Anatoliy Yakovych Kuksov (; 21 November 1949 – January 2022) was a

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football player and a Ukrainian coach. He is the most capped player for

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with just about a dozen matches shy of 500, one of the best scorers and one of the longest serving coaches of the club. In 2007–08 Kuksov tried to create another professional club in city

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which folded within a couple of seasons. In 2015 he became a coach of the Russian-occupied Luhansk region team.

International career

Kuksov made his debut for the USSR national team on 2 July 1972 in a friendly against

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. Five of eight games for the Soviet team, Kuksov played at the 1972 Olympic football competition.

Personal life and death

His grandson is the volleyball player

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. Kuksov died in

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in January 2022, at the age of 72.

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

; olympic bronze

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1949 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Luhansk Soviet men's footballers Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Soviet Union men's international footballers Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Soviet Top League players FC Zorya Luhansk players Ukrainian football managers Ukrainian Premier League managers FC Zorya Luhansk managers FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia managers FC Mariupol managers 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub