Vladimir Dyomin (russian: Владимир Тимофеевич Дёмин; 10 March 1921 – 10 October 1966) was a Russian

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 ...

player and coach.

Career

Dyomin was born in Aleskino,

Ryazan Governorate Ryazan Governorate (russian: link=no, Рязанская губерния, ''Ryazanskaya guberniya'', Government of Ryazan) was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, wh ...

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

. He started playing as a striker in 1935 in a children's team in Moscow, then in 1937–1938 in the junior team

Spartak Moscow Spartak Moscow may refer to the following teams based or formerly based in Moscow, Russia: * FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club * HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team * Spartak GM Moscow, a semi-professional rugby club * WB ...

. In 1939, he made his debut in the starting line of the senior team of Spartak Moscow. In 1944, he moved to

CDKA Moscow Professional Football Club CSKA (russian: link=yes, Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English: ...

and from 1947 he served as team captain. In September 1952, he joined the Kalinin city team. In 1954, he finished his playing career in the reborn CDSA Moscow. On 27 May 1952, he made his debut in the Soviet Union team in an unofficial match against Hungary (2–1). After retiring he became a football coach, and in the years 1955–1957 and from June 1958 to October 1966, he worked the CSKA Moscow football academy. From January to May 1958, he led ODO Lviv. He was champion of the USSR in 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951 and winner of the USSR Cup in 1945, 1948 and 1951. He became ill with

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...

and was treated in a clinic near Moscow. But ignoring the recommendations of doctors, he died on 10 October 1966 in Moscow.

References

1921 births 1966 deaths People from Ryazhsky Uyezd SKA Lviv managers Soviet Top League players FC Spartak Moscow players PFC CSKA Moscow players Russian football managers Russian men's footballers Soviet football managers Soviet men's footballers Men's association football forwards 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in the Soviet Union Tuberculosis deaths in Russia {{Russia-footy-bio-stub