Anatoliy Puzach

Anatoliy Puzach

Personal information
Full name	Anatoliy Kyrylovych Puzach
Date of birth	(1941-06-03)3 June 1941
Place of birth	Krasny Kut, USSR
Date of death
Place of death	Kiev, Ukraine
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Progres Berdychiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1961	FC Polissya Zhytomyr	?
1962–1963	SCA Lviv	?
1963	PFC CSKA Moscow	0
1965–1973	FC Dynamo Kyiv	216	(49)
International career
1969–1970	USSR	14	(2)
Managerial career
1974–1990	FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
1990–1993	FC Dynamo Kyiv
1997–2000	FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoliy Kyrylovych (or Anatoli Kirillovich) Puzach (Ukrainian: Анатолій Кирилович Пузач, Russian: Анатолий Кириллович Пузач) (born 3 June 1941 in Krasny Kut; died 19 March 2006 in Kiev) was a Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach. He was born in the town of Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast.

Early career

The first games played for Progres Berdychiv. Then he played for Polissya and SKA Lviv. In 1964, he became the top scorer of Ukrainian zone, class "B" scored 35 goals. The same year Lvivites reached the Soviet Union Cup quarter-finals. In spring 1964 the team of class "B" best players had friendlies against Dynamo Kyiv (1:2, 2:2) and after those games the quick striker with a good kick have been taken to Kyiv.

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1990 (as a manager).
• Soviet Cup winner: 1966.

International career

Puzach made his debut for the USSR national team on 25 July 1969, in a friendly against East Germany national team and scored on his debut. He played at the 1970 FIFA World Cup final tournament and in the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He was the first player in history to come on as a substitute in a World Cup game when non-injury substitutions were allowed for the first time in 1970. He replaced Viktor Serebryanikov in the opening match of the tournament against Mexico.

External links

• (Russian) Profile