Juri Kulischenko

Yuri Kulischenko

Personal information
Date of birth	27 November 1930
Place of birth	Pavlohrad, Soviet Ukraine
Date of death	27 October 1994 (aged 63)
Place of death	Frankfurt, Germany
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1960	Philadelphia Ukrainians	?	(?)
Total		?	(?)
International career
1959	U.S. Olympic	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juri Kulischenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Куліщенко; 27 November 1930 – 27 October 1994), also spelled Yuri Kulishenko, was a Ukrainian American international soccer player who earned one cap for the U.S. National and Olympic Teams in 1959. He was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago.

Kulishenko played club soccer for the Philadelphia Ukrainians. He was voted MVP of the American Soccer League in 1959.

Kulishenko was born in Pavlohrad, Soviet Ukraine. Following the Second World War, he was in a displaced persons camp in Germany with his mother, Maria (later Popenko), and elder brother, Wladimir (1925–1990). They immigrated to the United States in 1952 and he became an American citizen in 1953. He worked as a civil engineer.

References

• Kirsch, George B.; Harris, Othello; Nolte, Claire Elaine (April 2000). Encyclopedia of ethnicity and sports in the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-313-29911-7.