- Anatoli Zinchenko
Football player infobox2
playername = Anatoli Zinchenko
fullname = Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko
height =
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1949|8|8|df=y
cityofbirth = Stalinsk
countryofbirth =USSR
position =Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1967-1968
1968-1971
1972-1975
1976-1978
1979-1980
1980-1983
clubs = Traktor VolgogradFC SKA Rostov-on-Don
Zenit Leningrad
Dynamo Leningrad
Zenit LeningradSK Rapid Wien
caps(goals) =
68 (8)
52 (6)
45 (6)
nationalyears = 1969, 1973
nationalteam = USSR
nationalcaps(goals) = 3 (0)
manageryears = ?
?
1986
1988-1989
1990-1992
1993
1994
managerclubs = Klimovets Leningrad
Krasny Treugolnik LeningradStroitel Cherepovets
Dynamo Leningrad
FC Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant)
FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
FC Erzi PetrozavodskAnatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko ( _ru. Анатолий Алексеевич Зинченко) (born
August 8 ,1949 in Stalinsk) is a retired Soviet football player andRussia n coach. He is most well known for being the first Soviet football player to play for a Western European professional club. His transfer toSK Rapid Wien was initiated by an Austrian communist journalist Kurt Chastka. Because Soviet footballers were officially amateurs, he was formally employed as an equipment technician at the Soviet embassy while playing for Rapid, his Rapid salary was sent over to the Soviet government.Honours
*
Soviet Cup winner: 1969, 1971.
*Austrian Football Bundesliga winner: 1982, 1983.
*Austrian Cup winner: 1983.International career
Zinchenko made his debut for USSR on
September 24 ,1969 in a friendly against Yugoslavia.External links
* [http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/zinchenko.html Profile]
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