Boris Georgiyevich Tatushin () (31 March 1933 in

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; – 15 January 1998 in Moscow) was a

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football player and manager.

Honours

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: 1956. *

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winner: 1953, 1956, 1958.

International career

Tatushin made his debut for

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on 8 September 1954 in a friendly against

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. He played in the

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qualifiers, but was not selected for the final tournament squad, because he was arrested with Eduard Streltsov and Mikhail Ogonkov over rape allegations and was disqualified for three years.

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1933 births 1998 deaths Russian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Soviet Top League players FC Spartak Moscow players Soviet football managers Olympic medalists in football FC Oryol managers FC Khimik-Arsenal managers Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-forward-stub