Anatoliy Kyrylovych (or Anatoli Kirillovich) Puzach (, ; 3 June 1941 – 19 March 2006) was a Ukrainian

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and coach.

Career

Puzach started his playing career for a factory team of Prohres in

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small city of

Berdychiv Berdychiv (, ) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Berdychiv Raion within the oblast. It is south of the administrative center of the oblast, Zhytomyr. Its population is approximat ...

which competed at the Zhytomyr Oblast competitions. In 1960 he signed up with the new team of masters that was created in 1959 in neighboring

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, under name of Polissya which was playing in the Class B (2nd tier). His military obligatory service Puzach served in

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playing for the local

SKA Lvov SKA Lviv was a Soviet multi-sports club founded in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR. The club was created as part of sport section of the Carpathian Military District in 1949 and existed until 1989. As SKA Karpaty the club dissolved the main team was reorgani ...

. During that period he was tried out at the Soviet army main club CSKA in Moscow. In 1964, he became the top scorer of Ukrainian zone, class "B" scored 35 goals. The same year Lviv army-men reached the Soviet Union Cup quarter-finals. In spring 1964 the team of class "B" best players had friendlies against

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

(1:2, 2:2) and after those games the quick striker with a good kick have been taken to Kyiv. From 1965 after signing with Dynamo, he played in the

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, earlier known as Class A. He made his debut for Dynamo on 15 April 1965 in home game against Dinamo Moscow, which Kyiv won 1:0. In his first season for Dynamo which was coached by Viktor Maslov, Puzach scored 5 times in 18 matches. Overall, for Dynamo Puzach played over 200 league matches.

Honours

** Winner: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1990 (as a manager) ** Runner-up: 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973 *

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** Winner: 1966 * Vyshcha Liha ** Winner: 1993 (as a manager)

Titles and state awards

* Merited master of sports (Soviet Union) * Merited coach (Ukrainian SSR, 1976) *

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, 3rd class as a coach (posthumously, 2016)

International career

Puzach made his debut for the USSR national team on 25 July 1969, in a friendly against East Germany national team and scored on his debut. He played at the

1970 FIFA World Cup The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the 9th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May to ...

final tournament and in the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the ...

qualifiers. He was the first player in history to come on as a substitute in a World Cup game when non-injury substitutions were allowed for the first time in 1970. He replaced

Viktor Serebryanikov Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov (; , 29 March 1940 – 12 November 2014) also spelled ''Serebryannikov'', was a Soviet association football player from Ukraine (at that time Ukrainian SSR). Serebrianikov was a member of the Dynamo's squad that f ...

in the opening match of the tournament against Mexico.Football World Cup Firsts
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* 1941 births 2006 deaths People from Krasnokutsky District Russian emigrants to Ukraine Soviet men's footballers Soviet football managers Soviet Union men's international footballers 1970 FIFA World Cup players Ukrainian men's footballers Ukrainian football managers FC Polissya Zhytomyr players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Dynamo Kyiv players SKA Lviv players Soviet Top League players Soviet First League players Soviet Second League players FC Dynamo Kyiv managers Soviet Top League managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Men's association football forwards Footballers from Saratov Oblast 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1940s-stub