechner hit Yashin's goal. In the 80th minute, the hosts could have doubled the score, but Karl Kohler missed 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 were actually going to compete against the African team, but local functionaries asked that the match be held at the national team level, after which the team was completed with players from other Soviet clubs: Lev Yashin, Viktor Ponedelnik and Gennady Matveev . The teams split amicably - 2:2.
At the end of November, the team played two test matches in the Balkans, where the new coach looked through the candidates for the first team: Igor Ryomin, Georgy Sichinava, Viktor Bannikov, Valery Dikarev and the experienced Mikhail Meskhi. On November 22, in Belgrade, a draw was recorded with the Yugoslavs - 1:1 (Slaven Zambata responded to 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 meeting with the Austrian national team was held in Luzhniki. At the beginning of the match, Igor Netto said goodbye to the team, who led the team onto the field as captain and was replaced in the 5th minute by Logofet, and the captain's armband went to Valentin Ivanov. The game ended in a goalless draw - 0:0.
The USSR national team played the first match of the qualifying tournament for the upcoming world championship on May 23 in Moscow against Greece. After a series of experiments, Morozov released onto the field from the first minutes Boris Kazakov, Valery Dikarev, Vasily Danilov and Georgy Sichinava, who had not previously played in official matches for the first team. Also, Yashin, who was injured before the game, was replaced in goal by Viktor Bannikov. Already in the 14th minute, Kazakov opened the scoring with his head. The USSR national team continued to attack, but towards the middle of the meeting the Greeks seized the initiative, as a result of which Dimitris Papaioannou equalized the score in the 60th minute. Having conceded a goal, the Soviet players gathered and went on the attack again. The victory for the team was brought by two accurate shots by the captain - Valentin Ivanov in the 71st and 83rd minutes.
A week later, on May 30, the second qualifying match with the Welsh national team took place in Moscow. In the 39th minute Valentin Ivanov opened the scoring, in the 48th minute Stuart Williams hit his own goal, and in the 69th minute Day Davis set the final score of the match - 2:1.
The next match in the group took place there on June 27. The Danish team, again, like a year ago, was unable to seriously resist the Soviet team. Already in the 9th minute, Khusainov opened the scoring, and this goal remained the only one in the first half. But in the second, they rained down like from a cornucopia: a rather mature debutant from Dynamo Tbilisi, Vladimir Barkaya, scored two goals, Metreveli, Voronin and Meskhi scored one more each. The victory with a score of 6:0 practically ensured the team's entry into 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 Luzhniki. In the 24th minute, Pele, who was personally supervised by Voronin, opened the scoring, in the 32nd he organized a goal for Flavio Minuan, and in the 67th he put an end to the match. The Soviet football players tried to go on the offensive several times, but the Brazilian defense played very confidently. The composition of the USSR was far from optimal, for example, Yashin was replaced in goal by Kavazashvili and Bannikov.
On September 4, in Moscow, the experimental composition of the national team parted ways with Yugoslavia - 0:0. Next, the team had a three-match tour of Europe, which marked 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 Papaioannou managed to take advantage of the mistake of 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 its toll and two goals by 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 a theoretical chance of overtaking it - the Danish national team. The Danes decided to give battle to the opponent, but their strength was only enough for the first half, and in the second their goal was hit in turn by Metreveli, Malofeev and Sabo. Tommy Troelson's goal no longer decided anything: the USSR national team confidently qualified for the World Cup.
On October 27, the last, non-deciding match took place in Cardiff. Banishevsky scored the first goal of the match in the 17th minute, but 3 minutes later 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 team went to South America, first to Brazil. On November 21 in Rio de Janeiro, at the Maracanã, the hosts opened the scoring in the 54th minute after Gershon, having beaten Shesternev and Szabo, fired a point-blank shot at Yashin’s goal. Three minutes later, Jairzinho and Pele, after a great combination, beat the Soviet defense, which ended with the latter’s magnificent shot into the bottom corner from twenty meters. Five minutes later, the Brazilian goalkeeper Manga unsuccessfully knocked the ball out, hitting Banishevsky, who took advantage of his counterpart’s mistake and reduced the gap in the score. Having taken the threads of the game into their own hands, the Soviet football players increased their attack, and in one of them Metreveli managed to push a ball into the goal that bounced off the bar. The match ended in a draw - 2:2. Another match in Brazil was held on November 25 in Belo Horizonte, with a sold-out crowd of one hundred thousand, where the Soviet Union team and the local state team of Minas Gerais managed without goals.
On December 1, Argentina hosted guests from the USSR at the capital's River Plate. The hosts responded to the goal with Banishevsky's header (9th minute) with a free kick from Ermindo Onega (48th minute).
On December 4, at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo, the USSR national team beat the local Uruguay team without any problems, even when they were not in the most optimal lineup - 3:1 (goals by Khusainov, Banishevsky and Nikolai Osyanin against a single goal by Pedro Rocha). The last match of the season took place 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 Joao Havelange Cup tournament was held, which was then held among teams of various statuses (national teams, 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 city team, Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro), 1 draw (" Concepcion") and 5 defeats (Green Cross, Gremio, Maringa, Palmeiras, Corinthians) in 11 matches. Having stayed 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 played a draw with the local Dynamo - 2:2, after which a number of other not so good ones followed. best results in meetings with local clubs and teams of various classes.
On April 20, an official friendly match with the Swiss national team took place at the St. Jakob Park stadium in Basel. By the 9th minute, Chislenko and Ponedelnik provided the team with a two-goal advantage, but by the 73rd minute the opponent equalized the score - 2:2.
On April 24, in Vienna, the USSR national team was hosted by the Austrian national team, which had become one of the team’s most frequent rivals. Having failed to show themselves offensively, the hosts concentrated on defense, but conceded an unfortunate goal in the 20th minute. Goalkeeper Gernot Freidl could not hold the ball in his hands, caught after an opponent's kick, and Voronin finished it off with his head. In the first half, Soviet football players failed to capitalize on several more dangerous chances. After the break, the Austrians managed to take a little bit of the initiative. The Soviet players, tired at the end of the match, did not greatly impress the Viennese fans. On April 27 and 29, local clubs Schwarz Weiss (3:1) and Bakker (1:4) were beaten, respectively.
On May 22, the Soviet team played a match with Belgium in Brussels. The match started at strong wind and rain, which did not prevent the Soviet team from playing a multi-player move in the 11th minute, organized by Chislenko and ending with Serebryannikov’s well-aimed shot into the top left corner of the goal. Then Banishevsky was unable to hit the goal left by Jean-Marie Trappenier in the fight with Shesternev, shooting from two meters well above the crossbar. Gradually, the Belgians evened out 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 team, held a dress rehearsal before the World Championship starting 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 a pass from Philippe Gonde. Two minutes later, Gonda manages to make a solo pass and the score doubles. The Soviet team, rushing to recoup, reduced the score in the 26th minute through the efforts of Metreveli, who converted a one-on-one situation. Banishevsky managed to equalize the score in the 64th minute, finishing in Sabo's cross. In the 66th minute, Chislenko put his team ahead. The French snatched a draw in the 78th minute after a goal from Josep Bonnel - 3:3.
In mid-June, the team played several matches in Scandinavia against weak opponents, and confidently beat all of them, without exception.
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Nikolay Morozov
Coach: Yuri Zolotov
Goalkeepers
22 Viktor Bannikov 04/28/1938 Dynamo Kyiv 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
otb.t. Valery Dikarev 09/10/1939 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Gennady Logofet 04/15/1942 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Vladimir Saraev 04/28/1936 Torpedo Moscow 1
4 Vladimir Ponomarev 02/18/1940 CSKA 3 5 *
5 Valentin Afonin 12/22/1939 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1 1
6 Albert Shesternev 06/20/1941 CSKA 6 5 *
7 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 3 3 *
10 Vasily Danilov 05/13/1941 Zenit Leningrad 5 4 *
3 Leonid Ostrovsky 01/17/1936 Dynamo Kyiv 2
9 Viktor Getmanov 05/04/1940 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
Midfielders
otb.t. Georgy Ryabov 08/23/1938 Dynamo Moscow 2
8 Jozsef Szabo 02/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv 2(1) 4 *
12 Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 6(1) 5 *
14 Georgy Sichinava 09/15/1944 Dynamo Tbilisi 1 2
16 Slava Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 6(3) 2 1
2 Viktor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv 2
13 Alexey Korneev 02/06/1939 Spartak Moscow 2
Forwards
otb.t. Valentin Ivanov 11/19/1934 Torpedo Moscow 3(3)
otb.t. Boris Kazakov 06.11.1940 CSKA 3(1)
otb.t. Mikhail Meskhi 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 4(1)
otb.t. Vladimir Barkaya 07/29/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 1(2)
otb.t. Vitaly Khmelnitsky 06/12/1943 Dynamo Kyiv 2
15 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 4(1) 4 *
18 Anatoly Banishevsky 02/23/1946 Oil worker Baku 3(4) 5 1 *
19 Eduard Malofeev 06/02/1942 Dynamo Minsk 2(1) 5 2 *
11 Igor Chislenko 01/04/1939 Dynamo Moscow 4 2 *
17 Valery Porkuyan 10/04/1944 Dynamo Kyiv 3 4
20 Eduard Markarov 06/20/1942 Oil worker Baku 1
The set of bronze medals consisted of only 11 units, which were distributed among the players nominated for the award by national federations.
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group D
Arriving in England, the team settled in Durham, near Sunderland, where, along with Middlesbrough, matches of the fourth group were held. In addition to the USSR, the quartet was supplemented by the DPRK, Italy and Chile with their national teams.
