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7 STEPS TO OLYMPIC VICTORY

The USSR Olympic team played 7 matches at the XVI Olympic Games - 6 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses, 16 goals scored, 3 goals missed.

USSR - ISRAEL - 5:0 (3:0)
July 11, 1956

Moscow. Dynamo Stadium. 54,000 spectators.
Judge - B. Griffiths (Wales).
USSR: Yashin, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin, Ogonkov, Paramonov, Netto (k), Tatushin, Val. Ivanov, Simonyan, Salnikov, Ilyin.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
Israel: Hod, Matanya, Carmel, Halbi, Schneier, Ron, Galzar, Peled, Ilan, Nehemich, Merom.
Goals: Tatushin (2), Val. Ivanov (26, 71), Simonyan (45, 78).

ISRAEL - USSR - 1:2 (0:0)
July 31, 1956
Qualifying match XVI Olympiad.
Tel Aviv. Ramat Gan Stadium. 60,000 spectators.
Judge - F. Liverani (Italy).
Israel: Hod, Matanya, Carmel, Halbi, Schneier, Ron, Kafri, Galzar, Peled, Ilan, Merom.
USSR: Yashin, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin (k), B. Kuznetsov, Paramonov, Salnikov, Tatushin, Isaev, Simonyan, Moser, Ilyin.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
Goals: Ilyin (59), Peled (64), Tatushin (79).

UNITED GERMAN TEAM - USSR - 1:2 (0:1)
November 24, 1956
Match of the 1/8 finals of the XVI Olympiad.
Melbourne. Olympic Park Stadium. 20,000 spectators.
Judge - R. Mann (England).
OGK: Hertz, Gerdau, Hefer, K. Hofmann, R. Hofmann, Semmelman, Mauritz, Geiger, Zeitler, Schaefer, Habig.
USSR: Yashin, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin, Ogonkov, Paramonov, Netto (k), Tatushin, Isaev, Streltsov, Val. Ivanov, Ryzhkin.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
Goals: Isaev (23), Streltsov (86), Khabig (89).

INDONESIA - USSR - 0:0
November 29, 1956
Match of the 1/4 finals of the XVI Olympiad.
Melbourne. Olympic Park Stadium. 8000 spectators.
Judge - S. Takenokoshi (Japan).
Indonesia: Saelan, Rashid, Siregar, Yatim, Kiat Sek, Liong Hou, Vitarsa, Silan Liong, Danu, Khim Toyang Tio, Ramang.
USSR: Yashin, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin, B. Kuznetsov, Betsa, Netto (k), Tatushin, Isaev, Streltsov, Salnikov, Ryzhkin.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.

INDONESIA - USSR - 0:4
December 1, 1956
Repeated match of the 1/4 finals of the XVI Olympiad.
Melbourne. Olympic Park Stadium. 12,000 spectators.
Judge - R. Lund (New Zealand).
Indonesia: Saelan, Rashid, Siregar, Yatim, Kuan Kwee, Liong Tan, Vitarsa, Arifin, Zhusron, Khim Toyang Tio, Ramang.
USSR: Razinsky, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin, B. Kuznetsov, Maslenkin, Netto (k), Tatushin, Val. Ivanov, Streltsov, Salnikov, Ilyin.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
Goals: Salnikov (17, 59), Val. Ivanov (19), Netto (43).

BULGARIA - USSR - 1:2 (0:0, 0:0)
December 5, 1956
Match of the 1/2 finals of the XVI Olympiad.
Melbourne. Maine Stadium (Cricket Ground).
Judge - R. Mann (England).
40,000 spectators.
Bulgaria: Naydenov, Rakarov, Manolov, Goranov, Bozhkov, Kovachev, Milanov, Dimitrov, Panayotov, Kolev, Yanev.
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
USSR: Yashin, N. Tishchenko, Bashashkin, Ogonkov, Paramonov, Netto (k), Tatushin, Val. Ivanov, Streltsov, Salnikov, Ryzhkin.

Goals: Kolev (95), Streltsov (112), Tatushin (116).
YUGOSLAVIA - USSR - 0:1 (0:0)
December 8, 1956
Final of the XVI Olympiad.
Melbourne. Maine Stadium (Cricket Ground).
100,000 spectators.
Judge - R. Wright (Australia).
Coach - G. D. Kachalin.
Yugoslavia: Radenkovic, Koscak, Radovic, Šantek, Spajic, Krstic, Šekularac, Papec, Antic, Veselinović, Mujic.

USSR: Yashin, B. Kuznetsov, Bashashkin, Ogonkov, Maslenkin, Netto (k), Tatushin, Isaev, Simonyan, Salnikov, Ilyin.

Goal: Ilyin (48). MELBOURNE VICTORY FANFARE Forty years ago, the USSR national team became Olympic champion Melbourne. This was the first major success of our football players in official international competitions. The winners of the Olympic Games talk about that memorable victory.

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1956.

ANATOLY ISAEV: WE GAVE AN OATH... TO ROMANOV Over the years, of course, much has been erased from my memory, but the main moments, like bright flashes of lightning, have remained with me forever. In October in Paris we met with the French team and lost to them 1:2.

