Mikhail Pavlovich Butusov (russian: Михаил Павлович Бутусов; 18 June 1900 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– 11 April 1963 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

football player and coach and a

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

player. He was the brother of

Vasily Butusov Vasily Pavlovich Butusov (Russian: Василий Павлович Бутусов; 26 January 1892 ( OS)/7 February 1892 ( NS) – 28 September 1971) was a Russian Empire amateur association football player who competed in the 1912 Summer O ...

Honours

* RSFSR Champion: 1924, 1932. * Leningrad Champion: 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935. * Soviet Bandy League bronze: 1936 (with

Dynamo Leningrad FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. Founded in 1922, the club was one of the oldest in the city. It plays in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2. They were a regular i ...

International career

Butusov made his debut for

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on 16 November 1924 in a friendly against

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. He was the captain of the team and scored 2 goals in a 3:0 victory. This was the first official game of the Soviet Union in international football, and therefore Butusov scored the first ever goal for the USSR.

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Soviet footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Soviet football managers FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers FC Dinamo Tbilisi managers FC Zenit Saint Petersburg managers FC Dynamo Kyiv managers Soviet bandy players 1900 births 1963 deaths Men's association football forwards {{Bandy-bio-stub