Mikhail Pavlovich Butusov (russian: Михаил Павлович Бутусов; 18 June 1900 in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
– 11 April 1963 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) was a
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
football player and coach and a
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
player. He was the brother of
Vasily Butusov
Vasily Pavlovich Butusov (Russian: Василий Павлович Бутусов; 26 January 1892 ( OS)/7 February 1892 ( NS) – 28 September 1971) was a Russian Empire amateur association football player who competed in the 1912 Summer O ...
.
Honours
* RSFSR Champion: 1924, 1932.
* Leningrad Champion: 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935.
*
Soviet Bandy League bronze: 1936 (with
Dynamo Leningrad
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. Founded in 1922, the club was one of the oldest in the city. It plays in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2.
They were a regular i ...
).
International career
Butusov made his debut 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 ...
on 16 November 1924 in a friendly against
Turkey
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. He was the captain of the team and scored 2 goals in a 3:0 victory. This was the first official game of the Soviet Union in international football, and therefore Butusov scored the first ever goal for the USSR.
References
External links
Profile
Soviet footballers
Soviet Union men's international footballers
Soviet football managers
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers
FC Dinamo Tbilisi managers
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg managers
FC Dynamo Kyiv managers
Soviet bandy players
1900 births
1963 deaths
Men's association football forwards
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