Team created by a collaborative effort of 27DONI72, Milos, StuartBannigan and gurkenjoe93












Honours:

• FIFA World Cup

Fourth place (1): 1966

• UEFA European Championship

Winners (1): 1960
Runner-Up (3): 1964, 1972, 1988
Fourth place (1): 1968


COACH: Gavriil KACHALIN




The best ever Soviet players 23-man squad



GOALKEEPERS:

● Lev YASHIN
● Rinat DASAYEV

DEFENDERS:

● Albert SHESTERNYOV
● Murtaz KHURTSILAVA
● Yevgeni LOVCHEV
● Volodymyr BEZSONOV
● Aleksandr CHIVADZE
● Anatoliy DEMYANENKO
● Oleh KUZNETSOV

MIDFIELDERS:

● Igor NETTO
● Valeri VORONIN
● Volodymyr MUNTYAN
● Viktor KOLOTOV
● Leonid BURYAK
● Aleksandr ZAVAROV
● Sergey ALEYNIKOV

FORWARDS:

● Eduard STRELTSOV
● Valentin IVANOV
● Slava METREVELI
● Viktor PONEDELNIK
● Igor CHISLENKO
● Oleh BLOKHIN
● Oleh PROTASOV


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RESERVES:


GOALKEEPERS:

● Yuri PSHENICHNIKOV
● Anzor KAVAZASHVILI
● Yevgeni RUDAKOV

DEFENDERS:

● Anatoli BASHASHKIN
● Boris KUZNETSOV
● Anatoli MASLYONKIN
● Valentin AFONIN
● Vladimir KAPLICHNY
● Revaz DZODZUASHVILI
● Volodymyr TROSHKIN
● Vagiz KHIDIYATULLIN
● Tengiz SULAKVELIDZE
● Sergei BALTACHA

MIDFIELDERS:

● Yuri VOINOV
● Yozhef SABO
● Anatoli KONKOV
● Volodymyr VEREMEYEV
● Yuri GAVRILOV
● Fyodor CHERENKOV
● Khoren OGANESIAN
● Hennadiy LYTOVCHENKO
● Vasyl RATS
● Aleksey MIKHAYLICHENKO

FORWARDS:

● Anatoli ILYIN
● Nikita SIMONYAN
● Sergey SALNIKOV
● Mikhail MESKHI
● Eduard MALOFEYEV
● Anatoliy BANISHEVSKIY
● Anatoli BYSHOVETS
● Volodymyr ONYSHCHENKO
● Ramaz SHENGELIA
● Igor BELANOV

I know that I already said it on the old page but as there happened anything, I repeat it:
Viktor Ponedelnik should really replace Vsevolod Bobrov. Bobrov played only 3 games for the NT (with 5 goals) at the 1952 Summer olympics 1952. After this he was never capped again.
Ponedelnik played 29 matches (with 20 goals) for the team and appeared in three big tournaments where he scored also 5 times (+ three goals in the qualification for the 1964 EC) but his goals were way more important than the ones of Bobrov. I mean, isn't it a bit strange that the guy who scored the winning goal for the only title the NT ever won is simply left out of their AS team? Instead we have a guy here who of course was a great footballer but who simply hasn't archieved enough with the NT to be here. If we'd speak of the Ice Hockey AS team of the USSR, we couldn't leave him out of it (as he got 89 caps with 53 goals + winning a gold medal at the winter olympics) but as this is the football AS team, we should IMO take the players who were really important for it..

Updated.

I will unsubscribe because of the words of gurkenjoe93. Bobrov played more matches, if we consider that he spent in international frendly matches for the Dynamo, Spartak team and we can call these mini-NT. In 1967 he was selected for the national team of the 50th anniversary, by the specialists of the Soviet football, and the name of Viktor Ponedelnik was mentioned far less frequently.

But let remains as it is. It is necessary to decide whether or not to mention the players who for political reasons of the country's leadership, had a much less formal games than the next generation.

Updated.