Mikhail Ivanovich An

Mikhail An
Personnel
Surname	Mikhail Ivanovich An
birthday	November 19, 1953
place of birth	Tashkent Province ,  Uzbek SSR
date of death	August 11, 1979
Place of death	near Dniprodzerzhynsk ,  Ukrainian SSR
size	178 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Politotdel Tashkent Oblast
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1979	Pachtakor Tashkent	233 (50)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1978	Soviet Union	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mikhail Ivanovich An ( Russian Михаил Иванович Ан ; Korean 미하일 안 ; born November 19, 1953 in Tashkent Oblast , Uzbek SSR , USSR ; † August 11, 1979 near Dniprodzerzhynsk ) was a Soviet football player .

Mikhail An belonged to the Korean minority ( Korjo-Saram ) in the Soviet Union and was born in the Uzbek SSR , near today's Uzbek capital, Tashkent . There he started playing football near Politotdel Tashkent Oblast . At the age of 17 he moved to Pachtakor Tashkent , where he was used in over 230 games until 1979 and scored 50 goals. He played on the position of midfielder. In 1978 he also completed two international matches for the Soviet national football team .

In 1979, the Pachtakor team flew to Minsk for a game , but during the flight the crew's machine, a Tupolev Tu-134 , crashed into another aircraft and crashed near the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk . The entire team was killed.

His older brother Dmitri was also a soccer player.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Михаил Ан . Сборная России по футболу (RussiaTeam.ru), accessed September 16, 2017 (Russian).
2. ↑ Мавлян Юлдашев (Mawljan Juldaschew): Память: “Пахтакор-79” . Информационное агентство “Фергана.Ру”, August 11, 2004, accessed September 16, 2017 (Russian).