Mikhail Yakushin

Mikhail Yakushin

Mikhail Yakushin in 1967
Personal information
Full name	Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin
Date of birth	15 November 1910
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Date of death	3 February 1997 (aged 86)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Playing position	Manager
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1928–1929	STS
1931–1933	SKiG
1933–1944	Dynamo Moscow
Teams managed
1944–1950	Dynamo Moscow
1953–1960	Dynamo Moscow
1959	USSR
1965–1966	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1967–1968	USSR
1969–1970	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1973	Lokomotiv Moscow
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Якушин; 15 November 1910 in Moscow – 3 February 1997 in Moscow) was a Russian football and field hockey player, later a legendary manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR. He was of Jewish ethnicity.^[1]

Yakushin played football for Moscow clubs STS (1928–1929), SKiG (1931–1933), and Dynamo (1933–1944). He scored one goal in his three international matches for the Soviet national team. In the 1930s he also played field hockey for Dynamo, favoring hockey to football.

As a manager he coached Dynamo Moscow from 1944 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1960, winning six Soviet titles (1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959). He was the head coach of the USSR national football team in 1959 and from 1967 to 1968.

References

1. Еврейский Футбольный Мир – 3. sem40.ru

External links

• Profile (Russian)