Soviet Union national football team
The national football team of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian Сборная СССР по футболу / pronunciation: sbornaja SSSR pa Futbolu ) has always been one of the strongest teams in Europe, and selection of the world. Compiled from the most successful clubs was founded in 1922 multiethnic state, including Dynamo Kiev, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Minsk, Zenit Leningrad and the Moscow clubs Spartak, Torpedo, Dynamo, CSKA and Lok, was the Sbornaja regular at the tournaments of the FIFA ( world Cup ) and UEFA ( European Football Championship ).
History
After the founding of the USSR FIFA forbade its members internationals against this. The only country that defied this ban, Turkey was; to avoid sanctions from FIFA, Turkey came to the games against the Soviet Union, mostly as a university or city selection the respective game site. Therefore, the FIFA recognized only the first two, in 1924 and 1925, discharged of the fifteen games in the 20s and 30s as the official A- international matches. Despite the inclusion of the USSR in the FIFA 1946, it took until 1952 before the USSR took their first international match. Stalin hoped for a propaganda success of the participation of the Soviet team at the football competition of the Olympic Games in 1952, when this failed to materialize, the national team has been put back to 1954 on ice; since then there has been a national team on a regular basis.
The greatest success of the team with the Cyrillic СССР on the chest was the first victory in the European Cup of Nations in 1960, the predecessor of today's European Championship. With a 2-1 in extra time against Yugoslavia at the Paris Parc des Princes, the endgame of this first continental championship was won. In the EM- spending in 1964, 1972 and 1988 the team of the USSR was Vice European Champion in each case. At the 2nd European Nations' Cup in 1964, the Soviet team lost the final against hosts Spain in Madrid's Estadio Santiago Bernabeu 1-2.
Significantly (0:3) subject to the Sbornaja in the final of 1972 European Championship in Brussels Heysel Stadium against Germany. In the final of the 1988 European Championship in Germany, the Netherlands were their stars Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard too strong for the Soviets ( 0-2 defeat in Munich's Olympic Stadium ).
In the respective World Cup tournaments, the Sbornaja was able to win a medal. Best result was a 4th place at the World Cup finals in 1966 in England. After the USSR had lost in the semifinal against Germany with 1:2, the player to legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin had the same result with Portugal World Cup top scorer Eusébio in the " small final " admit defeat. With the Football World Cup 1986 in Mexico, managed by Valeri Lobanovsky enthusiastic footballer with spectacular football, such as the 6-0 victory over Hungary in the first round. In the second round, however, they failed in an inspiring, but offensively out match at the " Red Devils" from Belgium with 3:4 after extra time.
In addition to the two victories at the Olympic football tournaments in 1956 and 1988, the three bronze medals (1972, 1976 and 1980 ) are among the great moments of the Soviet football. While bronze in the domestic Moscow in 1980 and gold in Seoul, South Korea were earned in 1988 by the respective vintages of the USSR Olympic team, the two 3rd places of Munich in 1972 and Montreal went 1976 and the Olympic gold of Melbourne 1956 - due to the then applicable rules for participation - to the account of the Soviet national team, which was allowed to start at the Olympics because she was exclusively occupied with so-called state amateurs.
Player in the Soviet Union were, inter alia, Lev Yashin, Eduard Strelzow, Igor Netto, Oleh Blokhin, Yevgeny Rudakov, Rinat Dassajew, Igor Belanow, Oleksandr Sawarow, Oleh Protasov and Oleksiy Mychajlytschenko.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991 joined briefly the CIS her successor at, but already without players from the CIS not belonging three Baltic states and Georgia. The last game of this selection was the 0-3 defeat against Scotland on 18 June 1992 Norrköping. Then now play 15 successor states with their respective national teams in international competitions, the two traditional leaders, Russia and Ukraine are the strongest representations and has been the only successor states took part in the World Cup finals. Latvia reached at least 2004, the European Championship finals.
The qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the United States, however, only the teams from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania could ( were independent before the draw end of 1991 and recognized by FIFA ) and Russia participate as the official successor of the USSR.
Participation in the World Championships
Participation in European Championships
The USSR took part in the first four finals with four participants and also twice in part to finals with eight participants, this last as CIS. Five times failed the USSR on the eventual winners, including three in the final.
Participation at the Olympic Games
Title
- European Football Championship ( 1) - 1960
- Football Olympic Champions ( 2) - 1956 1988
Internationals against selected teams of German-speaking countries
Results always from the Soviet point of view