We flew to Melbourne on a Tu-104 with two stops: first in Tashkent, and then in Burma. The capital of the Olympic Games greeted us with bright sunshine and unusual heat. Our first opponent was the united German team, the core of which was made up of German football players, who for some reason still had amateur status. But this circumstance did not discourage us at all. We knew very well that any German team - professional or amateur - would fight to the end, showing character, strength and will. Therefore, we did not expect an easy victory. That's how it happened.

As soon as the referee's whistle sounded, we immediately realized that the Germans had chosen defensive tactics. They acted something like this: three defenders in the area of the penalty area, three midfielders in the center, closer to their goal, then two midfielders and in front only two extreme forwards.

As a result of such a viscous, forceful struggle imposed on us by the enemy, we were unable to carry out our high-speed attacks on the flanks, where we played excellent wingers- Tatushin and Ilyin. All this forced us to act more individually. Actually, we had no other choice. But, oddly enough, this is precisely what brought us success in the end, since two goals were scored precisely thanks to individual actions.

I managed to score the first goal in the 23rd minute. And this is how it happened.

Tatushin passed me a pass from the edge and immediately offered himself. I was about to make a return pass, when suddenly I saw two German midfielders sneaking up on him. What to do? Eh, it wasn’t, I thought and, picking up the ball, I walked straight down the center towards the German goal. One of the defenders immediately rushed towards me. I beat him and just raised my head when another defensive player immediately appeared in front of me, as if out of the ground.

True, immediately, a few minutes later, German striker Habig wins one goal back. This happened after Bashashkin somewhat carelessly stepped forward, and Yashin, being at the penalty area line, did not have time to block the flight of the ball launched by Khabig, who subtly assessed the situation, probably from thirty meters away.

This is how we managed to win a very difficult but important victory. However, then we could not even imagine how difficult and difficult our matches would be, even with such a seemingly simple team as Indonesia.

However, the Olympics are the Olympics. I remember how, after losing to us, the players of the Bulgarian national team left the field and cried like little children. I remember the hardest match with Yugoslavia and our only winning goal, scored by Ilyin. The attack began from our gates. Ogonkov gave a pass to Tatushin, and he flew along his favorite right flank, and I, moving parallel to him, only managed to shout: “Boris, to the nearest one!” He crossed, but I feel like I can’t keep up, the ball is far away, and the goalkeeper is standing at the near post. What to do? I take off from the ground and jump forward, trying to get the ball with my head and somehow throw it to the center. I didn’t even hit the ball with my head, not with my forehead, but with the back of my head I somehow butted it from the bottom up, and the ball, lo and behold, flew over the goalkeeper, and Ilyin almost from the goal line finished it into the net.

Victory! We heard this word all the way back home. And it took us a long time to return. It took us 20 days to travel by boat to Vladivostok. Somewhere, I think, on December 31st we boarded a train, but at every major station we were taken out of the cars by people, and a lot of people gathered, some walked, they wanted to see us, touch us, talk. This is the most unforgettable thing that remains in a person’s soul forever.

ALEXEY PARAMONOV: “BUGS” WERE NOT FOUND IN THE HOTEL

Although Kachalin repeatedly warned us that there are no weak opponents at the Olympic Games, everyone understood perfectly well: we are the favorites in this meeting. Because before this, the Indonesian national team had not been able to prove itself at any of the serious international tournaments. At the installation before the match, Gavriil Dmitrievich said that most likely the Indonesians would play in the style of Kuibyshev’s “Wings of the Soviets” and would try to oppose us with something like the famous “Volga snap”. Old fans remember how in the late forties and early fifties, clearly inferior in performance skills, but playing exceptionally selflessly and competently in defense, “Krylya Sovetov” often beat Moscow teams due to one or two successful counterattacks.

The coach asked the defenders and midfielders not to get carried away with attacking too much, if the ball was lost, to move back in an orderly manner, sorting out their players, and not to forget about game discipline. In midfield, Igor Netto, according to Kachalin’s plan, should have acted more in front, helping the forwards. The second midfielder, Jozsef Betse, was charged with the responsibility of insuring Netto if he got too carried away in the attack in some episodes. But... The team entered the field and saw something that “Krylya Sovetov” with all their “snaps”, in comparison with the Indonesian version, could be considered a team playing almost open football.

