Vladimir Nikitovich Maslachenko (; 5 March 1936 – 28 November 2010) was a

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and

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and football commentator.

Biography

Maslachenko was born in

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. He was a native Ukrainian ( khokhol as he called himself)Маслаченко: на самом деле неопределённость создаёт сам Веллитон
Championat.com. 22 September 2010 from Vasylkivka (a settlement in west Donbass) and a product of youth football club from

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

. His senior level career he started in 1953 when he joined the local football "giant"

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which at the time was known as Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk. After several seasons, in 1957 Maslachenko was invited to

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where he stayed to his death. In Moscow he competed for Lokomotiv and Spartak. During that period he also played for the

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and became a European champion in 1960. In 1962, Maslachenko won the Soviet Class A First Group (Soviet top league) title with Spartak Moscow. After retiring in 1970, Maslachenko graduated from the Russian State Central Institute of Physical Culture. The same year he started his other career as a

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(radio commentator) at the All-Union Radio and the Central Television. In 1972–73, Maslachenko tried himself out as a football manager, while coaching in

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. In 1973–1990, he worked as a sports commentator in Soviet television news program

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at the First Programme of the Central Television. Following the

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, he worked as at the Russian State Television and Radio Company "Ostankino" and since 1996 at the Russian NTV. In 2010, Maslachenko died in Moscow.

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: 1962. *

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winner: 1957, 1963, 1965. * Soviet Goalkeeper of the Year: 1961.

International career

He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team, and participated in two World Cups, as well as the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets won the title.

References

External links

Profile (in Russian)
1936 births 2010 deaths Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1962 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players UEFA European Championship–winning players FC Dnipro players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players FC Spartak Moscow players Soviet Top League players Russian association football commentators Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Soviet sports journalists Russian sports journalists Footballers from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 20th-century Russian sportsmen 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-goalkeeper-stub