Yuriy Vasylyovych Istomin ( ua, Юрій Васильович Істомин, russian: Юрий Васильевич Истомин, ''Yuriy Vasilyevich Istomin''; 3 July 1944 – 6 February 1999) was a
Soviet
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Ukrainian
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footballer
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.
Honours
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Soviet Top League winner: 1970.
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UEFA Euro 1972 runner-up: 1972.
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Olympic bronze: 1972.
International career
He earned 34 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
UEFA Euro 1968 and
UEFA Euro 1972. He also earned a bronze medal in
football at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
External links
Profile (in Russian)
1944 births
1999 deaths
Footballers from Kharkiv
Ukrainian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Soviet Union men's international footballers
UEFA Euro 1968 players
UEFA Euro 1972 players
Soviet Top League players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
SKA Kiev players
SKA Lviv players
PFC CSKA Moscow players
Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union
Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Men's association football defenders
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