The alignment of our opponents could be described as 8+1+1. Eight players from the Indonesian national team literally hermetically sealed their penalty area. Only one center forward, Danu, was pushed forward; during rare counterattacks, left insider Khim Toyang Tio tried to help him. The rest, as I already said, stood like a wall at their own goal, practically never leaving their half of the field throughout the match. As a result, during the entire match we managed to create only a few relatively dangerous moments. First, Boris Tatushin raced down the right flank and fired just wide of the post. Then good point

Those who believe that the Indonesians played only with numbers would be mistaken. They also had enough skills. Their playing was amazing in its dedication. As soon as one of our team received the ball, an opponent immediately rushed at his feet, protected by two more. Even then, in fifty-six, the Indonesians used collective tackling of the ball! Very dexterous, nimble guys, excellently prepared physically. This style of play required a colossal amount of energy from the opponents, but they withstood the entire 120 minutes until the end. Why was the USSR national team famous in those years for its

functional training

, however, we were unable to outrun the Indonesians in the first match. And at the very end of the meeting, an episode occurred that literally plunged our entire team into a state of shock. Obviously considering that the fruitless attacks had tired out our players, the Indonesians suddenly became more active. A few minutes before the final whistle, center forward Danu burst into our penalty area with the ball. There was only Anatoly Bashashkin in front of him, the Indonesian moved slightly to the right and, trying to catch Yashin on the counter move, sent the ball into the upper left corner, but made a slight mistake. The next day we had a big and principled conversation.

Not only the whole team gathered in the hall, but also the leaders of the delegation.

I remember it was very crowded. Before finally settling in, we all meticulously examined the furniture, walls, floor: the Cold War was already making itself felt - the authorities believed that even our conversations were in sports themes, replaced Betsu. Instead of Volodya Ryzhkin, Anatoly Ilyin came out, who, unlike his colleague, knew how to not only break through the edge, but also complete the attack on his own; Anatoly Isaev was replaced by Valentin Ivanov, who played well with Eduard Streltsov. This time the gate was defended by Boris Razinsky. The main bet was to open the account as quickly as possible, then the Indonesians would break.

This calculation was generally justified. Already in the 17th minute, Sergei Salnikov opened the scoring from a difficult position with a header, two minutes later Ivanov scored the second goal. After this, the game took on a more open character.

The Indonesians finally got out of their “lair” and began to attack more, which Netto and Salnikov took advantage of, scoring two more goals.

Despite the big victory, our guys returned to the locker room extremely exhausted mentally and physically. To travel to distant lands to lose to the Indonesian national team for the amusement of the public would be too much...

VALENTIN IVANOV: ...AND STRELTSOV SCORED THE RETURN GOAL

I lived a fairly long and generally happy life in football. Twice he became the champion of the Soviet Union, won the National Cup, and as a member of the national team received a gold medal for winning the European Cup in 1960, and four years later a silver medal for participating in the same tournament, played twice in the world championships... And that’s all I experienced the happiest moments at the Melbourne Olympics. My memory has not retained many of the details after four decades, but the feeling of a grandiose bright holiday and the joy of participating in the first major victory of our team at an international tournament of this scale remained for the rest of my life.

Well, in the next game, it seemed like we could relax a little. The opponent is the Indonesian national team. In the summer of ’56, this team came to the Soviet Union, and our average clubs scored five goals against the Indonesians in an hour and a half. But the USSR national team failed in Melbourne for two hours (it was appointed Extra time

) score not a single goal against them. It was some kind of nightmare. I watched the game from the bench and was much more tired than in the match with the Germans. In the replay, which took place a day later, I was included in the lineup. To avoid dooming yourself to repeated suffering, you need a quick goal. And we scored it. Immediately I doubled the count. The game was done.

In the semi-finals there was a meeting with one of the strongest teams of the Olympic tournament - the Bulgarian national team. Soviet football players always played hard against the Bulgarians. The Melbourne meeting was no exception.

At the beginning of the second half, our right defender Kolya Tishchenko broke his collarbone.

After providing first aid, he courageously continued the meeting.

Trouble, as you know, does not travel alone. After some time, I also got injured. Acute pain in my knee actually took me out of the game. Substitutions were not allowed at that time, so I remained on the field. We somehow made it to the end of regular time. But there is still half an hour ahead. I don’t remember what our coach Gavriil Kachalin said during the short break. But even without that, everything was clear: at any cost, hold out for another thirty minutes in order to field eleven full-fledged football players in the repeat meeting. The Bulgarians, however, scored an early goal and thwarted our plans., still remained in the game and somehow influenced its course. I hobbled along the right side of the field and tried to distract one of the Bulgarian defenders.

He didn’t know how much pain I was in, and just in case he was forced to look after me. And Tishchenko, sometimes risking his health, entered into single combats and made a pass, after which the winning goal was scored.

For obvious reasons, I again watched the final match with the young but quite strong Yugoslav team from the sidelines. Now I can’t remember any game episodes, or even Ilyin’s golden goal. I only remember that Lev Yashin played brilliantly, and the feeling of enormous relief and happiness that came immediately after the final whistle.

Although I didn’t get an Olympic gold medal then (the awards were given only to the participants in the final meeting), my joy knew no bounds. The Olympics in Melbourne are doubly dear to me: after all, there I met the young gymnast Lidia Kalinina, my future wife, with whom I have been living in good harmony for decades.

