Vitaliy Starukhin

Vitaliy Starukhin
Personal information
Full name Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin
Date of birth (1949-06-06)June 6, 1949
Place of birth Minsk, Belarusian SSR
Date of death August 9, 2000(2000-08-09) (aged 51)
Place of death Donetsk, Ukraine
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position 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 Ukraine
1980 USSR 1 (0)
Teams managed
1981–2000 Shakhtar (youth teams)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Russian: Старухин, Виталий Владимирович; born June 6, 1949 in Minsk; died August 9, 2000 in Donetsk of pneumonia) was a Soviet Ukrainian professional football player. 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 281033----3113
1974 281184----3615
1975 259------259
1976 (s) 11031----141
1976 (a) 104--52--156
1977 26931----2910
1978 2579420--3611
1979 32262120--3627
1980 2158721--3113
1981 11352--10175
Total 21784412311310270110

Honours

References

  1. Краткая энциклопедия побед "Шахтера". Segodnya (in Russian). May 7, 2011. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
  2. "Ukraine - Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. June 6, 2014. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 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). 51 (346). December 20, 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.


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