Galimzyan Salikhovich Khusainov (, ) (27 June 1937 – 5 February 2010) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

footballer who played as a striker.

International career

Khusainov played for the Soviet Union national team scoring 4 goals in 33 appearances. He was a participant at the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the 7th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place between ...

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 ...

and at the 1964 European Nations' Cup, where the Soviet Union squad won the silver medal and he scored a goal in the final.

Honours

Spartak Moscow *

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 ...

: 1962, 1969 *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

: 1963, 1965, 1971 Soviet Union * European Nations' Cup runner-up:

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

Individual * Grigory Fedotov club member

References

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1937 births 2010 deaths Tatar people of Russia Tatar sportspeople Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Footballers from Tatarstan Men's association football forwards Soviet Union men's international footballers 1962 FIFA World Cup players 1964 European Nations' Cup players 1966 FIFA World Cup players Soviet Top League players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Spartak Moscow players Soviet football managers Higher School of Coaches alumni Communist Party of the Soviet Union members 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-forward-stub