NIKITA SIMONYAN: ALAS, THERE WERE ONLY 11 MEDALS... I played all the qualifying matches for the Olympic tournament, but only played one game in Melbourne. But what a final one! The day before Main coach

our team, Gavriil Dmitrievich Kachalin decided that after the crazy tense semi-final with the Bulgarians, we should bet on fresh players, Spartak players who did not participate in the previous game, which lasted 120 minutes, and, therefore, are not so tired, full of strength, energy and desire to show myself at the Olympics. As a result, Ivanov, Streltsov, Ryzhkin remained on the bench, and Simonyan, Isaev and Ilyin appeared in the main lineup. We went out to decisive game with Yugoslavia, then one of the strongest teams in Europe, with the only thought - to prove that we are no worse, no weaker than the well-known ones football world

The match itself went by in a blur for me. It’s not that I was very worried, no, when you’re sitting on the substitutes’ bench, you worry, perhaps, even more, but on the field there’s no time to worry too much, you have to play. We played. In my opinion, they played well. Of course, our opponents also had dangerous moments, but our goalkeeper Lev Yashin performed brilliantly. I had a couple of scoring chances, but the Yugoslav defenders eliminated them in time, once goalkeeper Radenkovic helped out his team... The Olympic final in Australia brought the Soviet team a victory with a score of 1:0. In the 48th minute, Anatoly Isaev made an excellent lob pass from the right, and Anatoly Ilyin could only head it into the now empty goal.

Immediately after the end of the game, the President of the International Olympic Committee presented the three winning teams with awards. Us - gold medals, the Yugoslavs - silver, and the Bulgarians - bronze. Then, unfortunately, there was a strict rule at the Olympic tournaments: only eleven players from the main squad, participants in the final match, received medals. Of course it was in highest degree not fair. That is, Streltsov and Ivanov, who played three or four very difficult preliminary matches, were not awarded any awards.

Feeling some discomfort in front of Eduard, who was like a younger brother to me, I immediately went up to him after the game and said: “Edik, this medal is yours, you deserve it!” Streltsov, however, flatly refused to take the award from me: “What are you, Palych? I’m not yet twenty, there are enough victories for my lifetime, but for you it’s probably your last, so wear it and don’t worry!”

I was really already thirty at that time, and, naturally, I could not count on success in four years. And yet, when we, the entire Olympic delegation, were returning home on the ship "Shota Rustaveli", I once again asked Edik to accept from me the medal that he deserved.

Here Streltsov, it seems, was simply offended, and I realized that this issue should not be raised anymore...

Once in the Olympic village, Vladimir Kuts asked an Australian journalist for a ride in his car. Western cars were, as you understand, a novelty for us then. He sat down, drove off and... crashed into a pole. He himself was not injured, but the car was dented quite a bit. The management of the Soviet team had to fork out money for the damage caused. And a few days later, Kuts wins two gold medals at distances of five and ten thousand meters and becomes a real hero of the Olympics. And what do you think that Australian journalist did? He said that he was not going to repair the car, but would put it next to his house, surround it with a fence and hang a sign: “This car was crashed by the famous Vladimir Kuts.”

As for us football players, we did not receive any prizes for winning the Olympics in Australia. We were given only daily allowances, like all other members of the delegation. At home, upon arrival, the Sports Committee “forked out” for a bonus to the Olympic champions in the amount of twelve thousand rubles. Then it seemed to us that this was not bad, because the Moskvich car cost 16 thousand...

Our road home is worthy of a separate description. Having sailed by ship from Australia to Vladivostok, we traveled across our entire vast country to the capital by train - eight days! And at every more or less large station we were met by a mass of people, they came there, covering tens of kilometers.

Just to look at Yashin, Kuts, Bolotnikov, to shake hands. They held rallies, gave us simple gifts, brought us food, vodka, even bucketfuls of alcohol. They congratulated us and wished us success and happiness. This is how we celebrated our big Olympic victory together with the whole country! Unforgettable time. Has it really been forty years?..

Weekly "Football" No. 49, 1996

In 1956, our Soviet football team became the champion of the Olympic Games in Melbourne. You can shout “hurray” and clap your hands. However, let's face it.

Of course, I understand that such a headline can get you in the face. Especially from people of the older generation who remember Igor Netto, Eduard Streltsov, Lev Yashin... But let's calmly figure it out. Moreover, I, too, am no longer a boy and just like you, I admire these.

wonderful football players

Let me start, perhaps, with the fact that football at the Olympic Games does not have the same status and prestige as at the World Championship. That's how it happened initially. More precisely, since 1930, when the first World Football Championship was held, in which, unlike the Olympic Games, professionals could participate.

Olympic principle of amateurism

Have you forgotten one of the main principles of the Olympics? Only amateurs can participate. Here is a short definition of an amateur athlete.

I see, right? In more detail, it looks like this:

Didn't receive salary
Didn't receive any bonuses
I did not receive any cash or other valuable prizes. By the way, read what kind of performance had to be put on in order for our high jumper Valery Brumel to receive his golden “Columbus Caravel”
Didn't sell awards

And this applies not only to football. Although I think football suffered the most. So what was Europe to do? After all, already from the mid-30s of the last century, professional football in the Old World began to gain momentum powerfully.

Even if Italy, Spain, Great Britain or France had followed our path and placed their football players in factories, in trade unions or in the army, nothing would have worked out.

