Vladimir Maslachenko

Vladimir Nikitovich Maslachenko (Russian: Владимир Никитович Маслаченко; 5 March 1936 – 28 November 2010)[1] was a Soviet footballer and football commentator. He was born in Vasylkivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Nikitovich and the family name is Maslachenko.
Vladimir Maslachenko
Personal information
Full name Vladimir Nikitovich Maslachenko
Date of birth (1936-03-05)5 March 1936
Place of birth Vasylkivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 28 November 2010(2010-11-28) (aged 74)
Place of death Moscow, Russia
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Budivelnyk Kryvyi Rih
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1956 Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk 56 (0)
1957–1962 FC Lokomotiv Moscow 119 (0)
1962–1968 FC Spartak Moscow 196 (0)
Total 371 (0)
National team
1960–1962 USSR 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Maslachenko was a native Ukrainian (khokhol as he called himself)[2] from Vasylkivka (a town in west Donbass) and a product of youth football club from Kryvyi Rih. His senior level career he started in 1953 when he joined the local football "giant" FC Dnipro which at the time was known as Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk.

After several seasons in 1957 Maslachenko was invited to Moscow where he stayed to his death. In Moscow he competed for Lokomotiv and Spartak. During that period he also played for the Soviet Union national football team and became a continental champion in 1960. In 1962 Maslachenko became a champion of the Soviet Class A First Group (Soviet top league) with Spartak Moscow.

After retiring in 1970 Maslachenko graduated the State Central Institute of Physical Culture. The same year he started his other career as a pundit (radio commentator) at the All Union Radio and the Central Television. In 1972-73 Maslachenko tried himself out as a football manager, while coaching in Chad.

In 1973-1990 he worked as a sports commentator in Soviet television news program Vremya at the First Programme of the Central Television. Following dissolution of the Soviet Union he worked as at the Russian State Television and Radio Company "Ostankino" and since 1996 at the Russian NTV.

In 2010 he died in Moscow.

Honours

International career

He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team, and participated in two World Cups, as well as the first ever European Nations' Cup in 1960, where the Soviets were champions.

References
  1. Мэтра с нами больше нет (Obituary in Russian). gazeta.ru, 28 November 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
  2. Маслаченко: на самом деле неопределённость создаёт сам Веллитон. Championat.com. 22 September 2010


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