Igor Alexandrovich Netto

Igor Netto (left) and Lev Yashin 1961

Igor Alexandrowitsch Netto ( Russian Игорь Александрович Нетто ; born January 9, 1930 in Moscow , † March 30, 1999 there ) was a Soviet football player .

The elegant half- forward or left wing runner played for Spartak Moscow , made 367 league matches for this club and scored 37 goals. With Spartak he was national champion five times (1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962) and three times cup winner (1958, 1963, 1965). In 1966 he ended his active career.

Netto was appointed to the national team of the USSR 54 times, scored four goals and was also their team captain between 1954 and 1963. At the 1956 Olympics , he led his team to win the gold medal ; he was also a World Cup participant in 1958 (where he was only able to play one game due to injury) and 1962 (reaching the quarter-finals). With the USSR he also won the title at the first European football championship in 1960 .

In 1957 Igor Netto was awarded the Order of Lenin . After the end of his career he became a coach, not in soccer, but in his "second great love", ice hockey .

successes

• Gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Gold medal at the 1960 European Championships
• Soviet champion : 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962
• Soviet cup winner : 1950, 1958, 1963

Web links

• Igor Netto at World Football Legends