Vitaliy Starukhin

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Vitaliy Starukhin
Personal information
Full name Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin
Date of birth (1949-06-06)6 June 1949
Place of birth Minsk, Belarusian SSR
Date of death 9 August 2000(2000-08-09) (aged 51)
Place of death Donetsk, Ukraine
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1968–1971 SKA Odessa 56 (28)
1971–1972 Budivelnyk 24 (20)
1973–1981 Shakhtar 217 (84)
Total 297 (132)
National team
1979 Soviet Union 1 (0)
Teams managed
1981–2000 Shakhtar (youth teams)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Vitaliy Starukhin's star on Shakhtar's Walk of Fame (Donetsk)

Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Russian: Старухин, Виталий Владимирович; born 6 June 1949 in Minsk; died 9 August 2000 in Donetsk of pneumonia) was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is considered by many fans to one be the greatest players to ever play for Shakhtar Donetsk.[1]

In 1979, he was awarded Player of the year award.[2] In 1979 Starukhin played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[3]

In 2011 Vitaly Starukhin, together with Oleg Blohin and Igor Belanov was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.[4]

Statistics for Shakhtar[]

Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Shakhtar 1973 28 10 3 3 - - - - 31 13
1974 28 11 8 4 - - - - 36 15
1975 25 9 - - - - - - 25 9
1976 (s) 11 0 3 1 - - - - 14 1
1976 (a) 10 4 - - 5 2 - - 15 6
1977 26 9 3 1 - - - - 29 10
1978 25 7 9 4 2 0 - - 36 11
1979 32 26 2 1 2 0 - - 36 27
1980 21 5 8 7 2 1 - - 31 13
1981 11 3 5 2 - - 1 0 17 5
Total 217 84 41 23 11 3 1 0 270 110

Honours[]

  • Soviet Top League top scorer: 1979 (26 goals).
  • Soviet Top League runner-up: 1975, 1979.
  • Soviet Top League bronze: 1978.
  • Soviet Cup winner: 1980.
  • Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1979.
  • Best rookie player: 1973.

References[]

  1. ^ Краткая энциклопедия побед "Шахтера". Segodnya (in Russian). 7 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Ukraine - Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. 6 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ^ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
  4. ^ Лучшими футболистами Украины признаны Анатолий Тимощук, Андрей Шевченко и Александр Шовковский (in Russian). Vol. 51, no. 346. 20 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.

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