Konstantin Ivanovich Beskow

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Konstantin Beskov
Konstantin Beskov (1982) .jpg
Beskow (1982)
Personnel
Surname Konstantin Ivanovich Beskow
birthday November 18, 1920
place of birth MoscowSoviet Union
date of death May 6, 2006
Place of death MoscowRussia
size 172 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1939-1940 Metallurg Moscow 45 (13)
1941-1954 FK Dynamo Moscow 196 (93)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952 Soviet Union 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1956 Torpedo Moscow
1960–1962 CSKA Moscow
1963-1964 Soviet Union
1964-1965 Zorya Luhansk
1966 Moscow locomotive
1967-1972 FK Dynamo Moscow
1974 Soviet Union
1977-1988 Spartak Moscow
1979-1982 Soviet Union
1991-1992 Asmaral Moscow
1994-1995 FK Dynamo Moscow
1 Only league games are given.

Konstantin Iwanowitsch Beskow ( Russian Константин Иванович Бесков ; born November 18, 1920 in Moscow ; † May 6, 2006 ibid) was a Soviet football player and a Soviet and Russian football coach. Beskow was head coach of the Soviet national team several times and looked after the national team during the World Cup in Spain in 1982 .

Player career

Beskow played from 1937 as a striker in various teams in what was then the highest Soviet league. From 1941 he played for the first team of Dynamo Moscow. Like many top athletes, Beskow was a soldier in a motorized unit of the NKVD during the Second World War . From 1944 he played again for Dynamo and won the Soviet championship with this team in 1945 and 1949.

In 1952 he took part in the Helsinki Olympics football tournament. The team of the Soviet Union was eliminated in the round of 16 against Yugoslavia and the two appearances of Beskow in this tournament should remain his only internationals for the Soviet national team .

Coaching career

The first team coached by Beskow as a coach was Torpedo Moscow in the 1956 season , from 1957 to 1960 he was the head coach of a football boarding school in Moscow and coached several youth teams in the Soviet Union. From 1960 to 1962 he was the coach of CSKA Moscow .

From 1963 to 1964 Beskow was then head coach of the USSR national team for the first time, but had to vacate this post after the team's defeat against Spain in the final of the 1964 European Championship finals .

Beskow coached Zorya Luhansk's team from 1964 to 1965, then Lokomotiv Moscow from 1966 , from 1967 to 1972 he was the head coach of Dynamo Moscow and from 1977 to 1988 he coached Spartak Moscow .

Parallel to his work as a club coach, Beskow was again jointly responsible for Soviet national teams from 1974, from 1979 he was the responsible head coach of the national team and also looked after the "Sbornaja" in 1982 at the World Cup finals in Spain . Since the Soviet team missed the semifinals, Beskow was released from his position after the tournament.

Beskow was able to win the Soviet Cup twice (1967 and 1970) with Dynamo Moscow , in the 1971/72 season he led the team to the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , but Dynamo lost this game 2: 3 against the Glasgow Rangers. With Spartak Moscow, Beskow won the Soviet championship twice (1979 and 1987).

In 1988 he had to give up the post as head coach of Spartak and became deputy chairman of the Soviet Football Association ( Федерация футбола СССР ).

After the collapse of the Soviet Union Beskow coached the Asmaral Moscow team from 1991 to 1992 and again Dynamo Moscow from 1994 to 1995, with this team he won the Russian Cup in 1995 , and in the same year Beskow ended his career as a coach. He died on May 6, 2006 in his hometown of Moscow.

Awards

Beskow received a number of high state awards both in the Soviet Union and later from the Russian government, such as the Order of Lenin , the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Order of the Great Patriotic War, Second Class. The Russian government awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland . After his death, the Russian State Bank issued a commemorative coin with Beskov's portrait.

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