Valentyn Sapronov (23 January 1932 – 17 May 2019) was a Ukrainian

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

er from the

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-era who played for

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. In 1956, Sapronov played a game for

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at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
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1932 births 2019 deaths People from Avdiivka Soviet men's footballers FC Shakhtar Donetsk players Soviet football managers FC Lokomotyv Donetsk managers Men's association football forwards {{USSR-footy-bio-stub