Firstly. Salaries... small
Secondly. Premium...small
Third. Without valuable prizes and cash rewards

In short, they won’t play there for a diploma.

So, wait strong teams there were none from Western Europe.

Which teams were represented?

Everything would be fine. Amateurs are, well, amateurs. And the presence of teams from Holland, Spain or Switzerland at the Olympics would undoubtedly add intrigue to the tournament. But they weren't there. Just like there was no very good Hungarian team.

The reasons, unfortunately, were common for that time - political. And if the principle of amateurism was more or less respected, then no attention was paid to “sport outside politics”. Hence the boycotts.

Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary boycotted the Games in connection with the Hungarian events of 1956, when Soviet troops brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising.
Iraq did not send its team, protesting against the aggression of France, England and Israel in Egypt
China did not want to participate in the same Olympics as Taiwan.

In the end, that's who was left.

Australia
Bulgaria
Great Britain
India
Indonesia
JKG (United Team Germany)
Taiwan
Yugoslavia
Japan

You see everything for yourself. Of these 11 teams, only two actually claimed gold. Ours and the Bulgarians (it’s a pity that they met in the semi-finals). The rest were off the list of applicants. Even the Germans, British and Yugoslavs. Everyone sent their second squads to the games.

Brief review of games

1/8 finals USSR-OKG 2:1

Well what can I say. Our cool (without quotes) team came out against 19-23 year old boys... And if we take into account that the USSR national team beat the German team (by the way, the World Champions) 2:1 a couple of months before the Olympics, then no one expected any difficulties from these young guys.

Let the captain of the USSR national team, Igor Netto, tell you how the match turned out.

A very difficult game... a team completely unknown to us - only young people... The Germans immediately went on the defensive. We outplayed them, but there was no result for a long time. We still won. We are pleased with the result, but remain dissatisfied with the game.

Well, to be honest, dissatisfaction with the game remained not only among the players, but also among the coaches, and among everyone who saw this game.

1/4 finals USSR-Indonesia. First game 0:0. Second - 4:0

First, let me explain that there were no penalty shootouts back then. And if after extra time there was no winner, a replay was ordered.

What happened at the first game cannot be called anything other than “Shame.” There can be no excuses at all. In 120 minutes, you can’t score a single goal against a team that you can’t even call weak!

Let's listen to Igor Netto.

I will never forget this game.. We were really expecting an easy walk... and we thought to save our strength before the semi-finals.. We didn’t find the key to them, didn’t find the approach.. We left the field with our heads down...

Nothing to add. And let’s not rub salt into the wound... Moreover, in the replay everything fell into place.

1/2 finals USSR-Bulgaria. 2:1

As I already said, the Bulgarians are the only team equal to ours in strength at this Olympics. And the game worked out. It was both very intense and spectacular. It was in this game that our players demonstrated their best qualities... including the will to win.

Eight minutes before the end of extra time, the USSR national team was losing 1:0. But, they managed to pull themselves together and, in fact, ten of us (more on that below) snatched victory. And, despite the tar, without which there is no way, the result is not according to the game.... The Bulgarians played better, they were lucky, etc., well done anyway!

Final USSR-Yugoslavia. 1:0

A lot of good words have been said about this game and to Soviet football players. I agree about the game. The game was interesting, fast, double-edged. Thanks to the Yugoslavs. Yes, it was the young, inexperienced Yugoslav team that was able to play on equal terms and sometimes even more fun with our masters.

There is a short video of that meeting. I wonder how!

Well, let’s sum up the “dry” results? So, here they are - the USSR national team - the Olympic champion in football at the Olympics in Melbourne.

Five games. Four of which are with teams that are obviously weaker than the USSR national team.
Not counting, the second match with Indonesia in four games, 5 goals were scored and 2 missed
Two of the five games had to be played in extra time.
Replay with Indonesia

So what is it called? This, dear fans, is called “Crap”. And even if rotten tomatoes are thrown at me, I will not change my opinion.

What do you, dear readers, think about this tournament?

Briefly about interesting things

The heroes of the meeting with the Bulgarians (and therefore of the entire Olympics) were Nikolai Tishchenko and Eduard Streltsov. Tishchenko breaks his collarbone at the end of normal time, but continues to play (at that time no replacements were provided). And it was Nikolai who organized the winning goal that Eduard Streltsov scored (read more about the difficult fate of this great football player here...).
There were only 11 medals. The most offensive thing is that the players who made such a contribution to the overall victory were left without Olympic medals. Neither Tishchenko nor Streltsov played in the final. And according to the rules, only those who played in the final match received medals.

Dear readers, if you have something to tell about the Soviet Olympic champions, speak up. Write in the comments or send interesting stories via the feedback form on the “Send a letter” page. The country must know its heroes.

That's all. See you soon.

Yuri Melamud and dahusim.ru

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25 years ago the USSR national football team won the Olympics

It was an unconditional success, and in the decisive match, the Brazilian team, made up of future world champions, was defeated

Anatoly Byshovets, who was considered an incredibly promising specialist, was appointed head coach of the Olympic team two years before the start of the tournament. His resume included a resounding victory for the youth team over the West German team led by the great German Berti Vogts, as well as silver at the European Youth Championship.

