USSR Olympic football champions 1956. Paralympic football champions and medalists. Olympic football champions. What did the Olympic victory bring to the life of our country?

In 1956, our Soviet football team became the champion of the Olympic Games in Melbourne. You can shout "cheers" and clap your hands. However, let's face it.

Of course, I understand that for such a headline you can get in the face. Especially from older people who remember Igor Netto, Eduard Streltsov, Lev Yashin ...

But, let's take it easy. Moreover, I, too, have not been a boy for a long time, 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. All together and each separately. But not at this time.

Let me start with the fact that football at the Olympic Games does not have the same status and prestige as at the World Cup. That's how it was originally. Or rather, since 1930, when the first World Cup was held, in which, unlike the Olympic Games, professionals could participate.

The Olympic principle of amateurism

Have you forgotten one of the main principles of the Olympiad? Only amateurs participate. Here is a brief definition of an amateur athlete.

Understandable, right? In more detail, it looks like this:

1. Didn't get paid
2. Didn't receive bonuses
3. I did not receive cash or other valuable prizes. Here, by the way, read what performance had to be played so that our high jumper Valery Brumel received his golden Columbus Caravel
4. Didn't sell awards

And this applies not only to football. Although I believe that football has suffered the most. What was Europe to do? After all, since the mid-30s of the last century, professional football in the Old World began to gain momentum powerfully.

Even if in Italy, Spain, Great Britain or France they followed our path and arranged their footballers for factories, trade unions or drafted into the army, nothing would have happened anyway.

1. Firstly. Salaries ... small
2. Secondly. Premium … small
3. Third. Without valuable prizes and cash rewards no way

In short, they will not play for a diploma there.

So wait strong teams from Western Europe was not necessary.

What teams were represented

Everything would be fine. Lovers, so - lovers. And the presence of teams from Holland, Spain or Switzerland at the Olympics would undoubtedly add intrigue to the tournament. But, they were not. Just as there was no very good Hungarian team.

The reasons, unfortunately, the usual for that time - political. And if the principle of amateurism was more or less respected, then no attention was paid to "sport out of politics". Hence the boycotts.

• Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary boycotted the Games in connection with the Hungarian events of 1956, when the Soviet troops severely suppressed the uprising of the Hungarians.
• Iraq did not send its team to protest against the aggression of France, England and Israel in Egypt
• China did not want to participate in the same Olympics with Taiwan.

In the end, here's who's left.

1. Australia
2. Bulgaria
3. Great Britain
4. India
5. Indonesia
6. JCG (Joint Team Germany)
7. Taiwan
8. Yugoslavia
9. Japan

You see everything yourself. Of these 11 teams, only two actually claimed gold. Ours and the Bulgarians (it's a pity that they met in the semi-finals). The rest were off the list of contenders. Even Germans, British and Yugoslavs. Everyone sent second lineups to the games.

Brief overview of games

• 1/8 finals USSR-JCG 2:1

Well, what can I say. Our cool (without quotes) team came out against 19-23 year old boys ... And if you consider that the USSR national team beat the German team (by the way, World champions) 2: 1 a couple of months before the Olympics, then no one expected difficulties from these young guys.

Let the captain of the USSR national team Igor Netto tell about how the match turned out.

It was a very difficult game... a team absolutely unknown to us - one youth... The Germans immediately went on the defensive. We outplayed them, but there was no result for a long time. Still, we won. We are satisfied with the result, but there was dissatisfaction with the game.

Well, to be honest, not only the players remained dissatisfied with the game, but also the coaches, and everyone who saw this game.

• 1/4 finals of the USSR-Indonesia. First game 0:0. Second - 4:0

To begin with, let me explain that then penalty shootouts did not break through. And if after extra time the winner was not revealed, a replay was appointed.

What happened in the first game, you can’t call it anything other than “Shame”. There can be no justification at all. In 120 minutes, not to score a single goal to a team that cannot even be called weak!

Let's listen to Igor Netto.

I will never forget this game.. We really were waiting for an easy walk... and we thought to save our strength before the semi-finals.. We did not find the key to them, did not find the approach.. We left the field with our heads down...

There is nothing to add. Yes, and let's not rub salt in the wound ... The more so that in the replay everything fell into place.

• 1/2 finals of the USSR-Bulgaria. 2:1

As I said, the Bulgarians are the only team equal to ours in strength at this Olympiad. And the game turned out. She was both very tense 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, we managed to pull ourselves together and, in fact, ten of us (more on that below) snatched the victory. And, despite the tar, without which there is no way, like the result is not in 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, high-speed, double-edged. Thanks Yugoslavs. Yes, it was the young, inexperienced team of Yugoslavia, which was able to play on an equal footing, and sometimes more fun, with our masters.

There is a small video clip of that meeting. It's interesting how!

Well, let's sum up the "dry" results? So, here they are - the USSR national team - the Olympic football champion at the Olympics in Melbourne.

• Five games. Four of which, with teams obviously weaker than the USSR national team.
• Not counting, the second match with Indonesia in four games scored 5 goals and conceded 2
• Two of the five games had to play overtime
• Replay with Indonesia

So what is it called? This, dear fans, is called "Crap". And let rotten tomatoes fly at me, I will not change my mind.

And you, dear readers, what do you think about this tournament, eh?

Briefly about interesting

• The heroes of the meeting with the Bulgarians (and hence the entire Olympics) were Nikolai Tishchenko and Eduard Streltsov. Tishchenko at the end of regular time breaks his collarbone, but continues to play (at that time no substitutions were foreseen). And it was Nikolai who became the organizer of the winning goal scored by Eduard Streltsov (read more about the difficult fate of this great football player here ...).
• There were only 11 medals. The most annoying thing is that the 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, say so. 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.

Yuri Melamud and dahusim.ru

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Olympic champions and medalists in football

№	Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Kharin Dmitry	1	0	0
Ogonkov Mikhail	1	0	0
Betza Jozsef	1	0	0
Ivanov Valentin	1	0	0
Ilyin Anatoly	1	0	0
Isaev Anatoly	1	0	0
Kuznetsov Boris	1	0	0
Maslyonkin Anatoly	1	0	0
Net Igor	1	0	0
Paramonov Alexey	1	0	0
Prudnikov Alexey	1	0	0
Razinsky Boris	1	0	0
Ryzhkin Vladimir	1	0	0
Salnikov Sergey	1	0	0
Simonyan Nikita	1	0	0
Streltsov Eduard	1	0	0
Tatushin Boris	1	0	0
Tishchenko Nikolai	1	0	0
Bashashkin Anatoly	1	0	0
Yashin Lev	1	0	0
Borodyuk Alexander	1	0	0
Gorlukovich Sergei	1	0	0
Narbekovas Arminas	1	0	0
Ponomarev Igor	1	0	0
Mikhailichenko Alexey	1	0	0
Tatarchuk Volodymyr	1	0	0
Dobrovolsky Igor	1	0	0
Kuznetsov Evgeny	1	0	0
Tishchenko Vadim	1	0	0
Losev Victor	1	0	0
Fierce Vladimir	1	0	0
Fokin Sergey	1	0	0
Yarovenko Evgeny	1	0	0
Janonis Arvydas	1	0	0
Cherednik Alexey	1	0	0
Sklyarov Igor	1	0	0
Ketashvili Gela	1	0	0
Savichev Yuri	1	0	0
39	Onishchenko Vladimir	0	0	2
Kolotov Victor	0	0	2
Pilgui Vladimir	0	0	2
Blokhin Oleg	0	0	2
43	Yakubik Andrey	0	0	1
Khurtsilava Murtaz	0	0	1
Evryuzhihin Gennady	0	0	1
Semyonov Vyacheslav	0	0	1
Sabo Jozsef	0	0	1
Rudakov Evgeny	0	0	1
Olshansky Sergey	0	0	1
Lovchev Evgeny	0	0	1
Kuksov Anatoly	0	0	1
Kaplichny Vladimir	0	0	1
Istomin Yuri	0	0	1
Zanazanyan Hovhannes	0	0	1
Eliseev Yuri	0	0	1
Andreev Sergey	0	0	1
Dzodzuashvili Revaz	0	0	1
Shavlo Sergey	0	0	1
Bessonov Vladimir	0	0	1
Gavrilov Yuri	0	0	1
Gazzaev Valery	0	0	1
Dasaev Rinat	0	0	1
Nikulin Sergey	0	0	1
Hovhannisyan Khoren	0	0	1
Prokopenko Alexander	0	0	1
Romantsev Oleg	0	0	1
Sulakvelidze Tengiz	0	0	1
Khidiyatullin Vagiz	0	0	1
Chelebadze Revaz	0	0	1
Cherenkov Fedor	0	0	1
Chivadze Alexander	0	0	1
Astapovsky Vladimir	0	0	1
Andriasyan Arkady	0	0	1
Buryak Leonid	0	0	1
Veremeev Vladimir	0	0	1
Zvyagintsev Victor	0	0	1
Kipiani David	0	0	1
Konkov Anatoly	0	0	1
Matvienko Victor	0	0	1
Minaev Alexander	0	0	1
Nazarenko Leonid	0	0	1
Prokhorov Alexander	0	0	1
Reshko Stefan	0	0	1
Troshkin Vladimir	0	0	1
Fedorov Vladimir	0	0	1
Baltacha Sergey	0	0	1
Fomenko Mikhail	0	0	1

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Olympic football champions | The other day. Our era

Disbanded after the previous Olympics due to the loss to the Yugoslavs, the team is now formed in advance. This was insisted on by the new head coach, Dynamo Gavriil Kachalin. In the winter of 1955, Soviet football players play test matches in India, and come to Australia a few weeks before the Olympics. There are no South American and most Western European teams at the games in Melbourne - they are professionals who, according to the then rules, do not participate in the Olympic movement. But in the USSR, football players are listed as policemen (Dynamo), military (CSKA), industrial cooperators (Spartak), automakers (Torpedo), railway workers (Lokomotiv). The same is true in other socialist countries. But it is not easy to defeat the national teams of the fraternal bloc - despite the fact that the 1952 Olympic champion Hungary is absent.

In the semi-final with Bulgaria, regular time ends in a goalless draw, and two additional halves of 15 minutes are assigned. The result of the first - 1:0 in favor of the Bulgarians. Only in the middle of the second one manages to level the score, and the winning goal was scored 4 minutes before the end of the game. Final match - with Yugoslavia. Relations with Tito have improved, and political responsibility is less pressing. The USSR national team holds its “golden” ball, the only one in the meeting, in the 48th minute.

Champions sail for three weeks on a boat to Vladivostok, and then travel by train across the country, met at every station with rallies with drinks and snacks (see also "European Football Champions").

Phenomena mentioned in the text

The Soviet Union takes part in the Olympic Games for the first time: in Helsinki, the capital of the most friendly capitalist country - Finland. The debutant team takes second place in the team standings, and since then the Olympics will become another field of rivalry with the United States

After seven years of bitter confrontation, “normalization of relations” with Yugoslavia takes place on Belgrade’s terms: Moscow recognizes the accusations as false, and former traitors remain with their “special model” of socialism

In October-November, the most powerful and bloodiest anti-Soviet uprising in Eastern Europe takes place. During its greatest rise, it is actually headed by a communist prime minister, and the Kremlin hesitates for a while - should it make concessions? On the second attempt, the rebellion was suppressed, but the subsequent regime in Hungary will be the most liberal in the socialist camp

At a weak tournament in Melbourne, Australia, the USSR national football team received its first international title - it became the champion of the Olympic Games

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Paralympic champions and medalists in football

№	Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Tumakov Alexey	2	1	0
2	Andrey Lozhechnikov	1	2	1
3	Murvanidze Lasha	1	1	1
Potekhin Ivan	1	1	1
Kuvaev Andrey	1	1	1
Chesmin Alexey	1	1	1
Fatyakhdinov Marat	1	1	1
8	Lekov Alexander	1	1	0
Dzimistarishvili Mamuka	1	1	0
Chemanin Alexey	1	1	0
Sizov Pavel	1	1	0
Silachev Alexey	1	1	0
Morozov Viktor	1	1	0
Korenkov Nikolay	1	1	0
Khryashchev Sergey	1	1	0
16	Ramonov Eduard	1	0	0
Larionov Vyacheslav	1	0	0
Kuligin Alexander	1	0	0
Raretsky Vyacheslav	1	0	0
Pagaev Zaurbek	1	0	0
Sapiev Aslanbek	1	0	0
Brednev Mikhail	1	0	0
23	Borisov Pavel	0	1	1
Smirnov Oleg	0	1	1
25	Kolykhalov Stanislav	0	1	0
Nadzarian Georgy	0	1	0
Nikachin Sergey	0	1	0
Gerasimov Gennady	0	1	0
29	Kalachev Anton	0	0	1
Frolov Alexander	0	0	1
Chubko Evgeny	0	0	1
Glushonok Alexander	0	0	1

November 22 - December 8, 1956 in Melbourne, Australia hosted the Games of the XVI Olympiad.
For the first time, the Games were held on a green continent in the Southern Hemisphere.
This explains the timing of the competition. The very beginning of summer in the southern latitudes.

Due to the strict quarantine rules in force in Australia at that time, on the importation of animals, the Olympic equestrian tournament was held in Sweden, from June 10 to 17, 1956.

Opening of the Equestrian Olympiad in Stockholm

USSR national team at the Olympic Games in Melbourne 1956

The national team of the Soviet Union has come a long way to Olympic Games in Melbourne.
At that time, there were no passenger aircraft capable of covering long distances.
Therefore, our athletes first had to travel across the country by train from Moscow to Vladivostok, and then get to Australia on the Georgia ship.

Motor ship "Georgia" on the roads in Australia

On the streets of Olympic Melbourne

The main Olympic stadium of the 1956 Olympics

3178 athletes from 67 countries took part in the Games.

The Duke of Edinburgh, husband of the Queen of England arrives at the opening ceremony of the 1956 Olympic Games

Olympic Flame at Melbourne Stadium

The USSR team included 283 athletes from 39 cities and towns of 11 union republics. Soviet athletes participated in all Olympic competitions other than field hockey.

USSR national team at the opening ceremony of the 1956 Olympics

Our team was the best with 37 gold, 29 silver and 32 bronze medals.
The greatest success fell to the lot of Soviet gymnasts.

During the competition for gymnastics in one hour, the Soviet flag was raised 11 times and the Soviet anthem sounded. USSR gymnasts took away 11 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze medals, becoming absolute champions.
The gold medals were won by the debutant of the Olympic Games Larisa Latynina, who later became the most titled participant in the Olympic Games.

Larisa Latynina on the podium

The real hero of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was the Soviet athlete Vladimir Kuts, who won victories at distances of 5 and 10 thousand meters.

Vladimir Kuts main character Olympics in Melbourne

Vladimir Kuts and his defeated rivals from the UK team

Football at the Melbourne Olympics

The Olympic Games in Melbourne for the Soviet Union national football team became a real triumph.

The final match between the national teams of the USSR and Yugoslavia took place on the closing day of the Olympics on December 8, 1956.

Team line-ups:

Yugoslavia: Radenkovic, Koshchak, Radovich, Shantek, Spaich, Krstic, Shekularac, Papets, Antic, Veselinovic, Muich.

USSR: Yashin, B. Kuznetsov, Bashashkin, Ogonkov, Maslyonkin, Netto (c), Tatushin, Isaev, Simonyan, Salnikov, Ilyin.

Coach - G. D. Kachalin.

Goal: Ilyin (48).

Here is what the captain of the USSR national team Igor Netto said about that game:

Last match with the team of Yugoslavia took place according to tradition on the closing day of the Olympic Games. Everything was solemn and festive. All Melbourne rushed to the stadium. Flags fluttered with tightly woven rings.

Our match with Yugoslavia was the final chord. Of course, we were in the most fighting mood. We really wanted the huge, bright competitions to end with our success.
I think the match went well. Successful for both teams. It was a strong-willed and masterful duel worthy of the high level of the world Olympics. It was a good game. For a long time, neither we nor the Yugoslavs were able to create a tangible advantage. The pace was high.

But gradually the initiative passed to us. Great experience said. The denouement came at the fiftieth minute. We attacked. There was a pass from the right. Anatoly Isaev in high jump intercepted the ball with his head and immediately threw it to Anatoly Ilyin, who rushed to the gate. He also head without delay sent the ball into the goal. All this took a fraction of a second.

Goal. Score 1:0! Subsequently, this goal was called golden. It was he who brought us gold medals.

In the remaining time, the Yugoslav footballers played energetically. But no less vigorously did we strive not only to keep the score, but also to increase it.

The anthem of the USSR sounded solemnly and majestically over the stadium. President of the International Olympic Committee Brundage presented us with the gold medals of the winners of the football tournament of the XVI Olympic Games.

I. NET. "This is football." Publishing house "Physical culture and sport", 1974.

On the same day, the closing ceremony of the 1956 Games in Melbourne took place.

Home with a win. Soviet Olympians aboard the "Georgia"

Olympic champion in 1956 as part of the USSR national team, former footballer of the Moscow "Spartak" Alexei Paramonov died at the age of 94. This was reported to TASS by his close friend Mikhail Zakharov.

Veteran "Spartak" at the end of July was hospitalized due to deteriorating health. On August 18, he was taken to intensive care.

“Aleksey Paramonov died, today the relatives will come to the hospital and decide on the date of the funeral,” Zakharov said.

At the end of his career, Paramonov worked for almost half a century in the national football federation in various positions. In 1964-1965 and 1975-1976 in Tunisia he was the head coach of the Etoile team, which he led to the championship and victory in the country's Cup. From 1983 to 1990, Paramonov was a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

June 14, 2018 Paramonov at the personal invitation of the President International Federation Football (FIFA) Gianni Infantino attended the opening match of the first World Cup in the history of the country. However, then the health of the illustrious veteran began to deteriorate. In July, he donated his commemorative medals and awards to the Red and White Museum. Every year in Borovsk is held children's tournament named after Paramonov, this year for the first time the veteran could not personally open it due to his health condition, the 10th competition was held without him.

Paramonov - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1953), Honored Coach of the RSFSR (1980), Honored Worker physical education RSFSR (1985), awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of Friendship. On his 75th birthday, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, the Olympic Order of the International Olympic Committee and the UEFA Ruby Order. sports glory for the development and promotion of football. Paramonov's wife Yulia Vasilievna died in 2016, they have been married since 1950.

Achievements

[edit] World Championships
bronze medalist (4th place) of the 1966 World Championship (coach - Morozov N.P.)

[edit] European Championships
European champion 1960 (coach - Kachalin G.D.)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1964 (coach - Beskov K.I.)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1972 (coach - Ponomarev A.S.)
silver medalist of the European Championship 1988 (coach - Lobanovsky V.V.)

[edit] Olympic Games
champion of the Olympic Games 1956 (coach - Kachalin G.D.)
champion of the Olympic Games 1988 (coach - Byshovets A.F.)
bronze medalist of the 1972 Olympic Games (coach - Ponomarev A.S.)
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 team in 1924After a long break due to the hostilities of the First World War, the Great October Socialist Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the team of the Russian state was convened in 1923 under the banner of the RSFSR 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 solid Turkish national team, which was played on November 16, 1924 in Moscow and ended with the victory of 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 matches. In most of these matches, the rivals of the Soviet team were various national teams of Turkey and the teams of the German Workers' Sports Union, which was part of the Red Sports International (16 matches each). Matches were also played with a number of Scandinavian and Austrian clubs and working teams, national teams of Latvia and Norway. The total result of all these meetings is more than 32 wins (the number of meetings with Latvian teams remains unknown), 5 draws and 2 defeats. Mikhail Butusov and Fedor Selin became the best scorers of the national team.

The USSR national football team suffered its first defeat in its history in 1927 in Dresden from the working team of Vienna - 1:3, although it took revenge in the return match.

A great contribution to the development of Soviet football was made by the Turkish national team, which became the main sparring partner of the USSR national team, despite the obstacles created by FIFA officials. The fact is that the USSR was not represented by its federation in FIFA, which forbade its members (Turkey was a member of FIFA) to play with teams from other confederations and unions, and the USSR represented their opponent - the Red Sports International. Therefore, in order to continue meetings with the USSR team, the Turkish federation exhibited its team under names such as “Team of the People's Houses of Turkey”. In general, the USSR national team turned out to be stronger than their Turkish rivals (11 wins, 4 draws, 1 defeat). Interestingly, in matches with various clubs from the USSR, the Turkish team turned out to be even more unfortunate, 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 games of the national team was 17 years (1935-1952). Such a 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 national 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 they held a number of control meetings with the best club teams in the country for a month, after which the team decided leave the top 24 players.

In preparation for the Olympics, the Soviet team was convened under the banner of the Moscow and CDSA teams, since long (more than three months) fees could cause the IOC to suspect that the team was made up of amateurs. According to the then Olympic rules, the participation of professional athletes in the Olympic Games was prohibited, which is why the sports managers of the USSR decided to resort to conspiracy. In May, the team played 9 test matches with the national teams of Bulgaria (played as the national team of Sofia), Hungary, Poland, Finland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. In the 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 total result of test matches is 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat (goal difference 16:6 in favor of the USSR).

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Boris Arkadiev

Coach: Mikhail Yakushin

Goalkeepers
1 Leonid Ivanov 07/25/1921 Zenith Leningrad 3; 9
2 Vladimir Nikanorov 07/14/1917 CDSA
19 Vladimir Margania 02/08/1928 Dinamo 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 Giorgi Antadze 09/06/1920 Dinamo Tbilisi
forwards
12 Vasily Trofimov 01/17/1919 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
14 Alexander Tenyagin 08/22/1927 Dynamo Moscow 1
20 Vsevolod Bobrov 01.12.1922 VVS 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 Dinamo Tbilisi 1
13 Valentin Nikolaev 08/16/1921 CDSA 2

[edit] Final tournament
The first official match was the meeting in the 1/16 finals of the XV Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the national team of Bulgaria on July 15, 1952. During regular time, the score was never opened, so we had to play extra time, where, having missed the first, the Soviet players were able to recoup - 2:1.

In the 1/8 finals, the FRY team became the rival of the Soviet team. In an enchanting match, losing 1:5 along the way, the USSR national team was able to achieve a fighting draw - 5:5. In the replay, which took place every other day, the Soviet football players, who gave their all in the first match, lost to the Yugoslavs 1:3 and flew out of the further medal draw.

The top leadership of the country regarded the performance of the football team as extremely unsatisfactory. Firstly, in light of the successes of other Soviet Olympians, who took second place overall in the unofficial team standings. Secondly, the loss of the Yugoslav national team was a serious ideological blow to the whole country. Josip Broz Tito in 1948 actually severed all diplomatic relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR, and this made the Balkan republic a political enemy of the Soviet Union. The defeat was perceived so critically that Iosif 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" (this is how the performance of the team was assessed by the country's leadership) and disbanded, and Petrov, Arkadiev, Bashashkin, Nikolaev, Beskov and Kryzhevsky were forced to surrender certificates of masters of sports (Beskov, Nikolaev and Arkadiev were honored masters). Interestingly, Krizhevsky and Beskov did not support CDSA at all.

However, some players from the disbanded team were still able to win Olympic gold: Igor Netto, Anatoly Bashashkin and Anatoly Ilyin won football tournament Summer Olympics in Melbourne in 1956, and Vsevolod Bobrov in the same 1956 won hockey tournament Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

[edit] XVI Summer Olympics in Melbourne 1956

[edit] Preparing for the tournament
After the defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, the USSR national team met again only in 1954. Thus, the team did not take part in the Swiss World Cup games, and the next major tournament for it was to be the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. However, football in the country did not stand still. In 1953, the famous European football teams visited the Soviet Union: Rapid Vienna, Djurgården from Stockholm, the Hungarian Doge 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, 4 more European football teams visited Moscow: Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland. Of these, the last two were opposed by the combined team of Moscow, which in terms of composition can be equated with 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 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats with a total score of 4:5, but they made it possible to determine the main ways for the 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 with the Swedish team took place, which ended in a real defeat of the Scandinavian team - 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 national team (the current Olympic champion, silver medalist of the World Championship held two months earlier), led by top scorer the last world forum - Sandor Kocis and the legendary Ferenc Puskas, but the Soviet team did not get lost in its background. Salnikov opened the scoring in the 14th minute, and in the 59th minute Kocsis scored a return goal, setting the final result of the meeting - 1:1. With this match, the USSR national team proved its worth and loudly announced its claims to the highest awards in world football. Also, new young and promising footballers were introduced and beaten: Lev Yashin, Nikita Simonyan and Sergey Salnikov.

At the beginning of 1955, the USSR national team under the leadership of Gavriil Kachalin went on an eventful sports tour of India. In 17 matches with teams of different significance (from amateur teams to the first team), a 100% result was achieved with a total score of 100:4. The debutant Eduard Streltsov became the best scorer of the USSR national team - 15 goals. In the only second leg, played on September 16 in Moscow, the national team set its performance record in one match, defeating the Indian team - 11:1.

The team visited Stockholm and Budapest with return visits. Both matches were held according to scenarios similar to last year: Sweden was defeated again - 6:0, and Puskas saved Hungary from defeat in the last minutes - 1:1.

The most serious rival in 1955 for the Soviet team was the German national team, which at that time was the reigning world champion. In Moscow, for a friendly match on August 21, she arrived in a weakened composition, which, according to the official version, is to blame for the jaundice epidemic, however, even in this composition, the Bundestim represented a very formidable force. Team coach - Sepp Herberger - remained the same and had a thorough preparation for this match. The game itself turned out to be very spectacular: losing 1:2 by the 52nd minute, the USSR national team was able to snatch the victory - 3:2.

Back in 1955, a friendly match with a strong French team took place in Moscow - 2: 2.

Defeated in two friendly matches the Danish national team (home and away) with a total score of 10:3, the team now had to solve the problem of getting into final tournament Olympics. The Israeli national team became the opponent in the qualifying games. The level of the teams became clear after the first match in Moscow, which ended with the victory of the USSR - 5:0, and the return match in Tel Aviv turned into an empty formality - 1:2, the defeat of Israel.

The general rehearsal before the voyage to Australia was the matches with opponents already familiar to the team: France, Germany and Hungary. On September 15 in Hannover, a slight superiority over the Germans was confirmed - 2: 1, on September 23, the Hungarians nevertheless prevailed over the Soviet football players in Moscow - 1: 0, and on October 24 in Paris, the French inflicted the second defeat on the USSR national team in the last month in an equal fight .

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 let their skills 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 lost with a score of 1:0.

[edit] Team members

Coach: Nikolai 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 Maslyonkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 2 *
20 Anatoly Porhunov??.??.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 Jozsef Beza 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 Sergey Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 2 4 2 *
15 Anatoly Ilyin 06/27/1931 Spartak Moscow 2(1) 2 1 *
16 Valentin Ivanov 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 in the framework of the official tournament, held according to the Olympic system for the elimination, 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 team of Germany, made up of beginner West German professionals. The head coach of the Germans chose defensive tactics for his wards, however, taking advantage of the superiority in the class and the accumulated experience, the Soviet team was able to excel twice, through the efforts of Isaev (23) and Streltsov (86). Habig's goal in the 89th minute was a goal of prestige. Interestingly, the coach of the German national team recognized the performance of his team as good, that is, he assessed a worthy game with the USSR national team no worse than winning medals.

The next rival of the Soviet team was the Indonesian team. A few months before the Olympics, the Indonesians were touring 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 the matches of the Olympics, but they managed to win gold medals by violating it.

The Indonesian national team played very closed football, using a 9-1 formation, besides having a great goalkeeper - Maulvi Saelan. In the match played on November 29, 68 shots were taken at the gates of the Indonesians in 120 minutes, 27 corners were taken into their penalty area, but there was no goal. At the end of the meeting, the Indonesians carried out their only attack: Danue went 1 to 2 to the gate, circled Bashashkin, deceived Yashin and missed. Draw 0:0, and a replay was scheduled for December 1st.

According to the rules of the competition, after a repeated draw, it was supposed to draw lots, which is why the victory for the Soviet team was very important. After analyzing the first meeting, it was decided to change the focus of the attack: instead of trying to break through the dense Indonesian defense with the help of beautiful combinations and strokes, which was very difficult, it was necessary to give preference to long-range shots so as not to enter someone else's penalty area, crowded with defenders. Football psychology says that in matches with football dwarfs, which Indonesia has always been one of, a quick goal is needed, since by the end of the match, an opponent of this class is usually pressed so hard against his goal, guarding a satisfying result (draw), that it is almost impossible to score. Therefore, Anatoly Maslyonkin and Anatoly Ilyin were released on the field from the first minutes, who were good at long-range strike and were not afraid to take the completion of the attack on themselves. 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.

By the semi-final match with the national team of Bulgaria, scheduled for December 5, the team came up far from being in the best condition, after an exhausting confrontation with Indonesia. In addition, during the match, two Soviet football players (Valentin Ivanov and Nikolai Tishchenko) were injured, and substitutions at that time were not envisaged by the rules. According to the scenario, the match turned out to be surprisingly similar to the scenario of the confrontation between the same teams in the 1/16 finals of the previous Olympiad. Just like 4 years ago, the main time of the match ended in a goalless draw, the Bulgarians managed to take the lead in extra time, the USSR national team, having shown its character, was able to equalize the score at first (Streltsov scored 8 minutes before the end), and then set the final, winning score - 2:1 (Tatushin scored in the 116th minute).

