Oleg Kopayev

Oleg Pavlovich Kopajew ( born November 28, 1937 in Yelets, † April 3, 2010 in Moscow) was a Soviet football player. The striker landed twice the title of the scorer of the league Wysschaja.

Sports career

Club career

Kopajew began his career at Spartak Yelets, but moved at the age of 19 years to ODO Voronezh. His talents were on higher-class teams. In 1957 he was summoned to the capital Moscow and joined CSKA Moscow. In the Wysschaja league but first the breakthrough it was denied, so he joined after only one season SKVO Lviv. Again, he played only one season for the club.

With his new club, the SKA Rostov, Kopajew made ​​the breakthrough. As a regular player in the storm of the club, he established himself as a regular goalscorer. In the season of 1963 he crowned himself with 27 goals this season for the first time highest scorer in the Soviet league. In 1965, he repeated the success in the Wysschaja league, this time gave him 18 goals top scorer. By 1968 Kopajew ran for SKA Rostov. He then joined as an assistant coach on the bench and looked after until 1971 the club.

National

As a result of his success as a scorer Kopajew 1964 belonged to the Soviet national team, who ran as an Olympic team in the qualification for the Olympic Games in 1964. He played a game in which he for the 1-1 draw against Germany GDR representing selection contributed a goal. With his second title as a scorer, he took his leave after a year's absence again for the Soviet national team, in which he returned in November 1965. By May of the following year, he played a total of seven matches, in which the game under the Olympic qualifying by FIFA is not officially recognized. In the six games he was recognized without scoring.