The first game took place on July 12 in Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park. The opponent, the North Korean team, was the biggest mystery of the championship, but it was clear to everyone that this team was no 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 Shin Jung Kyu - the captain of the Koreans - cleared the ball sent by Banishevsky from the empty goal. The enemy's activity in the first minutes brought a little confusion into the game of the USSR national team, and in the 13th minute Kavazashvili had to save the team in a desperate jump. For the first half hour, the teams exchanged attacks, but were unable to successfully complete any of them. In the 31st minute, Banishevsky made a pass to Malofeev, who, being near the right goal line, hit the goal. The ball, which defender Park Lee Sup reached, ricocheted off his foot into the goal. Just two minutes later, the Soviets doubled the score: after a cross from Szabo, Banishevsky scored a header from a free kick. In the second half, mutual attacks began again: in the 46th minute, Malofeev hit the post, and in the 51st minute, Ostrovsky knocked the ball out of the empty goal. Then the Soviet team took the initiative into their own hands; their opponent was rescued several times by goalkeeper Lee Chang Myung. In the 88th minute, Malofeev scored a double and his team won over a tired opponent - 3:0. Nikolai Morozov was not satisfied with the team's performance.
On July 16, the most intriguing match in the subgroup took place in Sunderland, at Roker Park: 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 Soviet defense was able to surpass the traditionally strong Italian, holding back the onslaught of such masters as Sandro Mazzola and Ezio Pascutti. Ponomarev turned Pascutti out of the game, and Facchetti was unable to cope with Chislenko at the decisive moment. The Italian defense did not make a mistake, but in the 57th minute Chislenko, having received the ball from Banishevsky, struck a powerful, irresistible blow. The goal frustrated the Italians and allowed the Soviet Union to take the lead, with Khusainov missing two 100% chances to increase the score. True, the score no longer changed - 1:0, and the USSR national team was the first of all participants to reach the quarterfinals.
For the USSR national team, the only thing that depended on the match on July 20 at the same Roker Park against Chile was where it would qualify from the group. Nikolai Morozov decided to test his reserves in this game, releasing 8 new players. The match did not turn out to be spectacular enough, and many Soviet football players were reproached for their poor performance. In the 29th minute, Porcuyan opened the scoring, but after 4 minutes Ruben Marcos equalized. The victory for the Soviets was brought by the same Porkuyan, who scored a double. Having won (2:1), the USSR team, together with the DPRK 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, Roker Park hosted the quarterfinal match between the national teams of Hungary and the USSR. The place of the injured Khurtsilava in defense was taken by Voronin, Porkuyan, who played successfully in the match with Chile, took the left edge of the attack, and Khusainov was pulled into midfield. In the 5th minute, the Soviet team scored a quick goal: goalkeeper Jozsef Geley could not hold the ball in his hands after a slight hit by full-back Danilov, which Chislenko effectively took advantage of. Throughout the first half, the Hungarian football players were confidently held back by the Soviet defenders. Valery Voronin carried out his personal task remarkably well: 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 goal with his head, but Porkuyan himself claimed that he kicked it) sent by Khusainov from a free kick, and Geley missed it. This turn left the Hungarians despondent, but after Ferenc Bene's goal, the Hungarians staged a real assault. Bene and Mesei especially tried. Yashin and Shesternev showed themselves excellently in the current situation, deserving the best ratings from the press. Yashin's high-quality saves were played on British television all evening after the match. Having withstood the onslaught of a strong opponent (at the group stage the Hungarian team knocked Brazil out of the competition), the Soviet team achieved a victory (2:1) and reached the semi-finals, securing at least bronze medals in the championship, which were awarded for fourth place.
The semi-final took place on July 25 at Liverpool's Goodison Park. The USSR national team met with the German team. The Germans showed, in the opinion of many, rough football. For example, already in the 7th minute, József Szabó had his ankle broken in a scrum, which is why he was unable to play at his level, and in the second half, Franz Beckenbauer. The German football players assigned a lot of work to the USSR defenders, who did not cope with it well, relying on the skill of Lev Yashin. In the 42nd minute, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger picked up the ball lost by Chislenko and quickly passed it forward to Helmut Haller, who opened the scoring with a strong kick. A couple of minutes later, Chislenko was provoked into committing a flagrant foul by the German players, after which he received a red card from the Italian referee Concetto Lo Bello, whose work did not leave the best impression. In the 68th minute, Beckenbauer, who noticed that Yashin was covered by defenders, increased the gap in the score with a long-range strike. However, after this, the Soviet football players perked up and began to cause one trouble after another for the German defense. According to most football journalists, the Soviet team, playing essentially with nine players, looked much better than their opponents in the second half. In the 87th minute, Porkuyan reduced his team's gap, and a minute before the end he missed another chance, and they failed to equalize the score - 2:1.
The USSR national team competed for third place with Portugal on July 28 at Wembley in London. Shesternev, Sabo and Chislenko were unable to take part in the match. Due to forced reshuffles in the lineup, the two leaders of the Portuguese attack had to be looked after by Voronin (Eusebio) and Khurtsilava (José Torres). If the first was able to neutralize his formidable opponent, then the second was not, a significant difference in height prevented him (Torres was taller). In the 11th minute, Khurtsilava, in a fight with Torres for a high ball in the penalty area, played with his hand, for which a fair penalty was awarded, converted by Eusebio. At the end of the first half, Metreveli managed a long burst through the center, which he finished with a strong shot (this goal is often mistakenly attributed to Malofeev). Goalkeeper Jose Pereira reached the ball, touched by one of the defenders, but could not fix it, conceding a goal. Both teams started the second half with attacks, while the USSR team looked better than the primitive Portuguese who relied on Eusebio and Torres. The author of the return goal especially stood out - Metreveli, who had been sitting in the reserves for too long. The outcome of the match was decided only in the 87th minute, when Torres quickly ran behind Khurtsilava and Korneev to send the ball headed by Jose Augusto into the goal. The USSR national team suffered a second defeat in a row with a score of 1:2 and was content with bronze.
In general, Yashin, Shesternev, Voronin and Chislenko had a strong tournament, confirming their high class, both full-backs - Ponomarev and Danilov - acted reliably. The central forwards looked weaker - Malofeev and Banishevsky (except for the first match against the DPRK), Khusainov did not perform well. The revelation of the championship was Porkuyan, who was included in the national team at the last moment and 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.
It is interesting that of the Dynamo Kyiv players who won the USSR championship in 1966, only Sabo and Porkuyan were in the main team of the England team, Ostrovsky and Serebryanikov performed sporadically, and dispatcher Andrei Biba, recognized as the best football player of the 1966 season, was not included in the application at all to the World Cup.
In the Soviet Union, the team's performance was considered good, but nothing more.
[edit] XIX Summer Olympics in Mexico City 1968
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 1
[edit] 1 circle
Albania - refusal
[edit] group final
May 21, 1968 - USSR 3-2 Czechoslovakia
June 1, 1968 - Czechoslovakia 3-0 USSR
Played for the national team in all 4 matches of the qualifying tournament: Yu. Pshenichnikov (missed 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. Head coach - Mikhail Yakushin.