The rival in the final, held on December 8, for the USSR national team was the Yugoslav national team, which blocked its path at the previous Olympics. The Yugoslavs themselves won silver in Helsinki. By the final match, the moral and physical fatigue of the team became even more noticeable, because in the last 9 days before the final they played 3 hardest matches with a total duration of 330 minutes. The team needed fresh forces, and players who played not so much entered the field: Nikita Simonyan, Anatoly Isaev and Anatoly Ilyin. It was these players who created the only goal in the game: in the 48th minute, Isaev closed Ilyin's canopy from the right flank with his head.

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 success of the Soviet team at the Olympics in Melbourne and in friendly matches with the leading teams of the world definitely spoke of the team's readiness to take part in the upcoming world championship in Sweden. The application was accepted, and the team got into the 6th UEFA qualifying group, made up, like the rest, on a regional basis, where the teams already familiar to Soviet football players also turned out: Poland and Finland.

On June 1, the first test match of the USSR national team against the Romanian team was held in Moscow after the Olympic final. The team was still headed by Gavriil Kachalin, the backbone of the team remained the same, only Yuri Voinov and German Apukhtin appeared on the field from the debutants. 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, as it was clear to everyone that it was they who would play for a ticket to the world championship in the European group 6. The mood of both teams was really very high, so from the very first minutes a stubborn struggle began for the right to come forward. Three times the Poles shook Yashin's goal frame with crazy-strong blows, but they could not bear any benefit from their activity. For the Soviet players, luck smiled already in the 9th minute: Tatushin made the Polish goalkeeper Shimkowiak 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 hit the Poles' gates. At the 52nd minute, clouds gathered over Luzhniki and it occurred to someone to turn on the lights, and turn them off after 8 minutes, although such unplanned turning on / off of the lights was prohibited by FIFA rules. However, neither the Poles nor the referee began to protest, and the FIFA leadership itself limited itself to a written remark. It limited itself to the same remark about the fact that the Soviet players were not officially declared for the match, demanding, however, that the application list be sent backdated. Meanwhile, in the 55th minute, Nikita Simonyan doubled the score with a beautiful shot to the "nine" from outside the penalty area. No less beautiful strike in the 77th minute, Ilyin put a spectacular end to the match - 3:0.

Almost a month later, on July 21, in a test match in Sofia, the Soviet squad confidently beat the Bulgarians - 4:0. After 6 days, the Finns arrived in Moscow - outsiders of the group. Having built a deaf defense, the Scandinavians were going to play a closed game. True, in the 23rd minute, Voinov succeeded in a long-range shot and the score was opened. But at the end of the first half, Olavi Lakhtinen managed to level the score by beating goalkeeper Oleg Makarov, who replaced the injured Yashin, and the teams went to the break with a draw. The situation that developed on the field strongly resembled a failed 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 the captain - Igor Netto, who closed the header from a corner. Despite the victory, the coach was dissatisfied with the game and in the 20 days remaining before second leg, did serious work with the players to increase the accuracy of strikes. The results of this work fully justified it on August 15 in Helsinki, when there was no stone unturned from the defense of the Finnish national team - a 10-0 victory, which is a repetition of the best goal difference for the USSR national team in one match. By the way, the Helsinki match was also the first away match for the Soviet team, which was attended by its fans.

September 22 in a friendly match in Budapest were beaten by the Hungarians - 2:1. In this match, Kachalin tested a newcomer - defender Vladimir Kesarev.

October 20 in Chorzow was supposed to take place the decisive match for reaching the final of the world championship, but it was not the last. More than a hundred thousand Poles gathered at the Szlönsk stadium to support their team, which was joined by the thirty-year-old veteran striker Gerard Cieślik as captain. Lev Yashin returned to the gates of the Soviet team. The Poles turned out to be stronger and won a fairly confident victory in the game - 2:1, and Tseslik scored a double. Such an outcome of the match spoke only about one thing: it would be necessary to play an additional game for a ticket to Sweden, since the goal difference and the results of personal meetings did not matter then, although in the event of a draw in an 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 about a third of the spectators at the local brand new 115,000th Centralstadion were supposed to be fans of the USSR. True, the road to Leipzig was not without adventure. On November 17, torpedoists: Valentin Ivanov and Eduard Streltsov - missed the train to Berlin, and the head of the Football Section of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Valentin Antipenok, who met the latecomers at the Belorussky railway station, set off with them in pursuit of the train, calling officials from Ministry of Railways with a request to stop the train. As a result, the car they were driving overtook the express train in Mozhaisk and the players safely joined the rest of the team.

At the disposal of the team due to injuries, its recognized leaders were absent: Isaev, Salnikov, Krizhevsky, Simonyan and Ilyin. Shortly before the match, Alekper Mammadov dropped out of action, whose place was unexpectedly taken by Genrikh Fedosov, and he had to play right in the uniform and boots of Mammadov himself, which caused confusion: many thought that Mammadov was present on the field, and not Fedosov .

The teams started the match without reconnaissance, as they already knew each other well, but the importance of this meeting did not give them the right, forgetting about defense, to try to score a goal at all costs, which is why the game turned out to be quite tense. Already in the 5th minute in a stubborn struggle, Streltsov received a painful injury, but, being guilty of missing 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 moments at the beginning of the game, unsuccessfully completing them, and the Soviet players were able to distinguish themselves twice: in the 30th minute, Streltsov scored from Tatushin's pass, and in the 75th minute, Fedosov set the final score from Streltsov's pass - 2: 0. Thanks to this victory, the Soviet team was able to go to their first World Cup 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 camp, two control matches were played. In the first, the Soviet team, as the “Moscow team”, outplayed the “Berlin team”, made up of the best football players in the GDR - 4:0. The second match became a control 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 line-up at that time. The match was held in a double-edged fight and ended in a draw - 1:1.

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin

Coach: Mikhail Yakushin

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Maslyonkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 1
5 Yuri Voinov 11/29/1931 Dynamo Kyiv 4(1) 5
6 Igor Netto 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 5(2) 1
16 Victor 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. Viktor 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 Sergey Salnikov 09/13/1925 Spartak Moscow 3
17 Alexander Ivanov 04/14/1928 Zenith Leningrad 4 1
7 German Apukhtin 06/12/1936 CSK MO 1
20 Yuri Falin 04/02/1937 Torpedo Moscow 1
18 Valentin Bubukin 04/23/1933 Lokomotiv Moscow
19 Gennady Gusarov 03/11/1937 Torpedo Moscow

Due to the disqualification imposed by Soviet officials, according to the official version, for violating the sports regime, three key players were not included in the 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 rival was the England team. Having already studied each other in the May friendly match, the teams started the match without “reconnaissance”. Already in the 14th minute, Simonyan opened the scoring, finishing the ball into the goal, released from the hands of the English goalkeeper Colin MacDonald after an unsuccessful attempt to repel Alexander Ivanov's diagonal strike. Such a beginning liberated the debutants of the world championship, so that the entire first half and the beginning of the second were left behind them. At the 56th minute, Kesarev broke through on the right flank, from where he made a pass to the bottom of the same Alexander Ivanov, who easily 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. Especially powerful and tall Derek Kevan stood out at the forefront of the attack. In the 68th minute, he headed Billy Wright's long-range cross into the penalty area, leaving Lev Yashin no chance to get the ball. Meanwhile, Valentin Ivanov and Yuri Voinov 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 in sync with this incident was not counted. At the 83rd minute, the most significant episode of the match took place: running away from Krizhevsky to the opponent’s goal, Johnny Haynes stumbled near the penalty area and fell, and Istvan Zsolt, the referee of the match, mistakenly awarded a penalty to the USSR national team. The Soviet football players and most of the spectators did not agree with this decision, which is why there was a small scuffle between the referee and the players on the field, during which the overexcited Yashin even threw his famous cap at him, to which, however, the Hungarian did not react. As a result, Tom Finney clearly took the penalty, and Zsolt's wrong decision was exaggerated in the Soviet press for a long time, with an eye to the suppression of the Hungarian uprisings of 1956 by the Soviet Union. In defense of the referee, it can be noted that before this penalty, he did not react to the fall in the Soviet penalty Finney and canceled Robson's goal. The final score (2:2) did not make the Soviet players very happy, since, according to the general opinion of the witnesses and participants in the match, the team missed the victory from their own hands.

The team's second opponent was the Austrian national team, which lost in the first meeting to the Brazilians - 3:0, after which its defensive line suffered cardinal changes. The composition of the Soviet team remained unchanged. On June 11 in Buros, two teams charged for battle entered the field of the Ryavallen stadium, and the match turned out to be very tense, took place at a fast pace, both teams created quite a few chances. The first goal was scored in the 15th minute, when Valentin Ivanov and Ilyin, taking advantage of an error in the opponent's defense, played a simple combination that ended with the latter's goal. At the 55th minute, Tsarev played roughly in his penalty area against Paul Kozlicek, after which the referee rightly pointed to the penalty mark. The blow of the young Hans Bucek, who approached the ball, was not difficult for Yashin, and the score remained the same. After 7 minutes, Valentin Ivanov successfully closed the forty-meter pass of his namesake Alexander, sending the ball into the goal of Kurt Schmid. In the future, the pace of the game fell off and the referee fixed the score 2:0 in favor of the USSR with the final whistle.

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 a place in the composition of the debutants: Pele and Garrinche. In order to directly reach the quarterfinals, the USSR team needed to defeat Brazil, which played its first two matches with the same success (a win and a draw with similar rivals). Since the Brazilian national team was in a similar, but slightly better position (the Austrians were defeated with a greater goal difference), a serious struggle began from the very beginning of the meeting. The first three minutes of the match were full of attacks from the Brazilians: the ball twice hit different bars of the Soviet goal with great 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 he, striking Krizhevsky's thigh, was picked up by the attackers Wawa 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 exploding for attacks, often ending due to ball losses, which were the result of Garrincha's excessive strokes. In the 30th minute, Voinov managed to deliver an accurate and strong blow from 22 meters, however, he did not reach the goal. In the 77th minute, Pele and Vava organized the second goal: after a double zigzag wall, Vava successfully shot on goal in a split. There were no more changes in the match - the victory in all respects of the Brazilians with a score of 2:0. In parallel last game the teams of Austria and England had a draw, after which the indicators of the goal difference and the 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

According to the rules of the tournament, the teams played a play-off match to qualify from the group a day later. Gavriil Kachalin decided to freshen up the line-up a bit by bringing inexperienced Yuri Falin and German Apukhtin on the field, who were never able to fully integrate into the team game. The English coach made four changes at once compared to previous meeting commands. Despite the generally sluggish course of the game, partly caused by the fatigue of the teams after the group stage, by the 35th minute the USSR national team had already lost at least five correct chances. Then the British offensive began, which ended before the break with an unsuccessful blow by Peter Brabrook, brought by Peter Broadbent to the most advantageous position three meters from the gate. However, such a miss provoked the young striker, and in the second half he carried out several very sharp attacks, one of which even ended with an unprotected goal (the ball hit his hand). In the 55th minute, two mistakes by the British (an unsuccessful ball release by McDonald and an unsuccessful artificial off-side) led to Ilyin's goal from Voinov's pass. After that, the British went to attack Yashin's gate with even greater pressure, but the Soviet goalkeeper successfully played this meeting and did not allow the opponent to equalize. As a result, the team reached the playoffs of the championship, where it had to meet with the hosts of the tournament - the Swedes.

The match took place on June 19 in Stockholm, at the Rasund stadium. The team was very tired from the night flight, so they came to the match not in the best condition, besides, the Swedish team did without play-off, that is, had three, and not one day of rest before the quarterfinal match. The teams played the first half on an equal footing, and in the second the fatigue of the Soviet team already affected, which the Swedes did not fail to take advantage of: in the 49th minute, Kurt Hamrin, taking advantage of Boris Kuznetsov’s mistake, converted a one-on-one exit, and in the 87th minute, Agne Simonsson successfully closed transfer from the left flank from all the same Khamrin. The score is 2:0 and the USSR national team goes home.

In the Soviet Union, the performance of their team was recognized as unsuccessful, but later many experts called such a 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 of 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 their Olympic title at the Rome Games, the USSR national team had to go through a selection sieve. According to the territorial principle, she got into 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 nearest reserve main team. Of the players who took part in the qualifying games, only goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team that won the Melbourne gold. Boris Arkadiev was appointed as the coach.

The calendar of games was drawn up in such a way that the USSR national team took part in all the first four games, and the national teams of Bulgaria and Romania had to fight each other in the last two. In the first match, played on June 29, 1959 at Luzhniki, the Soviet national team played in a home match with the Bulgarians - 1:1. On July 19, the Romanians were beaten there - 2:0. On August 2, a goalless draw with the same Romanians was recorded in Bucharest. September 13 in Sofia, the Soviet team was beaten by the Bulgarian - 1:0. Thus, in the remaining matches, Bulgaria and Romania played a ticket to Rome between themselves, and the football tournament of the XVII Summer Olympics was the first tournament for the Soviet team, where it could not break through.

I V N P M O
Bulgaria 4 2 1 1 4-3 5
USSR 4 1 2 1 3-2 4
Romania 4 1 1 2 2-4 3

I - games, V - 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, Yu.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] 1960 European Cup of Nations

[edit] Preparing for the tournament
The next big tournament for the USSR national team was the first ever European Football Cup of Nations. At that time, the tournament was held according to the so-called Olympic system, that is, there were only matches or a series of matches for elimination. Gavriil Kachalin was still at the head of the team, Nikolai Gulyaev helped 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 Czechoslovak national team, in which the updated composition of the Soviet team outplayed opponents - 2: 1.

On September 28, Luzhniki hosted a game that went down in history as the very first match in the history of European championships: in the first game of the two-match series of 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 the Hungarian team, which had weakened in recent years, was given to the Soviet team quite easily and ended with its confident victory - 3: 1, besides, in the 10th minute, the Austrian referee Alfred Grill canceled, according to many experts unfairly, Simonyan's goal. Once again, the team set a record attendance: the game with the Hungarians had the largest audience among all other meetings of this tournament - 100,572 spectators.

On October 22, in London, at Wembley Stadium, in the last match of the 1958 season, the USSR national team suffered the biggest defeat in its history: they lost to the founders of football - the British with a crushing score of 5: 0, Johnny Haynes scored a hat-trick.

The next time the main team gathered almost a year later, on September 6, 1959, when the Czechoslovak team arrived in Moscow for a friendly match. For the first time after the World Cup, its leaders played for the national team: Netto and Yashin. In this match, the team showed that they had not lost their skills and defeated their opponent more confidently than last year - 3:1.

On September 27, almost exactly one year after the first game, the return match between the national teams of Hungary and the USSR took place in Budapest. Under the pouring rain, the Soviet football players won - 1:0, Voinov distinguished himself.

