Albert Alexejewitsch Schesternjow

Albert Schesternjow
Albert Schesternjow in 1967
Personnel
Surname	Albert Alexejewitsch Schesternjow
birthday	June 20, 1941
place of birth	Moscow ,  Russian SFSR
date of death	5th November 1994 (age 53)
Place of death	Moscow ,  Russia
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958	Yaroslavl Railway Worker FK
1959-1972	CSKA Moscow	278 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1967	Olympic selection of the USSR	9 (0)
1961-1971	USSR	86 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973-1974	CSKA Moscow
1981-1982	CSKA Moscow
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Alexejewitsch Schesternev ( Russian Альберт Алексеевич Шестернёв , scientific transliteration Al'bert Alekseevič Šesternëv ; born June 20, 1941 in Moscow ; † November 5, 1994 ibid) was a Soviet football player and coach .

The defender was in the 1960s central figure and captain of CSKA Moscow and the selection of the Soviet Union , the most capped player he until the late 1980s before Lev Yashin was. Schesterjow is considered by some experts as the best Russian footballer of all time, he was 183 cm tall and dominated almost all header duels with his jumping ability , in the game without the ball he was able to show his outstanding sprinting skills - he ran the 100 m in under 11 seconds and was Moscow youth sprint champion - since he was considered almost invincible even in a duel, he was first called " Ivan the Terrible " by Western European journalists at the 1966 World Cup , the nickname is ascribed to Lothar Emmerich .

Schesterjow took part in three world championships and two European championship finals and was named Footballer of the Year in the USSR in 1970 . After his career as a player, he became a member of the coaching staff of CSKA, he was the club's head coach twice, and in the 1980s he was head of the legendary football school of the army sports club.

career

Schesterjow began serious football training quite late, as a student he was a promising track and field athlete with excellent results in the sprint and triple jump before he was discovered by the Soviet sports sponsorship for football. Nevertheless, he was just 18 years old when he made his debut with the Soviet first division club CSKA Moscow. In his third season he was so well established that he was used for the first time for the senior national team of the USSR in autumn 1961 and was also included in the squad for the 1962 World Cup , but was not used. In 1963, however, he was appointed to the Olympic team and played five games during the qualifying round for the 1964 Olympics , as well as three games later in qualifying for the 1968 Olympic soccer competition . Due to his excellent performance in the Olympic qualifying games in 1963, he was able to play his way back into the A-selection in 1963, he was now a regular and remained this for eight years in a row; in 89 games for the A-selection - including one unofficial against a Scandinavian selection - he ran 67 times as captain, which was and remains a record for the A-selection. He had his first appearances in the finals of a major tournament at the European Championship in 1964 - still called the European Cup of Nations , where it was used, among other things, in the final. This was to remain his only international final, although the USSR was always at least one of the extended favorites in the next three tournaments ( 1966 World Cup , 1968 European Championship and 1970 World Cup), but they were always eliminated in the semi-finals at the latest, and even by one at the 1968 European Championship Drawing of lots against Italy. In 1968 he was also appointed to a FIFA world team that played against Brazil on the 10th anniversary of their first world championship.

Portrait of Schesternjow carved into his tombstone

The Soviet selection , led by him as captain, went into the 1970 World Cup finals as a co-favorite , and the preliminary round was survived without any problems. But just in the game in which Schesternjow became the record player in his home country, they lost 1-0 to Uruguay after a goal four minutes before the end. Instead, he was able to lead CSKA to the first Soviet championship in 20 years in 1970, and the next season began very promisingly for Schesterjow, but he suffered a serious injury to his knee from which he was unable to fully recover even after a partially successful operation. When he was warming up to his planned comeback in the national team in the summer of 1973 against Brazil, the injury broke again and he finally resigned as an active player.

He then tried his hand at ZSKA as a coach but failed.

From 1965 to 1973 he was married to the figure skater Tatjana Schuk and had a daughter with her.

Schesterjow is buried in the Kunzewoer Cemetery in western Moscow.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ So Uwe Seeler : see interview with Igor Fein: " Uwe Seeler: Brasilizy ostanustja Tschempionami " in Nowaja Gaseta issue 44 from June 15, 2006, accessed on February 22, 2015. (Russian)
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Yuri Ivanov: " Sbornye SSSR / Rossii - 1970. Mexika - Albert Schernjow ", Sport-Express of November 21, 2001, accessed on February 22, 2015. (Russian)
3. ^ Entry Schesterjows ( Memento from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hall of Fame of the CSKA Moscow, accessed on February 22, 2015. (Russian)
4. ^ ^{A b} Leonid Repin " Kak sraschalsja Ivan Grozny ", Komsomolskaya Pravda of May 23, 2003 ( Russian ).
5. ^ Entry on Schesternjow on Sbornaja Rossii po futbolu ( visited February 20, 2008, in Russian ).
6. ↑ Match report of the final ( Memento of December 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the UEFA website, accessed on February 22, 2015.
7. ↑ "Alte Spieler- Ju 52", Spiegel issue 25 from June 15, 1970, p. 80.