Name Vladimir Proskurin | Playing position Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |
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Full name Vladimir Grigoryevich Proskurin Date of birth (1945-01-24) 24 January 1945 (age 70) | ||
Vladimir Grigoryevich Proskurin (Russian: Владимир Григорьевич Проскурин; born 24 January 1945 in Voronezh) is a Soviet Russian football player and coach.
He is most notable as the co-top scorer of the 1969 Soviet Top League with 16 goals. He was not awarded the top scorer prize as the Trud newspaper which was awarding said prize suspected that the last game of the season, in which he scored a hat-trick to catch up to Nikolai Osyanin on the scorers list, was fixed (his team FC SKA Rostov-on-Don played FC Torpedo Kutaisi with a score of 3-3, Kutaisi's Dzhemal Kherhadze, who also scored a hat-trick to catch up with Osyanin, was not awarded the prize either). Formally the decision was justified by Osyanin scoring in "more important" games.
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