[edit] European Football Championship 1968
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 3
June 11, 1967
USSR 4 - 3 Austria Stadium: Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 100,000
Referee: E. Boström
Malofeev 25"
Byshovets 36"
Chislenko 43"
Streltsov 80" Hof 38"
Volny 54"
Sieber 71"
Squads: USSR: Yashin, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Byshovets, Streltsov, Malofeev
Austria: Pichler, Wartusch, Eshelmüller, Glechner, Sturmberger, Fack, Hof, Flögel, Sieber, Wolny, Hörmayer
July 16, 1967
USSR 4 - 0 Greece Stadium: Dynamo, Tbilisi
Spectators: 40,000
Judge: B. Nielsen
Banishevsky 50" and 77"
Clogs 72" (foam)
Chislenko 83"
Squads: USSR: Yashin, Anichkin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Streltsov
Greece: Ikonomopoulos, Plesas, Polychroniou, Bellis, Loukanidis, Kamaras, Domasos, Haitas, Sideris, Papaioannou, Botinos
August 30, 1967
USSR 2 - 0 Finland Stadium: Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Spectators: 80,000
Judge: M. Sarvan
Khurtsilava 14"
Chislenko 80"
Squads: USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Tskhovrebov, Maslov, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Malofeev
Finland: Nösman, Mäkipää, Kilponen, Kautonen, Nummila, Peltonen, Mäkelä, Syryavaara, Palman, Tolsa, Laine
September 6, 1967
Finland 2 - 5 USSR Stadium: Kupittya, Turku
Spectators: 8,000
Judge: P. Spotak
Peltonen 18" (foam)
Syurjavaara 25" Clogs 2" and 56" (pen)
Maslov 14"
Banishevsky 35"
Malofeev 63"
Line-ups: Finland: Nøsman, Pitko, Kilponen, Mäkipää, Nummila, Mäkelä, Syryavaara, 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, Stamm, Fröhlich, Sturmberger, Eigenstiller, Koletsnik, Sieber, Grausam, Flögel
USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Tskhovrebov, Maslov, Anichkin, Sabo, Banishevsky, Streltsov, Byshovets
October 31, 1967
Greece 0 - 1 USSR Stadium: Karaiskakis, Piraeus
Spectators: 45,000
Judge: G. Dienst
Malofeev 50"
Compositions:
Greece: Christidis, Balopoulos, Zanderoglou, Polychroniou, Gaitadis, Haitas, Loukanidis, Domazos, Youtzos, 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
Spectators: 80,000
Referee: L. van Ravens
Farkas 21"
Gerech 84"
Line-ups: Hungary: Vater, Novak, Sojmosy, Mesay, Ihas, Gerec, Szuc, 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 Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 102.000
Judge: K. Chencher
Shoimoshi 21" (ag)
Khurtsilava 59"
Byshovets 73"
Squads: USSR: Pshenichnikov, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Kaplichny, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Evryuzhikhin
Hungary: Tamás, Novak, Sojmosi, Ihasz, Mesay, Szucs, Varga, Komora, Albert, Farkas, Rakosi
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Mikhail Yakushin
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 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. Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv
Defenders
3. Viktor Anichkin 12/08/1941 Dynamo Moscow 6
9. Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dynamo Tbilisi 8(2)
5. Yuri Istomin 07/03/1944 CSKA Moscow 1 2
10. Albert Shesternev 06/20/1941 CSKA Moscow 7 2
6. Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 2 2
4. Valentin Afonin 12/22/1939 CSKA Moscow 6 2
7. Vladimir Levchenko 02/18/1944 Dynamo Kyiv
Midfielders
otb.t. Guram Tskhovrebov 07/14/1938 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
otb.t. Valery Maslov 04/28/1940 Dynamo Moscow 3(1)
otb.t. Jozsef Szabo 02/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv 6(3)
20. Valery Voronin 07/17/1939 Torpedo Moscow 5
11. Alexander Lenev 09/25/1944 Torpedo Moscow 2 2
12. Eduard Malofeev 06/02/1942 Dynamo Minsk 5(3) 2
8. Gennady Logofet 04/15/1942 Spartak Moscow 1 2
13. Kakhi Asatiani 01/01/1947 Dynamo Tbilisi
21. Vladimir Muntyan 09/14/1946 Dynamo Kyiv
Forwards
otb.t. Eduard Streltsov 07/21/1937 Torpedo Moscow 5(1)
18. Igor Chislenko 01/04/1939 Dynamo Moscow 7(3)
14. Anatoly Banishevsky 02/23/1946 Neftyanik Baku 7(3) 2
15. Anatoly Byshovets 04/23/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 6(2) 2
16. Gennady Evryuzhikhin 02/04/1944 Dynamo Moscow 1 2
17. Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi
22. Nikolai 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
Viewers: 68,582
Judge: K. Chencher
Compositions:
Italy: Zoff, Burnich, Facchetti, Ferrini, Bercellino, Castano, Domenghini, Iuliano, Mazzola, Rivera, Prati
*Italy reached the final by draw
[edit] Match for 3rd place
June 8, 1968
England 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Viewers: 68,817
Judge: I.Zholt
B. Charlton 39"
Hurst 63"
Squads: England: Banks, T. Wright, Wilson, Styles, Le Bon, Moore, Hunter, R. Charlton, Hunt, Hurst, 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. In two matches of the final tournament not a single goal was scored. In the game for third place, the USSR national team lost with a score of 0:2 to the British. The coach of our team, Mikhail Yakushin, although not immediately, was dismissed. To justify the weak performance, we can say that on the eve of the championship the team, for various reasons, lost almost half of the main team - Voronin, Khurtsilava, Yashin, Nodiy, Chislenko, Anichkin, Streltsov. Lenev, Logofet, Afonin and Malofeev were unable to 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. Türkiye 1:3 0:3 4 0 0 4 2-13 0
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 3
2 Anzor Kavazashvili 07/19/1940 Spartak Moscow 2(-1) 4;2
13 Lev Yashin 10/22/1929 Dynamo Moscow
1 Leonid Shmuts 10/08/1948 CSKA
Defenders
3 Valentin Afonin 12/22/1939 CSKA 1 3
4 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 04/15/1945 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 06/20/1941 CSKA 4 4
7 Gennady Logofet 04/15/1942 Spartak Moscow 2
10 Valery Zykov 02/24/1944 Dynamo Moscow
Midfielders
11 Kakhi Asatiani 01/01/1947 Dynamo Tbilisi 3(2) 4 1
12 Nikolay Kiselev 11/29/1946 Spartak Moscow 1 3
14 Vladimir Muntyan 09/14/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 4(2) 4
15 Viktor Serebryanikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv 3 2
Forwards
otb.t. Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Mikhail Gershkovich 04/01/1948 Torpedo Moscow 3
16 Anatoly Byshovets 04/23/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 3(1) 4 4
17 Gennady Evryuzhikhin 02/04/1944 Dynamo Moscow 1 4
19 Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 3(2) 1
20 Anatoly Puzach 06/03/1941 Dynamo Kyiv 3 2
21 Vitaly Khmelnitsky 06/12/1943 Dynamo Kyiv 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
Referee: Kurt Chencher
Viewers: 107,000
June 6, 1970
16:00
USSR 4–1 Belgium Mexico City, Azteca
Referee: Rudolf Scherer
Viewers: 59,000
Byshovets 14",63"
Asatiani 57"
Khmelnitsky 76" Lambert 86"
June 10, 1970
16:00
USSR 2–0 Salvador Mexico, Azteca
Referee: Rafael Hormasabal
Viewers: 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 (a.v.) USSR Mexico City, Azteca
Referee: Laurens van Ravens
Viewers: 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
Haralambus 42" Kolotov 10"
Evryuzhikhin 16"
Shevchenko 50"
Line-ups: Cyprus: Alkiviadis, Kattos, Kavasis, Fokkis, Koureas, Charalambous, Thasos (Ketriotis, 83), Lakis (Marcus, 75), Papadopoulos, Vasiliou, Stylianou
USSR: Bannikov, Istomin, Shesternev (c), Lovchev, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Kopeikin (Nodia, 70), Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin
May 30, 1971
USSR 2 - 1 Spain Stadium: Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 102,000
Judge: F. Beversi
Kolotov 79"
Shevchenko 83" Rexach 88"
Squads: 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 Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 35,000
Referee: E. Beyar
Fedotov 79" and 86"
Evryuzhikhin 23" and 38"
Kolotov 59"
Banishevsky 85" Stefanis 75"
Squads: USSR: Bannikov (Rudakov, 46), Istomin, Shesternev (k), Zykov, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Banishevsky, Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin (Khmelnitsky, 64)
Cyprus: Varnavas, Kokos, Kavazis, Fokkis, Kallis, Stefanis, Vasiliou, Constantinou, Marcus, Kangileris (Takis, 74), Stylianou (Theodorou, 46)
Missed penalty: Banishevsky (32)
September 22, 1971
USSR 1 - 0 Northern Ireland Stadium: Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 75,000
Judge: U. Dahlberg
Muntean 43" (pen)
Compositions:
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (c), Zykov, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Muntyan, Dolmatov, Fedotov, Shevchenko (Ishtoyan, 74), Evryuzhikhin
Northern Ireland: McFaul, Craig (Hamilton 60), Neill, Hunter, Nelson, Hegan, Clements, Nicholson, O'Kane, Dugan, Best
October 13, 1971
Northern Ireland 1 - 1 USSR Stadium: Windsor Park, Belfast
Viewers: 20,000
Judge: R. Niehus
Nicholson 13" Byshovets 32"
Compositions:
Northern Ireland: Jennings, Rice, Nelson, Nicholson, Hunter, O'Kane, McMordie, Hamilton (O'Neill 65), Neill, Dougan (Cassidy 46), Clements
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (c), Lovchev, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Kiselev, Dolmatov, Konkov, Byshovets, Shevchenko (Ishtoyan, 60)
October 27, 1971
Spain 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Seville
Viewers: 60,000
Judge: N. Bartenshaw
Squads: Spain: Reina, Sol, Gallego, Tonono, Anton (Marcial, 76), Laura, Claramunt, Kini, Amancio, Kino, Churruca
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (c), 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
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April 30, 1972
Yugoslavia 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Red Star (stadium), Belgrade
Viewers: 99,000
Judge: R. Scheurer
Compositions:
Yugoslavia: Maric, Ramljak, Stepanovic, Pavlovic, Paunovic, Holzer, Jankovic, Oblak, Bukal (Bajevic, 85), Acimovic, Dzaic
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (c), Kaplichny, Istomin, Makhovikov (Troshkin, 62), Dolmatov, Baidachny, Banishevsky, Konkov, Kozinkevich (Evryuzhikhin, 75)
May 13, 1972
USSR 3 - 0 Yugoslavia Stadium: Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Viewers: 100,000
Referee: A. Agnonesi
Kolotov 53"
Banishevsky 74"
Kozinkevich 90"
Line-ups: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (c), Abramov, Istomin, Kolotov, Troshkin, Baidachny (Kopeikin, 66), Banishevsky, Konkov, Evryuzhikhin (Kozinkevich, 90)
Yugoslavia: Maric, Ramljak, Stepanovic, Pavlovic, Paunovic, Holzer (Petkovic 56), Antonevich, Oblak (Jerkovic 73), Jankovic, Acimovic, Dzajic
[edit] Team composition
Head coach: qualifying games - Valentin Nikolaev, final tournament - Alexander Ponomarev
No. Name Date of birth Club Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
20 Viktor Bannikov 04/28/1938 Torpedo Moscow 2(-1)
1 Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 7(-3) 2;3
19 Vladimir Pilguy 01/26/1948 Dynamo Moscow
Defenders
otb.t. Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 2
otb.t. Albert Shesternev 06/20/1941 CSKA Moscow 6
otb.t. Valery Zykov 02/24/1944 Dynamo Moscow 3
otb.t. Alexander Makhovikov 04/12/1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
4 Nikolay Abramov 01/05/1950 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 04/15/1945 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 Kyiv
21 Mikhail Fomenko 09/19/1948 Dynamo Kyiv
Midfielders
otb.t. Jozsef Szabo 02/29/1940 Dynamo Moscow 1
otb.t. Nikolay Kiselev 11/29/1946 Spartak Moscow 2
10 Vladimir Muntyan 09/14/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 5(1)
6 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kyiv 7(4) 2
7 Vladimir Troshkin 09/28/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 2 2
14 Anatoly Konkov 09/19/1949 Shakhtar Donetsk 3 2 1
15 Oleg Dolmatov 11/29/1948 Dynamo Moscow 4 1
Forwards
otb.t. Vladimir Fedotov 01/18/1943 CSKA Moscow 5(2)
otb.t. Vitaly Shevchenko 10/02/1951 Neftyanik Baku 6(2)
otb.t. Boris Kopeikin 03/27/1946 CSKA Moscow 2
otb.t. Vitaly Khmelnitsky 06/12/1943 Dynamo Kyiv 1
otb.t. Anatoly Byshovets 04/23/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 2(1)
17 Gennady Evryuzhikhin 02/04/1944 Dynamo Moscow 6(3)
22 Levon Ishtoyan 09/03/1947 Ararat Yerevan 3
8 Anatoly Baidachny 10/01/1952 Dynamo Moscow 2 2
9 Anatoly Banishevsky 02/23/1946 Neftyanik Baku 4(2) 2
16 Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 2 1
11 Eduard Kozinkevich 05/23/1949 Carpathians 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 Emil Verse, Brussels
Viewers: 1,659
Judge: R. Glöckner
Skates 53"
Line-ups: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava, Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov, Troshkin, Kolotov, Baidachny, Banishevsky (Nodia, 68), Onishchenko.
