Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Серебряников; Ukrainian: Віктор Петрович Серебряников, 29 March 1940 – 12 November 2014) also spelled Serebryannikov, was a Soviet association football player from Ukraine (at that time Ukrainian SSR). Serebrianikov was a member of the Dynamo's squad that for the first time won the Soviet championship title in 1961 becoming the first non-Moscow team to achieve that feat, so called "the first height".[2]

Viktor Serebryanikov
Personal information
Full name Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov
Date of birth (1940-03-29)29 March 1940
Place of birth Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death 12 November 2014(2014-11-12) (aged 74)
Place of death Kyiv, Ukraine
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder, Inside-right[2]
Youth career
1956–1958 FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1959 FC Metalurh Zaporizhya 39 (10)
1959–1971 FC Dynamo Kyiv 299 (70)
Total 338 (80)
International career
1963–1964 Soviet Union (Olympic) 5 (4)
1964–1970 Soviet Union 21 (3)
Managerial career
1973 FC Frunzenets Sumy
1977–1978 Nyva Pidhaitsi
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In 1960s, Serebrianikov became admired in the Soviet football for his "ball's arc" (Russian: дуга Серебряникова) when the football after being hit was spinning in two planes.[2][3][1] Later in interview he explained that the trick he picked in Brazil when the Soviet team was on tour.

After retiring from his playing career, Serebryanikov became the first head coach of Nyva Ternopil that started out from the collective farm "Path to the Communism" in the city of Pidhaitsi, Berezhany Raion in Ternopil Oblast in 1978.

He is considered as the first who received the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award.[4]

Career statistics

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Dynamo

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Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dynamo 1959 7 0 - - - - 7 0
1960 18 8 - - - - 18 8
1961 29 4 1 0 - - 30 4
1962 20 7 - - - - 20 7
1963 37 11 2 1 - - 39 12
1964 29 3 5 1 - - 34 4
1965 29 11 2 1 6 2 37 14
1966 15 2 2 0 - - 17 2
1967 35 8 2 0 4 0 41 8
1968 34 7 - - - - 34 7
1969 30 8 2 1 4 2 36 11
1970 15 1 1 0 - - 16 1
1971 1 0 4 1 - - 5 1
Total 299 70 21 5 14 4 334 79
  • The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

International

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National team Year
Apps Goals
Soviet Union 1964 3 1
1965
1966 6 1
1967
1968
1969 4 0
1970 8 1
Career total 21 3

Honours

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International career

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Serebryanikov was a key player on the Soviet Olympic team during their 1964 Summer Olympics qualifications scoring 4 goals, yet the team did not qualify for the finals in Tokyo.

Serebryanikov made his debut for USSR senior squad on 11 October 1964 in a friendly against Austria (he was selected for the 1962 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament). He played in the 1966 and 1970 World Cup tournaments.

He is statistically remembered as the first substituted player in the history of the World Cup, in 1970, the first World Cup where substitutions were allowed. He was substituted at half-time in the opening game of the tournament, between USSR and hosts Mexico, when he was replaced by Anatoliy Puzach.

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