Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Якушин; 15 November 1910 – 3 February 1997) was a Russian

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and

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player, later a manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR.

Playing career

Yakushin played football for Moscow clubs STS (1928–1929), SKiG (1931–1933), and

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(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.

Coaching career

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

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in 1959 and from 1967 to 1968.

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