Football World Cup 1958 / Soviet Union

This article covers the Soviet national soccer team at the 1958 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	16: 3	6th
2	Poland	9: 5	6th
3	Finland	2:19	0

Soviet Union	-	Poland	3-0
Soviet Union	-	Finland	2: 1
Finland	-	Soviet Union	0:10
Poland	-	Soviet Union	2: 1

Decision game in Leipzig :

Soviet Union

-

Poland

2-0

Soviet contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
1	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	10/22/1929
12	Vladimir Maslachenko	Moscow locomotive	03/05/1936
13	Vladimir Belyayev	Dynamo Moscow	09/15/1933
Defense
2	Vladimir Kessarev	Dynamo Moscow	02/26/1930
4th	Boris Kuznetsov	Dynamo Moscow	07/14/1928
5	Yuri Voinov	Dynamo Kiev	11/29/1931
14th	Leonid Ostrowski	Torpedo Moscow	January 17, 1936
15th	Anatoly Masljonkin	Spartak Moscow	06/26/1930
22nd	Volodymyr Yerochyn	Dynamo Kiev	04/10/1930
midfield
3	Konstantin Krischewski	Dynamo Moscow	02/20/1926
16	Viktor Tsaryov	Dynamo Moscow	06/02/1931
attack
6th	Igor Netto	Spartak Moscow	01/09/1930
7th	German Apuchtin	CSKA Moscow	06/12/1936
8th	Valentin Ivanov	Torpedo Moscow	11/19/1934
9	Nikita Simonyan	Spartak Moscow	October 12, 1926
10	Segei Salnikov	Spartak Moscow	09/13/1925
11	Anatoly Ilyin	Spartak Moscow	06/27/1931
17th	Alexander Ivanov	Zenith Leningrad	04/14/1928
18th	Valentin Bubukin	Moscow locomotive	04/23/1933
19th	Gennady Gusarov	Torpedo Moscow	03/11/1937
20th	Yuri Falin	Torpedo Moscow	04/02/1937
21st	Genrich Fedosov	Dynamo Moscow	December 06, 1932
Trainer
	Gavriil Kachalin		05/20/1911

Soviet team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	5-0	5
2	Soviet Union	4: 4	3
3	England	4: 4	3
4th	Austria	2: 7	1

• Soviet Union - England 2: 2 (1: 0)

Stadium: Ullevi ( Gothenburg )

Spectators: 45,000

Referee: Zsolt ( Hungary )

Goals: 1: 0 Simonjan (13th), 2: 0 A. Ivanov (55th), 2: 1 Kevan (66th), 2: 2 Finney (85th) 11 m

• Soviet Union - Austria 2-0 (1-0)

Stadium: Ryavallen ( Borås )

Spectators: 22,000

Referee: Jörgensen ( Denmark )

Goals: 1-0 Ilyin (15th), 2-0 W. Ivanov (62nd)

• Brazil - Soviet Union 2: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Ullevi ( Gothenburg )

Spectators: 50,000

Referee: Guigue ( France )

Goals: 1-0 Vavá (2nd), 2-0 Vavá (65th)

Particularly interesting was Group 4, in which Brazil prevailed first against the Soviet Union, England and the third place in the 1954 World Cup, Austria. After the 3-0 win against Austria, the South Americans could only wrest a 0-0 from the English. Against the Soviet Union (2-0 through two goals from Vava), a 17-year-old young man appeared in the starting line-up for the first time and was supposed to cause a sensation: Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé. Second in the group went to the Russians (with goalkeeping legend Lev Yashin), who had to go into the play-off game due to the equality of points with the favorite England (had to cope with the loss of the Manchester United players who had been killed in the plane crash) : Defeated 0. Austria (middle runner: Ernst Happel!) Could not do much in this group and was bottom of the table with only one draw (against England).

Playoff

• Soviet Union - England 1-0 (0-0)

Stadium: Ullevi ( Gothenburg )

Spectators: 23,180

Referee: Dusch ( Germany )

Goals: 1-0 Ilyin (68th)

Quarter finals

45,000

Råsundastadion ( Solna )

Sweden

Soviet Union

Leafe ( England )

2: 0 (0: 0)

1-0 Hamrin (49th) 2-0 Simonsson (88th)

Organizers Sweden did not have any major problems with the Russians, who had been weakened by the play-offs scheduled two days earlier. The 2-0 brought them safely to the semi-finals.