Boris Vasilievich Zozulya ( Ukrainian: Boris Vasilovich Zozulya ; September 24, 1926, Tokmak , Ukrainian SSR , USSR - January 9, 1999) - Soviet football player, midfielder. Later - a coach. Member of World War II .
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| Full name | Boris Vasilievich Zozulya | ||||||||||||
| Born | September 24, 1926 Tokmak , Melitopol District , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||
| Died | January 9, 1999 (72 years old) | ||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | ||||||||||||
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Football career
Mother - Praskovya Pavlovna Zozulya [1] .
In the spring of 1942 he was hijacked to Germany, where he worked for three years as a laborer at the Gasse and Wrede machine tool plant and as a mechanic at the Niles plant. In April 1945, at the age of eighteen he became an ordinary 523rd regiment of the 171st Infantry Division . Participated in the assault on the Reichstag . For military merits, he has a letter from the commander of the 1st Belorussian Front , Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov and a letter of thanks signed by Supreme Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin . He played football for the team of a group of Soviet troops in Germany as a striker [1] .
He graduated from the Zaporizhzhya Metallurgical College named after A. N. Kuzmin and the Crimean Pedagogical Institute [1] .
In 1951 he became a player in Zaporizhzhya Metallurg . Together with the team, he became the champion and owner of the 1952 Ukrainian SSR Cup . In 1953, Metallurg began to participate in the First League of the USSR . As part of Metallurg, Zozulya played as a midfielder and spent more than a hundred matches in the second strongest division of the Soviet Union [1] . Three times became the bronze medalist of the tournament and once - silver.
Coaching career
At the end of his career, he switched to coaching. He was a trainer of the training group under the team of masters, director and senior trainer, teacher of the School of Metallurgy. In 1965, the team under his leadership won the silver awards of the All-Union Championship and were recognized as the best trade union and most technical team of the tournament [1] . Among his pupils are Nikolai Razdobudko , Alexander Spitsyn , Alexander Ishchenko , Dmitry Demyanenko and Peter Chilibi [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] .
Achievements
- Silver medalist of the First League of the USSR (3): 1953 , 1954 , 1956
- Bronze medalist of the First League of the USSR (1): 1958
- Champion of the Ukrainian SSR (1): 1952
- Winner of the Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (1): 1952
Statistics
| Season | Club | League | Championship | Cup | ||
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| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | |||
| 1953 | Metallurgist (Zaporozhye) | League One | ten | 0 | five | 2 |
| 1954 | 22 | 2 | one | 0 | ||
| 1955 | 27 | one | 2 | 0 | ||
| 1956 | 33 | one | ||||
| 1957 | one | 3 | one | |||
| 1958 | thirty | one | one | 0 | ||
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Stars of Zaporizhzhya “Metallurgist”: Boris Vasilievich Zozulya . pravda.in.ua (03/05/2015). Date of treatment June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Profile (in Ukrainian) . ukr-footbal.org.ua. Date of treatment June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Yuri Usatyuk. Alexander Spitsyn: Chernomorets was head and shoulders stronger than Rosenborg . chernomorets.com. Date of treatment June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Honored Coach of Ukraine Alexander Ishchenko: The development of player intelligence is the main postulate for the Dynamo Kyiv school . Children's Football League (12/25/2011). Date of treatment June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Profile on the Odessa Football website
- ↑ Former Metallurg footballer Petr Chilibi: “The police put traps on us” . Industrial Zaporozhye (10/11/2007). Date of treatment June 11, 2017. Archived October 26, 2012.
Links
- Profile on FootballFacts.ru