Konstantin Vasilyevich Shchegotsky (russian: Константин Васильевич Щегоцкий; April 13, 1911 – January 23, 1989) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

-Ukrainian football player and coach from

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Playing career

In 1927-29, at the age of 16, Shchegotsky played for Gornyak Moscow, which represented a mining institute. In 1930, he joined Tryokhgorka Moscow with which he won gold medals of Moscow city championship. In 1931-32, Shchegotsky played for Automobile Moscow Society (AMO) and the collective team of Moscow city. In 1933, at 21 years of age, Shchegotsky joined

Dynamo Kiev Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) 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, the club as a separate business entity was offic ...

, where he remained until

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. During that period, he also represented the national team of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR). In 1935, at the Kiev city championship, Shchegotsky appeared for the Border and Internal Security Administration (UPVO), and for the

Soviet Union national football team The Soviet Union national football team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national football team of the former Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed i ...

in several unofficial games. In 1937, Shchegotsky played a game for

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against visiting Basque team. In August 1938, Shchegotsky was arrested and spent over a year in prison. After his release, Shchegotsky moved to Moscow for rehabilitation, but already in 1940 returned to play for

. During

, Shchegotsky was in the Soviet partisan movement.

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