Valentin Kosmich Ivanov

Valentin Kosmitsch Ivanov (2007)

Valentin Kosmitsch Ivanov ( Russian Валентин Козьмич Иванов ; born November 19, 1934 in Moscow , † November 8, 2011 there) was a Soviet football player and coach .

Life

Ivanov was a striker and together with five other players with four hits each top scorer at the 1962 World Cup in Chile . He had already scored two goals at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . In the USSR selection he made 59 appearances, scored 26 goals and won the European Football Championship in 1960 . Thus, in the statistics, after Oleg Blochin and Oleh Protasov , he is third on the Soviet scorers list. In his career he played exclusively with Torpedo Moscow . In the Soviet championship he scored a total of 124 goals.

Immediately after the end of his active career in 1966/67, he became head coach of Torpedo, which he remained with two small interruptions in the early and late 1970s until the end of the USSR in 1991. In 1992/93 he completed his only career outside of Moscow with Raja Casablanca . In 1993 he went back to his hometown to Asmaral Moscow , before he was the last time Torpedo coach in 1994-1996 and 1998. Later he went to the staff of the second Moscow torpedo, today's FK Moscow , whose coach he was briefly in 2003, but otherwise worked as vice-president until 2007. Since then he has been an advisor to the board of his old club Torpedo.

Since 1959 he was married to multiple Olympic gymnastics champion and world champion Lidija Gavrilowna Ivanova , their son Valentinovich Ivanov is a referee .

Career

In the 1950s and 1960s he was a world-class striker, with the selection of the Soviet Union he was 1956 Olympic champion , as well as top scorer of world and European championships and stood in two European championship finals. Ivanov was last in the seventh decade after his first assignment for Torpedo Moscow , still on the club's staff, where he was under contract as a star striker or head coach for almost 40 years in his career.

Ivanov was a player from 1952 to 1966 and for several longer periods as a coach (including between 1973 and 1978) with his parent club Torpedo Moscow under contract. He was thus (as the only one at all) involved in all three Torpedos championship titles (1960 and 1965 as a player and 1976 as a coach).

Awards

Ivanov received the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union .

Web links

• World-class footballer Valentin Ivanov died in Sochi in 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary on gazeta.ru