Viktor Ponedelnik
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_Viktor_Ponedelnik_2015-8-29.jpg) Ponedelnik in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 May 1937 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rostov-on-Don, USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Burevestnik Rostov-on-Don | |||||||||||||||||
| Rostov Military College | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1956–1958 | Torpedo/Rostselmash | 58 | (32) | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | 45 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 1961 | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1965 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 114 | (37) | ||||||||||||||
| 1966 | FC Spartak Moscow | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1964 | Soviet Union | 29 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Понедельник, born 22 May 1937 in Rostov-on-Don[1]) is a Russian former footballer and former manager, who played for the Soviet Union national team.
Ponedelnik first started playing for a local team, Rostselmash, in 1956. In 1958, he switched to SKA Rostov-on-Don and was invited to join the Soviet national team. In the 1960 European Championship, the only major Championship ever won by the Soviet Union, Ponedelnik headed home the winning goal in extra time in the final game against Yugoslavia. Ponedelnik retired in 1966 after gaining weight and undergoing surgery for appendicitis. He scored 20 (according to some accounts, 21) goals in 29 games[2] for his country.
In later years, Ponedelnik worked as a coach, a sports journalist, an editor of a sports publication,[3] and an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to Soviet and Russian sport. He is married and has three children and four grandchildren.
In Rostov-on-Don at the stadium, Olimp-2 28 August 2015 a monument depicting a young Ponedelnik with the cup in his hands.[4]
Honours
International
- USSR
Individual
- UEFA European Championship: Golden Boot/Team of the Tournament 1960
- Honored Master of Sports
- Order of the Badge of Honour: 1980
- Order of Friendship: 1997
- Cavalier of the Order of the Ruby League For Merit: 2009
- Order For Services to the Rostov Oblast: 2013[5]
Books
- My love, football
- Penalty area
- Ball - the gate
- Confessions of a central striker
References
- ^ Понедельник: благодаря подвыпившему писарю я мог бы стать Понедилком
- ^ Футбол. Разговор по пятницам. Виктор Понедельник: «Стукача „пробил" Лев Яшин», «Спорт-Экспресс», 11.11.2011
- ^ Не чувствовал в «Советском спорте» себя чужим
- ^ Sport.ru
- ^ Виктор Понедельник получил орден «За заслуги перед Ростовской областью» Archived 3 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Biography from the official website of the Russian national team (in Russian)
- Unofficial biography (in Russian)
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Soviet Union squads | |||||||||||||
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- Use dmy dates from October 2012
- 1937 births
- Living people
- Soviet footballers
- Russian footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- FC Rostov players
- 1960 European Nations' Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- 1964 European Nations' Cup players
- UEFA European Championship-winning players
- Association football forwards
- Soviet Union international footballers
- FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- Soviet football managers
- FC Rostov managers
- Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don
- Russian sports journalists
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR