Aleksandr Novikov (footballer, born 1958)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Aleksandr Nikolayevich Novikov | ||
Date of birth | 27 February 1958 | ||
Date of death | 27 June 1991 | (aged 33)||
Place of death | Leningrad, Russian SFSR | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1974–1975 | FC Iskra Smolensk | ||
1977 | PFC CSKA Moscow | 0 | (0) |
1978–1991 | FC Iskra Smolensk | 303 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Novikov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Новиков; born 27 February 1958; died 27 June 1991) was a Soviet football player.
Honours
[edit]1977 FIFA World Youth Championship winner with the Soviet Union.[1]
Death
[edit]On 13 May 1991, the bus with his team FC Iskra Smolensk collided head-on with a truck on a highway on their way back from an away game. Team's head coach Dzhemal Silagadze died instantly, and Novikov died several weeks later in a hospital from head trauma.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Soviet Union squad". FIFA. Archived from the original on 5 September 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ Памяти легенд смоленского футбола (in Russian). Smolyane. 17 May 2011.
External links
[edit]- Aleksandr Novikov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)