Hungary: Getsi, Fabian, Pancic, Balint, P. Juhasz, I. Juhasz, L. Kocsis (Albert, 60), Kyu, Szeke, Bene (A. Dunai, 60), Zambo.
Missed penalty: Zambo (84, goalkeeper).
[edit] Final
June 18, 1972
Germany 3 - 0 USSR Stadium: Heysel, Brussels
Spectators: 50,000.
Referee: F.Marshall
G. Muller 27"
Wimmer 51"
G. Muller 58"
Squads: Germany: Mayer, Hettges, Breitner, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer (c), Wimmer, Heynckes, W. Hoeneß, G. Müller, Netzer, E. Kremers.
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (c), Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov (Dolmatov, 46), Troshkin, Kolotov, Baidachny, Banishevsky (Kozinkevich, 63), Onishchenko.
[edit] XX Summer Olympics in Munich 1972
[edit] Qualifying matches
2 June 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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Lev Kudasov 06/24/1943 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
otb.t. Alexander Tkachenko 01/24/1947 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 1
otb.t. Alexander Prokhorov 06/18/1946 Dynamo Kyiv 1(-1)
otb.t. Vladimir Oleynik??.??.1950 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2(-1)
2 Vladimir Pilguy 01/26/1948 Dynamo Moscow 1 2
1 Evgeniy Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 6;6
Defenders
otb.t. Nikolay Abramov 01/05/1950 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Vyacheslav Bulavin 04/18/1946 Zenit Leningrad 2
otb.t. Vadim Ivanov 01/17/1943 Spartak Moscow 2
otb.t. Valery Zykov 02/24/1944 Dynamo Moscow 2
otb.t. Nikolai Khudiev 05/15/1949 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1
otb.t. Sergey Dotsenko 09/07/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 1
otb.t. Vadim Sosnikhin 08/10/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 3
otb.t. Stefan Reshko 03/24/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 3
otb.t. Norik Mesropyan 04/30/1946 Ararat Yerevan 3
otb.t. Viktor Matvienko 10/26/1948 Dynamo Kyiv 2
otb.t. Boris Serostanov 10/17/1949 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
otb.t. Rostislav Potochnyak 01/26/1948 Carpathians Lviv 1
otb.t. Vladimir Golubev 04/16/1950 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Viktor Zvyagintsev 10/22/1950 CSKA Moscow 1
3 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 04/15/1945 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
4 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 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 Sergei Olshansky 05/28/1948 Spartak Moscow 3
Midfielders
otb.t. Sergey Bondarenko??.??.1948 Ararat Yerevan 4
otb.t. Vladimir Troshkin 09/28/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 5(1)
otb.t. Vladimir Veremeev 08.11.1948 Dynamo Kyiv 4
otb.t. Manuchar Machaidze 03/25/1949 Dynamo Tbilisi 2(1)
otb.t. Leonid Buryak 07/10/1953 Chernomorets Odessa 1
otb.t. Khasanbek Mirikov 06/03/1950 Oilman Baku 1
11 Arkady Andreasyan 08/11/1947 Ararat Yerevan 5(3) 4
12 Hovhannes Zanazanyan 12/10/1946 Ararat Yerevan 6(3) 6 1
9 Jozsef Szabo 02/29/1940 Dynamo Moscow 5 1
13 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kyiv 6 3
14 Anatoly Kuksov 11/21/1949 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 5
15 Vyacheslav Semenov 08/17/1947 Zarya Voroshilovgrad 5 3
Forwards
otb.t. Vladimir Goncharov 11/21/1946 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Gennady Shalimov 11/29/1947 Torpedo Moscow 2(1)
otb.t. Eduard Kozinkevich 05/23/1949 Carpathians Lviv 4(3)
otb.t. Yuri Avrutsky 05/10/1944 Dynamo Moscow 2
otb.t. Boris Kopeikin 03/27/1946 CSKA Moscow 2(1)
otb.t. Bohdan Greshchak 03/31/1949 Karpaty Lviv 3(1)
otb.t. Levon Ishtoyan 09/03/1947 Ararat Yerevan 1(1)
otb.t. Anatoly Vasiliev 08/25/1944 Dynamo Minsk 1
otb.t. Givi Nodia 01/02/1948 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
18 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 1(2) 6 6
10 Andrey Yakubik 08/24/1950 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 02/04/1944 Dynamo Moscow 6 1
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
28 August 1972 - Burma 0-1 USSR
30 August 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
5 September 1972 - Poland 2-1 USSR
8 September 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 advance to 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 Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
The USSR national team refused the return match away from the Chilean national team, citing the political situation in Chile. By decision of FIFA, the USSR national team was considered defeated, and the Chilean team reached the final of the championship.
The following players 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 (missed 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 (missed 1 goal); in 1 match: V. Muntyan, Yu. Vasenin, M. Fomenko, O. Dolmatov, V. Gutsaev, A. Kozhemyakin. Head coach - Evgeniy Goryansky.
[edit] European Football Championship 1976
[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
Referee: H. Ok
Möder 34"
Panenka 47"
Squads: Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Dobias, Ondrus, Czapkovic, Goeg, Moeder (Knapp, 77), Pollak, Panenka, Masny, Petras (Kroupa, 18), Nechoda
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, Kyiv
Viewers: 100,000
Referee: A. Mackenzie
Buryak 53"
Blokhin 87" Moeder 45" and 82"
Line-ups: USSR: Rudakov, Konkov (Minaev, 54), Lovchev, Fomenko (c), Zvyagintsev, Troshkin, Muntyan, Onishchenko, Buryak, Veremeev, Blokhin
Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Goeg, Pollak, Dobias, Ondrus, Pivarnik, Chapkovic (Jurkemik 83), Masny, Möder, Gallis (Šveglik 88), Nechoda
Warnings: Troshkin, Moeder
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 (missed 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 (missed 3 goals), V. Kaplichny, S. Nikulin, S. Olshansky, V. Fedotov, V. Zuev, A. Prokhorov (missed 2 goals), L. Nazarenko, A. Minaev. Head coach - Konstantin Beskov (in 1974), then - Valery Lobanovsky.
[edit] XXI Summer Olympics in Montreal 1976
[edit] Preparation for the tournament (Olympic team)
[edit] Qualifying matches
7 May 1975 - Yugoslavia 1-1 USSR
May 21, 1975 - USSR 3-0 Yugoslavia
[edit] Group 1
July 30, 1975 - Iceland 0-2 USSR
28 August 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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
2 Alexander Prokhorov 06/18/1946 Spartak Moscow 5(-2)
1 Vladimir Astapovsky 07/16/1946 CSKA Moscow 1 5 ;4
Defenders
otb.t. Nikolay Khudiev 05/15/1949 CSKA Moscow 1
otb.t. Sergei Olshansky 05/28/1948 Spartak Moscow 2
otb.t. Nikolai Osyanin 12/12/1941 Spartak Moscow 5
otb.t. Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 6
otb.t. Valentin Utkin 03/02/1947 CSKA Moscow 4
otb.t. Sergei Nikulin 01/01/1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
otb.t. Yuri Saukh 09/14/1951 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
6 Vladimir Troshkin 09/28/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 4 5
3 Viktor Zvyagintsev 10/22/1950 Dynamo Kyiv 4 3 1
4 Viktor Matvienko 10/26/1948 Dynamo Kyiv 5
5 Stefan Reshko 03/24/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 4
7 Mikhail Fomenko 09/19/1948 Dynamo Kyiv 5
Midfielders
otb.t. Victor Papaev 03/02/1947 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Mikhail Bulgakov 10/12/1951 Spartak Moscow 2(1)
otb.t. Manuchar Machaidze 03/25/1949 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
otb.t. Alexander Maksimenkov 08/17/1952 Torpedo Moscow 6
otb.t. Valery Gladilin 10/19/1951 Spartak Moscow 3
otb.t. Valery Filatov 11/18/1950 Torpedo Moscow 2
17 David Kipiani 11/18/1951 Dynamo Tbilisi 2(2)
12 Alexander Minaev 08/11/1954 Dynamo Moscow 6(4) 5 1
9 Leonid Buryak 07/10/1953 Dynamo Kyiv 3(2) 5
8 Anatoly Konkov 09/19/1949 Dynamo Kyiv 2
10 Vladimir Veremeev 11/08/1948 Dynamo Kyiv 4 1
11 Viktor Kolotov 07/03/1949 Dynamo Kyiv 5 2
Forwards
otb.t. Vadim Nikonov 08/09/1948 Torpedo Moscow 1
otb.t. Vasilis Hadzipanagis 10/26/1954 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4(1)
otb.t. Vladimir Sakharov 02/05/1948 Torpedo Moscow 3(3)
16 Vladimir Fedorov 01/05/1956 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3(1) 4
13 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 5 1
14 Vladimir Onishchenko 10/28/1949 Dynamo Kyiv 5 3
15 Leonid Nazarenko 03/21/1955 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
Referee: G. Velazquez
Viewers: 6,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
July 27, 1976
GDR 2-1 USSR Olympic, Montreal
Judge: G. Dorantes
Viewers: 58,000
[edit] Match for 3rd place
July 29, 1976
Brazil 0-2 USSR Olympic, Montreal
Judge: A. Klein
Viewers: 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
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 (missed 2 goals), E. Lovchev, S. Baishakov, Y. Degtyarev (missed 1 goal), V. Matvienko; in 1 match: S. Olshansky, V. Kruglov, O. Dolmatov, A. Novikov. Head coach - Nikita Simonyan.
