Viktor Grigoryevich Tsaryov (; 2 June 1931 – 2 January 2017) was a Russian

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 ...

Career

During his career he played for

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', , ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footba ...

(1954–1966). He earned 12 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 the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

, as well as the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets were champions. After retirement, he became a football manager. By 2008, he was the

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of the board of directors of

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/ref> Tsaryov died in Moscow on 2 January 2017 at the age of 85.

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: 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963. * Year-end Top 33 players list: 1957, 1959, 1963. * Captained

in most games in franchise history (189 official league and cup games). *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...

(1997) * Order of Honour

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1931 births Footballers from Moscow 2017 deaths Russian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players UEFA European Championship–winning players Soviet Top League players FC Dynamo Moscow players Russian football managers Soviet football managers FC Dynamo Moscow managers Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{russia-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub