Russian footballer (1959?2014)
Fyodor Cherenkov
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Full name
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Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov
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Date of birth
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(
1959-07-25
)
25 July 1959
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Place of birth
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Moscow
,
Russian SFSR
,
Soviet Union
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Date of death
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4 October 2014
(2014-10-04)
(aged 55)
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Place of death
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Moscow, Russia
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Height
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1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
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Position(s)
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Midfielder
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1969?1971
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Kuntsevo Moscow
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1971?1977
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Spartak Moscow
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Years
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Team
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Apps
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(
Gls
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1977?1990
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Spartak Moscow
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344
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(86)
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1990?1991
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Red Star Saint-Ouen
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15
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(1)
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1991?1994
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Spartak Moscow
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54
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(9)
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Total
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413
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(96)
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1979?1990
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Soviet Union
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34
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(12)
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1980?1983
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Soviet Union Olympic
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10
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(6)
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1994?1995
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Spartak Moscow
(assistant)
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1996?1997
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Spartak Moscow (reserves assistant)
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2013?2014
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Spartak Moscow (youth assistant)
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov
[1]
(
Russian
:
Фёдор Фёдорович Черенко?в
; 25 July 1959 ? 4 October 2014) was a
Soviet
and Russian
football
midfielder
who played for
Spartak Moscow
(1977?90 and 1991?94) and
Red Star Football Club
(1990?91).
Playing career
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Cherenkov played for
Spartak Moscow
for almost his entire professional club career (1977?1994; he also played for the youth team between 1971?1977), aside from a brief spell with
Red Star Saint-Ouen
from 1990?91. For the time spent in Spartak he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1989. He was awarded "The Attack Organizer" award in 1988 and 1989, as the most useful attack player.
[2]
At international level, Cherenkov made 34 appearances for the
Soviet Union national team
, scoring 12 goals.
[3]
He won a bronze medal at the
1980 Summer Olympics
. Although widely regarded by Spartak's fans as the team's best player ever, he was always dropped by the national team on the eve of several major tournaments, including two World Cups and a European Championship.
Style of play
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Cherenkov was an excellent passer and was also a good striker of the ball who scored many goals throughout his career.
[2]
In his book on the history of Spartak,
Robert Edelman
[
de
]
described him as "the longest-serving and most beloved of all Spartakovtsy":
A native Muscovite, Fiodr Cherenkov (b. 1959) was a product of Spartak's school. Navigating between midfield and forward, he played with an originality and eccentricity that endeared him to the public. Cherenkov was an enigmatic and fragile personality whose capacity for unexpected improvisation fit the Spartak image of the player as romantic artist. A true original, he was the embodiment of what many of Spartak's male Moscow supporters liked to believe about themselves. Lacking great speed but quick on his feet, small of stature but possessed of great guile, Cherenkov seemed to practice a new kind of masculinity, that of the urban trickster. By the time his Spartak career was over, he was the leading point producer (goal plus pass) in the team's history.
[4]
Cherenkov was considered to be the best Soviet footballer of the 1980s.
Coaching career
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Cherenkov worked as a
coach
of Spartak's reserve team after retiring.
Personal life and personality
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A 2021 profile on
BBC Sport
relates that Cherenkov was a kind and approachable "regular guy" who could not understand his own fame. He suffered several attacks of an unknown mental illness during his playing career, and missed important games because of it, but was "widely seen as the best Soviet footballer of the decade". His daughter Anastasia was born in 1980. He died in 2014, at age 55, after collapsing outside his home. An autopsy at a Moscow hospital found a brain tumour. The profile described him as a "football genius".
Honours
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Club
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Spartak Moscow
International
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Soviet Union
Individual
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References
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External links
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