Name: Viktor Ivanovich Anichkin
Nickname: Anyuta



Country: Soviet Union | Russia
Club: FC Dinamo Moscow
Position: *CB, SB, SWP, DMF
Side: RF/RS
Age: 23-29 years (01/12/1941)

Height: 178 cm
Weight: 75 kg

Attack: 60
Defence: 84
Balance: 84
Stamina: 82
Top Speed: 74
Acceleration: 73
Response: 81
Agility: 72
Dribble Accuracy: 70
Dribble Speed: 69
Short Pass Accuracy: 76
Short Pass Speed: 71
Long Pass Accuracy: 75
Long Pass Speed: 70
Shot Accuracy: 65
Shot Power: 77
Shot Technique: 64
Free Kick Accuracy: 57
Curling: 58
Header: 84
Jump: 84
Technique: 73
Aggression: 61
Mentality: 78
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 75

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Form: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot frequency: 5
Growth type: Standard/Lasting


CARDS:
P02 - Anchor Man
S07 - Man Marking
S08 - Slide Tackle


SPECIAL ABILITIES: Marking - Sliding

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Defense minded


INFO:
Midfielder and central defender. One of the leading players in the 60s. In 1963-71, he was invariably the captain of the team (122 matches of the national championships). Perfectly coordinated, jumpy, plastic, he was equally strong both in positional struggle and in guardianship of the most dangerous attacking opponents. He played excellently with his head, often scoring decisive goals in a jump (he scored one of the goals in the final match of the USSR Cup in 1967). He perfectly mastered the tackle, with the help of this technique he often eliminated the most tense moments at the gates of his team.

The fans, who treated him with rare warmth, gave him an affectionate nickname - Anyuta. Not only thanks to the surname, but also for a surprisingly soft, technical, plastic game, atypical for a defender. With a sufficiently powerful texture, he took the opponent not by brute force, but, coming into contact, entangled him like an octopus, and took the ball from him so that he did not have time to come to his senses. At that time there were no defenders equal to him in heading, and he performed tackles at the level of his teacher and predecessor in the center of Dynamo defense - the king of this most difficult technique, Konstantin Krizhevsky. He was excellent at the first pass and often started scoring Dynamo attacks. A bright head, along with the listed qualities, made him an indispensable player in the eyes of Konstantin Beskov - both in Dynamo and in the USSR national team.

Anichkin was a participant in almost all the main events and achievements of Soviet football in the 60s and early 70s. He played in the final of the European Championship in 1964, as part of Dynamo he won championship gold (1963) and twice the USSR Cup (1967 & 1970), played in the first for Soviet clubs Cup Winners' Cup final in 1972 against the Scottish Rangers. If it weren’t for serious injuries, due to which he sometimes had to miss a whole season, his performance in the national team would have been much more impressive than those recorded in reference books (20 matches, one goal), he would certainly have been among the winners of the World Cup-66 . But in the best, according to eyewitnesses, match in the history of the USSR national team - in Luzhniki against the Hungarians on May 11, 1968 - 3:0 - Viktor Anichkin managed to play and prove himself in all his splendour. Five times he was included in the lists of the 33 best football players in the country.