Who are the best Soviet players of all times ?
The Statistics
Foundation of the rec.sport.soccer newsgroup
is currently putting together a "Greatest Players Archive", which is
supposed to be a list of about 250 world class players in the history
of football, along with biogaphies and stastistics etc..
Lev Yashin and Oleg Blokhin were the only Soviet players
being on the list at the moment when we desided to conduct a poll on
the Internet about great Soviet football players.
In six weeks I got about half a hundred lists of best
players.
Here is the alphabeticaly sorted list of named players (except of
Yashin and Blokhin) ((position, born, club)...votes):
- Anatoly Akimov (G, 1915, Spartak M)........1 *
- Arkady Andreasyan (M, 1947, Ararat)........1 *
- Igor Belanov (F, 1960, Dinamo K)...........2 **
- Konstantin Beskov (F, 1920, Dinamo M)......1 *
- Vladimir Bessonov (D,M, 1958, Dinamo K)....3 ***
- Vsevolod Bobrov (F, 1922, CDKA, VVS).......5 *****
- Leonid Buryak (M, 1953, Dinamo K)..........1 *
- Anatoly Byshovets (F, 1946, Dinamo K)......1 *
- Fyodor Cherenkov (M, 1959, Spartak M).....19 *******************
- Alexandr Chivadze (D, 1955, Dinamo Tb).....1 *
- Vitaly Daraseliya (M, 1957, Dinamo Tb).....2 **
- Rinat Dassayev (G, 1957, Spartak M).......11 ***********
- Revaz Dzodzuashvili (D, 1945, Dinamo Tb)...1 *
- Grigory Fedotov (F, 1906, CDKA)............1 *
- Otar Gabeliya (G, 1955, Dinamo Tb).........1 *
- Yury Gavrilov (F, 1953, Spartak M).........3 ***
- Valery Gazzayev (F, 1954, Dinamo M)........1 *
- Mikhail Gershkovich (F, 1948, Torpedo).....1 *
- Georgy Glazkov (F, 191?, Spartak M)........1 *
- Vladimir Gutsayev (F, 1952, Dinamo Tb).....1 *
- Valentin Ivanov (F, 1934, Torpedo M).......1 *
- Vagiz Khidiyatullin (D, 1959, Spartak M)...3 ***
- Aleksey Khomich (G, 192?, Dinamo M)........1 *
- Murtaz Khurtsilava (D, 1943, Dinamo Tb)....1 *
- David Kipiani (F, 1951, Dinamo Tb).........9 *********
- Victor Kolotov (M, 1949, Dinamo K).........1 *
- Konstantin Krizhevsky (D, 1926, Dinamo M)..1 *
- Guennady Litovchenko (M, 1963, Dnepr)......2 **
- Valery Lobanovsky (F, 1939, Dinamo K) .....1 *
- Yevgeny Lovchev (D, 1949, Spartak M).......1 *
- Mikhail Meskhi (F, 1937, Dinamo Tb)........1 *
- Slava Metreveli (F, 1936, Torpedo M).......1 *
- Aleksey Mikhailichenko (F, 1963, Dinamo K).3 ***
- Vladimir Muntyan (M, 1946, Dinamo K).......1 *
- Igor Netto (M, 1930, Spartak M)............2 **
- Khoren Oganessyan (M, 1955, Ararat)........2 **
- Vladimir Onischenko (F, 1949, Dinamo K)....1 *
- Vladimir Pilguj (G, 1948, Dinamo M)........1 *
- Oleg Protassov (F, 1964, Dnepr)............2 **
- Yevgeny Rudakov (G, 1942, Dinamo K)........1 *
- Sergey Salnikov (F, 1925, Dinamo M)........1 *
- Ramaz Shengeliya (F, 1956, Dinamo Tb)......1 *
- Albert Shesternyov (D, 1941, CSKA).........2 **
- Nikita Simonyan (F, 1926, Spartak M).......1 *
- Sergey Soloviyov (F, 1915, Dinamo M).......1 *
- Aleksandr Starostin (D, 1903, Spartak M)...1 *
- Andrej Starostin (D,M, 1906, Spartak M)....1 *
- Nikolaj Starostin (F, 1902, Pischeviki)....1 *
- Vitaly Starukhin (F, 195?, Shakhtyor)......1 *
- Eduard Streltsov (F, 1937, Torpedo M).....12 ************
- Vladimir Troshkin (D, 1947, Dinamo K)......1 *
- Vladimir Veremeyev (M, 1948, Dinamo K).....1 *
- Valery Voronin (M, 1939, Torpedo M)........3 ***
- Mikhail Yakushin (F, 1910, Dinamo M).......1 *
- Aleksandr Zavarov (F, 1961, Dinamo K)......6 ******
Fyodor Cherenkov, Eduard Streltsov and
Rinat Dassayev collected more than 10 votes
each. David Kipiani, Alexandre Zavarov and Vsevolod Bobrov got 5 votes
or more.
Comments to : Oxana Smirnova,
oxana@quark.lu.se