The Olympic coaching staff also included Gadzhi Gadzhiev and Vladimir Salkov.

A good run-in for Byshovets’ team was the Olympic qualifying tournament, which they passed in one breath. In matches against Bulgaria, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey, Soviet football players got used to each other, and promising gaming connections were formed. Future legends played for our opponents - Hakan Shukur, Hristo Stoichkov. They were not yet known then, but very soon they would make themselves known loudly.

The conductors of the attacks of the USSR national team, its leaders were Igor Dobrovolsky and Alexey Mikhailichenko. Igor was generally appointed captain of that team. Later, Dobrovolsky told interesting stories about Byshovets’s working methods.

Imagine the situation - a training session is in progress, and Anatoly Fedorovich asks the next candidate for a trip to Seoul to rush into a muddy puddle after the ball. If a football player is disdainful, then most likely there will be no place for him in the national team. They say that Byshovets specifically asked stadium workers to create such puddles by watering the lawn with a hose.

The microclimate in the team, however, was excellent. The football players were captivated by the idea of winning the Olympics. And the lineup was excellent - many of the guys will then be able to really play high level. In addition to Dobrovolsky and Mikhailichenko, the brightest players of the Soviet team were goalkeeper Dmitry Kharin, defender Sergei Gorlukovich, midfielder Evgeniy Kuznetsov, forward Yuri Savichev...

Before traveling to South Korea, the players held a final training camp in Japan, getting used to the Asian climate. Byshovets held good preparation For the competition, the team was excellently prepared both physically and psychologically. And just before the trip to Seoul, Byshovets decided to take the guys... to the Vatican, for an audience with John Paul II.

Byshovets talked for a long time about something with the Pope, while the football players saw the head of the Catholic Church for only a few minutes - he wished them a successful performance at the Olympics. Later, Byshovets will hang a joint portrait with the Pope in his office.

Apparently, the heavens heard Byshovets’ call, because the USSR national team’s performance at the Olympics was brilliant, and not without obvious luck.

At the group stage, relative failure followed in the first match - South Korea was able to hold off the Soviet attack and play the favorite to a goalless draw. So in next match against Argentina it was a must win. The composition of the “albiceleste” may not have been very bright in terms of names, especially since Claudio Canniggia did not play for the team, but a stubborn fight was still expected.

As a result, Dobrovolsky and Mikhailichenko made the result for the USSR national team. But the match against the United States turned out to be as simple as two cents - during the match the score was 4:0. This match also had political overtones, so the mood of the Soviet football players was outrageous.

On this group stage ended, it's time for the playoffs, and this is always walking on the edge of a cliff. One wrong move and you'll fall down, all your previous successes turning to dust.

In the quarterfinals, however, we had to play with a mysterious opponent, the Australian team. How this team was able to pass, for example, Yugoslavia, for which Suker, Stojkovic, Katanec played, remained a big mystery. Perhaps, against such formidable opponents, Australian crocodiles crawled onto the field and swallowed the future stars of world football.

Jokes aside, it was an easy match, in which the Dobrovolsky-Mikhailichenko duet was again the soloist.

And the semi-final did not bode well. The rival of the USSR national team was Italy, with whom it can easily only be played in hockey. Tassotti, Ferrara, Evani, Rizzitelli played for Squadra Azura... It was a flame ready to burn anyone.

In the first half we were able to keep the goal intact, but immediately after the break the Virdis-Evani combination from Milan worked. And the flames immediately turned to ice: the Italians did what they love most - they retreated to the defensive to observe from their trenches what the Soviet attack was like.

And it was their mistake, because as soon as our guys felt relative freedom, the Italian defense began to fall apart. In the 78th minute, Yuri Savichev passed the ball in the penalty area to Dobrovolsky, and he hit with all his heart - the Italian goalkeeper Tacconi had no chance.

The Italians got angry and “turned on the dirt.” But even in a tough, uncompromising game, the USSR national team felt fine. And in the extra period, Dobrovolsky assisted Narbekovas, who made an elegant strike outside his foot into the far corner hit Tacconi's goal.

The Lithuanian forward made it into the USSR national team by miracle. The fact is that at one of the banquets Byshovets saw him... with a mug of beer. Narbekovas assured that this was not his mug at all, that someone had put it on the table while he was leaving, but the coach did not believe the football player and “unhooked” him from the team for a while. In the end, Narbekovas still went to Seoul, and who knows how the team would have performed if Byshovets had not taken him with him.

Then the teams exchanged goals, and the match ended in favor of our team - 3:2. Thus, the team won a ticket to the finals, where the tournament favorite was waiting for them. Brazilian football players They didn’t know it well back then, but time would pass and this team would become the world champion.

The Brazilians were very angry, they had never won before olympic gold, and therefore prepared for the tournament as carefully as Soviet football players. One quick glance at the composition of that Brazil gives goosebumps - Taffarel, Jorginho, Bebeto, Romario.

