Boris Aleksandrovich Kazakov () (born November 6, 1940, in Kuibyshev; died November 25, 1978, in Kuibyshev) was a

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football player. He died when he tried to drive his car over the ice-covered river and the ice broke, drowning the car with him in it.

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 ...

bronze: 1964, 1965. * Top 33 year-end list: once. *

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member.

International career

Kazakov made his debut for

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on May 16, 1965, in a friendly against

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. He played in

1966 FIFA World Cup The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in England from 11 to 30 July 1966. England defeated West Germany 4–2 in the 1966 FI ...

qualifiers (scoring a goal against

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), but was not selected for the final tournament squad.

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1940 births 1978 deaths Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Soviet football managers Soviet Top League players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players PFC CSKA Moscow players Russian men's footballers FC Lada-Tolyatti managers Road incident deaths in the Soviet Union Deaths by drowning in Russia Men's association football forwards 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-forward-stub