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''.
Morozov died from complications of
COVID-19
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on 22 October 2021, amid the
COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. He was 71.
Помер колишній тренер та футбольний експерт Сергій Морозов
Honours
Zaria Voroshilovgrad
* Soviet Top League: 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 men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Soviet Union men's international footballers
Soviet Top League players
FC Nyva Vinnytsia players
FC Desna Chernihiv players
FC 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 Arsenal Kyiv managers
FC Borysfen Boryspil managers
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers
FC Vorskla Poltava managers
FC Dnipro Cherkasy managers
Soviet expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's 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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