On October 3, a friendly match with the Chinese team was held in Beijing, 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 team in the quarterfinals was determined. It was the national team of Spain - a country that was under the fascist, as the leadership of the USSR considered, the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco. The Franco 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 on June 9 in Madrid. On May 19, the Spaniards' coach, Helenio Herrera, arrived in Moscow, who 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, three goals were scored by debutant Viktor Ponedelnik. The Spanish national team defeated the same team in the 1/8 finals twice with a smaller, but quite a 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 success Spanish football of those years, for example, the long-term leadership of Real Madrid in the European Cup, the Spanish coaches could not be sure of a successful outcome. With all their desire, the athletes from Spain could not go to Moscow on the appointed day, due to the negative decision of their dictator. The meeting of the Organizing Commission of the European Cup, held at the end of May in Frankfurt am Main, decided to remove the Spanish team from the tournament for not appearing for the match, which allowed the Soviet team to directly enter the final tournament of the competition, which was hosted by France. Franco's act became the object of criticism and ridicule not only from Soviet football players, but also from the top party leadership. On May 28, 1960, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, at the All-Union Conference of the foremost workers of the competition of brigades and shock workers of communist labor, commented from the rostrum on the decision of the Spanish dictator:

In both big and small, Franco grovels before his masters. The whole world is laughing now at his latest sports stunt. It was he, from the position of the right-back of American prestige, who scored an own goal, forbidding the Spanish football players from meeting with the Soviet team!

In early July, before flying to France, the national team, convened under the banner of the 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 members
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin

Coach: Nikolai Gulyaev

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Maslyonkin 06/29/1930 Spartak Moscow 2 2
4 Givi Chokheli 27.06.1937 Dinamo Tbilisi 2
6 Anatoly Krutikov 09/21/1933 Spartak Moscow 2
Midfielders
9 Viktor Tsarev 06/02/1931 Spartak Moscow 1
7 Yuri Voinov 11/29/1931 Dynamo Kyiv 2(1) 2
8 Igor Netto 01/09/1930 Spartak Moscow 1 2
forwards
otb.t. Alekper Mammadov 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 Dinamo 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, in the heat final match European Cup between the national teams of the USSR and Czechoslovakia. In two friendly matches held by the teams during the preparation for the tournament, quite confident victories of the Soviet team were recorded, however, the Czechoslovak team, which was strong at that time, remained a serious rival for any other. coaching staff USSR national team decided to bet on speed qualities of their young players, which was supposed to wear down age rivals. In the first half, both teams maintained a high pace, exchanged attacks, goalkeepers often came into play: Schroif and Yashin. Gradually, the initiative passed to the Soviet players. At the 35th minute, Valentin Ivanov put his team ahead. After the break, the superiority of the USSR was already felt, the goals of the same Ivanov and Monday finally broke the enemy: the disappointed Vojta even missed the goal from the 11-meter mark. As a result, having defeated their opponent with a score of 3: 0, the USSR team reached the final, where it had to measure strength with the Yugoslav team. Tito, who was 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. For the Soviet football players, the government issued only warrants that allowed them to buy used cars for their 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, besides it was raining. There was no full house at the stadium, as local fans lost interest in the tournament after the defeat of their national team. From the first minutes on the field, the struggle for every ball began, both teams had to play a lot in defense. In the 43rd minute, the Yugoslavs tipped the scales in their favor: having deceived Maslyonkin, Yerkovich, who broke through the flank, hung into the penalty area, where Galich closed his pass with his head, after which the ball flew into the goal with a rebound from Netto's hip. After the break, the USSR national team intensified its actions in attack. At the 49th minute, Bubukin from about 30 meters delivered a powerful blow to Vidinich's goal, which, having caught a wet ball, could not hold it in his hands, which Slava Metreveli took advantage of, picking up a projectile and sending it into the goal. Until the end of the regular time of the match, a stubborn and tough struggle continued, during which the score did not change anymore, which is why overtime had to be played. Only in the second extra half the fate of the match was decided: in the 113th minute, Mikhail Meskhi, passing with the ball along the edge, sends it into the penalty area, after which Monday, in a head jump, sets the final winning score - 2:1. The USSR national team won the first European Football Cup in history.

The next day, the teams were awarded at the Eiffel Tower, the winning teams were awarded medals, the USSR national team was awarded the cup immediately after the match. The owner of Real Madrid Santiago Bernabeu offered many players of that team fabulous contracts, but for ideological reasons, they remained unsigned. The honoring of the team took place in Luzhniki, when the winners who had just arrived in hotel cars were brought to the main sports arena of the country 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 their European triumph, the USSR national team began preparations for the upcoming World Cup, which was to be held in May-June 1962 in Chile. In 1960, she played two more friendly matches: on August 17 in Leipzig she beat the GDR team - 1: 0, and on September 4 in Vienna she lost to the Austrian team - 1: 2, which was 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 team: in mid-May, the club team lost to the English club Aston Villa, and on May 21 in Warsaw, Poland took revenge for last year's defeat from the USSR team - 1: 0. For the first time, Soviet television organized the broadcast of an away match of the national team.

On June 18, at Luzhniki, the team played the first match as part of the selection for the upcoming World Cup. The rival was the Turkish team, which, together with the Norwegian team, made up the qualifying group, which included the USSR team. Soviet football players owned the initiative throughout the match, but they managed to break through the legendary goalkeeper of the Turkish national team - Turgay Seren - only once - Valery Voronin.

On June 24, a friendly match between the teams of the USSR and Argentina was also held there, which ended in a goalless draw and was remembered for the magnificent save of Vladimir Maslachenko, who, in a phenomenal jump, repelled a cannon blow under the crossbar inflicted by Jose Sanfilippo.

A week later, on July 1, the Norwegian team arrived in Moscow. The opponent offered the Soviet national 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 not difficult for football players from the USSR - a confident 3-0 victory.

On September 10, a match was held in Moscow with the Austrian team, which again outplayed the Soviet team - 1: 0, while Valentin Ivanov failed to beat the 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
Turkey 4 2 0 2 4-4 4
Norway 4 0 0 4 3-11 0

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

Just 6 days later, on November 18, in Buenos Aires, the team entered 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 Monday scored two beautiful goals, and the Argentines were only able to answer this at the end of the match: in the 89th minute, Raul Oscar Belen set the final score - 2: 1 in favor of the USSR. The match was also remembered for Lev Yashin's injury: he received a concussion from a kick to the head in a game joint with Juan Jose Pizzuti and was carried off the field, Maslachenko got into the goal.

On November 22, the hosts of the future world championship, the Chileans, hosted the Soviet national team in Santiago. Dominance in the first half did not bring success to the Chilean national team, and the USSR team, on the contrary, was able to realize its superiority in the second half: in the 70th minute, Alexei Mamykina, who replaced Valentin Ivanov, scored the winning and only goal in this match.

On November 29, the Uruguayan team was beaten in Montevideo. Thus, the Soviet team outplayed 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 game of the USSR national football team deserved 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, and 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-champions of the world - the Swedes. The goals of Monday and Mamykin in the first half provided a good start for the team, and they were able to concentrate on defense and leave their net unopened. Yashin had a particularly good match, taking a penalty from Khamrin.

On April 27, the Uruguayans, the future rivals of the USSR national team in the group, came to Moscow for revenge. The team from South America could not oppose anything to the hosts and lost in all respects - 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 members
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin

Coach: Nikolai Gulyaev

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Sergey Kotrikadze 08/09/1936 Dinamo 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 Dinamo Tbilisi 4 3
7 Anatoly Maslyonkin 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 Nikolai 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 Dinamo 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 Victor Kanevsky 03.10.1936 Dynamo Kyiv 2
21 Galimzyan Khusainov 07/27/1937 Spartak Moscow 1
22 Igor Chislenko 01/04/1939 Dynamo Moscow 3 2
20 Victor Serebrynikov 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, another trophy was expected from her.

The organizers placed the Soviet team in Arica, where all the meetings in the first group of the preliminary tournament were to be held at the Carlos Dittborn Stadium. The players did not like this coastal town very much, as the strongest wind from the ocean constantly blew there and there was a decent heat. The training field and the stadium itself were as hard as asphalt.

The first match was played by the USSR national team on May 31 against the Yugoslav squad. A strong wind was blowing on the field, which gave the game a special, fast pace. The first half was a double-edged fight, 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. At the 53rd minute, thirty meters from the penalty area, the Balkans were given a penalty kick for foul play. The ball after hitting Monday hits the bar, after which Valentin Ivanov, who has come running, finishes him off with his head into the goal. After the goal, the game continued to abound with mutual attacks and hard joints. In the 85th minute, after the passes of Netto and Ivanov, it was Monday with the ball, who managed a long-range and accurate shot into the bottom corner of the goal. 2:0 - the final score of this match.

On June 3, the team from the Soviet Union became the opponent of the Colombian team - the generally recognized outsider of the group. The coaching staff suggested that the team win with the highest possible score, since the ratio of goals scored and conceded was taken into account in the final scoring in disputable situations. Taking advantage of the confusion in the enemy's defensive formations, by the 13th minute, Igor Chislenko and, twice, Ivanov provided the team with their goals with a confident three-goal advantage. At the 21st minute, Herman Aseros retaliated one goal, going one on one with Yashin, but the Soviet players considered this an accident and did not pull their forces into defense. At 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 to knock out the ball that Marcos Colle had twisted from the bottom of the penalty area, and, not stopped by anyone, he quietly flew into the goal. The Soviet players began to condemn each other for a stupid goal, besides, they began to get tired, which is why the initiative gradually passed to the Latin Americans. In the period from 73rd to 77th minutes, Angulo Rada and Marino Kilinger scored two more goals against confused opponents.

To continue playing at this World Cup, it was enough for the USSR national team to play a draw on June 6 with the Uruguayan team already familiar to it. At the beginning of the meeting, the teams did not use several 100% chances, the high pace of the game was set. At the 38th minute, the ball sent by Galimzyan Khusainov into the penalty area, from under the feet of the defender of the Uruguayans, is sent into the goal by Alexei Mamykin. In the second half, the Uruguayans managed to level the score, but the goal was the result of a referee's error. When Lev Yashin was about to put the ball into play, Julio Cesar Cortez ran towards him and tried to hit him with his knee. Yashin was sure that the game would be stopped due to a violation of the Uruguayan striker, and pushed the offender indignantly, however, the Italian referee Cesare Jonni saw only the last episode, for which a free kick was assigned towards the Soviet goal within the penalty area. The first hit of Ruben Cabrera, the judge did not count, and asked for a second one. Having bounced off the wall, the ball hit Jose Sasia, who, after hitting it, hit one of the Soviet defenders and ricocheted into the goal. Inspired by the feat of the Colombian national team, the Uruguayans strongly went on the attack, but the Soviet team had already analyzed their mistakes and was ready for such a turn. The Soviets organized many attacks, in one of which Chislenko broke the net from the side with a strong blow, after which the referee, seeing the ball in the goal, pointed to the center. Immediately, outraged Uruguayans flocked to him, disagreeing with such a decision. Having learned from Chislenko that there was no goal, Netto, the team captain, approached the referee and explained that the ball must be entered from the gate. But the Soviet team still took their toll: a minute before the end, Ivanov finished off the ball into the goal, after Roberto Eduardo Sosa's blow from Monday was reflected. Having defeated Uruguay with a score of 2: 1, the USSR national team reached the quarterfinals from the first place. At the end of the meeting, the Uruguayan football players, annoyed by the departure from the tournament, beat the referee, and in the evening of that day staged a brawl and a pogrom in the local casino. During the game, the Uruguayans were just as temperamental: they constantly got into a fight 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

On June 10, the quarter-final game of the world championship of the USSR - Chile took place in Arica. From the first minutes the game went smoothly, mutual attacks were carried out. In the 10th minute, Voronin fouled on the left flank and a penalty was awarded for this violation at 18 meters. From a very sharp angle, almost at the corner of the penalty area, Leonel Sanchez, who beat the Chileans, noticing a gap in the wall, spun the ball flying over the heads of the defenders into the upper right corner of the Soviet goal. Having missed, the players of the USSR went to recoup and seized the initiative, but they rarely managed to get closer to the opponent's goal. At the 27th minute, Meskhi, picking up the ball, quickly passed to Chislenko, who was in the center, who sent the ball into the net with lightning speed, 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, having passed half the field unhindered, from 30 meters punched Yashin, who was closed by the defenders. In the second half, the USSR national team had an unconditional advantage, but the Chileans concentrated on defense and kept the score that suits them unchanged.

The team repeated the result shown by it at the previous World Cup: it reached the quarterfinals, where it lost to the hosts. Soviet fans and journalists were dissatisfied with the result, the people considered Yashin and Ivanov to be the main culprits for the defeat. Also, many criticized Gavriil Kachalin for the outdated formation of the “W” team, which most of the progressive teams preferred the 4-2-4 formation.

[edit] 1964 European Cup of Nations

[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 hostile Spain at that time, which hosted the final four of this tournament.

The team began preparations for the tournament in the spring under the guidance of the former coach, Gavriil Kachalin. However, after the “team of clubs”, which was an almost exact copy of the USSR national team of the past World Cup, lost in a home friendly match to the former owner of the European Cup Cup - Italian Fiorentina (1:3), the coach was removed from his post and his duties were performed for some time by a recent player of the team - Nikita Simonyan. He was helped to complete the team and conduct training by a special council of coaches, created in April by the presidium of the USSR Football Federation. Due to temporary confusion, the team “stalled” a bit and on May 22 lost to the Swedes at Luzhniki - 1:0. As a result, another recent player of the first team of the country, Konstantin Beskov, was appointed to the post number one.

The first test for the coach before the upcoming matches of the European Cup was the meeting in Moscow on September 22 with Hungary. Albert Shesternev and Anatoly Krutikov returned to the team, having received the trust of a new coach, Eduard Malofeev, Viktor Shustikov and Gennady Logofet made their debuts. Beskov also refused the services of two leaders of the former team: Netto and Meskhi. The opponents parted in peace: Ferenc Mahos answered Valentin Ivanov's goal with an accurate blow - 1:1.

On October 13, Luzhniki hosted the first game of the 1/8 finals of the European Cup between the national teams of the USSR and Italy. The Soviet team appeared before the public in almost optimal composition: due to the call to the FIFA national team, Yashin was absent, who was replaced by the goalkeeper of the Kutaisi "Torpedo" - Ramaz Urushadze. The hosts immediately offered the opponent a fast pace, relied on technique, thereby preventing the Italians' main trump card from playing - the close guardianship of the attackers. The goals of Monday and Chislenko provided the team with a good advantage before the second leg - 2:0.

