Anatoli Zinchenko
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko | ||
| Date of birth | 8 August 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | Stalinsk, USSR | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1967–1968 | Traktor Volgograd | 26 | (4) |
| 1968–1971 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | 68 | (8) |
| 1972–1975 | Zenit Leningrad | 99 | (23) |
| 1976–1978 | Dynamo Leningrad | 58 | (23) |
| 1979–1980 | Zenit Leningrad | 26 | (2) |
| 1980–1983 | SK Rapid Wien | 45 | (6) |
| National team | |||
| 1969–1973 | USSR | 3 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| ? | Klimovets Leningrad | ||
| ? | Krasny Treugolnik Leningrad | ||
| 1986 | Stroitel Cherepovets | ||
| 1988–1989 | Dynamo Leningrad | ||
| 1990–1992 | Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant) | ||
| 1993 | Zenit-2 St. Petersburg | ||
| 1994 | FC Erzi Petrozavodsk | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Зинченко) (born August 8, 1949 in Stalinsk) is a retired Soviet football player and Russian coach. He is best known for being the first Soviet football player to play for a Western European professional club. His transfer to SK Rapid Wien was initiated by Austrian communist journalist Kurt Chastka. Because Soviet footballers were officially amateurs, he was formally employed as an equipment technician at the Soviet embassy while playing for Rapid, while his Rapid salary was sent over to the Soviet government.
International career
Zinchenko made his debut for USSR on September 24, 1969 in a friendly against Yugoslavia. He was capped three times in total.[1]
Honours
- Soviet Cup finalist: 1969, 1971
- Austrian Football Bundesliga winner: 1982, 1983
- Austrian Cup winner: 1983
References
- ↑ "Anatoly Zinchenko". National Football Teams. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
External links
- (Russian) Profile
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