Zinovy (Zenon) Ivanovich Litinsky (November 11, 1956, Ternopil , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet footballer , striker , midfielder .
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| Full name | Zinovy Ivanovich Litinsky | |||||||||||||||
| Born | November 17, 1956 (aged 62) Ternopol , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | |||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||
| Position | attack midfielder | |||||||||||||||
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| Club | completed his career | |||||||||||||||
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Started playing football in the Ternopil Youth Sports School, coach Zinovy Petrovich Savitsky. He played in the national team of Ukrainian schoolchildren, participated in the All-Union Olympics for students in the Azerbaijan SSR, where he received an invitation to study at the Leningrad Forestry Academy . He played for the student team at the Leningrad Championship, in 1979 he was invited to the Zenit backup team. The only match in the USSR championship was held on November 25, 1979: in the last round, he played the first half in the away match against Ararat. In 1980, in a control match, he received a leg injury, was treated for a long time and lost his place in the squad. He planned to transfer to the team of the first league “Shinnik” Yaroslavl , but returned to his homeland. In 1981, he played in the team of KFK "Niva" Podgaytsy , but again received a serious injury - a broken leg - and recovered for more than a year. Together with his family he moved to Yakutia , where he played for three years. In 1989, he played in the second league for Sakhalin Kholmsk , ended his career at the age of 35 in the team of KFK Portovik Kholmsk.
He returned to Ternopol, where he began to sell sports equipment, the director of the sportsman chain of stores. Son Taras was also a football player.