November 10 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome was the second game of these teams. Throughout the match, the Soviet players successfully defended themselves, leaving Italy no opportunity to recoup. Yashin successfully acted at the gate, who managed to repel at least three heavy blows into his own net, including a penalty kick from Alessandro Mazzola. In addition, from the 33rd to the 89th minute, the Italians were inferior in the long run after Gusarov's goal. Only at the end of the match Gianni Rivera scored a prestige goal. Absolutely deserved, the USSR national team reached the quarterfinals.

On December 1, the team played a friendly match in Casablanca with the Moroccan national team. On the field, the guests were personally greeted by the newly minted Prime Minister of the country - Ahmed Bahnini. The African team considered it a great honor to play with the national team of the Soviet Union and, getting excited, scored an own goal by Mohammed Tibari in the 12th minute. Sadni equalized in the 25th minute. Further, 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 it was to take part in the friendly club tournament "Torneo sextagonal" under the name "team of clubs of Moscow". According to the round robin system, 5 rounds were held, in which, after a draw in the first match with Partizan Belgrade (1: 1), Soviet football players scored 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 "Paracicaba" - 2:0.

On May 13 in Stockholm, at Rasund, the first quarterfinal 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 Alexei Korneev. The heavy and wet field prevented the players from acting in a fast manner, which led to numerous overhead passes and an increase in single combat for the ball. Valentin Ivanov opened the score in the 62nd minute, having received the ball from Chislenko, who played a high-speed combination with Voronin. Toward the end of the match, the Swedes began to desperately storm the gates of Yashin and in the 87th minute Khamrin achieved his goal - a 1:1 draw.

On May 20, the Uruguayan national team was replayed at 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 at the return quarterfinal match. In the first half, the attackers of the Swedes missed a few right moments in front of the Soviet goal, and the hosts, on the contrary, converted their one of the few moments: Monday scored in the 32nd minute. The goal changed the course of the game: Soviet footballers began to play more confidently. At the 56th minute, after a longitudinal pass in the attack, the same Monday received the ball and, having beaten the hesitant Hans Mild, scored a double. At the 78th minute, Hamrin returned a little intrigue to the match, upsetting Yashin, who received the Golden Ball the day before the game. However, in the 83rd minute, Voronin, who played a two-move with Ivanov, restored the advantage of the Soviet team by two goals. A 3-1 victory allowed the team to go to Spain for the final of four European Cups.

Having spent the training camp in France, where several control meetings were played, on June 15 the Soviet delegation flew to Barcelona.

[edit] Team members

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Alexei 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. Glory to Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dinamo 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 Viktor 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

Information available on some sites that I. Bauzha, A. Biba, L. Burchalkin, V. Maslov, V. Ponomarev, Yu. Sevidov, K. Tuaev were also included in the application for the final tournament are erroneous.

[edit] Final Tournament
On June 18, 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 got to the final tournament largely thanks to the brilliant game 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 gave up hope in advance to seek their fortune in the semi-finals and set out to take their own in the match for third place, playing the first match half-heartedly. One way or another, the USSR national team outplayed their opponent quite easily: in the 19th minute Voronin scored the first goal from a corner, in the 40th minute Monday scored from Chislenko's pass, in the 89th minute Valentin Ivanov put an end to the match with an elegant solo pass - 3:0. The defense of the team played no worse than the attack: the vaunted Madsen delivered the first blow to Yashin's goal only in the 65th minute

On June 21, in Madrid, at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, in the presence of Generalissimo Franco, the final was held, the rival of the USSR national team - the hosts, the Spanish national team. The match had an extraordinary intrigue: firstly, in the previous European Cup, the match between these rivals did not take place due to Franco's reluctance, and secondly, the countries represented by the players were still in hostile relations. The game itself turned out to be interesting: already in the 6th minute from the pass of Luis Suarez, Jesús Pereda, after an error by Shesternev, sent the ball under the crossbar from close range. However, two minutes later Khusainov, having received the ball from Mudrik, burst into the penalty area and outplayed the Spanish goalkeeper, José Angel Iribar. Then the game went in a more closed manner: the teams played more defensively, the Spaniards rudely tried to turn off Monday from the game. It started to rain in the second half, which made the game even more closed, but Pereda and Monday exchanged dangerous shots on the opponent's goal. In the 84th minute, Pereda freed himself from Mudrik, who was guarding him, broke through on the right flank and made a pass to Marcelino, who scored the decisive goal in the fall with his head - 2:1 in favor of the Spaniards. The USSR national team had to give up its title of the strongest in Europe to the Spaniards and be content with silver medals.

The live broadcast of the final game, shown by Soviet central television, was partly the reason for Beskov's resignation from the post of national team coach. The fact is that Generalissimo Franko, an ardent political and ideological opponent of the Soviet Union, appeared on the television screens of millions of Soviet viewers, pleased with the victory of his team over the Soviet Union. A political defeat was found in the team's sports defeat, and the result was considered unsatisfactory, although it was the 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 got into the third European group of the qualifying tournament for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The country was represented by the Olympic, and, in fact, the second team: the players of the first team (Glotov, Korneev, Mudrik) played together with the players of the nearest (Anichkin, Lobanovsky, Urushadze) and deep (Biba, Sevidov, Fadeev) main team. There were no age restrictions for the players, for example, the goalkeeper Kotrikadze at the time of the first meeting with the Finns was less than 27 years old. The team was headed by Vyacheslav Solovyov, who combined this post with a similar job at CSKA.

The tournament regulations did not provide for group tournament in a circular system. The teams had to play two-legged knockout matches. In the preliminary round, the GDR team knocked out the team of another, western Germany, from the draw. At the next stage, they had to fight with the Dutch, and the USSR national team challenged access to the next round in the confrontation with Finland.

The first meeting took place on July 22, 1963 at the central stadium in Kyiv and ended with a confident defeat of the Finns - 7:0. Boris Kazakov, Viktor Serebryanikov and Gennady Matveev scored two goals each, Andrey Biba scored one more goal. The return game on August 1 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, almost devoid of intrigue, ended with another, more modest, defeat of Finland - 4:0. Serebryanikov, Biba, Kazakov and Matveev scored goals at their own expense. A ticket to the Olympic Games from the group now had to be played by the national teams of the USSR and the GDR.

On May 31, 1964, in Leipzig, at the Centralstadion, the Germans received guests from the Soviet Union. Already in the 10th minute, the hosts opened the scoring: Henning Frenzel scored. The USSR team managed to avoid defeat only in the 88th minute, thanks to the efforts of Yuri Sevidov. A week later, the return match took place in Luzhniki, which also did not reveal the strongest: the guests answered the goal in the 14th minute of Oleg Kopaev with a productive strike by Heino Klayminger in the 62nd. According to the rules of the tournament, the teams had to play the third decisive game on a neutral field. The venue for the match was the Decade Stadium in Warsaw. On June 28, the USSR national team lost to the Germans with a big score (4: 1) and did not get to the Tokyo games.

All 5 games played for the national team: A.Shesternev, V.Serebryanikov (4 goals); 4 games: E. Mudrik, A. Biba (2 goals); 3 games: V.Ponomarev, M.Khurtsilava, Val. Maslov, Y. Sevidov (1 goal); 2 games: S. Kotrikadze, G. Matveev (3 goals), B. Kazakov (3 goals), V. Lobanovsky, R. Urushadze (conceded 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 instructed to prepare coach Nikolai Morozov, who had no serious coaching practice. The rivals in the group became known on February 29, 1964, it turned out to be the teams of Greece, Denmark and Wales.

On October 11, 1964, the team played the first test match under the new leadership: in Vienna, it was hosted by the Austrian team. For the first time, Victor Serebrynikov and Vladimir Ponomarev came out in 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 gate. In the 80th minute, the hosts could double the score, but Karl Kohler did not convert a penalty.

On November 4, an unscheduled friendly game with the local team took place in Algiers. The Soviet Union was represented by Moscow Spartak under the leadership of Nikita Simonyan, who actually were going to measure their strength with the African team, but local functionaries asked that the match be held at the level of national teams, after which the team was understaffed with players from other Soviet clubs: Lev Yashin, Viktor Monday and Gennady Matveev . The teams parted in peace - 2:2.

At the end of November, the team played two test matches in the Balkans, where the new coach looked through candidates for the first team: Igor Remin, Georgy Sichinava, Viktor Bannikov, Valery Dikarev and experienced Mikhail Meskhi. On November 22, in Belgrade, a draw with the Yugoslavs was recorded - 1: 1 (Slaven Zambata answered the goal of Serebryanikov), and on November 29, the match with the Bulgarians ended without goals in Sofia.

On February 26, 1965, the USSR national team went to a training camp in Yugoslavia, then to Italy.

On May 16, a friendly match with the Austrian national team was held at Luzhniki. At the beginning of the match, Igor Netto said goodbye to the team, who led the team on the field as a captain and was replaced by Logofet in the 5th minute, and Valentin Ivanov got the captain's armband. The game ended in a goalless draw - 0:0.

The first match of the qualifying tournament for the next world championship was played by the USSR national team on May 23 in Moscow against Greece. After a series of experiments, Morozov released on 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. Yashin, who was also injured before the game, was replaced at the goal by Viktor Bannikov. Already in the 14th minute, Kazakov opened the scoring with his head. The USSR national team continued to attack, but closer to the middle of the meeting, the Greeks seized the initiative, as a result of which Dimitris Papaioannu equalized in the 60th minute. Having conceded a goal, the Soviet players gathered and again went on the attack. The victory was brought to the team by two accurate blows of the captain - Valentin Ivanov at the 71st and 83rd minutes.

A week later, on May 30, Moscow hosted the second qualifying match against Wales. In the 39th minute, Valentin Ivanov opened the scoring, in the 48th, Stuart Williams hit his own goal, and in the 69th, Day Davis set the final score of the match - 2:1.

The next match in the group was held there on June 27. The Danish team again, like a year ago, could not seriously resist the Soviet team. Already in the 9th minute, Khusainov opened the scoring, and this goal was the only one in the first half. But in the second, they fell like a cornucopia: a rather mature debutant from Dynamo Tbilisi, Vladimir Barkaya, scored two goals at his own expense, Metreveli, Voronin and Meskhi scored one more. The victory with a score of 6:0 practically provided the team with access to the final tournament of the championship.

Probably the most notable game of the year for the national team was scheduled for July 4 - a friendly match in Moscow with Brazil, which was considered the undisputed leader of world football. The Brazilians arrived in their first squad and had no particular problems at Luzhniki. At the 24th minute, Pele, who was personally looked after by Voronin, opened the scoring, on the 32nd minute he organized a goal for Flavio Minuan, and on the 67th he put an end to the match. Soviet football players were going on the offensive several times, but the defense of the Brazilians played very confidently. The composition of the USSR was far from optimal, for example, Kavazashvili and Bannikov replaced Yashin at the gate.

On September 4, in Moscow, the experimental composition of the national team broke up with Yugoslavia - 0:0. Then the team was expected by a three-match tour of Europe, which was the end of the qualifying round.

On October 3, the Greeks were beaten in Athens. After the goals of Meskhi and Banishevsky at the beginning of the first half, the leader of the Greeks, Papaioann, 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 their 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 theoretical chances to get around it - the Danish 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 gates were hit in turn by Metreveli, Malofeev and Sabo. Tommy Troelson's goal did not decide anything anymore: the USSR national team confidently qualified for the World Cup.

October 27 was the last, nothing decisive match in Cardiff. Banishevsky scored the first goal of the match in the 17th minute, but after 3 minutes Roy Vernon equalized, 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, V - 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 Maracana, the hosts opened the scoring in the 54th minute, after Gershon, having beaten Shesternev and Sabo, hit Yashin's goal point-blank. Three minutes later, Jairzinho and Pele, after a great combination, beat the Soviet defense, which ended great blow the latter into the lower corner from twenty meters. Five minutes later, the goalkeeper of the Brazilians - Manga unsuccessfully knocked the ball, hitting them in Banishevsky, who took advantage of the counterpart's mistake and reduced the backlog in the long run. Having seized the threads of the game to their hands, the Soviet footballers added to the attack, and in one of them Metreveli managed to push the ball into the goal, which had 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 full house of a hundred thousand, where the national team of the Soviet Union and the national team of the local state of Minas Gerais did without goals.

On December 1, Argentina hosted guests from the USSR at the River Plate in the capital. The hosts responded to a goal with a header from Banishevsky (9th minute) with a free kick from Ermindo Onega (48th).

On December 4, at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo, the USSR national team beat the local Uruguay team without any problems, even being not in the most optimal line-up - 3: 1 (goals by Khusainov, Banishevsky and Nikolai Osyanin against a single goal by Pedro Rocha). The last match of the season was held in Santiago, where the local legendary club "Colo-Colo" was able to sensationally beat 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 status (teams of countries, cities, clubs of different leagues) and less officially. The performance of the Soviets in this tournament and in a number of parallel friendly matches with clubs of different ranks cannot be called successful: 5 wins (Independiente (Rivadavia), the Chilean national team, the national team of the city of Uberlandia, 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 series of not the most best results in meetings with local clubs and teams of various classes.

On April 20, in Basel at the St. Jakob-Park stadium, an official friendly match with the Swiss national team took place. By the 9th minute, Chislenko and Monday provided the team with a two-goal lead, 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 became one of the most frequent rivals of this team. Having failed to prove themselves in attack, the hosts concentrated on defense, but in the 20th minute they conceded an unfortunate goal. Goalkeeper Gernot Freidl did not hold the ball in his hands, caught after the opponent hit, and Voronin finished him off with a header. In the first half, the Soviet players did not realize a few more dangerous moments. After the break, the Austrians managed to take some initiative. Tired at the end of the match, the Soviet players did not greatly impress the Viennese fans. On April 27 and 29, the local clubs Schwartz Weiss (3:1) and Bakker (1:4), respectively, were beaten.

On May 22, the Soviet team played a match with Belgium in Brussels. The match began with strong wind and rain, which did not prevent the Soviet team from playing a multi-move organized by Chislenko in the 11th minute, which ended with a well-aimed shot by Serebryannikov into the upper left corner of the goal. Then Banishevsky could not hit the gate left by Jean-Marie Trappenier in the fight against Shesternev, breaking through from two meters well above the crossbar. Gradually, the Belgians leveled the game and began to unleash attack after attack on Yashin's gate, but he played the match flawlessly, not allowing the Belgians to change the score - 1:0.

On June 5, at Luzhniki, the Soviet team, which hosted the French team, held a dress rehearsal before the World Championship starting in a month. At the beginning of the match, the hosts owned the initiative, but the guests often responded with dangerous counterattacks, and in the 19th minute Bernard Blanchet opened the scoring with Philippe Gonde's transfer. Two minutes later, Gonda manages a solo pass and doubles the score. The Soviet team, which rushed to recoup, reduces the score in the 26th minute by the efforts of Metreveli, who converted a one-on-one exit. Banishevsky managed to equalize in the 64th minute, closing Sabo's cross. In the 66th minute, Chislenko led his team forward. The French pulled out a draw in the 78th minute after Josep Bonnel's goal - 3:3.

In mid-June, the team played several matches in Scandinavia with weak opponents, all of which, without exception, confidently outplayed.

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Nikolai 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 Dinamo Tbilisi 3 3 *
10 Vasily Danilov 05/13/1941 Zenit Leningrad 5 4 *
3 Leonid Ostrovsky 01/17/1936 Dynamo Kyiv 2
9 Victor 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 Giorgi Sichinava 09/15/1944 Dynamo Tbilisi 1 2
16 Glory to Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dynamo Tbilisi 6(3) 2 1
2 Victor Serebrynikov 03/29/1940 Dynamo Kyiv 2
13 Alexei 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 Dinamo Tbilisi 4(1)
otb.t. Vladimir Barkaya 07/29/1937 Dinamo 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 23.02.1946 Oilman 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 04.10.1944 Dynamo Kyiv 3 4
20 Eduard Markarov 06/20/1942 Oilman Baku 1

The set of bronze medals consisted of only 11 units, which were distributed among the players presented for the award by the national federations.

[edit] Final tournament

[edit] Group D
Arriving in England, the team settled in Durham, which is near Sunderland, where, along with Middlesbrough, matches of the fourth group were held. The quartet, in addition to the USSR, was supplemented by North Korea, Italy and Chile with their national teams.
The first game was played on 12 July in Middlesbrough at Ayresom Park. Opponent - national team North Korea- was the biggest mystery of the championship, but it was clear to everyone that this team was not stronger than most of the participants, including the Soviet Union. Voronin unexpectedly remained on the bench for "preventive" purposes. The first dangerous moment was created already in the 3rd minute, but Sin Yung Kyu - the captain of the Koreans - took out the ball sent by Banishevsky from an empty net. The activity of the enemy in the first minutes brought a little confusion into the game of the USSR national team, and in the 13th minute already Kavazashvili had to rescue the team in a desperate jump. For the first half hour, the teams exchanged attacks, but could not reasonably complete any of them. In the 31st minute, Banishevsky made a pass to Malofeev, who, being near the right front, hit on goal. The ball, which was reached by defender Pak Lee Sup, ricocheted off his foot and flew into the goal. Two minutes later, the Soviets doubled the score: after Sabo's pass, 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, Ostrovsky knocked the ball out of an empty net. Further, the initiative was taken over by the Soviet team, several times its opponent was rescued by goalkeeper Lee Chang Myung. In the 88th minute, Malofeev scored a double and the victory of his team over a tired opponent - 3:0. Nikolai Morozov was not satisfied with the team's performance.
On July 16 in Sunderland, at Roker Park, the most intriguing match in the subgroup took place: Italy - USSR. Most experts assumed that Italy was the clear favorite of Quartet No. 4. Both teams chose an attacking style of play for the match, and the Soviet defense was able to surpass the traditionally strong Italian defense, holding back the onslaught of such masters as Sandro Mazzola and Ezio Pascutti. Ponomariov turned off Pascutti from the game, and Fakchetti could not cope with Chislenko at the decisive moment. The defense of the Italians did not blunder, however, in the 57th minute, Chislenko, having received the ball from Banishevsky, delivered a powerful irresistible blow. The goal upset the Italians and allowed the Soviet Union to take over, and Khusainov did not use two hundred percent chances to increase the score. True, the score has not changed - 1:0, and the USSR team was the first of all the participants to reach the quarterfinals.
From the match on July 20 at the same "Roker Park" against Chile for the USSR national team, it depended only from which place it would leave the group. Nikolai Morozov decided to test his reserves in this game by releasing 8 new players. The match did not turn out to be spectacular enough, and many Soviet football players were reproached for a bad game. Porkuyan opened the scoring in the 29th minute, but after 4 minutes Ruben Markos equalized the score. 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
North Korea 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
On July 23, Roker Park hosted the quarterfinal match between Hungary and the USSR. The place of the injured Khurtsilava in the defense was taken by Voronin, Porkuyan, who successfully played in the match with Chile, went to the left edge of the attack, and Khusainov pulled himself into midfield. In the 5th minute, the Soviet team succeeded in a quick goal: goalkeeper Jozsef Gelei did not hold the ball in his hands after a slight blow from wingback Danilov, which Chislenko effectively took advantage of. The entire first half, the Hungarian players were confidently held back by the Soviet defenders. Valery Voronin did an excellent job on his personal task: he was instructed to patronize the most formidable Hungarian - Florian Albert. The second half also began with a goal: in the 46th minute, Porkuyan sent the ball into the goal (it is believed that he scored this ball with his head, but Porkuyan himself claimed that he kicked) sent by Khusainov from a free kick, and Gelei missed him. Such a turn led the Hungarians to despair, but after the goal of Ferenc Bene, the Hungarians staged a real assault. Especially tried Bene and Mesay. Yashin and Shesternev, who deserved the best marks from the press, showed themselves perfectly in this situation. Yashin's high-class saves were played on British TV 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 draw), the Soviet team achieved a victory (2: 1) and advanced to the semifinals, securing at least the bronze medals of the championship, which stood out for fourth place.
The semi-finals took place on 25 July 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, Jozsef Sabo's ankle joint was broken in a dump, because of which he could not play at his level, and in the second half, Franz Beckenbauer. Football players of Germany asked a lot of work to the defenders of the USSR, who did not cope with it in the best way, relying on the skill of Lev Yashin. In the 42nd minute, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger picked up the ball lost by Chislenko, quickly moved it forward to Helmut Haller, who with a strong blow opened an account. A couple of minutes later, Chislenko was provoked to a rough foul by German football players, after which he received a red card from the Italian referee Conchetto Lo Bello, whose work left not the best impression. In the 68th minute, Beckenbauer, who noticed that Yashin was closed by defenders, increased the gap in the score with a long-range shot. However, after that, the Soviet footballers started up, began to deliver one trouble after another to the German defense. According to most football journalists, the Soviet team, playing, in fact, with nine men, looked much better than the opponent in the second half. In the 87th minute, Porkuyan reduced the backlog of his team, and a minute before the end he missed another moment, and it was not possible to equalize the score - 2:1.
The USSR team competed for third place with Portugal on July 28 at London's Wembley. Shesternev, Sabo and Chislenko could not take part in the match. Due to forced reshuffles in the squad, the two leaders of the Portuguese attack had to be guarded by Voronin (Eusebio) and Khurtsilava (Jose 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 the fight against 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 succeeded in a long dash through the center, which he finished with a strong blow (this goal is often mistakenly attributed to Malofeev). Goalkeeper Jose Pereira reached for 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 national team looked better than the primitively acting Portuguese, who relied on Eusebio and Torres. The author of the return goal stood out especially - Metreveli, who sat in the reserve. The outcome of the match was decided only in the 87th minute, when Torres quickly ran behind Khurtsilava and Korneev to send the ball into the goal, sent by the head of Jose Augustu. The USSR national team suffered a second consecutive defeat with a score of 1: 2 and was content with the "bronze".
In general, Yashin, Shesternev, Voronin and Chislenko had a strong tournament, confirming their high class, both extreme defenders, Ponomarev and Danilov, acted reliably. The central forwards - Malofeev and Banishevsky - looked weaker (except for the first match against the DPRK), Khusainov did not act in the best way. The opening of the championship was Porkuyan, who was included 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.
Interestingly, of the Kyiv Dynamo players who won the USSR championship in 1966, only Sabo and Porkuyan were in the main team in England, Ostrovsky and Serebryanikov performed occasionally, and the dispatcher Andrei Biba, recognized best football player the 1966 season, was not included in the application for the World Cup at all.
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 round
Albania - refusal

[edit] group finale
May 21, 1968 - USSR 3-2 Czechoslovakia
June 1, 1968 - Czechoslovakia 3-0 USSR
Played for the national team in all 4 matches 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] 1968 European Football Championship

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 3
June 11, 1967
USSR 4 - 3 Austria Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 100.000
Referee: E. Bostrom
Malofeev 25"
Byshovets 36"
Chislenko 43"
Streltsov 80" Hof 38"
Volny 54"
Sieber 71"
Lineups: USSR: Yashin, Afonin, Shesternev (c), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Byshovets, Streltsov, Malofeev
Austria: Pichler, Vartush, Eshelmüller, Glechner, Sturmberger, Fack, Hof, Flögel, Sieber, Wolny, Hörmeyer

July 16, 1967
USSR 4 - 0 Greece Stadium: Dynamo, Tbilisi
Viewers: 40.000
Referee: B. Nielsen
Banishevsky 50" and 77"
Clog 72" (pen)
Chislenko 83"
Lineups: USSR: Yashin, Anichkin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Lenev, Voronin, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Streltsov
Greece: Iconomopoulos, Plesas, Polichroniou, Bellis, Loukanidis, Kamaras, Domazos, Haytas, Sideris, Papaioannou, Botinos

August 30, 1967
USSR 2 - 0 Finland Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 80.000
Referee: M. Sarvan
Khurtsilava 14"
Chislenko 80"
Lineups: USSR: Kavazashvili, Afonin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Tskhovrebov, Maslov, Chislenko, Sabo, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Malofeev
Finland: Nösman, Myakipää, Kilponen, Kautonen, Nummila, Peltonen, Mäkelä, Syuryavaara, Palman, Tolsa, Laine

September 6, 1967
Finland 2 - 5 USSR Stadium: Kupittya, Turku
Viewers: 8.000
Referee: P. Spotak
Peltonen 18" (pen)
Surjavaara 25" Clogs 2" and 56" (pen)
Maslov 14"
Banishevsky 35"
Malofeev 63"
Lineups: Finland: Nösman, Pitko, Kilponen, Myakipää, Nummila, Myakelä, Suryavaara, Nuoranen, Tolsa, Peltonen, Laine
USSR: Pshenichnikov (Kavazashvili 80"), Afonin, Anichkin, Khurtsilava, Logofet, Maslov, Chislenko, Sabo (c), Banishevsky, Byshovets, Malofeev

October 15, 1967
Austria 1 - 0 USSR Stadium: Prater, Vienna
Viewers: 34.000
Referee: T. Bechirov
Grausam 50"
Ingredients:
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
Viewers: 45.000
Referee: G. Dienst
Malofeev 50"
Ingredients:
Greece: Christidis, Balopoulos, Zanderoglu, Polychroniou, Gaitadis, Haytas, Loukanidis, Domazos, Yutzos, 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
May 4, 1968
Hungary 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Nepstadion, Budapest
Viewers: 80.000
Referee: L. van Ravens
Farkas 21"
Gerech 84"
Lineups: Hungary: Vater, Novak, Soimoshi, Mesei, Ihas, Gerech, Syuch, Rakosi, Fazekas, Varga, Farkas
USSR: Kavazashvili, Istomin, Shesternev (k), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Kaplichny, Malofeev, Streltsov, Banishevsky

May 11, 1968
USSR 3 - 0 Hungary Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 102.000
Referee: K. Chancher
Shoimoshi 21" (ag)
Khurtsilava 59"
Byshovets 73"
Lineups: USSR: Pshenichnikov, Afonin, Shesternev (c), Khurtsilava, Anichkin, Voronin, Chislenko, Kaplichny, Banishevsky, Byshovets, Evryuzhikhin
Hungary: Tamas, Novak, Soimoshi, Ihas, Mesey, Syuch, Varga, Komora, Albert, Farkas, Rakosi

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Mikhail Yakushin

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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. Evgeny Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv
Defenders
3. Victor Anichkin 12/08/1941 Dynamo Moscow 6
9. Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dinamo 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 Dinamo 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 Dinamo 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 23.02.1946 Oilman 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 02.01.1948 Dinamo Tbilisi
22. Nikolay Smolnikov 10.03.1949 Neftchi Baku

[edit] Final tournament

[edit] 1/2 finals
June 5, 1968
Italy 0 - 0* USSR Stadium: San Paolo Stadium, Naples
Viewers: 68 582
Referee: K. Chancher

Ingredients:
Italy: Zoff, Burgnich, Facchetti, Ferrini, Bercellino, Castano, Domenghini, Juliano, Mazzola, Rivera, Prati

* Italy advanced to the final by draw

[edit] 3rd place match
June 8, 1968
England 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Viewers: 68 817
Referee: I. Zholt
B.Charlton 39"
Hurst 63"
Lineups: England: Banks, T.Wright, Wilson, Stiles, Lebon, 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 mentor of our team, Mikhail Yakushin, although not immediately, was dismissed. To justify the poor performance, we can say that on the eve of the championship, for various reasons, the national team lost almost half of the main team - Voronin, Khurtsilava, Yashin, Nodia, Chislenko, Anichkin, Streltsov. Lenev, Logofet, Afonin and Malofeev failed to replace the leaders properly.

