Yuri Nikolayevich Vasenin (; 2 October 1948 – 2 May 2022)Невосполнимая утрата
was a

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player and coach.

International career

Vasenin made his debut for the

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on 29 June 1972 in a friendly against

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. He played in the qualifiers for

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, but the USSR did not qualify for the final tournament.

Honours

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: 1972

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1948 births 2022 deaths People from Chernyakhovsk Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Soviet Union men's international footballers FC Baltika Kaliningrad players PFC Dynamo Stavropol players FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players FC Zorya Luhansk players Soviet Top League players Russian football managers FC Baltika Kaliningrad managers Sportspeople from Kaliningrad Oblast 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub