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{{Short description|Russian footballer and manager (1937–2020)}}
 
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{family name hatnote|Vladimirovich|Ponedelnik|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Viktor Ponedelnik
| fullname = Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik
| image = Ponedelnik.jpg
| image_size = 
| caption = Ponedelnik in 1998
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1937|5|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Rostov-on-Don]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|12|05|1937|5|22|df=yes}}
| death_place =  [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
| height = 1.80 m
| position = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = Burevestnik Rostov-on-Don 
| youthyears2 = 
| youthclubs2 = Rostov Military College
| years1 = 1956–1958  
| years2 = 1959–1960  
| years3 = 1961  
| years4 = 1961–1965  
| years5 = 1966
| clubs1 = [[FC Rostov|Torpedo/Rostselmash]]  
| clubs2 = [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]]  
| clubs3 = [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]  
| clubs4 = SKA Rostov-on-Don  
| clubs5 = [[FC Spartak Moscow]]
| caps1 = 50   
| caps2 = 45   
| caps3 = 
| caps4 = 111   
| caps5 = 
| goals1 = 31  
| goals2 = 17  
| goals3 = 
| goals4 = 37  
| goals5 = 
| nationalyears1 = 1960–1964  
| nationalyears2 = 1966
| nationalteam1 = [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union]]
| nationalcaps1 = 29  
| nationalgoals1 = 20 
| manageryears1 = 1969
| managerclubs1 = [[FC Rostov|Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don]]
|medaltemplates=
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{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship]]}}
{{Medal|Winner|[[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960 France]]| }}
{{Medal|Runner-up|[[1964 European Nations' Cup|1964 Spain]]| }}
}}

'''Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik''' ({{langx|ru|Виктор Владимирович Понедельник}}, 22 May 1937<ref>[http://www.championat.com/football/news-1016667-ponedelnik-blagodarja-podvypivshemu-pisarju-ja-mog-by-stat-ponedilkom.html Понедельник: благодаря подвыпившему писарю я мог бы стать Понедилком]</ref> – 5 December 2020) was a Russian [[association football|footballer]] and [[manager (association football)|manager]], who played for the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union national team]].

==Biography==
Ponedelnik first started playing for a local team, [[FC Rostov|Rostselmash]], in 1956. In 1958, he switched to ''SKA Rostov-on-Don'' and was invited to join the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet national team]]. In the [[1960 European Nations' Cup|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 national football team|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<ref>[http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2011-11-11/1_4/ Футбол. Разговор по пятницам. Виктор Понедельник: «Стукача  пробил  Лев Яшин»], «[[Спорт-Экспресс]]», 11 November 2011</ref> for his country.

In later years, Ponedelnik worked as a coach, a sports journalist, an editor of a sports publication,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160921035205/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/39392 Не чувствовал в «Советском спорте» себя чужим] (in Russian)</ref> and an advisor to the [[President of Russia|President of the Russian Federation]]. Later, a journalist, editor, and in-chief of the weekly ''[[Football (Russian magazine)|Football]]''. He received numerous awards for his contribution to Soviet and Russian sport. He was married and had 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.<ref>[http://www.sport.ru/ai/18x16000/286198/head_0.jpg Sport.ru] (in Russian)</ref>

Ponedelnik died on 5 December 2020 at the age of 83. He was the last surviving member of the 1960 European Nations' Cup winning squad of Soviet Union, that became the inaugural European Champions at international level.

==Honours==
===International===
;USSR
* [[UEFA European Championship]]: [[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960]], runner-up: [[1964 European Nations' Cup|1964]]

===Individual===
*[[The best 33 football players of the Soviet Union]] (5): No. 1 (1960-1963); No. 3 (1959) 
* [[UEFA European Championship]]: [[1960 European Nations' Cup#Awards|Golden Boot]] / [[1960 European Nations' Cup#Awards|Team of the Tournament]] [[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960]]<ref>{{cite news|date=1 February 2011|title=1960 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724121103/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>
* 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<ref>[http://news.mail.ru/inregions/south/61/society/12087744/ Виктор Понедельник получил орден «За заслуги перед Ростовской областью»] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303200137/http://news.mail.ru/inregions/south/61/society/12087744/ |date=3 March 2013 }}</ref>

== Books ==
* ''My Love, Football'' (1970)
* ''Penalty Area'' (1977)
* ''Ball, the Gate'' (1980)
* ''Confessions of a Central Striker'' (1987)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/ponedelnik.html Biography from the official website of the Russian national team] {{in lang|ru}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061009192922/http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/ponedelnik.htm Unofficial biography ] {{in lang|ru}}

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