Anatoli Kozhemyakin
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Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin (Template:Langx, 24 February 1953 – 13 October 1974) was a Soviet football player. He died in a freak accident: he was stuck in an elevator, but was able to open the elevator doors; as he tried to climb out, the elevator started moving again and crushed him to death.[1]
Honours
- Soviet Top League bronze: 1973.
- Soviet Top League second-best scorer: 1973.
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finalist: 1972.
- Top 33 players year-end list: 1973.
International career
Kozhemyakin made his debut for USSR on 29 March 1972 (aged 19) in a friendly against Bulgaria. He played in a 1974 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Chile. The USSR team did not go to the return game against Chile in protest against the Augusto Pinochet regime.
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- 1953 births
- 1974 deaths
- Soviet men's footballers
- Soviet Union men's international footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- FC Dynamo Moscow players
- Russian men's footballers
- Footballers from Moscow
- Accidental deaths in the Soviet Union
- Men's association football forwards
- Elevator accidents
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen