Vasili Trofimov

Vasili Trofimov
Personal information
Full name Vasili Dmitriyevich Trofimov
Date of birth (1919-01-07)January 7, 1919
Place of birth Kostino, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Date of death September 22, 1999(1999-09-22) (aged 80)
Place of death Moscow, Russia
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1939–1953 FC Dynamo Moscow 216 (69)
National team
1952 USSR 3 (2)
Teams managed
1963–1964 USSR (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Vasili Dmitriyevich Trofimov (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Трофимов) (born January 7, 1919 in Kostino, Moscow Oblast; died September 22, 1999 in Moscow) was a Soviet football player.

The USSR champion in three sports: football (1940, 1945, 1949), ice hockey (1947) and bandy (1951, 1952) in the Dynamo (Moscow) teams.

In 1964-1981, senior coach of the Soviet Union national bandy team, which under his leadership eight times in a row became the world champion.

Honours

International career

Trofimov made his debut for USSR on July 15, 1952 in a 1952 Olympics game against Bulgaria and scored on his debut. He also scored a goal against Yugoslavia.

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