Serhiy (or Sergei) Yuriyovych Morozov ( uk, Сергій Юрійович Морозов, russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Морозов; 30 April 1950 – 22 October 2021) was a
Soviet
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football player and a Ukrainian coach and football commentator.
International career
Morozov played his only game for
USSR
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on 29 June 1972, in a friendly against
Uruguay
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.
Later life and death
Since 2008, he worked as football commentator at the Ukrainian sports channel ''
Football 1
Football 1 (''Football'' until December 2013) was first specialized TV channel in Ukraine, dedicated exceptionally to association football, football broadcasts. Football 1, Football 2 and Football 3 broadcast Ukrainian and European club competitio ...
''.
Morozov died from complications of
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
on 22 October 2021, amid the
COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths.
The virus was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when the country's first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020, a ...
. He was 71.
Помер колишній тренер та футбольний експерт Сергій Морозов
Honours
Zaria Voroshilovgrad
* 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 ...
: 1972
References
External links
Profile
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1950 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
Footballers from Kyiv
Soviet footballers
Ukrainian footballers
Association football midfielders
Soviet Union international footballers
Soviet Top League players
FC Nyva Vinnytsia players
FC Desna Chernihiv players
FC Shakhtar Stakhanov players
FC Zorya Luhansk players
PFC CSKA Moscow players
Ukrainian football managers
Ukrainian Premier League managers
Russian Premier League managers
FC Tyumen managers
Guangzhou City F.C. managers
FC Nyva Vinnytsia managers
FC Nisa Aşgabat managers
FC CSKA Kyiv managers
FC Borysfen Boryspil managers
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers
FC Vorskla Poltava managers
FC Dnipro Cherkasy managers
Merited Coaches of Ukraine
Soviet expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in East Germany
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate football managers in China
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate football managers in Russia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Turkmenistan
Ukrainian association football commentators
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