Before the game, Soviet football players were moved from Olympic Village on the motor ship "Mikhail Sholokhov". This was done, among other things, for secrecy, so that the Brazilian “spies” could not find out how the Soviet team was preparing for the final. The newly built ship became a good training base - right on the deck the football players warmed up, played square and honed their technique.

Sholokhov, the legendary Soviet writer, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The USSR national team players were preparing to take Olympic gold.

Byshovets set the players up only for victory, saying that only gold truly shines. 73 thousand spectators gathered in the stands, and to the surprise of many of them, the match began with fierce, Brazilian attacks of the USSR national team. The Brazilian goalkeeper was tested with insidious blows best players tournament Dobrovolsky and Mikhailichenko.

Having withstood the Soviet onslaught, Brazil made its attack - Romario scored after a partner's corner. From that moment on, double-edged football began, from which one could derive aesthetic pleasure. The Soviet defense had to contain the Brazilian hurricane of one player - Romario caught the courage and beat his guardian Ketashvili over and over again.

In the second half, the USSR team, having slightly rearranged the game in attack, equalized the score. Mikhailichenko earned a penalty, and Dobrovolsky converted it. Igor could generally score from the spot almost with his eyes closed; in this component he was no worse than Mario Balotelli, who recently missed his first penalty in official matches.

Regular time ended in a draw, and in the first extra time Savichev realized a one-on-one with Taffarel, and the Brazilian goalkeeper was shot through mockingly, the striker simply threw the ball over the goalkeeper. When the extra time ended, the unimaginable happened - Ketashvili rushed across the entire field with wild eyes and shouting: “Hurray, victory!” His partners had to bring him to his senses and explain that he would have to play one more extra time, and then he could give free rein to his emotions.

After a micro-break, the Brazilian national team finally played its own, super-attacking football, under the whirlwind of which few are able to survive. The USSR national team was crushed against its goal, like a boxer caught in a hail of blows from one of the Klitschko brothers. At the same time, the degree of struggle increased every minute. It was a battle with all the accompanying attributes - two red cards, a decisive rush from the Brazilians, spectacular saves by Kharin.

When the last seconds of the match expired, Brazil coach Carlos Alberto broke down and burst into tears - his team had just lost a final that they had no intention of losing. And Byshovets found himself in a tight ring of his players, who picked up the triumphant man in their arms and began to swing him. And then all the winners went on board the ship, which, according to legend, rocked during a grandiose celebration organized in its bowels.

This was the first victory of the USSR team at the Olympic Games since 1956. And Brazil was left without an Olympic triumph, but in 1994 the team that lost to the USSR won the World Championship with almost the same composition.

Olympic Games semi-final

Italy - USSR - 2:3 (0:0) Goals: Virdis, 50, Carnevale, 120 - Dobrovolsky, 78, Narbekovas, 93, Mikhailichenko, 107

Warnings: Cherednik, Yakini, Gorlukovich, Ketashvili, Savichev, Carnevale, Ferrara. Removal: Ferrara (96).

Italy: Tacconi, Carobbi, Tassotti, Brambati, Ferrara, Iachini, Crippa, Evani (Desideri, 71), Mauro, Rizzitelli (Carnevale, 80), Virdis.

USSR: Kharin, Ketashvili, Gorlukovich, Cherednik (Yarovenko, 46), Losev (k), Mikhailichenko, E. Kuznetsov, Narbekovas, Tatarchuk (Yu. Savichev, 70), Dobrovolsky, Lyuty.

Referee: Jamal Al-Sharif

Olympic final

Brazil - USSR - 1:2 (1:0) Goals: Romario, 30 - Dobrovolsky, 61 (p), Savichev, 105

Warnings: Ketashvili, Yarovenko, Kuznetsov, Luis Carlos, Andrade, Tatarchuk. Removals: Tatarchuk (110), Edmar (118).

Brazil: Taffarel, Luis Carlos, Andre Cruz, Aloisio, Jorginho, Andrade, Milton, Neto (Edmar, 74), Careca II, Bebeto (Joao Paulo, 75), Romario.

USSR: Kharin, Ketashvili, Gorlukovich, Yarovenko, Losev (k), Mikhailichenko, E. Kuznetsov, Narbekovas (Yu. Savichev, 46), Tatarchuk, Dobrovolsky, Lyuty (Sklyarov, 116).

Referee: Gerard Bige

Based on materials from: sport.rbc.ru

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Last gap. On the anniversary of the Olympic victory of the USSR national football team

On December 8, 1956, the USSR national football team won gold medals at the XVI Summer Olympic Games.

Our football team is deservedly considered an eternal pain, and sometimes even a shame for the nation, and Kokorin and Mamaev and the defeat from Qatar are just the next stages long way. Exceptions to this rule are rare, but they do exist.

The first big official celebration on the street of a Soviet fan broke out at the very end of 1956, becoming the decoration of an even more epic celebration - the USSR won the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia for the first time in the team competition, ahead of the USA. 98 Soviet medals (of which 37 were gold) versus 74 American (32 gold) looked more than impressive. The overall success at the height of the Cold War was a great political victory, which would later be repeated many times both in summer and in Winter Olympics.