[edit] 1970 FIFA World Cup

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 4
Group 4 1 2 3 I V N P M O
1. USSR 2:0 3:0 4 3 1 0 8-1 7
2. Northern Ireland 0:0 4:1 4 2 1 1 7-3 5
3. Turkey 1:3 0:3 4 0 0 4 2-13 0

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
otb.t. Evgeny 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 Dinamo 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 Nikolai Kiselyov 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 02.01.1948 Dinamo 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 Glory to Metreveli 01/12/1937 Dinamo 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 Chancher
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 City, 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
June 14, 1970
12:00
Uruguay 1-0 (a.e.) USSR Mexico City, Azteca
Referee: Laurens van Ravens
Viewers: 45,000
Esparrago 116"

[edit] 1972 European Football Championship

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 4
November 15, 1970
Cyprus 1 - 3 USSR Stadium: Municipal Stadium, Nicosia
Spectators: 13,000
Referee: P. Kostovsky
Charalambous 42" Kolotov 10"
Evryuzhihin 16"
Shevchenko 50"
Lineups: Cyprus: Alkiviadis, Kattos, Kavazis, Fokkis, Koureas, Charalambous, Thassos (Ketriotis, 83), Lakis (Markus, 75), Papadopoulos, Vasiliou, Stylianou
USSR: Bannikov, Istomin, Shesternev (k), Lovchev, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Kopeikin (Nodia, 70), Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin

May 30, 1971
USSR 2 - 1 Spain Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 102,000
Referee: F. Biversi
Kolotov 79"
Shevchenko 83" Rexach 88"
Lineups: 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 (Lora, 62), Rexach, Claramunt, Amancio, Uriarte, Churruca

June 7, 1971
USSR 6 - 1 Cyprus Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 35,000
Referee: E. Beyar
Fedotov 79" and 86"
Evryuzhihin 23" and 38"
Kolotov 59"
Banishevsky 85" Stefanis 75"
Line-ups: USSR: Bannikov (Rudakov, 46), Istomin, Shesternev (c), Zykov, Kaplichny, Kolotov, Muntyan, Banishevsky, Fedotov, Shevchenko, Evryuzhikhin (Khmelnitsky, 64)
Cyprus: Varnavas, Kokos, Kavazis, Fokkis, Kallis, Stefanis, Vassiliou, Konstantinou, Markus, Kanjileris (Takis, 74), Stylianou (Theodorou, 46)
Missed penalty: Banishevsky (32)

September 22, 1971
USSR 1 - 0 Northern Ireland Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 75,000
Referee: W. Dahlberg
Muntean 43" (pen)
Ingredients:
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), 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
Referee: R. Nyhus
Nicholson 13" Byshovets 32"
Ingredients:
Northern Ireland: Jennings, Rice, Nelson, Nicholson, Hunter, O'Kane, McMordy, Hamilton (O'Neill 65), Neill, Dugan (Cassidy 46), Clements
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Lovchev, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Kiselev, Dolmatov, Konkov, Byshovets, Shevchenko (Ishtoyan, 60)

October 27, 1971
Spain 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Sevilla
Spectators: 60,000
Referee: N. Bartenshaw

Lineups: Spain: Reina, Sol, Gallego, Tonono, Anton (Marcial, 76), Laura, Claramunt, Chini, Amancio, Kino, Churruca
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Shesternev (k), Istomin, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Muntyan, Dolmatov, Fedotov (Kiselev, 83), Byshovets, Ishtoyan (Shevchenko, 62)

I V N P M O
USSR 6 4 2 0 13-4 10
Spain 6 3 2 1 14-3 8
Northern Ireland 6 2 2 2 10-6 6
Cyprus 6 0 0 6 2-26 0

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
April 30, 1972
Yugoslavia 0 - 0 USSR Stadium: Red Star Stadium, Belgrade
Viewers: 99,000
Referee: R. Schörer

Ingredients:
Yugoslavia: Maric, Ramlyak, Stepanovic, Pavlovic, Paunovic, Holzer, Jankovic, Oblak, Bukal (Bajevic, 85), Acimovic, Dzhaich
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Kaplichny, Istomin, Makhovikov (Troshkin, 62), Dolmatov, Baydachny, Banishevsky, Konkov, Kozinkevich (Evryuzhikhin, 75)

May 13, 1972
USSR 3 - 0 Yugoslavia Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Viewers: 100,000
Referee: A. Agnonesi
Kolotov 53"
Banishevsky 74"
Kozinkevich 90"
Line-ups: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Abramov, Istomin, Kolotov, Troshkin, Baidachny (Kopeikin, 66), Banishevsky, Konkov, Evryuzhikhin (Kozinkevich, 90)
Yugoslavia: Marić, Ramlak, Stepanović, Pavlović, Paunović, Holzer (Petković 56), Antonevich, Oblak (Yerković 73), Janković, Acimović, Jaić

[edit] Team members
Head coach: qualifying games - Valentin Nikolaev, final tournament - Alexander Ponomarev

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
20 Viktor Bannikov 04/28/1938 Torpedo Moscow 2(-1)
1 Evgeny Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 7(-3) 2 ;3
19 Vladimir Pilgui 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 Nikolai Abramov 01/05/1950 Spartak Moscow 1
2 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 15.04.1945 Dinamo 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. Nikolai Kiselyov 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 02.10.1951 Oilman 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 01.10.1952 Dynamo Moscow 2 2
9 Anatoly Banishevsky 02/23/1946 Oilman Baku 4(2) 2
16 Givi Nodia 02.01.1948 Dinamo Tbilisi 2 1
11 Eduard Kozinkevich 05/23/1949 Karpaty Lvov 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
Referee: R. Gleckner
Skates 53"

Lineups: USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava, Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov, Troshkin, Kolotov, Baydachny, Banishevsky (Nodia, 68), Onishchenko.
Hungary: Getsi, Fabian, Pancic, Balint, P. Juhas, I. Juhas, L. Kocsis (Albert, 60), Kyu, Seke, Bene (A.Dunai, 60), Zambo.
Missed penalty: Zambo (84, goalkeeper).

[edit] Final
June 18, 1972
Germany 3 - 0 USSR Stadium: IJsel, Brussels
Spectators: 50,000.
Referee: F. Marshall
G. Muller 27"
Wimmer 51"
G. Muller 58"
Line-ups: Germany: Mayer, Hettges, Breitner, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer (c), Wimmer, Heynckes, W. Hoeness, G. Müller, Netzer, E. Kremers.
USSR: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Khurtsilava (k), Kaplichny, Istomin, Konkov (Dolmatov, 46), Troshkin, Kolotov, Baydachny, Banishevsky (Kozinkevich, 63), Onishchenko.

[edit] XX Summer Olympics in Munich 1972

[edit] Qualifiers
June 2, 1971 - Netherlands 4-0 USSR
16 June 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Alexander Ponomarev, in May 1972 - Boris Nabokov

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Oleinik??.??.1950 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2(-1)
2 Vladimir Pilgui 01/26/1948 Dynamo Moscow 1 2
1 Evgeny Rudakov 01/02/1942 Dynamo Kyiv 6;6
Defenders
otb.t. Nikolai 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. Victor Matvienko 10/26/1948 Dynamo Kyiv 2
otb.t. Boris Serostanov 10/17/1949 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1
otb.t. Rostyslav Potochniak 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 Dinamo Tbilisi 4
4 Murtaz Khurtsilava 01/05/1943 Dinamo Tbilisi 6 1
5 Vladimir Kaplichny 02/26/1944 CSKA Moscow 7
6 Yuri Istomin 07/03/1944 CSKA Moscow 6
8 Evgeny Lovchev 01/29/1949 Spartak Moscow 6
7 Sergey Olshansky 05/28/1948 Spartak Moscow 3
Midfielders
otb.t. Sergei Bondarenko??.??.1948 Ararat Yerevan 4
otb.t. Vladimir Troshkin 09/28/1947 Dynamo Kyiv 5(1)
otb.t. Vladimir Veremeev 11/08/1948 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. Hasanbek Mirikov 06/03/1950 Oilman Baku 1
11 Arkady Andreasyan 11.08.1947 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 Karpaty Lvov 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 Greschak 03/31/1949 Karpaty Lvov 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 02.01.1948 Dinamo 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
August 30, 1972 - Sudan 1-2 USSR
September 1, 1972 - Mexico 1-4 USSR

I V N P M O
USSR 3 3 0 0 7-2 6
Mexico 3 2 0 1 3-4 4
Burma 3 1 0 2 2-2 2
Sudan 3 0 0 3 1-5 0

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Group A
3 September 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, V - 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 reach the final tournament in additional matches with the winner of the 3rd group of South America:

September 26, 1973
USSR 0 - 0 Chile Stadium: Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow

The USSR national team refused the return match away from the Chilean national team, citing the political situation in Chile. By the decision of FIFA, the USSR national team was counted as a defeat, the Chilean team reached the final of the championship.

For the national team played 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 (conceded 1 goal); in 1 match: V. Muntyan, Y. Vasenin, M. Fomenko, O. Dolmatov, V. Gutsaev, A. Kozhemyakin. Head coach - Evgeny Goryansky.

[edit] 1976 European Football Championship

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 6
1. USSR 2:1 3:0 4:1 6 4 0 2 10-6 8
2. Ireland 3:0 4:0 2:1 6 3 1 2 11-5 7
3. Turkey 1:0 1:1 2:1 6 2 2 2 5-10 6
4. Switzerland 0:1 1:0 1:1 6 1 1 4 5-10 3

[edit] Quarterfinals
April 24, 1976
Czechoslovakia 2 - 0 USSR Stadium: Slovan, Bratislava
Viewers: 50,000
Referee: H. Ok
Moeder 34"
Panenka 47"

Lineups: Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Dobiash, Ondrush, Chapkovich, Gög, Möder (Knapp, 77), Pollak, Panenka, Masny, Petrash (Kroupa, 18), Nehoda
USSR: Prokhorov, Konkov, Zvyagintsev, Fomenko, Reshko, Matvienko, Lovchev (Veremeev, 57), Onishchenko (Nazarenko, 68), Kolotov (k), Troshkin, Blokhin

May 22, 1976
USSR 2 - 2 Czechoslovakia Stadium: Central, Kyiv
Viewers: 100,000
Referee: A. Mackenzie
Buryak 53"
Blokhin 87" Moeder 45" and 82"
Lineups: USSR: Rudakov, Konkov (Minaev, 54), Lovchev, Fomenko (c), Zvyagintsev, Troshkin, Muntyan, Onishchenko, Buryak, Veremeev, Blokhin
Czechoslovakia: Viktor, Gög, Pollak, Dobias, Ondrush, Pivarnik, Chapkovich (Jurkemik, 83), Masny, Möder, Gallis (Schweglik, 88), Nechoda

Warnings: Troshkin, Meder

For the national team played in all 8 matches of the qualifying tournament: O. Blokhin (3 goals), V. Veremeev (1 goal), V. Onishchenko (2 goals); in 7 matches: A. Konkov (1 goal), M. Fomenko; in 6 matches: V. Kolotov (3 goals), E. Rudakov (conceded 5 goals), L. Buryak (1 goal), V. Muntyan (1 goal), V. Troshkin; in 5 matches: E. Lovchev, S. Reshko, V. Zvyagintsev; in 4 matches: V. Matvienko; in 3 matches: V. Fedorov; in 2 matches: V. Sakharov; in 1 match: V. Pilgui (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] Preparing for the tournament (Olympic team)

[edit] Qualifiers
May 7, 1975 - Yugoslavia 1-1 USSR
May 21, 1975 - USSR 3-0 Yugoslavia

[edit] Group 1
July 30, 1975 - Iceland 0-2 USSR
August 28, 1975 - Norway 1-3 USSR
10 September 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Team members
Head coach: qualifying games - Konstantin Beskov, final tournament - Valery Lobanovsky

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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. Nikolai 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. Sergey 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. Viktor 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 Dinamo 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 08.11.1948 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
North Korea 2 1 0 1 3-4 2
Canada 0 0 0 2 2-5 0

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
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
Referee: G. Dorantes
Viewers: 58,000

[edit] 3rd place match
July 29, 1976
Brazil 0-2 USSR Olympic, Montreal
Referee: 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

For the national team played in all 4 matches of the qualifying tournament: O. Blokhin, L. Buryak (1 goal), A. Konkov (1 goal), D. Kipiani (2 goals), A. Minaev, V. Troshkin, Sh. Khinchagashvili; in 3 matches: V. Fedorov, V. Onishchenko, A. Maksimenkov; in 2 matches: V. Astapovsky (conceded 2 goals), E. Lovchev, S. Baishakov, Yu. Degtyarev (conceded 1 goal), V. Matvienko; in 1 match: S. Olshansky, V. Kruglov, O. Dolmatov, A. Novikov. Head coach - Nikita Simonyan.

[edit] 1980 European Football Championship

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 6
Group 6 1 2 3 4 I V N P M O
1. Greece 4:1 8:1 1:0 6 3 1 2 13-7 7
2. Hungary 0:0 3:1 2:0 6 2 2 2 9-9 6
3. Finland 3:0 2:1 1:1 6 2 2 2 10-15 6
4. USSR 2:0 2:2 2:2 6 1 3 2 7-8 5

For the national team played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: A. Bubnov; in 5 matches: V. Khidiyatullin, A. Makhovikov; in 4 matches: A. Berezhnoy, V. Bessonov (1 goal); in 3 matches: V. Zhupikov, S. Prigoda, Y. Chesnokov (1 goal), O. Blokhin, N. Gontar (conceded 5 goals), R. Shengelia, D. Kipiani; in 2 matches: Y. Degtyarev (conceded 1 goal), A. Konkov, L. Buryak, V. Daraselia, S. Shavlo, S. Yurchishin, Y. Gavrilov; in 1 match: M. An, G. Yartsev, V. Gutsaev, Yu. 1 ball), S. Nikulin, F. Cherenkov, A. Maksimenkov, S. Andreev, V. Veremeev, V. Kazachenok, H. Oganesyan. Head coach - Nikita Simonyan (until July 1979), then Konstantin Beskov.

[edit] XXII Summer Olympics in Moscow 1980

[edit] Olympic squad
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov

No. Name Date of Birth Goal Games Club
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 6; 3
12 Vladimir Pilgui 01/26/1948 Dynamo Moscow 1
Defenders
2 Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dinamo Tbilisi 6
3 Alexander Chivadze 09/08/1955 Dinamo Tbilisi 6
4 Vagiz Khidiyatullin 03.03.1959 Spartak Moscow 6 2
5 Oleg Romantsev 01/04/1954 Spartak Moscow 6 1
13 Sergey Baltacha 02/17/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 2
14 Sergey Nikulin 01/01/1951 Dynamo Moscow 1
Midfielders
6 Sergey 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 Hovhannisyan 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 02.10.1955 Dinamo 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
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 Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow
Referee: W. Ericsson
Viewers: 90,000

[edit] 3rd place match
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 members
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Sergey Borovsky 01/29/1956 Dynamo Minsk 4 3
18 Yuri Susloparov 08/14/1958 Torpedo Moscow 4 1
Midfielders
otb.t. Sergey Shavlo 09/04/1956 Spartak Moscow 3
otb.t. David Kipiani 11/18/1951 Dinamo 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 Hovhannisyan 01/10/1955 Ararat Yerevan 4(2) 3 1
13 Vitaly Daraselia 09.10.1957 Dynamo Tbilisi 5(1) 4
forwards
otb.t. Alexander Tarkhanov 09/06/1954 CSKA 1
otb.t. Vladimir Gutsaev 12/21/1952 Dinamo Tbilisi 1
19 Vadim Yevtushenko 01/01/1958 Dynamo Kyiv 1
7 Ramaz Shengelia 01.01.1957 Dinamo 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 Sergey 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, Sevilla
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo
Viewers: 68,000
Socrates 75"
Eder 88" Ball 34"

June 19, 1982
21:15
USSR 3–0 New Zealand Estadio La Rosaleda, Malaga
Referee: Youssef El Ghul
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"
Sauness 86"

I V N P M O
Brazil 3 3 0 0 10-2 6
USSR 3 1 1 1 6-4 3
Scotland 3 1 1 1 8-8 3
New Zealand 3 0 0 3 2-12 0

I - games, V - 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 Votro
Viewers: 45,000
Hovhannisyan 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] 1984 European Football Championship