[edit] European Football Championship 1980
[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
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, Yu. Chesnokov (1 goal), O. Blokhin, N. Gontar (missed 5 goals), R. Shengelia, D. Kipiani; in 2 matches: Yu. Degtyarev (missed 1 goal), A. Konkov, L. Buryak, V. Daraselia, S. Shavlo, S. Yurchishin, Yu. Gavrilov; in 1 match: M. An, G. Yartsev, V. Gutsaev, Y. Adzhem, M. Machaidze, V. Koridze, Y. Romensky (missed 1 goal), Sh. Khinchagashvili, A. Khapsalis, R. Dasaev (missed 1 ball), S. Nikulin, F. Cherenkov, A. Maksimenkov, S. Andreev, V. Veremeev, V. Kazachenok, Kh. Oganesyan. Head coach - Nikita Simonyan (until July 1979), then Konstantin Beskov.
[edit] XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow 1980
[edit]Composition of the Olympic team
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov
No. Name Date of birth Head Games Club
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 6;3
12 Vladimir Pilguy 01/26/1948 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 Sergei Baltacha 02/17/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 2
14 Sergei Nikulin 01/01/1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
Midfielders
6 Sergei Shavlo 09/04/1956 Spartak Moscow 5 1
8 Vladimir Bessonov 03/05/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 6 1
9 Yuri Gavrilov 05/03/1953 Spartak Moscow 5 3
10 Fedor Cherenkov 07/25/1959 Spartak Moscow 6 4
15 Khoren Oganesyan 01/10/1955 Ararat Yerevan 3 2
16 Alexander Prokopenko 11/16/1953 Dynamo Minsk 2
Forwards
7 Sergey Andreev 05/16/1956 SKA Rostov-on-Don 6 5
11 Valery Gazzaev 08/07/1954 Dynamo Moscow 6
17 Revaz Chelebadze 10/02/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
[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
Referee: V. Rubio
Viewers: 51,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
July 29, 1980
USSR 0-1 GDR Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin, Moscow
Referee: W. Eriksson
Viewers: 90,000
[edit] Match for 3rd place
August 1, 1980
USSR 2-0 Yugoslavia Dynamo, Moscow
Referee: Robert Valentine
Viewers: 51,000
[edit] 1982 FIFA World Cup
[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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 8(-2) 5;4
21 Viktor Chanov 07/21/1959 Dynamo Kyiv
22 Vyacheslav Chanov 01/23/1951 Torpedo Moscow
Defenders
otb.t. Alexander Mirzoyan 10/20/1951 Spartak Moscow 1
otb.t. Vladimir Lozinsky 02/06/1955 Dynamo Kyiv 2
4 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03/03/1959 Spartak Moscow 2
20 Oleg Romantsev 01/04/1954 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 6 4
3 Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 6(1) 5 1
5 Sergei Baltacha 02/17/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 6 5 1
6 Anatoly Demyanenko 02/19/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 4(1) 5
12 Andrey Bal 01/16/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 1 4 1
14 Sergei Borovsky 01/29/1956 Dynamo Minsk 4 3
18 Yuri Susloparov 08/14/1958 Torpedo Moscow 4 1
Midfielders
otb.t. Sergei Shavlo 09/04/1956 Spartak Moscow 3
otb.t. David Kipiani 11/18/1951 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
17 Leonid Buryak 07/10/1953 Dynamo Kyiv 7
8 Vladimir Bessonov 03/05/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 6(1) 5
9 Yuri Gavrilov 05/03/1953 Spartak Moscow 8(2) 5 1
10 Khoren Oganesyan 01/10/1955 Ararat Yerevan 4(2) 3 1
13 Vitaly Daraselia 10/09/1957 Dynamo Tbilisi 5(1) 4
Forwards
otb.t. Alexander Tarkhanov 09/06/1954 CSKA 1
otb.t. Vladimir Gutsaev 12/21/1952 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
19 Vadim Yevtushenko 01/01/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 1
7 Ramaz Shengelia 01/01/1957 Dynamo Tbilisi 5(4) 5 1
11 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 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
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo
Viewers: 68,000
Socrates 75"
Eder 88" Bal 34"
June 19, 1982
21:15
USSR 3–0 New Zealand Estadio La Rosaleda, Malaga
Referee: Youssef El-Ghoul
Viewers: 19,000
Gavrilov 24"
Blokhin 48"
Baltacha 68"
June 22, 1982
21:15
USSR 2–2 Scotland Estadio La Rosaleda, Malaga
Referee: Nicolae Raina
Viewers: 45,000
Chivadze 59"
Shengelia 84" Jordan 15"
Souness 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
Referee: Michel Vautreau
Viewers: 45,000
Oganesyan 48"
July 4, 1982
21:15
Poland 0-0 USSR Nou Camp, Barcelona
Referee: Robert Valentine
Viewers: 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
Played for the national team in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: R. Dasaev (missed 2 goals), A. Chivadze, A. Demyanenko (2 goals), S. Baltacha (1 goal), Kh. 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. Borovsky, N. Larionov (1 goal); in 2 matches: S. Rodionov (1 goal), Y. Gavrilov; in 1 match: V. Lozinsky, A. Tarkhanov. Head coach - Valery Lobanovsky.
[edit] XXIII Summer Olympics in Los Angeles 1984
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 1
18 May 1983 - Bulgaria 2-2 USSR
May 26, 1983 - USSR 3-0 Greece
September 7, 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
The following players played for the (Olympic) national team in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: S. Gotsmanov, V. Grachev (1 goal); in 5 matches: Vyach. Chanov (missed 3 goals), V. Gazzaev (2 goals); in 4 matches: V. Yanushevsky, V. Zhupikov, S. Aleynikov (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 (missed 1 goal), S. Vedeneev, Yu. Zheludkov, A. Keropyan, V. Kaplun, N. Larionov (1 goal), I. Gurinovich, V. Kasparavichyus, A. Zygmantovich, Yu .Pudyshev, S.Stukashov. Head coach - Vladimir Salkov (in May 1983), then Eduard Malofeev.
The team did not go to the Olympics due to a boycott declared by the Soviet sports authorities. Almost all socialist countries also 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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 8(-8) 3;5
22 Sergei Krakovsky 08/11/1960 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Defenders
otb.t. Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
otb.t. Sergei Baltacha 02/17/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 4
otb.t. Boris Pozdnyakov 05/31/1962 Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow 2
otb.t. Ivan Vishnevsky 02/21/1957 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 2
3 Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 4
2 Vladimir Bessonov 03/05/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 3 3
4 Gennady Morozov 12/30/1962 Spartak Moscow 3 1
5 Anatoly Demyanenko 02/19/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 7(1) 3
6 Alexander Bubnov 10.10.1955 Spartak Moscow 4 1
15 Nikolai Larionov 02/19/1957 Zenit Leningrad 3 2
10 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 4
12 Andrey Bal 01/16/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 2
Midfielders
otb.t. Khoren Oganesyan 01/10/1955 Ararat Yerevan 2
otb.t. Andrey Zygmantovich 12/02/1962 Dynamo Minsk 4
otb.t. Sergey Gotsmanov 03/27/1959 Dynamo Minsk 8(1)
otb.t. Yuri Gavrilov 05/03/1953 Spartak Moscow 4(1)
otb.t. Fedor Cherenkov 07/25/1959 Spartak Moscow 4(1)
9 Alexander Zavarov 04/26/1961 Dynamo Kyiv 3 4 1
13 Gennady Litovchenko 09/11/1963 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 5(1) 1
20 Sergei Aleynikov 11/07/1961 Dynamo Minsk 8 4 1
7 Ivan Yaremchuk 03/19/1962 Dynamo Kyiv 3 1
8 Pavel Yakovenko 12/19/1964 Dynamo Kyiv 3 1
21 Vasily Rat 04/25/1961 Dynamo Kyiv 3 1
Forwards
otb.t. Georgy Kondratyev 01/07/1960 Dynamo Minsk 7(3)
11 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 3 2 1
14 Sergei Rodionov 09/03/1962 Spartak Moscow 2 4 1
18 Oleg Protasov 02/04/1964 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 7(5) 1
19 Igor Belanov 09/25/1960 Dynamo Kyiv 2 4 4
17 Vadim Yevtushenko 01/01/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 3
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group C
June 2, 1986
12:00
USSR 6:0 (3:0) Hungary Irapuato, Estadio Sergio Le;n Chavez
Referee: Luigi Agnolin
2" Yakovenko
4" Aleinikov
24"(pen) Belanov
66" Yaremchuk
75" Dyke (automatic)
80" Rodionov
Note: Yevtushenko (USSR) missed the penalty (77", missed).
