Anatoliy Yakovych Kuksov ( ua, Анатолій Якович Куксов; 21 November 1949 – January 2022) was a

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football player and a Ukrainian coach. He was the most capped player for FC Zorya Luhansk and one of the longest serving coaches of the club. In 2007–08 Kuksov unsuccessfully tried to create another professional club in city

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. In 2015 he became a coach of the Russian-occupied Luhansk region team.

International career

Kuksov made his debut for the USSR national team on 2 July 1972 in a friendly against

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. Five of eight games for the Soviet team, Kuksov played at the 1972 Olympic football competition.

Personal life and death

His grandson is the volleyball player Dmytro Filippov. Kuksov died in Luhansk in January 2022, at the age of 72.

Honours

* Soviet Top League:

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; olympic bronze

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1949 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Luhansk Soviet footballers Ukrainian footballers Association football midfielders Soviet Union international footballers Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Soviet Top League players FC Zorya Luhansk players Ukrainian football managers Ukrainian Premier League managers FC Zorya Luhansk managers FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia managers FC Mariupol managers {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub