Anatoly Alexejewitsch Zintschenko

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Anatoly Zhenchenko
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Personnel
Surname Anatoly Alexejewitsch Zintschenko
birthday August 8, 1949
place of birth Stalinsk ,  Soviet Union
size 182 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1968 Volgograd tractor 26 0(4)
1968-1971 FK SKA Rostov 68 0(8)
1972-1975 Zenith Leningrad 99 (23)
1976-1988 Dynamo Leningrad 58 (23)
1979-1980 Zenith Leningrad 26 0(2)
1980-1983 SK Rapid Vienna 45 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1973 Soviet Union 3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Anatoli Alexejewitsch Zintschenko ( Russian Анатолий Алексеевич Зинченко ; born August 8, 1949 in Stalinsk , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian professional footballer . He was the first Soviet football player to play for a club in Western Europe.

Career

Zinchenko began his career with the second division tractor Volgograd in what was then Wtoraja Gruppa A , where he played 26 league games between 1967 and 1968. In 1968 he moved to FC SKA Rostov-on-Don in the highest Soviet league Pervaya Gruppa A . As a result, Zhenchenko played 68 league games with his new club between 1968 and 1971 and was in the finals of the Soviet Football Cup in 1969 and 1971 . In 1972 he moved to Zenit Leningrad , for which he was able to score 23 goals in 99 league games. Zinchenko did not come with his new team beyond seventh place in the table. After Zenit had only finished 16th in 1975, Zintschenko moved to local rivals Dynamo Leningrad in 1976 , with whom he was promoted to the second division in the first season. In 1977 he scored 19 goals in the second division, the highest scoring season for Zintschenko. In 1979 he moved back to Zenit Leningrad in the first division. Between 1969 and 1973 he was used a total of three times in the national soccer team of the USSR .

In 1980 the Vice President of SK Rapid Wien , Heinz Holzbach, asked his journalist friend Kurt Castka, who worked for the communist Volksstimme , whether it was not possible to bring a Soviet legionnaire to Austria. He used his contacts, whereupon the Ministry of Sports of the Soviet Union decided Zhenchenko, then 31 years old, for the transfer. They did not want to allow a superstar to go west. After the Soviet football players were officially regarded as amateurs, Zhenchenko was sent to the West not as a footballer but as a "technician". Rapid Vienna provided him with an apartment, and his fee went to the Soviet trade delegation. Sintschenko's wife was allowed to visit him while his child had to stay in the Soviet Union. Together with legendary players such as Hans Krankl , Antonín Panenka and Josef Hickersberger , Sintschenko was Austrian soccer champion in 1982 and 1983 and also cup winner in 1983. Thereafter Zhenchenko returned to the Soviet Union. He received voluntary bonuses from Rapid which he used to buy a car before returning.

After his return, Zhenchenko was active as a coach in the 1980s and 1990s.

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personal data
SURNAME Zintschenko, Anatoly Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зинченко, Анатолий Алексеевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stalinsk