Yuriy Voynov

Yuriy Voynov

Voynov on a 2016 Russian stamp from the series "Football Legends"
Personal information
Full name	Yuriy Mykolayovych Voynov
Date of birth	(1931-11-29)29 November 1931
Place of birth	Kalininsky, Moscow Oblast, USSR
Date of death	22 April 2003(2003-04-22) (aged 71)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1949–1950	Kalinin Plant
1951–1955	Zenit	98	(5)
1956–1964	Dynamo Kyiv	176	(22)
International career
1954–1960	USSR	23	(2)
1956	Ukraine	4	(4)
Managerial career
1963	Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
1964–1967	Chornomorets Odesa
1967–1969	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1969–1970	Shakhtar Donetsk
1970	Chornomorets Odesa
1970–1972	Budivelnyk Poltava
1972–1973	Metalist Kharkiv
1976–1977	SKA Kyiv/SC Chernihiv
1978–1979	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1992	Temp Shepetivka
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union UEFA European Championship Winner 1960 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuriy Mykolayovych Voynov (Ukrainian: Юрій Миколайович Войнов, Russian: Юрий Николаевич Войнов; 29 November 1931 – 22 April 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager, who played as a midfielder.

Playing career

International career

He earned 23 caps for the USSR national football team, and represented the country in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1960 European Nations' Cup, where the USSR were crowned the first ever European champions. Also, he was listed as one of the best XI after the 1958 World Cup by Dr. Friedebert Becker.

In 1956 Voinov played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.^[1]

Honours

Player

Club

Dyanmo Kyiv

• Soviet Top League Winner: 1961

International

USSR

• European Nations' Cup Winner: 1960

Individudal

• Selected to the FIFA World Cup team of the tournament: 1958
• Ballon d'Or 12th: 1959^[2]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yuriy Voynov.