June 5, 1986
12:00
France 1:1 (0:0) USSR Leon, Estadio Nou Camp
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho
62" Fernandez 54" Ratz
June 9, 1986
12:00
USSR 2:0 (0:0) Canada Irapuato, Estadio Sergio Le;n Chavez
Referee: Idriss 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)v.p. USSR Leon, Nou Camp
56" Scifo
78" Koulemans
102" Demol
109" Classen 28", 70", 111" (foam) Belanov
Number of viewers - 132,277
Referee - Eric Fredrickson
Assistant referees - Arminio Victoriano Sanchez, David Socha
Warnings (sends) - 65" Michel Rankine (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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 8(-3) 5 -4
16 Viktor Chanov 07/21/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 1
Defenders
otb.t. Nikolai Larionov 02/19/1957 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Viktor Losev 01/25/1959 Dynamo Moscow 1
otb.t. Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dynamo Tbilisi 1
otb.t. Alexander Bubnov 10.10.1955 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Vladimir Bessonov 03/05/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 6 3
3 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03/03/1959 Spartak Moscow 8(1) 5
4 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 7 4
5 Anatoly Demyanenko 02/19/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 7 4
13 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dynamo Tbilisi 2(1) 2
19 Sergei Baltacha 02/17/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 1 1
12 Ivan Vishnevsky 02/21/1957 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Midfielders
otb.t. Pavel Yakovenko 12/19/1964 Dynamo Kyiv 6
otb.t. Igor Dobrovolsky 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 2
otb.t Ivan Yaremchuk 03/19/1962 Dynamo Kyiv 2
6 Vasily Rat 04/25/1961 Dynamo Kyiv 7(1) 5 1
7 Sergei Aleinikov 07.11.1961 Dynamo Minsk 7(1) 5 1
8 Gennady Litovchenko 09/11/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 5(1) 4 1
9 Alexander Zavarov 04/26/1961 Dynamo Kyiv 6(2) 5
15 Alexey Mikhailichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 4(1) 5 1
18 Sergey Gotsmanov 03/27/1959 Dynamo Minsk 4
14 Vyacheslav Sukristov 01/01/1961 Zalgiris Vilnius
Forwards
otb.t. Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 4(1)
otb.t. Sergei Rodionov 09/03/1962 Spartak Moscow 5
otb.t. Vadim Yevtushenko 01/01/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 1
10 Oleg Protasov 02/04/1964 Dynamo Kyiv 5(1) 5 2
11 Igor Belanov 09/25/1960 Dynamo Kyiv 6(4) 4
20 Viktor Pasulko 01/01/1961 Spartak Moscow 2 1
17 Sergey Dmitriev 03/19/1964 Zenit Leningrad
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
June 12, 1988
Netherlands 0: 1 USSR Stadium: Cologne
Viewers: 60,000
Referee: Dieter Pauli
Rats 53"
June 15, 1988
Ireland 1: 1 USSR Stadium: Hannover
Viewers: 38,308
Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren
Whelan 39" Protasov 75"
June 18, 1988
England 1: 3 USSR Stadium: Frankfurt
Viewers: 53,000
Referee: Jose Rocha dos Santos
Adams 15" Aleinikov 3"
Mikhailichenko 26"
Pasulko 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
Referee: Alexis Ponnet
Litovchenko 61"
Protasov 63"
[edit] Final
June 25, 1988
USSR 0: 2 Netherlands Stadium: Munich
Viewers: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautreau
Gullit 34"
van Basten 54"
[show]p o r USSR national team - European Championship 1988 - 2nd place
1 Dasaev (c) 2 Bessonov 3 Khidiyatullin 4 O. Kuznetsov 5 Demyanenko 6 Rats 7 Aleynikov 8 Litovchenko 9 Zavarov 10 Protasov 11 Belanov 12 Vishnevsky 13 Sulakvelidze 14 Sukristov 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Vic. Chanov (c) 17 Dmitriev 18 Gotsmanov 19 Baltacha 20 Pasulko Coach Valery Lobanovsky
[edit] XXIV Summer Olympics in Seoul 1988
[edit] Preparing for the tournament
[edit] Group 4
October 14, 1986 - Norway 0-0 USSR
April 15, 1987 - Türkiye 0-2 USSR
7 May 1987 - Bulgaria 0-1 USSR
August 12, 1987 - USSR 1-0 Norway
October 28, 1987 - Switzerland 2-4 USSR
April 6, 1988 - USSR 2-0 Türkiye
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
Türkiye 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 Shooting games (goals) Games Goals Award
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
otb.t. Valery Panchik 07/10/1963 Neftchi Baku 1
otb.t. Arkady Afanasyev 03/20/1959 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Dmitry Kuznetsov 08/28/1965 CSKA 1
2 Gela Ketashvili 09/27/1965 Dynamo Tbilisi 5 6
3 Igor Sklyarov 08/31/1966 Dynamo Moscow 7 2
4 Alexey Cherednik 09/15/1960 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 4 4
5 Arvydas Janonis 11/06/1960 Zalgiris Vilnius 1 1
12 Evgeniy Yarovenko 08/17/1963 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 5 4
13 Sergei Fokin 07/26/1961 CSKA 3 1
17 Viktor Losev 01/25/1959 Dynamo Moscow 6 6
18 Sergei Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Lokomotiv Moscow 3 6
Midfielders
otb.t. Alexander Vorobyov 03/28/1962 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
otb.t. Valery Broshin 10/19/1962 CSKA 2
otb.t. Valdas Ivanauskas 07/31/1966 Zalgiris Vilnius 3
6 Vadim Tishchenko 03/24/1963 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 4
7 Evgeny Kuznetsov 08/30/1961 Spartak Moscow 6(1) 5
10 Igor Dobrovolsky 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 8(2) 6 6
14 Vladimir Tatarchuk 07/26/1961 CSKA 5 5
15 Alexey Mikhailichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 8(2) 6 5
8 Igor Ponomarev 02/24/1960 Neftchi Baku 1
Forwards
otb.t. Oleg Morozov 10/13/1961 Chernomorets Odessa 1
otb.t. Sergey Dmitriev 03/19/1964 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Nikolay Savichev 02/13/1965 Torpedo Moscow 1
otb.t. Stasis Baranauskas 05/07/1962 Zalgiris Vilnius 2(2)
9 Alexander Borodyuk 11/30/1962 Dynamo Moscow 4(1) 2
11 Vladimir Lyuty 04/20/1962 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 6(3) 6
19 Yuri Savichev 02/13/1965 Torpedo Moscow 4(1) 5 1
20 Arminas Narbekovas 01/28/1965 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
Referee: Juan Cardellino
Viewers: 5,000
[edit] 1/2 finals
September 27, 1988
Italy 2-3 USSR Kuduk Stadium, Busan
Referee: Jamal Al-Sharif
Viewers: 10,000
[edit] Final
October 1, 1988
Brazil 1-2 USSR Olympic, Seoul, Seoul
Referee: Gerard Bige
Viewers: 73,000
[show]p about rTeam USSR - Olympic Games 1988 - Champion
1 Kharin (v) 2 Ketashvili 3 Sklyarov 4 Cherednik 5 Janonis 6 Tishchenko 7 E. Kuznetsov 8 I. Ponomarev 9 Borodyuk 10 Dobrovolsky 11 Lyuty 12 Yarovenko 13 Fokin 14 Tatarchuk 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Prudnikov (v) 17 Losev 18 Gorlukovich 19 Yu. Savich ev 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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow, Seville 6(-2) 1 -2
16 Viktor Chanov 07/21/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 2(-2)
22 Alexander Uvarov 01/13/1960 Dynamo Moscow 2 -2
Defenders
otb.t. Oleg Luzhny 08/05/1968 Dynamo Kyiv 4
otb.t. Gela Ketashvili 09/27/1965 Dynamo Tbilisi 2
otb.t. Vasily Kulkov 06/11/1966 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Vladimir Bessonov 03/05/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 4 2
3 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03/03/1959 Toulouse 5 3
4 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 6 3
5 Anatoly Demyanenko 02/19/1959 Dynamo Kyiv 2 1
20 Sergei Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Lokomotiv Moscow, Borussia Dortmund 7 3
13 Ahrik Tsveiba 09/11/1966 Dynamo Kyiv
19 Sergei Fokin 07/26/1961 CSKA
Midfielders
otb.t. Alexey Mikhailichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 7(2)
otb.t. Fedor Cherenkov 07/25/1959 Spartak Moscow 2
otb.t. Valdas Ivanauskas 07/31/1966 Zalgiris Vilnius 1
6 Vasily Rat 04/25/1961 Dynamo Kyiv, Espanyol Spain 6 1
7 Sergei Aleynikov 11/07/1961 Dynamo Minsk, Juventus, Italy 7 3
8 Gennady Litovchenko 09/11/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 8(3) 3
9 Alexander Zavarov 04/26/1961 Juventus, Italy 8(1) 3 1
11 Igor Dobrovolsky 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 7(2) 3 1
15 Ivan Yaremchuk 03/19/1962 Dynamo Kyiv 1 2
17 Andrey Zygmantovich 12/02/1962 Dynamo Minsk 2 2 1
18 Igor Shalimov 02/02/1969 Spartak Moscow 2
21 Valery Broshin 10/19/1962 CSKA
Forwards
otb.t. Yuri Savichev 02/13/1965 Torpedo Moscow 3
10 Oleg Protasov 02/04/1964 Dynamo Kyiv 8(3) 3 1
12 Alexander Borodyuk 11/30/1962 Dynamo Moscow, Schalke 04, Germany 1 1
14 Vladimir Lyuty 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
Referee: Juan Cardellino
Lecatush 42", 57" (pen)
June 13, 1990
21:00
Argentina 2-0 USSR Sao Paulo, Naples
Viewers: 55,759
Referee: Erik Fredriksson
Trollo 27"
Burruchaga 79"
June 18, 1990
21:00
Cameroon 0-4 USSR San Nicola, Bari
Viewers: 37,303
Referee: 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]p o 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 Vik. Chanov (c) 17 Zygmantovich 18 Shalimov 19 Fokin 20 Gorlukovich 21 Broshin 22 Uvarov (c) 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
12 June 1991 - Italy 1-0 USSR
27 August 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
They played for the national team (Olympic) 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 (missed 2 goals), O. Tetradze; in 4 matches: Yu. 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 (missed 2 goals), G. Moroz, I. Chugainov, A. Muschinka, S. Mamchur, E. Bushmanov, O. Koshelyuk. Head coach - 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 Selection of games (goals) Games of goals
Goalkeepers
