Role Football player Height 1.83 m | Years Team Name Vitaliy Starukhin | |
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Full name Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin Date of birth (1949-06-06)June 6, 1949 Date of death August 9, 2000(2000-08-09) (aged 51) Died August 9, 2000, Donetsk, Ukraine | ||
Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Russian: Старухин, Виталий Владимирович; born 6 June 1949 in Minsk; died 9 August 2000 in Donetsk of pneumonia) was a Soviet 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.
In 1979, he was awarded Player of the year award. In 1979 Starukhin played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.
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.
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