Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko (russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Зинченко) (born 8 August 1949, in
Stalinsk
Novokuznetsk ( rus, Новокузнецк, p=nəvəkʊzˈnʲɛt͡sk; literally: "new smith's", cjs, Аба-тура, ''Aba-tura'') is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in south-western Siberia, Russia. It is the second largest city in the ob ...
) 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 24 September 1969 in a friendly against
Yugoslavia. He was
capped three times in total.
Honours
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Soviet Cup finalist: 1969, 1971
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Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga (german: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, italic=no , "Austrian Football Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Austrian football league system. Th ...
winner: 1982, 1983
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Austrian Cup
The Austrian Cup (german: ÖFB-Cup), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for 27th t ...
winner: 1983
References
External links
Profile
1949 births
Living people
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Soviet footballers
Soviet Union international footballers
Soviet expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Austria
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
SK Rapid Wien players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Soviet football managers
Russian football managers
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers
Association football forwards
People from Novokuznetsk
Sportspeople from Kemerovo Oblast
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