Yuri Ryzhov (footballer)

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Yuri Ryzhov
Yuri Ryzhov in 1973
Personal information
Full name Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov
Date of birth (1952-03-13)13 March 1952
Place of birth Kaluga, Russian SFSR, USSR
Date of death 29 June 2015(2015-06-29) (aged 63)
Place of death Kaluga, Russia
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Position(s) Second striker
Team information
Current team
Ended his career
Youth career
Zarya (Kaluga)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1972 FC Lokomotiv Kaluga
1973–1975 FC Lokomotiv Moscow 66 (12)
1975 Druzhba (Yoshkar-Ola) 21 (1)
1976 FC Lokomotiv Kaluga 40 (15)
1977–1981 FC Kuzbass Kemerovo 201 (49)
1982 FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk 25 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 December 2014

Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Рыжов; 1952 – 2015) was a Soviet football player.[1] Master of Sports of the USSR.[2]

Career[edit]

In his youth, Ryzhov started his career in Youth FC Zarya Kaluga. He later started playing in FC Lokomotiv Kaluga; and soon moved to the Moscow team railroad, within which in 1974 won the first league tournament, and in 1975 spent 7 matches and scored 1 goal in the premier league of the USSR; also European Railways Cup (1974). Spent five seasons in the Kemerovo of FC Kuzbass, serving first league (played in the attack, along with Vitaly Razdayev (top scorer of the first league USSR Cup in history); in the championship-1977, one of the two most successful club to Kemerovo, scored 14 goals); also played for the team in the second league.[3]

Yuri Ryzhov died on 29 June 2015 in Kaluga.

Yuri Ryzhov's grave in Kaluga

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