Football World Cup 1970 / Soviet Union

This article covers the Soviet national football team at the 1970 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	8: 1	7th
2	Northern Ireland	7: 3	5
3	Turkey	2:13	0

Northern Ireland	-	Soviet Union	0-0
Soviet Union	-	Turkey	3-0
Soviet Union	-	Northern Ireland	2-0
Turkey	-	Soviet Union	1: 3

Soviet contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
1	Leonid Schmuts	CSKA Moscow	10/08/1948
2	Ansor Kawasashvili	Spartak Moscow	07/19/1940
13	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	10/22/1929
Defense
3	Valentin Afonin	SKA Rostov	12/22/1939
4th	Revas Tsotsujashvili	Dinamo Tbilisi	04/10/1945
5	Vladimir Kaplichni	CSKA Moscow	02/26/1944
6th	Yevgeny Lovchev	Spartak Moscow	01/29/1949
7th	Gennadi Logofet	Spartak Moscow	02/15/1942
8th	Murtas Churzilawa	Dinamo Tbilisi	01/05/1943
9	Albert Schesternjow	CSKA Moscow	06/20/1941
midfield
10	Valery Zikov	Dynamo Moscow	02/24/1944
11	Kachi Assatiani	CSKA Moscow	01/01/1947
12	Nikolai Kiselev	Spartak Moscow	11/29/1946
14th	Volodymyr Muntyan	Dynamo Kiev	11/14/1946
15th	Viktor Serebrianikov	Dynamo Kiev	March 29, 1940
attack
16	Anatoly Byschowets	Dynamo Kiev	04/23/1946
17th	Gennady Yevryushikhin	Dynamo Moscow	02/04/1944
18th	Slava Metreweli	Dinamo Tbilisi	05/30/1936
19th	Giwi Nodija	Dinamo Tbilisi	11/02/1948
20th	Anatoly Puzach	Dynamo Kiev	06/03/1941
21st	Vitaly Kmelnitsky	Dynamo Kiev	06/13/1943
22nd	Valery Porkujan	Dynamo Kiev	October 19, 1944
Trainer
	Gavriil Kachalin		03/20/1911

Soviet team games

First round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Soviet Union	6: 1	5
2	Mexico	5-0	5
3	Belgium	4: 5	2
4th	El Salvador	0: 9	0

• Mexico - Soviet Union 0: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Aztec Stadium ( Mexico City )

Spectators: 107,000

Referee: Tschenscher ( Germany )

Goals: none

• Soviet Union - Belgium 4: 1 (1: 0)

Stadium: Aztec Stadium ( Mexico City )

Spectators: 59,000

Referee: Schürer ( Switzerland )

Goals: 1-0 Byschowez (14th), 2-0 Asatiani (57th), 3-0 Byschowez (63rd), 4: 0 Kmelnitski (76th), 4: 1 Lambert (86th)

• Soviet Union - El Salvador 2: 0 (0: 0)

Stadium: Aztec Stadium ( Mexico City )

Spectators: 89,000

Referee: Hermazábal ( Chile )

Goals: 1-0 Byschowez (51st), 2-0 Byschowez (74th)

The opening game in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City in front of over 100,000 spectators was played by the favorites of Group 1, Mexico and the USSR. The disappointing encounter ended goalless, but should not be a yardstick for the World Cup tournament. The hosts then managed to keep El Salvador (4-0) and Belgium (1-0) at bay and qualify for the quarter-finals. The USSR also won twice and, like Mexico, had a goal difference of +5. This led to the drawing of lots for the group victory, which the Soviet Union won. The rule that the more goals scored decide if the goal difference is the same, only applied from the 1974 World Cup. If it had already been in place in 1970, the USSR would have been first in the group without drawing lots.

Quarter finals

45,000

Aztec Stadium ( Mexico City )

Uruguay

Soviet Union

Van Ravens ( Netherlands )

1: 0 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)

1-0 Espárrago (116.)

Uruguay and the USSR met in the Aztec Stadium. The mostly Mexican viewers hung on the transistor radios, because Mexico was playing against Italy at the same time and Urus and Russians were playing weakly and were mainly busy interrupting the flow of the game by fouling each other. That exhausting kick was only decided by Victor Esparrago's goal minutes before extra time was over. Again, the 2.4 million people had made it into the top football world - against the team of a 200 million strong society.