Nikolai Petrovich Morozov (Russian: Николай Петрович Морозов; 25 August 1916 – 13 October 1981) was a Russian

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 ...

coach, who led the

USSR national football team The Soviet Union national football team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national football team of the former Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed in ...

to a fourth-place finish in the

1966 FIFA World Cup The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in England from 11 July to 30 July 1966. The England national football team defeated West Germany 4-2 in the ...

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1916 births 1981 deaths People from Lyubertsy Russian footballers Soviet footballers FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Spartak Moscow players Russian football managers Soviet football managers Soviet Union national football team managers FC Lokomotiv Moscow managers 1966 FIFA World Cup managers FC Torpedo Moscow managers FC Dnipro managers FC Chornomorets Odesa managers FC Shakhtar Donetsk managers Association football midfielders Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast {{USSR-footy-bio-stub