Soviet Union National Under-21 Football Team - 1990 European Championship Squad

1990 European Championship Squad

The last Soviet U-21 team

Head coach
Vladimir Radionov
No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club
1GK Andriy Kovtun (1968-02-28)28 February 1968 (aged 23) 6 Shakhtar Donetsk / Dynamo Kyiv
1GK Dmitriy Kharine (1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 23) 10 Dynamo Moscow / CSKA Moscow
1GK Mikhail Yeremin (1968-06-17)17 June 1968 (aged 23) 2 CSKA Moscow / deceased*
2DF Dmitriy Chugunov (1968-06-09)9 June 1968 (aged 23) 6 Shinnik Yaroslavl / Torpedo Moscow
2DF Andriy Bal (1958-01-16)16 January 1958 (aged 33) 8 Maccabi Tel Aviv / Bnei Yehuda
2DF Vadim Rogovskoi (1962-02-06)6 February 1962 (aged 29) 1 Torpedo Moscow
2DF Andriy Sydelnykov (1967-09-27)27 September 1967 (aged 24) 6 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2DF Andrei Chernyshov (1968-01-07)7 January 1968 (aged 23) 5 Dynamo Moscow
2DF Oleh Luzhny (1968-08-05)5 August 1968 (aged 23) 4 Dynamo Kyiv
2DF Ravil Sabitov (1968-03-08)8 March 1968 (aged 23) 4 Lokomotiv Moscow
2DF Serhiy Zayets (1969-08-18)18 August 1969 (aged 22) 3 Dynamo Kyiv
2DF Boris Pozdnyakov (1962-05-31)31 May 1962 (aged 29) 2 Spartak Moscow
2DF Andrei Solovtsov (1967-10-17)17 October 1967 (aged 24) 2 Lokomotiv Moscow
2DF Mikhail Solovyov (1968-12-23)23 December 1968 (aged 23) 2 Torpedo Moscow
2DF Gennadiy Nogornykh ??? 1 Rostselmash Rostov
2DF Gela Ketashvili (1965-09-27)27 September 1965 (aged 26) 1 Guria Lanchkhuti
2DF Kakhaber Tskhadadze (1968-09-07)7 September 1968 (aged 23) 5 Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Igor Shalimov (1969-02-02)2 February 1969 (aged 22) 11 Spartak Moscow
3MF Serhiy Shmatovalenko (1967-01-20)20 January 1967 (aged 24) 11 Dynamo Kyiv
3MF Andrei Kobelev (1968-10-22)22 October 1968 (aged 23) 10 Dynamo Moscow
3MF Andrei Kanchelskis (1969-01-23)23 January 1969 (aged 22) 8 Shakhtar Donetsk
3MF Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968-08-22)22 August 1968 (aged 23) 7 Spartak Moscow
3MF Andrei Pyatnitskiy (1967-09-27)27 September 1967 (aged 24) 6 Pakhtakor Tashkent
3MF Yevgeniy Smertin (1969-01-17)17 January 1969 (aged 22) 4 Dynamo Moscow
3MF Igor Dobrovolskiy (1967-08-27)27 August 1967 (aged 24) 2 CD Castellón
3MF Zaza Revishvili (1968-05-23)23 May 1968 (aged 23) 2 Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Gia Dzhishkariani (1967-11-30)30 November 1967 (aged 24) 1 Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Serhiy Pohodin (1968-04-29)29 April 1968 (aged 23) 1 Shakhtar Donetsk
4FW Igor Kolyvanov (1968-03-06)6 March 1968 (aged 23) 11 Dynamo Moscow
4FW Sergei Kiriakov (1970-01-01)1 January 1970 (aged 21) 6 Dynamo Moscow
4FW Nikolai Pisarev (1968-11-23)23 November 1968 (aged 23) 2 FC Winterthur
4FW Oleg Salenko (1969-10-25)25 October 1969 (aged 22) 1 Dynamo Kyiv
4FW Sergei Yuran (1969-06-11)11 June 1969 (aged 22) 1 Dynamo Kyiv

Notes:

  • All data through December 31, 1991.
  • Mikhail Yeremin died on June 30, 1991 from injuries he sustain in auto accident June 23, 1991, less than a week after his birthday.
  • Rogovskoi moved to Poland (Zagłębie Lubin), Sydelnykov - Germany (SG Wattenscheid 09), Pozdnyakov - Austria (FC Stahl Linz), Tskhadadze - Sweden (GIF Sundsvall), Shalimov - Italy (U.S. Foggia), Kanchelskis - England (Manchester United F.C.), Pyatnitskiy - Russia (Spartak Moscow), Mostovoi - Portugal (S.L. Benfica), Dobrovolskiy - Switzerland (Servette FC), Kolyvanov - Italy (U.S. Foggia), Yuran - Portugal (S.L. Benfica).

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