Igor Anatolyevich Kurakin (russian: Игорь Анатольевич Куракин; 9 April 1963 – 8 August 2000 in a road accident
) was a Russian professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
er.
Club career
He played 4 seasons in the
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 ...
for
PFC CSKA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA (russian: link=yes, Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English l ...
and
FC Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...
.
References
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1963 births
Footballers from Moscow
Road incident deaths in Russia
2000 deaths
Soviet footballers
Russian footballers
Association football midfielders
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Sokol Saratov players
Soviet Top League players
Russian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Finland
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