Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko (; 9 November 1948 – 29 November 2018)Не стало Виктора Матвиенко...
was a Soviet and Ukrainian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

and coach.

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 ...

winner: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977. *

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 ...

winner: 1974. *

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...

winner: 1975. *

UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...

winner: 1975. * Olympic bronze: 1976.

International career

He earned 21 caps for the

USSR national football team The Soviet Union national football team () was the national football team who represented the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992. After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed into the CIS national football team. FIFA and UEFA considers ...

, and participated in

UEFA Euro 1972 The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium. This was the fourth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 14 and 18 June 1972. Only four ...

. He also won a bronze medal in

football at the 1976 Summer Olympics The football tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics started on 18 July and ended on 31 July. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. 13 teams participated in the tournament, while three African teams withdrew in support of the anti-r ...

. He died 20 days after his 70th birthday in 2018.

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* 1948 births 2018 deaths Footballers from Zaporizhzhia Ukrainian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Men's association football defenders UEFA Euro 1972 players Soviet Top League players Soviet First League players Soviet Second League players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dnipro players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players SC Odesa players Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Ukrainian football managers Ukrainian Premier League managers NK Veres Rivne managers FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi managers FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia managers CS Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol managers FSC Bukovyna Chernivtsi managers FC Dustlik managers Ukrainian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Uzbekistan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Uzbekistan Expatriate football managers in Moldova Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Burials at Baikove Cemetery Soviet Union at UEFA Euro 1972 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub