Viktor Ponedelnik
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Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (Template:Langx, 22 May 1937[1] – 5 December 2020) was a Russian footballer and manager, who played for the Soviet Union national team.
Biography
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. Later, a journalist, editor, and in-chief of the weekly 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.[4]
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, runner-up: 1964
Individual
- The best 33 football players of the Soviet Union (5): No. 1 (1960-1963); No. 3 (1959)
- UEFA European Championship: Golden Boot / Team of the Tournament 1960[5]
- 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[6]
Books
- My Love, Football (1970)
- Penalty Area (1977)
- Ball, the Gate (1980)
- Confessions of a Central Striker (1987)
References
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- ↑ Понедельник: благодаря подвыпившему писарю я мог бы стать Понедилком
- ↑ Футбол. Разговор по пятницам. Виктор Понедельник: «Стукача пробил Лев Яшин», «Спорт-Экспресс», 11 November 2011
- ↑ Не чувствовал в «Советском спорте» себя чужим (in Russian)
- ↑ Sport.ru (in Russian)
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- ↑ Виктор Понедельник получил орден «За заслуги перед Ростовской областью» Template:Webarchive
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External links
- Biography from the official website of the Russian national team Template:In lang
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- 1937 births
- 2020 deaths
- Soviet men's footballers
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- 1960 European Nations' Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- 1964 European Nations' Cup players
- UEFA European Championship–winning players
- Men's association football forwards
- Soviet Union men's international footballers
- FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- Soviet football managers
- FC Rostov managers
- Footballers from Rostov-on-Don
- Russian sports journalists
- Russian newspaper editors
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen