Mikhail Ivanovich An (November 19 [1] 1952 [2] , collective farm named after Y. M. Sverdlov , Verkhnechirsky district , Tashkent region , Uzbek SSR - August 11, 1979, Dneprodzerzhinsk , Ukrainian SSR ) - Soviet football player , midfielder , master of sports of the USSR international class (1976).
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| Full name | Mikhail Ivanovich An | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 19, 1952 collective farm to them. Sverdlov, Tashkent region , Uzbek SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died | August 11, 1979 (aged 26) Dneprodzerzhinsk , Dnipropetrovsk region , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 178 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Korean by nationality [3] . Like his elder brother Dmitry , a pupil of the children's team of the collective farm. Sverdlov. The first trainers are N. A. Kim and A. S. Liang. In 1968 he was enrolled in the Tashkent boarding school of a sports profile named after G. Titov . He began his career at the Politotdel club in Tashkent region , and from the second round of the 1971 championship he began to play in Pakhtakor.
Ana was called one of the most prominent representatives of the new generation of Uzbek football. In his game, they noted high mobility, good game thinking, mutual understanding with partners, a strong and accurate strike [4]
In the major league of the USSR championship, he played 138 matches, scored 30 goals. In 1974 and 1978 he was on the list of 33 best football players of the season in the USSR in third place.
Captain of the USSR national team [5] - European champion among youth teams (1976). For the USSR national team held 2 matches.
At the 27th year of his life, he died along with the Pakhtakor team in a plane crash over Dneprodzerzhinsk . He was buried on the collective farm named after Y. M. Sverdlov near Tashkent.
He was awarded the medal "Shuhrat" (2006, posthumously) [6] .
Notes
- ↑ According to the encyclopedia “Russian Football for 100 Years” - born on February 17
- ↑ Michael An
- ↑ About football, brothers Dmitry and Mikhail An and Koread (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Michael An
- ↑ Zigzags of the Seventies Archived on January 18, 2012.
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Archived on February 1, 2014.