otb.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 1 3 -4
Defenders
otb.t. Sergei Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Borussia Dortmund 1
otb.t. Vadim Tishchenko 03/24/1963 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 1
otb.t. Vasily Kulkov 06/11/1966 Spartak Moscow, Benfica 8
otb.t. Dmitry Galyamin 01/08/1963 CSKA 5
2 Andrey Chernyshov 01/07/1968 Dynamo Moscow 8 3
4 Akhrik Tsveiba 09/11/1966 Dynamo Kyiv 6 2
5 Oleg Kuznetsov 03/22/1963 Dynamo Kyiv, Glasgow Rangers 5(1) 3
16 Dmitry Kuznetsov 08/28/1965 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
otb.t. Vladimir Tatarchuk 07/26/1961 CSKA 1
otb.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 Andrey Kanchelskis 01/23/1969 Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester United 8(3) 3
9 Sergei Aleynikov 11/07/1961 Lecce Italy 6(1) 2
10 Igor Dobrovolsky 08/27/1967 Dynamo Moscow 2 3 1
17 Igor Korneev 09/04/1967 CSKA, Espanyol Spain 2(1) 1
19 Igor Ledyakhov 05/22/1968 Spartak Moscow
Forwards
otb.t. Oleg Protasov 02/04/1964 Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece 4(1)
otb.t. Ivan Getsko 04/06/1968 Chernomorets Odessa 2
11 Sergei Yuran 06/11/1969 Dynamo Kyiv, Benfica 5(1) 2
15 Igor Kolyvanov 03/06/1968 Dynamo Moscow, Foggia Italy 7 2
13 Sergei Kiryakov 01/01/1970 Dynamo Moscow 2
14 Vladimir Lyuty 04/20/1962 Duisburg Germany 1
[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group 2
June 12, 1992
CIS 1: 1 Germany Stadium: Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Viewers: 17,410
Referee: Gerard Bige
In contrast, the USSR national football team could not boast of any particular success at the World Championships. The maximum result was bronze for fourth place at the 1966 World Championships. During the world championships, the Soviet team won several key matches - let's highlight five of them.
USSR - England 1:0. 1958 World Championships in Sweden
In Sweden, the USSR national team played with the British twice - they ended up in the same group. The first match ended in a 2:2 draw. According to the results of the group tournament, the English and Soviet teams had absolutely identical indicators. In such cases, the regulations provided for an additional match. Before the game, the Soviet Union team was even more likely to be perceived as the favorite - in 1956, the Soviet team won the Olympic football tournament. The line-up was stellar - Yashin was on goal, Valentin Ivanov was in midfield, and the trio Simonyan - Falin - Ilyin was in attack. Two years later, the same team will win the European Cup. But the USSR national team was opposed by the founders of football; the team was a priori very strong.
Captains of the England and USSR national teams Billy Wright and Nikita Simonyan
It was a confrontation between two equal opponents. The British claim that they could have won with a score of 4:1. The British did not have a colossal advantage. But the Soviet team had Lev Yashin at the goal, carrying all the balls.
The only goal was scored by Spartak forward Anatoly Ilyin. As football historian Axel Vartanyan describes the combination:
The multi-move combination is worth savoring. It was not started by Yashin, as journalists wrote about it in a report from Sweden, but by his counterpart MacDonald. He kicked the ball away from the goal. Intended for a ruble, the blow turned out to be a cheap, clumsy one, and the ball landed at the feet of Ilyin, who was standing about 30 meters away. He immediately drew a diagonal line to the right. Seeing Ivanov looming nearby, I gave him everything I had at that time. Ivanov, generous soul, is on Voinov’s turn. And Ilyin rushed into the penalty area. Having received a timely pass from the half, he slipped between two defenders and fired low. The ball licked the bar and rolled where it needed to be.
After the match with the British, the tired USSR national team came up against the hosts of the tournament, the Swedes, and lost their match.
USSR - Hungary 2:1. 1966 World Cup in England
The Hungarians were the giants of world football in the 1950s and 1960s. This was no longer the brilliant generation of Puskas, but still a victorious team. The Hungarian team won the 1964 Olympics and took third place at the European Championships that same year. The USSR national team, undoubtedly one of the strongest teams of that time, played in the quarterfinals with an opponent close in class. Lev Yashin was at the goal, team captain Albert Shesternev was in defense, and the legendary Voronin and Chislenko were in midfield.
The hero of the match was 22-year-old Dynamo Kiev forward Valery Porkuyan.
The account was opened by I. Chislenko. Then, in the second half, literally in the very first minutes, the result was doubled by V. Porkuyan, who took a big part in the first goal. But then the Hungarian athletes score a return goal. This inspired them. Now it's time to show the skill of our defensive lines. Here, of course, A. Shesternev turned out to be the hero. In several cases, the team was saved by veteran L. Yashin. He saved it. English television that evening after the game showed these selfless throws six times, calling L. Yashin nothing less than the goalkeeper of the world team.
Melor STURUA, Boris FEDOSOV. "Football Albion, 1966" (Izvestia Library, 1966).
Porkuyan will also kick the ball out of the empty goal with his chest.
USSR national team in the match with Germany (from left to right): top row - Valery Voronin, Lev Yashin, Albert Shesternev, Vasily Danilov, Jozsef Szabo, Vladimir Ponomarev; bottom row- Igor Chislenko, Anatoly Banishevsky, Valery Porkuyan, Eduard Malofeev, Galimzyan Khusainov. In the semifinals, the USSR national team will lose to Germany, and in the match for third place it will not be able to defeat Portugal. As a result, fourth place was perceived as an unsatisfactory result.
USSR - Belgium 4:1. 1970 World Cup in Mexico
The 1970 World Cup was an important one in history: it was in Mexico that substitutions were allowed and cards began to be distributed. This was the last tournament of the great Lev Yashin. He was no longer the main goalkeeper; Anzor Kavazashvili was at the goal. The Soviet team played the second match of the group stage with the Belgians. The USSR national team was powerful, but there was a generational change in the team. The new stars were Kiev residents Anatoly Byshovets and Vladimir Muntyan, as well as Spartak player Evgeniy Lovchev. The Belgians were European middle peasants. The USSR national team demonstrated its class, literally smashing its opponents. Byshovets shone, scoring a double. The score should have been dry, but at the end of the match the Belgians scored a “prestige goal”.
Anatoly Byshovets The rather strong USSR team confidently finished the group stage. But in the playoffs she was eliminated in the first round, losing to Uruguay (not without the intervention of the referee, it is believed). Then hard times began for the Soviet team.
USSR - Hungary 6:0. 1986 World Championships in Mexico
Once again the World Cup was held in Mexico and again the USSR team beat the Hungarians. Valery Lobanovsky took over the team for the third time before the final part. The head coach placed his bet on Dynamo Kiev players. The USSR national team started with a match against the Hungarians. The Hungarian team became average, but this in no way detracts from the performance of the USSR team in the first match. This was perhaps the best team of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, easily and beautifully defeating their opponents. The victory over Hungary was a record-breaking one for the USSR national team. In general, during the group tournament the team looked like one of the favorites of the tournament.
The World Championships in Mexico turned out to be the best for Igor Belanov. The forward from Dynamo Kiev will score a hat-trick in the 1/8 finals, which, however, will not help the team beat the Belgians.
Igor Belanov in the match with Belgium USSR - Cameroon 4:0. 1990 World Championships in Italy
The USSR national team went to the tournament as one of the favorites. The team continued to be coached by Valery Lobanovsky. Times have already changed: many strong football players have moved to play abroad. The famous defender Vagiz Khidiyatullin played in the French Toulouse, young Sergei Gorlukovich - in Borussia Dortmund, Dynamo Kiev heroes Sergei Aleynikov and Alexander Zavarov moved to Juventus. There were other foreign players in the team. They expected a strong performance from Soviet football players. But the USSR national team lost the opening matches with the same score 2:0 to the Romanians and Argentines. Theoretically, the team could reach the playoffs. The team had to beat Cameroon and wait for the result of the match between Argentina and Romania.
Oleg Kuznetsov in the match against Cameroon The Soviet team was good in the last match. Cameroon, led by Soviet specialist Valery Nepomnyashchy, was a skillful team, but could not oppose anything to the USSR national team. However, the victory did not allow the Soviet football players to advance to the next round - Argentina and Romania played a draw. This match turned out to be the last for the Soviet team at the World Championships. It is curious that the Russian team will win its first victory at the World Championships over Cameroon; in the last match of the group stage, the Africans will again lose without a chance, and the Russians will not be able to advance to the next stage.
