Anatoliy Banishevskiy Sports manager

Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (Azerbaijani: Anatoli Andreyeviç Banişevski; Russian: Анатолий Андреевич Банишевский; 23 February 1946 in Baku – 10 December 1997 in Baku) was a Soviet footballer of Russian descent from Azerbaijan. Most of his playing and coaching career, Banishevskiy committed to his native club Neftchi Baku.He played for the USSR national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals. Banishevskiy played for the Soviet side in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. His club team was PFC Neftchi, and he scored 136 goals in Soviet Top League competition. The striker was unofficially named Azerbaijan's Player of the Year three times—in 1966, 1967, and 1978.In November 2003, as part of the celebration of UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player for Azerbaijan by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan as the country's most outstanding player over the past 50 years.

Personal facts

Birth dateFebruary 23, 1946
Birth place
Baku , Soviet Union national football team
Date of deathDecember 10, 1997
Place of death
Baku
Height (meters)1.74

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Football manager

club
Neftchi Baku PFK
Kapaz PFK
Burkina Faso national football team
position
Forward (association football)
teams
Neftchi Baku PFK
Soviet Union national football team

Anatoliy Banishevskiy on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=57154/newsId=137892.html