[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

For the national team played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: R. Dasaev (missed 2 goals), A. Chivadze, A. Demyanenko (2 goals), S. Baltacha (1 goal), H. Oganesyan; in 5 matches: A. Bal, O. Blokhin (2 goals), T. Sulakvelidze, F. Cherenkov (2 goals); in 4 matches: L.Buryak; in 3 matches: V. Bessonov, S. Andreev (1 goal), R. Shengelia, V. Yevtushenko, 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
May 18, 1983 - Bulgaria 2-2 USSR
May 26, 1983 - USSR 3-0 Greece
7 September 1983 - Hungary 0-1 USSR
October 5, 1983 - Greece 1-3 USSR
October 12, 1983 - USSR 0-0 Bulgaria
April 25, 1984 - USSR 0-1 Hungary

I V N P M O
USSR 6 3 2 1 9-4 8
Hungary 6 3 2 1 8-5 8
Bulgaria 6 1 5 0 7-5 7
Greece 6 0 1 5 4-14 1

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points
For the national team (Olympic) played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: S. Gotsmanov, V. Grachev (1 goal); in 5 matches: Vyach. Chanov (conceded 3 goals), V. Gazzaev (2 goals); in 4 matches: V. Yanushevsky, V. Zhupikov, S. Aleinikov (1 goal), F. Cherenkov (2 goals), V. Shishkin; in 3 matches: E.Mileshkin, E.Kuznetsov (1 goal), V.Melnikov, B.Pozdnyakov; in 2 matches: M. Belyalov, A. Sorokalet, V. M. Kuznetsov, I. Belanov, V. Klementiev (1 goal), G. Litovchenko; in 1 match: V. Novikov (conceded 1 goal), S. Vedeneev, Y. Zheludkov, A. Keropyan, V. Kaplun, N. Larionov (1 goal), I. Gurinovich, V. 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 the boycott announced 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 members
Head coach: qualifying games - Eduard Malofeev, final tournament - Valery Lobanovsky

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 8(-8) 3;5
22 Sergey Krakovsky 08/11/1960 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Defenders
otb.t. Tengiz Sulakvelidze 07/23/1956 Dinamo Tbilisi 4
otb.t. Sergey 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 Dinamo 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 Zenith 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 Hovhannisyan 10.01.1955 Ararat Yerevan 2
otb.t. Andrey Zygmantovich 02.12.1962 Dynamo Minsk 4
otb.t. Sergei 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 Aleinikov 07.11.1961 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 Rats 04/25/1961 Dynamo Kyiv 3 1
forwards
otb.t. Georgy Kondratiev 01/07/1960 Dynamo Minsk 7(3)
11 Oleg Blokhin 05.11.1952 Dynamo Kyiv 3 2 1
14 Sergey Rodionov 09/03/1962 Spartak Moscow 2 4 1
18 Oleg Protasov 04.02.1964 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" Dike (author)
80" Rodionov
Note: Yevtushenko (USSR) missed the penalty (77", wide).

June 5, 1986
12:00
France 1:1 (0:0) USSR Leon, Estadio Nou Camp
Referee: Romualdo Arppi Filho
62" Fernandez 54" Raz

June 9, 1986
12:00
USSR 2:0 (0:0) Canada Irapuato, Estadio Sergio Le;n Chavez
Referee: Idris Traore
59" Blokhin
75" Zavarov

I V N P M O
USSR 3 2 1 0 9-1 5
France 3 2 1 0 5-1 5
Hungary 3 1 0 2 2-9 2
Canada 3 0 0 3 0-5 0

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Round of 16
June 15, 1986
16:00
Belgium 4:3 (0:1) in a.p. USSR Leon, Nou Camp
56" Shifo
78" Coulemans
102" Demol
109" Klassen 28", 70", 111" (pen) Belanov
Number of viewers - 132,277
Chief Referee - Eric Fredrickson
Assistant referees - Arminio Victoriano Sanchez, David Socha
Yellow cards - 65" Michel Rankin (Bel) (0)

[edit] 1988 European Football Championship

[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 members

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow 8(-3) 5 -4
16 Victor 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 Dinamo 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 Sergey 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
departure Ivan Yaremchuk 03/19/1962 Dynamo Kyiv 2
6 Vasily Rats 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 Alexei 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 Zenith Leningrad

[edit] Final tournament

[edit] Group 2
June 12, 1988
Netherlands 0:1 USSR Stadium: Cologne
Spectators: 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"

National team I V L P M Points
USSR 3 2 1 0 5 ; 25
Netherlands 3 2 0 1 4 ; 24
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 Votro
Gullit 34"
van Basten 54"

[show]p o rTeam of the USSR - European Championship 1988 - 2nd place
1 Dasaev (c) 2 Bessonov 3 Khidiyatullin 4 O. Kuznetsov 5 Demyanenko 6 Rats 7 Aleinikov 8 Litovchenko 9 Zavarov 10 Protasov 11 Belanov 12 Vishnevsky 13 Sulakvelidze 14 Sukristov 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Vik. 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 - Turkey 0-2 USSR
May 7, 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 Turkey
April 27, 1988 - USSR 2-0 Bulgaria
10 May 1988 - USSR 0-0 Switzerland

I V N P M O
USSR 8 6 2 0 12-2 14
Bulgaria 8 4 2 2 13-5 10
Switzerland 8 2 3 3 8-10 7
Norway 8 0 5 3 1-7 5
Turkey 8 1 2 5 5-15 4

I - games, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Team members

№ Name Date of birth Club Qualifying 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 10.07.1963 Neftchi Baku 1
otb.t. Arkady Afanasiev 03/20/1959 Zenit Leningrad 1
otb.t. Dmitry Kuznetsov 08/28/1965 CSKA 1
2 Gela Ketashvili 27.09.1965 Dynamo Tbilisi 5 6
3 Igor Sklyarov 08/31/1966 Dynamo Moscow 7 2
4 Aleksey Cherednik 09/15/1960 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 4 4
5 Arvydas Janonis 11/06/1960 Zalgiris Vilnius 1 1
12 Evgeny Yarovenko 17.08.1963 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 5 4
13 Sergey Fokin 07/26/1961 CSKA 3 1
17 Victor Losev 01/25/1959 Dynamo Moscow 6 6
18 Sergey 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 Alexei Mikhailichenko 03/30/1963 Dynamo Kyiv 8(2) 6 5
8 Igor Ponomarev 24.02.1960 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. Nikolai 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 20.04.1962 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
20 September 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[edit] Quarterfinals
September 25, 1988
Australia 0-3 USSR Kuduk Stadium, Busan
Referee: Juan Cardelino
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 o rTeam of the USSR - Olympic Games 1988 - Champion
1 Kharin (c) 2 Ketashvili 3 Sklyarov 4 Cherednik 5 Yanonis 6 Tishchenko 7 E. Kuznetsov 8 I. Ponomarev 9 Borodyuk 10 Dobrovolsky 11 Lyuty 12 Yarovenko 13 Fokin 14 Tatarchuk 15 Mikhailichenko 16 Prudnikov (c) 17 Losev 18 Gorlukovich 19 Yu. Savichev 20 Narbekovas Coach Anatoly Byshovets

[edit] 1990 FIFA World Cup

[edit] Preparing for the tournament

[edit] Group 3
Group 3 1 2 3 4 5 I V N P M O
1. USSR
2:0 2:0 3:0 1:1 8 4 3 1 11-4 11
2. Austria 0:0 3:2 3:0 2:1 8 3 3 2 9-9 9
3. Turkey 0:1 3:0 3:1 1:1 8 3 1 4 12-10 7
4. GDR 2:1 1:1 0:2 2:0 8 3 1 4 9-13 7
5. Iceland 1:1 0:0 2:1 0:3
8 1 4 3 6-11 6

[edit] Team members
Head coach: Valery Lobanovsky

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of Games of Goals
Goalkeepers
1 Rinat Dasaev 06/13/1957 Spartak Moscow, Sevilla 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 Dinamo 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 Sergey Gorlukovich 11/18/1961 Lokomotiv Moscow, Borussia Dortmund 7 3
13 Akhrik Tsveiba 09/11/1966 Dynamo Kyiv
19 Sergey Fokin 07/26/1961 CSKA
Midfielders
otb.t. Alexei 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 Rats 04/25/1961 Dynamo Kyiv, Espanyol Spain 6 1
7 Sergei Aleinikov 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 Andrei Zygmantovich 02.12.1962 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 Cardelino
Lacatush 42", 57" (pen)

June 13, 1990
21:00
Argentina 2-0 USSR Sao Paulo, Naples
Viewers: 55,759
Referee: Erik Fredriksson
Troglio 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

[show]p o rTeam of the USSR - World Cup 1990
1 Dasaev (c) 2 Bessonov 3 Khidiyatullin 4 O. Kuznetsov 5 Demyanenko 6 Rats 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
11 September 1990 - USSR 2-2 Norway
April 18, 1991 - Hungary 0-0 USSR
June 12, 1991 - Italy 1-0 USSR
August 27, 1991 - Norway 0-1 USSR
24 September 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, V - wins, N - draws, P - losses, M - goal difference, O - points

For the national team (Olympic) played in all 6 matches of the qualifying tournament: S. Bezhenar (1 goal), Y. Nikiforov, S. Radchenko (1 goal); in 5 matches: S. Kiryakov, G. Stauche (conceded 2 goals), O. Tetradze; in 4 matches: 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. Zayets, 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] 1992 European Football Championship

[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 members
Head coach: Anatoly Byshovets

No. Name Date of Birth Club Elimination of games (goals) of 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 Alexei 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 Sergey Aleinikov 07.11.1961 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 Sergey Yuran 06/11/1969 Dynamo Kyiv, Benfica 5(1) 2
15 Igor Kolyvanov 03/06/1968 Dynamo Moscow, Foggia Italy 7 2
13 Sergey 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: Ydrottsparken, Norrkoping
Spectators: 17 410
Referee: Gerard Bige

December 8, 1956, the USSR national football team won gold medalsXVIsummer olympic games.

Our football team is deservedly considered the eternal pain, and sometimes even the shame of the nation, and Kokorin and Mamaev and the defeat from Qatar are just the next stages of a long journey. Exceptions to this rule are rare, but they do exist.

The first big official holiday on the street of the Soviet fan struck at the very end of 1956, becoming the decoration of an even more epic celebration - the USSR won the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia for the first time in the team event, ahead of the USA. 98 Soviet medals (of which 37 gold) against 74 American (32 gold) looked more than impressive. The overall success at the height of the Cold War was a great political victory, which would then be repeated many times in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Football luck since then at the national team level smiled only twice: in 1960, the first European championship in history was won, and in 1988, the Seoul Olympics. By the beginning of the World Cup in Russia, by the summer of 2018, the unbeaten streak will be exactly thirty years. All the more significant is the success of 60 years ago.

Khrushchev with Adzhubei contrary to

At that time, the Olympics were the only major international tournament in which Soviet football players participated (the first world championship for them would be only in 1958). Our fan remembers the first Olympic experience (Helsinki, 1952) every time he really wants to disperse the domestic “stars” who failed another big competition. This is exactly what the Stalinist leadership did when they disbanded the base club of the CDSA team after the defeat from Yugoslavia, which was extremely hostile to us at that time.

Repressions were not ruled out following the results of Melbourne: the still living Olympic champion Alexei Paramonov writes in his 2014 book that the head of Soviet sports, Nikolai Romanov “even offered to take an oath that in Melbourne we would win all the matches - so that in which case, if Khrushchev starts a “debriefing”, relieve himself of part of the responsibility”.

The debriefing was already arranged in Australia - after the USSR national team tied with Indonesia (0:0) in the quarterfinals on November 29, and it came to a replay. The great Lev Yashin could even give victory to the Indonesians - after for some reason he began to circle their attacker, from whom he took the ball, eliminating the one-on-one exit. Khrushchev's son-in-law Alexey Adzhubey, who began his journalistic career in the sports department of Komsomolskaya Pravda, was at the match and wrote a devastating report. According to Paramonov, “The next day we had a very serious meeting of the whole team. The head of the Olympic Committee, Konstantin Andrianov, arrived to attend personally and participate in the analysis of the game. The meeting lasted for about three hours. And each player had to explain why he played the way he did, and why the team couldn't win.".

After such bureaucratic instructions, ours usually do not win, but in Melbourne everything turned out differently. The path to victory was paved by an incredibly tense semi-final with Bulgaria, where they had to play extra time. Losing with a score of 0:1 8 minutes before the end of overtime, our players managed to score two goals, and both goal combinations were started by Nikolay Tishchenko, who played with a broken collarbone. The Bulgarians cried with grief in the locker room almost the whole team.

Revenge "Tito's clique"

The final match with Yugoslavia at the main stadium in the presence of 102,000 spectators could not but become a continuation of the sad story of four years ago. The appearance of friendship with Belgrade restored by Khrushchev had already cracked by the end of 1956, and in the event of a defeat, coach Gavriil Kachalin and the players would not have seemed enough, even despite the fact that Nikita Sergeevich was never particularly interested in sports. Considering that 10 out of 20 collections were Spartak, another disbandment following the results of the Olympics was not ruled out. The opponent resisted, but at the beginning of the second half, in the 48th minute, the only and winning goal took place.

Alexey Paramonov, after more than half a century, estimated the significance of this victory very highly: “Now they write that there were Yugoslav youth on the field, which it was a sin to beat with a score of 1:0. But this is the final match. Olympic tournament! And among our rivals was, for example, Dragoslav Šekularac from Red Star, who will be called the “Yugoslavian Pele” a bit later. Yes, and Tito and Khrushchev had quarreled again by that time - after the well-known events in Hungary in the autumn of 1956. So the victory was real, and the only goal turned out to be Spartak's - they still argue which of the two Anatoliev, Ilyin or Isaev, sent the ball into the net at the beginning of the second half. Ilyin's name was in the final protocol, and Isaev made the main shot on goal. The joy of this victory was real. We became Olympic champions!”.

Then, in 1956, against the background of the fact that future Olympic winners twice, home and away, having won in friendly matches with great political overtones of the then world champions from the West German national team, Melbourne seemed to be the road to many big victories. These hopes were not in a hurry to come true, and in the nineties they seemed to dissipate completely. Only three champions survived to the 60th anniversary of the Melbourne victory - Nikita Simonyan, Alexei Paramonov and Yuri Belyaev; the heroes of the match Ilyin and Isaev died quite recently, on February 10 and July 10, 2016.

Pretend to be Portuguese or Greek

The farther from Melbourne, the more significant for our entire history those Olympic successes in general and football in particular. The time of great sports victories is worthy of reflection both in school textbooks and in the cinema (as you know, a film about Yashin is already being made). And, in my opinion, it’s still too early to put an end to the possibility of growing a medal crop in the future: everyone has before their eyes the history of a boring and low-key team from Portugal, which won the European Championship this summer, in 2004 the Greeks did a similar number, who did not win even counting nothing before or after.

Girls are well aware that everything in this life ever happens for the first time. So the Russian team at home in 2018 may well succeed. After all, 60 years ago we did not have a single victory in major tournaments, and now only the World Championship remains “undeveloped”. He's offended.