Yuri Nikolayevich Shishlov (russian: Юрий Николаевич Шишлов; 23 January 1945 – 5 August 2010) was a Russian professional
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 and player.
Shishlov was shot in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
on 4 August 2010 and he died in hospital on 5 August. Police believe that Shishlov's murder was a
contract killing
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related to a court case in which he testified against his former boss
Vladimir Shepel at
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl (russian: Футбольный клуб «Шинник» Ярославль) is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl.
From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik (russian: Химик - "the chemist").
In the USSR ...
.
References
External links
Career summary at KLISF
Soviet men's footballers
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
FC Elista players
Soviet football managers
Russian football managers
FC Elista managers
Russian Premier League managers
FC Metallurg Lipetsk managers
1945 births
2010 deaths
Deaths by firearm in Russia
People murdered in Russia
Russian murder victims
Men's association football defenders
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