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Mikhail Butusov

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Place of death
  
Leningrad, USSR

Height
  
1.82 m

Role
  
Football player


Name
  
Mikhail Butusov

Years
  
Team

Playing position
  
Forward

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Full name
  
Mikhail Pavlovich Butusov

Date of birth
  
(1900-06-18)18 June 1900

Place of birth
  
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date of death
  
11 April 1963(1963-04-11) (aged 62)

Died
  
April 11, 1963, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Mikhail Pavlovich Butusov (Russian: Михаил Павлович Бутусов; 18 June 1900 in Saint Petersburg – 11 April 1963 in Leningrad) was a Soviet football player and coach and a bandy player. He was the brother of Vasily Butusov.

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Honours

  • RSFSR Champion: 1924, 1932.
  • Leningrad Champion: 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935.
  • Soviet Bandy League bronze: 1936 (with Dynamo Leningrad).

    • International career

    Butusov made his debut for USSR on 16 November 1924 in a friendly against Turkey. He was the captain of the team and scored 2 goals in a 3:0 victory. This was the first official game of the Soviet Union in international football, and therefore Butusov scored the first ever goal for the USSR.

    References

    Mikhail Butusov Wikipedia
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