Evgeny Serafimovich Lovchev (russian: Евгений Серафимович Ловчев; born 29 January 1949) is a Russian sports journalist, a former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

, football and futsal manager.

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

winner: 1969. *

runner-up: 1974. *

bronze: 1970. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ...

winner: 1971. * Top 33 players year-end list: 7 times. * Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1972.

Career

He was capped 52 times for

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

, playing the 1970 FIFA World Cup and the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

. In 1970, he became the first player to be booked on a World Cup match, in the opening game of the tournament against Mexico.Football World Cup Firsts
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Personal

His son Evgeniy Lovchev played football professionally, including

Kazakhstan national football team The Kazakhstan national football team ( kk, Қазақстан Ұлттық футбол құрамасы, ''Qazaqstan Ūlttyq Futbol qūramasy'') represents Kazakhstan in men's international football and it is governed by the Kazakhstan Footba ...

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1949 births Footballers from Moscow Living people Russian footballers Soviet footballers Soviet Union international footballers Soviet Top League players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Dynamo Moscow players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players 1970 FIFA World Cup players Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Soviet football managers Russian football managers Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Russian sports journalists Association football defenders {{USSR-footy-bio-stub