| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Gennadi Aleksandrovich Gusarov | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1937-03-11)11 March 1937 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Moscow,USSR | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 2 June 2014(2014-06-02) (aged 77) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow,Russia | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Forward/Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||
| FShM Moscow | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1957–1962 | FC Torpedo Moscow | 123 | (68) | |||||||||||
| 1963–1968 | FC Dynamo Moscow | 125 | (25) | |||||||||||
| 1969–1971 | FC Dynamo Barnaul | 75 | (15) | |||||||||||
| Total | 323 | (108) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | USSR | 11 | (4) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1969 | FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams) | |||||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams) | |||||||||||||
| 1974 | FC Dynamo Bryansk (director) | |||||||||||||
| 1975–2014 | FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Gennadi Aleksandrovich Gusarov (Russian:Геннадий Александрович Гусаров) (11 March 1937 – 2 June 2014) was aSovietRussianfootball player.[1]
He began playing for the youth team of CDSA (1951–1955), coached by I. P. Ponomaryov. He then played for the FShM team at the Central Stadium named after V. I. Lenin (1955–1957), from where he moved to the Torpedo master team. While playing for Torpedo, Gusarov graduated from theMoscow Aviation Institute in 1962. He was a member of theKomsomol (VLKSM).[2]
On the field, he was noted for his organizational skills, technique, and ability to read the game well. His teammates includedEduard Streltsov,Valentin Ivanov,Valery Voronin,Slava Metreveli,Viktor Shustikov, and many others.
Following the dismissal of his favorite coach, Viktor Maslov, from Torpedo and a decline in the team’s performance, in 1963 he transferred to Moscow’sDynamo, changing his role from forward to midfielder. He quickly adapted to the new position and became the team’s playmaker. In the mid-1960s, together with Vladimir Dudko and Valery Maslov, he became a mainstay of Dynamo’s midfield.[3]
He ended his playing career inBarnaul, representing the local Dynamo from 1969 to 1971. He entered theBarnaul State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Physical Education, graduating in 1973, after which he moved into coaching: first at Dynamo Bryansk (1974), then returning to Moscow Dynamo to train young players (1975–1981). From 1982, he served as senior coach at the Dynamo Moscow Specialized Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve (SDYUSHOR), where he trained many well-known footballers, includingSergei Ovchinnikov,Lev Berezner,Vladimir Dolbonosov Jr.,Andrei Dyatel, and others.
In his later years, he worked in the Dynamo club’s division responsible for veteran players.
He was buried in Moscow at the Golovinsky Cemetery.[4]
He earned 11 caps and scored 4 goals for theUSSR national football team, and represented the country in the1958 FIFA World Cup, the1962 FIFA World Cup, and the1964 European Nations' Cup.
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