Since then, football luck has smiled at the national team level only twice: in 1960, the first European championship in history was won, and in 1988, the Olympics in Seoul. By the start of the World Cup in Russia, by the summer of 2018, the unbeaten streak will be exactly thirty years. All the more significant is the success of 60 years ago.

Khrushchev and Adzhubey in spite of

At that time the Olympics were the only major international tournament, in which Soviet football players participated (the first world championship for them will only be in 1958). Our fan remembers his first Olympic experience (Helsinki, 1952) every time he really wants to disperse those who failed the next big competition domestic "stars". This is exactly what the Stalinist leadership did when they disbanded the base club of the CDSA team after the defeat from Yugoslavia, which was extremely hostile to us at that time.

Repressions were not excluded following the results of Melbourne: the living Olympic champion Alexei Paramonov writes in his 2014 book that the head Soviet sports Nikolai Romanov “even suggested that we take an oath that in Melbourne we would win all the matches - so that in case of anything, if Khrushchev starts a debriefing, we would relieve ourselves of some of the responsibility.”

A debriefing was already held in Australia - after the USSR national team drew with Indonesia (0:0) in the quarterfinals on November 29, and it came to a replay. The great Lev Yashin could even give victory to the Indonesians - after for some reason he began to dribble past their striker, from whom he took the ball, eliminating a one-on-one situation. Khrushchev’s son-in-law Alexei Adzhubey, who began his journalistic career in the sports department of Komsomolskaya Pravda, was at the match and wrote a devastating report. According to Paramonov, “the next day we had a very serious meeting of the whole team. The head of the Olympic Committee, Konstantin Andrianov, came to be present in person and participate in the analysis of the game. The meeting lasted for about three hours. And each player had to explain why he played the way he did and why the team couldn’t win.”

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Game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" for November 17, 2018 has already been broadcast in the eastern regions of the country, so the answers to all the questions of the game are already known and can be found on the Telerespont website, among others.

Here is one of the interesting questions of today's game and the answer to the question accordingly. An article with all the questions and answers will be published soon and can be found in the same section.

In which city in 1956 did the USSR national team become Olympic football champions for the first time?

For the first time in the history of the Soviet team, medals were won in water polo, swimming, pentathlon, fencing and football, with gold medals in pentathlon and football.

in Rome
in Helsinki
in Melbourne
in Tokyo

The USSR was represented at the 1956 Summer Olympics by the USSR Olympic Committee. The team included 283 athletes from 39 cities and towns of 11 union republics. They participated in all competitions except field hockey. 58 Soviet athletes returned to their homeland with the honorary title of champion olympic games. The Soviet Olympic team took first place in the unofficial team competition, beating the teams of the USA and Australia.

The USSR national team's opponent in the final, which took place on December 8, was the Yugoslav national team, which blocked its path at the previous Olympics. The Yugoslavs themselves won silver in Helsinki. By the final match, the team's moral and physical fatigue became even more noticeable, because in the last 9 days before the final they played 3 difficult matches with a total duration of 330 minutes. The team needed fresh strength, and players who had not played much came onto the field: Nikita Simonyan, Anatoly Isaev and Anatoly Ilyin. It was these players who scored the only goal in the game: in the 48th minute, Ilyin headed in Isaev’s cross from the right flank.

So the Soviet team won its first award in international football. The score of the match USSR - Yugoslavia is 1:0.

Olympic champion in 1956 as part of the USSR national team, former footballer Moscow Spartak Alexei Paramonov died at the age of 94. His close friend Mikhail Zakharov reported this to TASS.

The Spartak veteran was hospitalized at the end of July due to deteriorating health. On August 18, he was taken to intensive care.

“Alexey Paramonov died, today relatives will come to the hospital and decide on the date of the funeral,” Zakharov said.

After finishing his career, Paramonov worked for the national football federation in various positions for almost half a century. In 1964-1965 and 1975-1976 in Tunisia he was the head coach of the Etoile team, which he led to the championship and victory in the National Cup. From 1983 to 1990, Paramonov was a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

On June 14, 2018, Paramonov, at the personal invitation of the President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, attended the opening match of the country’s first World Cup. However, then the illustrious veteran’s health began to deteriorate. In July, he donated his commemorative medals and awards to the Red and White Museum. Every year in Borovsk it is held children's tournament named after Paramonov, this year for the first time the veteran was unable to open it in person due to health conditions; the 10th competition was held without him.

Paramonov - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1953), Honored Coach of the RSFSR (1980), Honored Worker physical culture RSFSR (1985), awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of Friendship. On his 75th birthday, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, the Olympic Order of the International Olympic Committee and the UEFA Ruby Order of Sports Glory for the development and promotion of football. Paramonov’s wife Yulia Vasilievna died in 2016; they had been married since 1950.

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In 1956, our Soviet football team became the champion of the Olympic Games in Melbourne. You can shout “hurray” and clap your hands. However, let's face it.

But let's calmly figure it out. Moreover, I, too, am no longer a boy and, just like you, I admire these wonderful football players.

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