Viktor Grigoryevich Tsaryov (russian: Виктор Григорьевич Царёв; 2 June 1931 – 2 January 2017) was a Russian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

Career

During his career he played for

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footb ...

(1954–1966). He earned 12 caps for 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 ...

, and participated in the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Brazil be ...

, as well as the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets were champions. After retirement, he became a football manager. By 2008, he was the

chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

of the board of directors of

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/ref> Tsaryov died in Moscow on 2 January 2017 at the age of 85.

Honours

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 ...

winner: 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963. * Year-end Top 33 players list: 1957, 1959, 1963. * Captained

in most games in franchise history (189 official league and cup games). *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (russian: Орден Дружбы, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds a ...

(1997) * Order of Honour

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Profile (in Russian)
1931 births Footballers from Moscow 2017 deaths Russian footballers Soviet footballers Soviet Union international footballers 1958 FIFA World Cup players 1960 European Nations' Cup players UEFA European Championship-winning players Soviet Top League players FC Dynamo Moscow players Russian football managers Soviet football managers FC Dynamo Moscow managers Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Honoured Coaches of Russia Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Association football midfielders Association football defenders Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery {{russia-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub