Anatoli Zinchenko Sports manager

Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Зинченко) (born August 8, 1949 in Stalinsk) is a retired Soviet football player and Russian coach. He is best known for being the first Soviet football player to play for a Western European professional club. His transfer to SK Rapid Wien was initiated by Austrian communist journalist Kurt Chastka. Because Soviet footballers were officially amateurs, he was formally employed as an equipment technician at the Soviet embassy while playing for Rapid, while his Rapid salary was sent over to the Soviet government.

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 08, 1949
Birth place
Soviet Union , Novokuznetsk
Height (meters)1.82

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Football manager

club
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
FC Bulat Cherepovets
FC Karelia-Discovery Petrozavodsk
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
position
Forward (association football)
teams
SK Rapid Wien
FC Rotor Volgograd
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
Soviet Union national football team
FC SKVO Rostov-on-Don
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg

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Anatoli Zinchenko on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/zinchenko.html