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(Redirected from Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski) Soviet footballer and manager

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alfonsovich and the family name is Ostrovski.
Leonid Ostrovski
Personal information
Full name Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski
Date of birth (1936-01-17)17 January 1936
Place of birth Riga, Latvia
Date of death 17 April 2001(2001-04-17) (aged 65)
Place of death Kyiv, Ukraine
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
VEF Rīga
FK Daugava Rīga
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1955 FK Daugava Rīga
1956–1962 FC Torpedo Moscow
1963–1968 FC Dynamo Kyiv
1970 FC Mashuk Pyatigorsk
International career
1958–1966 Soviet Union 9 (0)
Managerial career
1971 FC Dnipro Cherkasy
1974 FC Start Chuhuiv
1975–1976 Skury Tsalenjikha
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski (Russian: Леонид Альфонсович Островский, Ukrainian: Леонід Альфонсович Островський, Latvian: Leonīds Ostrovskis; 17 January 1936 in Riga – 17 April 2001 in Kyiv) was a Soviet football player and manager of Jewish origin.

Honours

International career

Ostrovski made his debut for the national team on 18 November 1961 in a friendly against Argentina (he was selected for the 1958 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament).

He played in two World Cups: 1962 and 1966. He was the only footballer from Latvia for the Soviet Union in the World Cups.

References

  1. "YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR". www.yivoencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

External links

Soviet Union squad – 1958 FIFA World Cup
Soviet Union
Soviet Union squad – 1962 FIFA World Cup
Soviet Union
Soviet Union squad – 1966 FIFA World Cup fourth place
Soviet Union
FC Dnipro Cherkasy – managers
(c) = caretaker manager
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