Hello dears! A few days ago, a wave of nostalgia came over me and I remembered how a quarter of a century ago, just at the beginning of June, I was worried about the USSR national football team at the World Cup, rejoicing at the major victory of our football players over the Hungarians. That World Cup in Mexico was the first meaningful one for me, when I tried to watch all the matches and understand football. Even though 2 years later I stopped cheering for the Soviet Union national team, after the failure in the final of the European Championship 88 (who would have thought WHAT a success it was, and not a failure), and I still didn’t start to worry about the Russian national team, but I still love football I still appreciate it and try not to miss important matches. So the idea came to mind to make some symbolic national teams for those 25 years, made up of those players whom I had the opportunity to watch repeatedly. Naturally this is a matter of taste, naturally everything stated below is fantastic and could never happen, but nevertheless I will try.
To begin with, I will outline the principles of building my virtual teams. First of all, I evaluate a player over his entire career, with particular emphasis on his peak. That is, speaking about Maradona, a picture of the beginning of 1990 appears before my eyes, and not, say, 1994. Or the defensive line of the German national team looks like Breme (late 80s early 90s) - Kohler (1995-1997) - Sammer (1996) - Lahm (2008-1010).
I tried, as far as possible, to compose the teams so that they were capable on the field, that is, they do not have 5 attackers, with two defenders. In this regard, sometimes I was forced to place players I respected and loved only in the 2nd or even 3rd team. This, for example, happened with Maura Silva from Brazil or Gaizka Mendieta from Spain.
For large, strong teams, I chose a system of 3 teams - first, second and third, although in some teams, which I closely followed, it was possible to recruit more players, but the format is the format.
Weaker teams are limited to 2 teams, and those that I didn’t follow very closely and (or) I don’t know many of the players in the system - 11 main ones plus reserves.
The formation scheme is as follows: goalkeeper; line of defense (right - central - left); midfield line (depending on the team, average right winger - defensive player - attacking left, but there can be a scheme with 2 defensive players and even 3 attacking); offensive line.
I was born in the USSR. A lot of bad things can be said about this country, but for me it is associated with a serene and wonderful childhood, tender youth, first joys and sorrows. No matter what anyone said, the country was great. One of the manifestations of this greatness was sport. Including football. Paradoxically, this is indeed the case. With the collapse of the USSR, 15 new countries were formed, most of which began to develop their own football schools. For now, Ukraine will probably do the best job. I would like for others to develop as well. It would be interesting to look at the uniform structure of that country now.
USSR national team
Nickname: Red Army
Titles: European Champions, 2-time Olympic Champions.
1 Team
Rinat Dasaev; Oleg Luzhny - Alexander Chivadze - Kakhaber Kaladze - Alexander Demyanenko; Andrey Kanchelskis - Anatoly Timoshchuk - Alexander Zavarov - Alexey Mikhailichenko; Andrey Shevchenko - Oleg Blokhin.
Trainer: Valery Lobanovsky
2 Team
Mart Poom; Alexander Anyukov - Oleg Kuznetsov - Ahrik Tsveiba - Marius Stankyavichus; Vasily Rat - Sergey Aleynikov - Mirjalol Kasymov - Levan Kobiashvili; Sergey Yuran - Shota Arveladze
Trainer: Oleg Blokhin
3 Team
Stanislav Cherchesov; Vasily Kulkov - Yuri Nikiforov - Sergei Baltacha; Ivan Yaremchuk - Vladimir Bessonov - Alexander Mostovoy - Dmitry Alenichev; Igor Kolyvanov - Alexander Kerzhakov - Andrey Arshavin.
Trainer: Alexander Starkov
In 1956, our Soviet football team became the champion of the Olympic Games in Melbourne. You can shout “hurray” and clap your hands. However, let's face it.
Of course, I understand that such a headline can get you in the face. Especially from people of the older generation who remember Igor Netto, Eduard Streltsov, Lev Yashin...
But let's calmly figure it out. Moreover, I, too, am no longer a boy and, just like you, I admire these wonderful football players.
And I promise that on the pages of my blog I will definitely pay tribute to them. Everyone together and everyone separately. But not at this time.
Let me start, perhaps, with the fact that football at the Olympic Games does not have the same status and prestige as at the World Championship. That's how it happened initially. More precisely, since 1930, when the first World Football Championship was held, in which, unlike the Olympic Games, professionals could participate.
Olympic principle of amateurism
Have you forgotten one of the main principles of the Olympics? Only amateurs can participate. Here short definition amateur athlete.
I see, right? In more detail, it looks like this:
- Didn't receive salary
- Didn't receive any bonuses
- I did not receive any cash or other valuable prizes. By the way, read what kind of performance we had to put on in order for our
- Didn't sell awards
And this applies not only to football. Although I think football suffered the most. So what was Europe to do? After all, already from the mid-30s of the last century, professional football in the Old World began to gain momentum.
Even if Italy, Spain, Great Britain or France had followed our path and placed their football players in factories, in trade unions or in the army, nothing would have worked out.
- Firstly. Salaries... small
- Secondly. Premium...small
- Third. No valuable prizes and monetary rewards no way
In short, they won’t play there for a diploma.
So, there was no need to wait for strong teams from Western Europe.
Which teams were represented?
Everything would be fine. Amateurs are, well, amateurs. And the presence of teams from Holland, Spain or Switzerland at the Olympics would undoubtedly add intrigue to the tournament. But they weren't there. Just like there was no very good Hungarian team.
The reasons, unfortunately, were common for that time - political. And if the principle of amateurism was more or less respected, then no attention was paid to “sport outside politics”. Hence the boycotts.
- Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary boycotted the Games in connection with the Hungarian events of 1956, when Soviet troops brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising.
- Iraq did not send its team, protesting against the aggression of France, England and Israel in Egypt
- China did not want to participate in the same Olympics as Taiwan.
In the end, that's who was left.
- Australia
- Bulgaria
- Great Britain
- India
- Indonesia
- JKG (United Team Germany)
- Taiwan
- Yugoslavia
- Japan
You see everything for yourself. Of these 11 teams actually claimed gold only two. Ours and the Bulgarians (it’s a pity that they met in the semi-finals). The rest were off the list of applicants. Even the Germans, British and Yugoslavs. Everyone sent their second squads to the games.
Brief review of games
- 1/8 finals USSR-OKG 2:1
Well what can I say. Our cool (without quotes) team came out against 19-23 year old boys... And if we take into account that the USSR national team beat the German team (by the way, the World Champions) 2:1 a couple of months before the Olympics, then no one expected any difficulties from these young guys.
Let him tell you how the match turned out.
A very difficult game... a team completely unknown to us - only young people... The Germans immediately went on the defensive. We replayed them, but there was no result for a long time.
Still, we won. We are pleased with the result, but remain dissatisfied with the game.
Well, to be honest, dissatisfaction with the game remained not only among the players, but also among the coaches, and among everyone who saw this game.
- 1/4 finals USSR-Indonesia. First game 0:0. Second - 4:0
First, let me explain that there were no penalty shootouts back then. And if after extra time there was no winner, a replay was ordered.
What happened at the first game cannot be called anything other than “Shame.” There can be no excuses at all. In 120 minutes, you can’t score a single goal against a team that you can’t even call weak!
Let's listen to Igor Netto.
I will never forget this game.. We were really expecting an easy walk... and we thought about saving our energy before the semi-final..
We didn’t find the key to them, didn’t find an approach... We left the field with our heads down...
Nothing to add. And let’s not rub salt into the wound... Moreover, in the replay everything fell into place.
- 1/2 finals USSR-Bulgaria. 2:1
As I already said, the Bulgarians are the only team equal to ours in strength at this Olympics. And the game worked out. It was both very intense and spectacular. It was in this game that our players demonstrated their best qualities... including the will to win.
Eight minutes before the end of extra time, the USSR national team was losing 1:0. But, they managed to pull themselves together and, in fact, ten of us (more on that below) snatched victory. And, despite the tar, without which there is no way, the result is not according to the game.... The Bulgarians played better, they were lucky, etc., well done anyway!
- Final USSR-Yugoslavia. 1:0
A lot of good words were said about this game and addressed to Soviet football players. I agree about the game. The game was interesting, fast, double-edged. Thanks to the Yugoslavs. Yes, it was the young, inexperienced Yugoslav team that was able to play on equal terms and sometimes even more fun with our masters.
- Five games. Four of which, with teams obviously weaker than the USSR national team.
- Not counting, second match against Indonesia in four games 5 goals scored and 2 missed
- Two of the five games had to be played in extra time.
- Replay with Indonesia
So what is it called? This, dear fans, It's called "Crap". And even if rotten tomatoes are thrown at me, I will not change my opinion.
What do you, dear readers, think about this tournament?
Briefly about interesting things
- The heroes of the meeting with the Bulgarians (and therefore of the entire Olympics) were Nikolai Tishchenko and Eduard Streltsov. Tishchenko breaks his collarbone at the end of normal time, but continues to play (at that time no replacements were provided). And it was Nikolai who became the organizer of the winning goal, which Eduard Streltsov scores (read more about the difficult fate of this great football player...).
- There were only 11 medals. The most offensive thing is that the football players who made such a contribution to the overall victory were left without Olympic medals. Neither Tishchenko nor Streltsov played in the final. And according to the rules, only those who played in the final match received medals.
Dear readers, if you have something to tell about the Soviet Olympic champions, speak. Write in the comments or send interesting stories through the feedback form on the “Send a letter” page. The country must know its heroes.
That's all. See you soon.